Free scoring City at it again in cup landslide
Tadley downed as impressive run continues
Milton Keynes sailed into the second round of the Southern Counties Cup with a routine 59-0 thrashing of lowly Tadley at Field Lane.
From the start City pressurised the Tadley backline into errors that allowed the hosts' backs to quickly attack into their opponents' half.
Centre Dave Matthews almost scored the opening try, breaking through to feed on to winger Daniel Walker, only for him to be brought down by desperate Tadley tackling.
The visitors were awarded a penalty from the resulting ruck, but City ran the ball back and were awarded a penalty just inside the Tadley half, with Mike Dean converting to give the hosts the lead.
City were dominating but couldn't put that telling move together that would have seen them score the opening try. Instead they were made to settle for a second Dean penalty kick to extend their slender lead as he judged the breeze to perfection.
Their pressure eventually told though and Dan Pearson was the man to score when he collected a Steve Christie pass after he had done well to create some space with a clever dummy. Pearson ran home under the posts from the 10 metre line and Dean made it 13-0 with the conversion with 15 minutes played.
Dean soon made it a hat-trick of successful penalty conversions as he delivered another exemplary kick from all of 35-yards. And with less than 20 minutes on the clock Pearson ran home his second try of the afternoon as he got on the end of a superb Kieron McConell chip.
City were camped in the Tadley half and from a line-out the ball was pushed out for Pearson, whose dummy created a gap for him to run into before he weaved his way through a beleaguered defence to complete a superb hat-trick of tries.
Dean added the extra points to make it 28-0 after 25 minutes but the home fans were made to wait until four minutes before the interval for another try. From a scrum just inside
the Tadley half the ball was quickly released to Dean who came sprinting forward to score a well deserved try, which he converted for his side to lead 35-0 at half time.
It didn't take City long to reach the 40-point mark early in the second half when Christie drove forward from a scrum to score. And on 60 minutes the next try followed as Andrew Williamson crashed over, with Dean on hand to extend the lead to 47-0.
Joe Gorman scored the penultimate try of the day, which Terence Woodhall converted this time, and in the closing stages there was still time for Mads Jensen to get the last touch to City's final try-scoring move and complete the rout.
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