070412 Featherstone v Sheffield Eagles

070412 Featherstone v Sheffield Eagles.

Those attending this tough away game at Featherstone Rovers witnessed a hundred points being scored over the 80 minutes of the game. The Eagles started the scoring through a move which involved both Andrew Henderson and the increasingly influential Dominic Brambani. It was scored by Misi Taulapapa on three minutes. Simon Brown goaled the extras. Eight minutes later a Brambani crossfield kick was fumbled by the Featherstone defence and Scott Turner touched down wide out. The difficult conversion kick was dispatched by Brown to increase the Sheffield lead to 12 points. Taulapapa’s second came on 15 minutes through a pass from QLT and the lead was upto 18. The next two scores were Featherstone’s, reducing the Eagles lead to 18-10, but a Featherstone fumble on the half hour was punished by Brambani and Michael Knowles who sent in Nev Morrison over wide on the right, with Brown’s conversion kick was on the nail. Another try from the Rovers was negated by another error which led to Menzie Yere picking up the ball and running 60 metres to score an unconverted try on 36 minutes. At the interval the Eagles were surprisingly 26-16 ahead.

Featherstone continued their error strewn game into the second half. One minute after the kick off, they dropped the ball and Alex Szostack ran 60 metres to increase the visitors lead to 16 points. That soon became 22 on 47 minutes as Taulapapa scored his hat trick, created by a McDonald interception, Brambani knocking over the two. A further two minutes elapsed and QLT’s try and conversion had the Eagles 28 points ahead. This finally got Featherstone to react. In the next nine minutes they scored four tries to bring themselves within striking distance of the visitors, 40-44. But a McDonald ball steal led to Brambani getting the ball to Joe Hirst who scored between the posts. There was no Featherstone response, as next on the scoreboard was QLT with an unconverted try, followed by another Featherstone blunder when their pass was intercepted by McDonald, his try being converted by Brambani. A surprise victory 60-40 that put the Eagles into second spot, 3 points behind undefeated Halifax.