PORT BY ELLIOT BURROW few minutes later, Sedgley trying to play out of their own half and making an uncharacteristic error, which allowed Connor Wilkinson to pick up the pieces and race away to score, Smith converted and it was 19-12 to Fylde.
With their unbeaten record under serious threat, Sedgley responded through a good attacking move of their own, George Bordill finishing it off and Collins converting to make it all square again with 20 minutes to play. Pressure bumped up another notch, if that was
Fylde joint coach Chris Briers was proud of the way his team performed throughout the full match, he said: “The way we kept the ball in that first-half was excellent I thought, and we knew that it had to tire them out, which then gave us those chances in the second- half. We knew we had let ourselves down at Tynedale and if we turned up like that today, no disrespect to Tynedale of course because they were brilliant, but, we would be swept aside easily. I’m just happy how we’ve played and it was a great game from start to finish.”
even possible at this point. First Collins tried to edge his side back in front from 40 metres out, nothing but silence as he stepped up, but his attempt fell wide. Smith then decided it was Fylde’s turn to give it a crack as well, more silence ensued, but his effort from 50 metres out was also unsuccessful. Third time is usually the charm then, but that wasn’t to be the case for Smith, you could hear a pin drop once more as he approached to kick it, but his effort fell short with only two minutes left on the clock, and left it level. By the time that Sedgley skipper Matt Riley decided to bring an end to it all by kicking the ball out of play from a penalty tap, we had well and truly gone past the 80 minute mark, almost five minutes to be exact. 19-19 it finished, the points shared, a classic had just played out.
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