Ribb should be kicking themselves after blowing their chance to win

THE scoreline suggests that this was a comfortable victory for Bridlington but the outcome could have been very different.

Ribb dominated the opening half and restricted their opponents to a 7-0 lead at the break.

With the strong wind in their favour for the second half, Ribb had a perfect opportunity to win the match.

With their scrum dominant and the line-out secure the foundations seemed to be in place for the visitors to take charge.

Unfortunately, Ribb never seem to quite know how to use the kicking game, There were signs in the first half that this was going to be a problem as they kicked away hard-earmed possession despite playing into the wind.

In the second half there was a great opportunity to pepper Bridlington with high kicks, but instead they fritted away possession with chip kicks and ineffective backs moves.

The result was that Ribb played the second half mainly around the halfway line and their back line could not pierce the home defence.

Late in the game Brid secured the victory by scoring two more tries as their backs exploited a tiring Ribb side.

It was a disappointing end to a match which had started promisingly with Ribb driving their opponents back ten metres at the first scrum.

Ribb went very close to scoring as both Johnny Moore and Jonathan Richards went close as the Brid cover held.

Late in the half Brid got a penalty for Ribb crossing on the halfway line They kicked to the corner and the powerful Sutton scored scored a try which Stevens converted.

Ribb were unlucky with injury as the dominant Sam Boatwright pulled a hamstring and had leave the action. Graham Newhouse, who had already been substituted returned.

Despite the loss of the influential Boatwright who had been enjoying a fine game, Ribb still won plenty of possession, but they lacked direction

After 60 minutes, Roberts was put in after a rare visit into the Ribb 22 to make it 12-0 with 20 minutes to go.

Ribb had enough ball to win but they persisted in trying to run the ball against an organised defence and got nowhere.

The final nail in the coffin came in the last ten minutes when Brid made the best move of the match for Martin to score a converted try.

Michael Thwaite had a safe game at full back, Boatwright was his usual powerful self and was badly missed when he went off. The whole of the pack more than played their part with Will Booth looking more and more authoritative while young Josh Long looks to have a good future.