Wesley Feausi, coach of Gai Wu, reflects on their hard fought 20-5 victory over DEA “We always knew DEA were going to be a difficult prospect, and with home advantage, as such, this game was always going to come down to the team who made the least mistakes, defended well and scored points when down the right end of the pitch.
DEA started as expected, running hard and direct with their attack, stand-out performers were Ellie-May in the forwards and Natasha in the backs. We were able to defend well in the opening encounters and were lucky enough to come away a single try in the first half from winger GMA (Lau Sze Wa), who would add two more in the second-half to complete her 2nd hat-trick of the season. Half-time score 5-0 Gai Wu.
The second half proved to be no different to the first, both forward packs working hard cancelling each other out. It was a fantastic battle of two sides with excellent attacking weapons out wide as well as the hard nose grinders in the front row and ‘game breakers’ in the back row. DEA scored a try early in the second half giving them early momentum only for Captain Jay, Vice Captain Tammy and Christy to rev up the DEA girls to return the favour. GMA scored her second and third tries of the game bringing her try tally into double figures for the season and we were searching for that 4-try bonus point to make-up for the lapse in defence earlier. Rainbow Leung did exactly that, scoring our 4th try of the game. Full-time score 20-5 Gai Wu.”
Wesley continues “It was a great game for the fans and shows that women’s rugby in Hong Kong at club level is raising the bar each year complementing the HKSI who have initiated a professional program for elite women’s players. Gai Wu has many young girls new to rugby but they have stepped up this season and are playing hard and enjoying the games – although we have plenty of areas to improve the enthusiasm and commitment is there.”
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Gai Wu:
Tammy LAU (vc), Mang Li, Ka Wai Lam, Yung Ching, Sharon Tsang, Po Kei Man, Melody Li, Christy Cheng, Sum Wai Sham, Emmy Chan, Rainbow Leung, Jay Ho (c), Candy Cheng, GMA Lau, Aggie Poon, Shun Lee, Momo Lam, Belsy Yuen, Sharon Lui, Kwan Tang, BB Lee, Sum Chan
Tries: GMA (Lau Sze Wa) (3), Rainbow Leung