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18th Aug 2008, 10:19am

Harlequins Reserve Championship Team 52 v 18 St Helens Reserve Championship Team
 
By Graham Henthorne, Team Manager
 
The Reserves arrived at the Stoop on Sunday knowing that a win against a much improved Quins side would lift them back into second place in the table and put them on course for the top spot.
 
What happened in the next 80 minutes was scarcely recognisable as the type of performance that this team has put together this season.
 
Alex Asher put a foot into touch in Saints’ first attack of the game but the Reserves would fine themselves 10 – 0 down before they threatened the home try line again.
 
Kurt Haggerty made a break down the middle passed it out to Paul Johnson who was caught by the fullback. Two penalties later and Jamie Ellis put Andrew Dixon in at the left corner. A fine touchline conversion by the metronomic boot of Jamie Foster had the Saints camp thinking that maybe this was the springboard.
 
This optimism was reinforced by a good set after Quins had sent the restart dead on the full but Sam Thompson knocked on over the line. The fledgling recovery was put to rest with three more home tries in the last ten minutes of the half.
 
Thankfully all three tries were unconverted leaving the saints only 16 points in arrears at the break.
 
Hope sprang again in the opening minutes of the second half as Dean McGilvray scored the first of his brace. A booming up and under from Haggerty was fumbled by the home side and quick hands saw the centre over in the left corner. Foster again converted and the Reserves were still in with a sniff.
 
The Saints should have pulled the gap back to four points but Phil Baines chose to pass instead of having a dart at the line himself and the chance was lost.
 
With this chance the Saints resistance crumbled and the defence let in six more tries, three of which were long range interceptions, to fall to their worst defeat of the season. The procession of home tries was split by Dean McGilvray’s second of the afternoon.
 
This leaves the Reserves bizarrely hoping for a Wigan win on Saturday against the Rhinos. This, provided that they have won on Wednesday night away at bottom of the table Castleford, would mean that a victory at Huddersfield on Saturday would give the Reserves the League Leaders title and the easier trip through the playoffs.
 
 
Harlequins Reserve Team
St Helens Reserve Team
  1. Jamie O’Callaghan
  1. Phil Baines
  1. Dennis Tuffour
  1. Adam Twamley
  1. Jack Graves
  1. Jamie Foster
  1. Lamont Bryan
  1. Dean McGilvray
  1. Luke May
  1. Alex Asher
  1. Dylan Skee
  1. Kurt Haggerty
  1. Dwayne Barker
  1. Jamie Ellis
  1. Dave Tootill
  1. Danny Cooper
  1. Jimmy Giblin
  1. Lee Cunliffe
  1. Dave Williams
  1. Sam Thompson
  1. Olly Purslow
  1. Andrew Dixon
  1. George Coogan
  1. Paul Johnson
  1. Adam Janowski
  1. Jake Emmitt
  1. Luke Pullen
  1. Alex McClurg
  1. Rob Thomas
  1. Dale Bloomfield
  1. Matt Carter
  1. Liam Bland
  1. Olly Bloom
  1. Liam Gilchrist
 
Harlequins Reserve Team:
Tries: Jack Graves 3, Lamont Bryan 3, Luke May 2, Dwayne Barker, Jimmy Giblin, Olly Purslow.
Goals: Dennis Tuffour 2, Dylan Skee 2.
 
St Helens Reserve Team:
Tries: Dean McGilvray 2, Andrew Dixon.
Goals: Jamie Foster 3.  
 
Half Time: 6-22                        
Full Time: 18-52
 
For further details on the Reserve Team Championship, click here.
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