RC Zug vs RC St Gallen

Final Score: RC Zug 35 – RC St Gallen 0

Arriving at our home pitch on Saturday was like walking into a war zone. The circus had been in town all week and had left our field looking like Beirut in the early 80’s.

On a positive note the weather was really good and even though we were missing a couple of key players (Claudio, Nico & Bogdan), we welcomed back Big Antoine, who has played for Zug for many years and is already in our ‘Legends - Hall of Fame’ while still being active player.

Also back on the team-sheet was Denis, who fractured his wrist two weeks ago. The Doctor said no rugby for at least five weeks, clearly he has no idea how hard Zug rugby players are!

The game started with St Gallen pushing hard. We beat them last season, so clearly they wanted some payback. A few times St Gallen made it within two meters of the try line, but every time Zug held strong. St Gallen did manage to get a penalty kick, but they missed it.

In the first half we were losing most of the line outs, but by the second half Alois must of grown a couple of centimetres as we seemed to sort this problem out. Our scrums were tighter than a ducks bottom, surely we broke some sort of record with the amount of balls won. The hooking from Denis was on fire.

Once we started scoring tries, the game was over. Two of the tries in particular deserve a mention.

The first was created by Seb, he ran the entire width of the pitch (yes I said width) and then turned around and ran all the way back again before deciding to actually run forward, he broke through several defenders only to be caught just before the try line. Then he made a simple pop pass to Alois which resulted in a try.

The other was clearly the try of the match. Simon (aka The Beast) blasted through about six St Gallen defenders and then without looking made a world class pass to Roman who dived in for the five points.

Also worth a mention was the kicking during the game from Little Antoine. We gained a lot of ground with his precision kicks.

A special thanks to Elio and Jeff who did wonders in the forwards despite both being injured.

As you have just read, it was a real team effort in this match which paid off with five more points for the league. Next week we take on Winterthur, where we will be looking for a good win also. Zug is now in a strong position in the league which looks good for the rest of the season.

We would like to thank St Gallen for coming and look forward to playing them again later on in the season.

RC Zug