Humbled Hong Kong juniors enter seventh place play-off following crushing defeat by Namibia
Hong Kong’s juniors will on Sunday face hosts Zimbabwe in the 7th/8th play-off game at the World Rugby U20 Trophy following a crushing 70-8 pool loss to Namibia in mid-week.
Hong Kong’s juniors will on Sunday face hosts Zimbabwe in the 7th/8th play-off game at the World Rugby U20 Trophy following a crushing 70-8 pool loss to Namibia in mid-week.
Namibia showed a lethal combination of power and pace that proved too much for Hong Kong, who played Wednesday’s match with a side largely unchanged from their 32-12 loss to the USA – John Markley started at hooker, while flanker Jonathan Healy moved to number eight making room for Ben Tang Cheuk-hang.
By leveraging their significant physical advantage in the forwards Namibia created numerous attacking opportunities as they exploded for nine tries, five of them coming in a blistering first half.
We made too many handling errors and gave away six turnovers while defensively we were a bit slow to react at times. The Namibians did well to capitalise on their opportunities
Fly-half Cliven Loubser accounted for 22 points with a try – worth six points under the scoring trial in place for the tournament – and eight of nine conversions.
