Bedford’s spirit shines through in last-gasp victory

Doncaster Knights v Bedford Blues. wk 46.

Published on 13/11/2012 14:00

Martin Hynes was delighted with the spirit of his players as they claimed a dramatic 22-21 win against Doncaster at Castle Park on Friday, writes Michael Hann.

Bedford looked to be dead and buried with minutes left on the clock as they tried desperately to grab the try they needed for victory.

After camping themselves on the Doncaster five-metre line, the Blues were eventually rewarded as Josh Bassett scored.

Brendan Burke converted and Bedford had snatched victory out of the clutches of defeat.

Speaking afterwards Hynes was full of praise for his players – in particular the work of the forwards in the closing stages.

He said: “The forwards were under pressure and the moment one of them spilt the ball they knew it would be game over.

“But they managed to get through what must have been 20 phases of play to keep going and get a score.

“These lads are a great group of fellows, they’re honest and they keep going and going.”

The Knights can feel hard done by not to get anything from the game and the forwards coach says it reaffirms how competitive the Championship is this season.

Hynes continued: “If you look at Doncaster, they are at the bottom end of the table yet they are a fantastic side.

“People say you should go to Doncaster and win easily but that is a load of rubbish – the sides we play week in week out are all good sides.”

Bedford now have a week off, before taking on Cornish Pirates and Hynes is unsure whether having a break is a good thing or not.

He added: “I am undecided to be honest, these lads know nothing other than hard work and sometimes I don’t want them to put their feet up too much.

“They are back in on Thursday, so they have a few days off and hopefully we’ll keep their feet on the floor.

“We’ll have a good day at the office tomorrow (Saturday) as we’re off to the horse racing.

“There will be a bit of bonding and then it’s back to the hard work.”

Sport

Rugby Union

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Bedford’s spirit shines through in last-gasp victory

Top stories

Sport

Rugby Union