Hot Dog: Bulldogs head to the Dockyards.

Welcome to the 1st Hot Dog post (previously Who let the Dogs Out). Report provided by the very kind people at Barking & Dagenham Bulldogs. Following their mention in Sundays Observer, the 'Dogs headed to the Docks. Cheers Paddy for the post.

The first B&D Bulldogs Senior game got off to a flyer in the East End meeting between two new clubs for 2012, the Newham Dockers and the B&D Bulldogs

Keen to get the season going after a few weeks training, the Bulldogs headed to our new local team, the newly formed Newham Dockers.

The first 6 minutes were a tense structured affair with both teams completing their sets well.The Doggies hard work was rewarded with the first senior try for the Dogs being scored by Scott Floyd with Charlie Chambers converting the extra 2. After a scrappy 4 minutes Joshua Cook duly jinked over to make the score 12-0 after another conversion by Chambers.

What followed was perhaps the golden period of the game for the Bulldogs with an inspired substitution by Coach Brian Scahill seeing Lee Morgan barged his way over from close range, closely followed by 4 points for Charlie Chambers who duly added another 2 to the total. After some lapse in the trademark line discipline, Newham marched towards the line with a few penalties , their hard work being rewarded with a converted try to make the score 6-22.

In reply to this Lee Morgan and Charlie got their second tries to make the scoreline 6-34. What followed then was 7 minutes on great pressure from the Dockers that the Bulldogs repelled to keep the score healthy at half time.

The second half was a less fluid affair with early tries for Arron and Josh leaving a long gap until Lee Morgan completed his hatrick which was converted to make the score 6-52. This made way for the final score of the day, a 40m mazy run through by interchange star Danny Collins to wrap up the game at 6-56.


Coach Scatty was happy with most parts of the display and the great league show in places. He adds " I m sure as people train more and get to know their role within this very able team then good things will happen".


Many thanks to the Dockers for their hospitality, They stuck to it manfully and, against lesser defences, I feel theres a good few points in them!