Mercury Sport
Albion coach Kevin Innalls suffers selection dilemma
8:00am Tuesday 14th February 2012
Albion head coach Kevin Innalls bemoaned his side's luck after they were left with a selection dilemma for the match against Exmouth on Saturday.
The match was re-arranged by the league but with a number of Albion players unavailable, Innalls called upon squad members from the second and third strings to help out.
Despite the heavy 53-5 defeat, Innalls was full of praise for the players brought in.
He said: “We didn't find out about the match until through the week so we were missing a lot of first team players.
“The lads that we brought in did superb, they didn't complain and I couldn't fault them considering it is a big step up to the standard they played on Saturday.
“Exmouth put 60 points past our full strength side earlier in the season so it is a credit to the side that we managed to keep their scoring down.
“This is the sort of luck we are having at the moment though and when you are down the bottom things don't go the way you want them to.”
Matt Hastie, James Bryant and Marshall Cormack were among the unavailable list with Rob Thompson missing through injury after twisting his knee.
Second row Ben Harvey and Matt Northey were brought in to help bolster the numbers for the match.
Due to the amount of players drafted into the first team, the second strings match at St Bernadettes Old Boys was given a walkover to the home side.