Taipei Times
Date: Sep 03, 2016
By: Grant Dexter / Staff reporter
Poor handling cost Taiwan on the opening day of the Asian Rugby Sevens Series in Hong Kong
Taiwan’s Hsieh Pin-yi charges against the Sri Lanka defense in their Asia Rugby Sevens Series match at the Hong Kong Football Club yesterday. Photo: Michael Lee – Taiwan Mike Photography – KLC fotos
yesterday.
Taiwan started their campaign against Sri Lanka in poor fashion, their defense allowing four first-half tries to all but end the contest. Hsieh Pin-yi barged his way over for a try and Ho Ming-hsien added a try and a conversion while Sri Lanka were down to six men after a yellow card, but Ho missed the conversion to Hsieh’s score from a few meters to the right of the posts and Sri Lanka exploited some slow defenders on the flanks to take the final score to 43-12.
Taiwan’s scrum shoved Sri Lanka off their own ball in the first pack-down of the match, but atrocious handling, lazy passing and poor execution after the numerous restarts they had to wait under put them well behind the eight ball. [FULL STORY]