Wimbledon RFC are second bottom in National 2 East but fly-half Edward Morgan fancies their chances to stay up.
The Dons sit just three points behind Worthing and after their agonising loss to third-placed Barnes, Morgan feels they are in a position to kick on and secure safety.
One of the most pleasing things for the 23-yearold is Wimbledon’s style of play, which allows him to play his favoured brand of jouez rugby.
“There is nothing worse than turning up on a Saturday and playing a team that is happy just to do up and unders or kick to the corners, Morgan said. “Yes, it might win you games of rugby but it’s extremely boring.
“Anyone who has played against us knows that you can’t really switch off anywhere on the pitch because we will chuck the ball about, we will hit a crossfield kick in our own dead ball area.
“Personally that’s the way the game should be played and luckily I’ve been able to put that imprint on the team. The coaches has been great because they really encourage it and I think the boys around me also love it because it’s exciting.”
Playing a running style of rugby is not always the easiest to get success, especially for a newly-promoted side, but the west London side continue to be competitive. The game against Barnes epitomised this, as they scored four tries and forced their opponents to grind out the win with three penalties, including a last-minute winner.
Morgan explained that lots of the Barnes players said Wimbledon deserved to win and feels this has been the case in many of their games. He said: “That’s kind of been the story for half of our season where we’ve walked off the pitch with one or two points where we should have definitely taken the full five.
“We’re almost our own worst enemy in a way. We’re the architects of our own downfall. But the biggest compliment we can give ourselves is that we haven’t changed the style of play that we played with last year.”
Now Wimbledon have faced all the teams in the league, Morgan thinks the second half of the season will be a different story for them.
He said: “We have a better understanding of the teams we’re playing in this league. After getting promoted we were pretty fresh, but now in reverse fixtures it’s a case of ‘can we smell blood and pick off the teams that we lost to narrowly’ because we maybe know a bit better.”
With a game in hand on Worthing in 12th, Wimbledon are in a good position to kick on and secure a second season in National 2.
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