Luton 3 - 10 Barking

Forward Luke’Tank’ Spellen was ‘proud and honoured’ to play alongside his Luton teammates despite their 3-10 loss to Barking.
He said: “We need a win but I think the losing streak is uniting us more than anything as we’re fed up of losing, and even when we work our hardest, we’re still not coming away with the win so hopefully in the next game, we’ll just keep building and training and it’ll show.
“I was proud and honoured to play with all the lads today. Their effort and drive to work hard for their teammates was really inspiring and that’s what a rugby team is all about.
“I thoroughly enjoyed my comeback, if you want to call it that, but it was nice to put on a Luton shirt again and go from there.”
A try from James Blackmore and a penalty from Ben Lloyd kept Luton rooted to the bottom of the table while a penalty from Rick Hobbs gave Luton a losing bonus point.
The first half saw Luton absolutely dominate possession as Barking struggled to keep them out of their side of the pitch.
Barking had the first real chance of the game five minutes in as they got a penalty in a decent area for offside but it was kicked wide by Lloyd.
Just 15 minutes later, Luton were awarded a penalty for holding on and this time Hobbs hit it wide of the posts.
The hosts piled on the pressure throughout and looked to score but Barking held on well to end the first half scoreless.
The hosts came out well in the second half, again not allowing Barking much possession but it was the 50th minute that a fight ensued between all the players on the pitch.
The referee then resorted to making the players sit down in a circle, and gave them all a telling off as if he was a headmaster shouting at school kids, giving Adam Harris a yellow card in the process.
Suddenly, the momentum had changed and the visitors really brought the game to Luton as they took advantage of the extra man.
Barking came close to scoring a few tries, one of which flanker Matthew Yang prevented with a heroic tackle from behind.
The deadlock was finally broken in the last ten minutes of the game after Ben Lloyd scored a penalty and six minutes later Blackmore scored a try.
The last kick of the game went to Luton as they were awarded a penalty and Rick Hobbs scored it to end the game 10-3.
Luton will play Chingford away on Saturday 14th November at 15:00.