The Barbarians welcomed last seasons divisional Champions, Parkside Hawks to John Leggot College, unfortunately for the hosts, they started poorly against the well drilled side, who took hold of the game, scoring two penalties and then a well worked try, to leave the hosts 0-10 down,

Further penalties resulted in a quick tap and yet another 6 pointer scored.

Scunthorpe started to get into the game which resulted in a good drive and subsequent kick to the corner on the last tackle by Karl Clayton being cheased up and finished in excellent fashion by young Jake Goodison.

Unfortunately the kick was at a difficult angle and the chance for extras was missed.

Further pressure before half time saw us score again through a familiar drive from in form Will Scupham. The drive saw him scoot in near the posts making the conversion easy for Ian Lee. Score 10-16 at half time.

Unfortunately the second half started poorly with 3 tries being scored by Parkside via a combination of missed tackles and and slick handling skills.

Scunthorpe finally got organised and started playing exspansive Rugby League. Good handling worked the Barbarians into good field position allowing Jason Eagles to kick to the corner for Ashley Dibden, another impressive newcomer for this season, to chase onto and beat the defender to the ball in the corner. Karl Clayton converted the difficult kick.

Scunthorpe seemed to now show belief and and again achieved good field position. Will Scupham with a similar try to his first then darted over for his second try. The conversion was unfortunately missed.

Next it was the turn of Dave Garbutt to score. Playing his first game of the season for the Barbarians he showed what he could for the rest of the season by smashing through several defenders to score on the left hand side.

Karl Clayton again scored the extras.

Next came a couple of strang decisions which resulted in a shell shocked Barbarians team going a further 6 points behind. Firstly a kick was fielded close to there line. As Lewis Jones was tackled close to the line he was then adjudjed to hold a far larger player ontop of himself slowing down his own play of the ball. The decision was given as a penalty to Parkside only 1m from the home sides line. Next as the referee was still explaining the penalty to the Barbarians players he allowed the attacking player to take a quick tap and dive into the line by the officials feet.

This served to frustrate the Barbarians who then upped their game further in an effort to further close the gap.
Good defensive work resulted in Lewis Jones collecting the ball in his own half and jinking through into the opposition half. Excellent support play by Danny Cribbis saw him crash over under the posts for Scunthorpes final converted score of the game.

Unfortunately finishing 4 points short of the total. Positives were taken from the game and with players still to come into the side there is still alot more to come from the Barbarians.

This week we go from playing lasts seasons Champions to entertaining this years bottom placed team Wetherby. This is a strong league and all but one team have a win this year so a strong display will be needed to make sure Scunthorpe beat the North Yorkshire side.

Kick off is at the usual time of 2.30 and the game will be played at the Barbarians new home pitch located at John Leggott College.