Burton at the Rugby Lions Festival on Oct 7th 2007

Burton Under 11's played 5 matches in the festival, the opener was against the hot favorites Old Northants. Burton spent the half defending and from a 5 yard scrum Old Northants passed the ball down the backs for the centre to run in unapposed to score their 1st try. In the second half the pressure form Old Northants was too much for Burton and poor tackling cost them a further 3 tries. final score 4-0

The 2nd match against Host Rugby Lions was a much better encounter for Burton as they swept the host aside with a 3 try to nil victory. A sneaky run down the wing by Dean Ainger scoring the opener in the first half. A surging run from Prop forward Josh Greenwood breaking several tackles to score Burton's second. A solid scrum in the last minute gave Fly half Thomas benjamin the platform to weave through to score the 3rd try and secure the victory. Second Row Mark Titley showed his pace and strength with two blistering runs out of defence to set Burton up in attack.

The 3rd match against Wolves proved to be a tough encounter, Burton soaked up all the wolves presure in the first half until the last 30 seconds when Wolves broke the defence to score. Half time Burton losing 1-0. The second half saw 3 further tries from wolves following poor tackling from Burton.

The 4th match was a much closer encounter against Ampthill. An early try from Ampthill was enough to secure victory but a much improved performance from Burton.

Th final match against Luton was a tough fought battle with Luton running out eventual winners by 3 tries to nil. For the first time in the festival the forwards and backs worked together as a team and the ball set up by the forwards was passed down the line of backs with forward momentum. Dean Ainger put his body on the line twice to deny Luton tries on the try line. Crunching tackles from Tai Fellows and Tim Robinson kept Luton at bay and Hooker Abe furner had two blistering runs peeling off the back of the rucks.