Sat 30 Aug 2025, 15:00
Trafford MV opened their season with a Lancashire Trophy fixture at Liverpool St Helens and a depleted availability list due to holidays and absences saw a disappointing start to the campaign.
With players taking the field out of position mistakes were going to be inevitable and in the early skirmishes TMV lost centre Aaron Fagan to a yellow card for a clash of heads in a defensive tackle. LSH kicked the resultant penalty 3-0. The scores were levelled within minutes as TMV forced a penalty for Aaron Booth to slot the kick 3-3. LSH were looking sharp and a break through the centres, exploiting TMV's missing man, saw the home side score under posts and convert 10-3. A further attack saw LSH break down right wing, missed tackles see them score under posts, converted 17-3. Trafford were looking in real trouble as strong driving play from the home side in left corner sees driving maul crash over. Conv missed 22-3. Spirits were raised for a short time as a TMV driving maul in left corner results in try for hooker Phil Simms, converted by Booth 22-10. The well being was short lived as a quick tap penalty by LSH catches MV sleeping and poor tackles brings converted try under posts 29-10 going into Half Time.
Trafford MV needed to score early to get back in the game and they did this a another lineout catch and drive brings try for TMV from Abdul Mirza, unconverted 29-15. Defence was just not strong enough for the visitors and scrappy MV defence let’s LSH in to left of sticks, converted 36-15. The TMV defence opens up once again and LSH take advantage with soft try, converted 43-15 to finalise the score and put Trafford out of the Trophy in the first round.
Lot's for Trafford to work on as players return and a cohesive squad is built. This coming weekend see's the same fixture again as TMV return to LSH, this time in the first league game of the season.
