Grasshoppers travelled to Welford Road for their last away fixture of the season against South Leicester RFC who face relegation from National League Two North and came away worthy winners.
Preston Grasshoppers’ final away game of the season takes them to South Leicester, who are already relegated from National League Two North along with Macclesfield ad Peterborough.
After a first-half as bright as the spring sunshine, things got rather messy at Lightfoot Green and Preston Grasshoppers were relieved to reach the dressing room with five more league points in the bag.
Five tries in 20 minutes either side of half-time set Preston Grasshoppers on their way to comfortably avenging a heavy defeat at Hinckley earlier in the National League Two North campaign.
Preston Grasshoppers host Hinckley on Saturday hoping to extend their winning run to six games and to avenge their heaviest defeat of the season by 49-5 back in November.
Preston Grasshoppers made it four wins in a row – and moved a couple of places up the National League Two North table – in a game which head coach Paul Arnold said provided “more positives than negatives”.
Preston Grasshoppers have the chance to record four successive victories for the first time this season when fellow mid-table club Tynedale come to Lightfoot Green.
A young, inexperienced Macclesfield side had no answer to the visitors’ power and pace as Hoppers pulled off back-to-back away wins and posted their biggest points total of the season.
Having waited so long to record their first “double” of the season last Saturday, Preston Grasshoppers have an immediate opportunity to do it again tomorrow when they travel to Macclesfield.
Preston Grasshoppers kept their cool and their control to bag a last-minute four-try bonus point as they recorded the season’s second whitewash of a Leicestershire side.
After the disappointment of last weekend’s postponement at a frozen Macclesfield, Preston Grasshoppers return to their own all-weather pitch tomorrow to host Leicester Lions.
As England start their latest bid to win the Six Nations this weekend, on the domestic front Preston Grasshoppers and Fylde have away games against the bottom two in National League Two North – weather permitting.
In a game of 32 penalties, six yellow cards and torrential rain, Preston Grasshoppers threw away a healthy lead to slip to their seventh defeat of the season by fewer than six points.
