Sept 19- The expected rain held off Saturday and the sun actually was out for a while, lending an added dimension of heat and humidity to the first match of the fall season for the Possums.

Taking on long time foe Chattanooga for the third time this calendar year, the Possums came out with a bit of rust to knock off for sure.  It took the first ten minutes of the opening half to finally get on the board.  Between knock ons on balls being “held up” in goal all day the Possums left quite a few try’s on the field.

With lots of hard earned line breaks and even harder tackles and scrappy rucks the first half ended with a 10 point lead for the home team.   As it was a non Matrix match there were lots of subs coming of the bench for the Possums in this first hit out.  Quite a few playing their first match for KRFC.   Chattanooga held tight and quickly scored two tries of their own with conversions to get the score to 14-15.  After a very close help up in goal call for the Possums resulted in a 95m Chatt. break to take the lead 21-15.  The Possums answered the call with little time left by a try and conversion to take the lead 22-21.  It was a hard fought match with both sides showing promise of attacking ability.

The Possums head West to the Capital to take on Nashville A&B sides Saturday Sept 26.

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