Bees ready to hand out a battering, says Hunt
If three bits-and-pieces performances can produce six tries for Simon Hunt, National Two’s leading scorer is positively salivating at the prospect of his Birmingham & Solihull team clicking for an entire game.
“We’re going to give someone a real hiding if we play for a full 80 minutes,” the free-scoring wing says. “That’s very exciting but it’s also quite frustrating when we don’t do it.”
Not that Hunt needs especially long to find a way to the opponents’ line. Indeed he required less than a quarter of an hour to do so three times in last week’s win over Cambridge to continue an exponential strike-rate that brought one score in his first game, two in his second and last Saturday’s hat-trick.
But tries are Hunt’s stock in trade. Leading scorer in the Welsh league for the last two seasons and formerly a prolific finisher for England Sevens, head coach Russell Earnshaw is convinced he’ll occupy top spot in the charts at the end of this season.
“All I do is finish off the work the other guys produce,” Hunt says.
“His three tries last week were outstanding,” Earnshaw disagrees.
