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Kowloon have sent a letter of protest to the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union over a terrible mix-up on the field which led to their match against Valley over the weekend being reduced to a no-contest in the scrums.

 Valley beat Kowloon 16-13 thanks to a last-gasp drop goal from Carl Murray. But Kowloon feel they were robbed of victory as a result of their powerful scrum being neutralised after referee Brian Allan brought in the no-push rule 15 minutes into the game.

 This happened when Valley prop Matt Deayton was injured.

 'When he left the field, his replacement came on and suddenly there was a no-push scrum. This is completely against the rules of the First Division which state that a team should have a front-rower as a replacement on the bench,' explained Kowloon chairman Adrian Shambler.

 Shambler went on: 'When the no-push rule came in, we substituted one of our front-rowers and put on a backrower as we wanted more mobility around the field.

 'Then suddenly the Valley player who went off came back on the field and they asked for the push-scrum again. But we had already taken off our front-rower and we had no option but to continue with a no-push scrum.

 'We are appealing to the Union,'said Shambler.

 Valley front-rower Dean Herewini dismissed the suggestion that his team had tactically neutralised Kowloon. He said his team had five front-rowers on call that day.

 'How can Kowloon say they had the stronger pack when we were the team going for two pushover tries early in the game,' Herewini said.



Kowloon up in arms over front-row fiasco