Zach Kerr looks ahead to Bedford Away after a difficult defeat to Scottish.
17th October 2024
New Knight this season, Zach Kerr discusses how the team have been preparing for Bedford Away off the back of a home defeat.
Kerr has joined Doncaster Knights from Premiership club Newcastle Falcons. Kerr explained how he is finding his time at Doncaster so far:
“As an environment, it’s been brilliant. From day one of pre season, the coaches, Fordy, Daz, Geech and Tys have laid down what we want to try to achieve and the way we want to play. And that’s been a pretty consistent theme throughout all of pre-season and the first three games as well.”
Doncaster’s other new centre, George Wacokecoke, has also moved to the club from Newcastle Falcons. Kerr said, “It’s been pretty good to have another familiar face at the club. On my first day, it was also his first day as well so that was good. I get to play a few games with him too so that’s been great.”
The centre reflected on the team’s disappointing home defeat at the weekend:
“If we are being honest, it was a pretty unacceptable performance from ourselves, especially after the week before against Ealing.”
“in terms of what went wrong, we never really fired a shot attacking wise. We got in good positions, but we never really, capitalised. We got into their 22, 11 times and didn’t get any points.”
Kerr explained that there were some positive take-aways from the game, “on a positive note, the defence was pretty good throughout. I know we conceded two tries, but as a general theme it was pretty good.”
The Knights travel down to Bedford Blues this weekend in the hopes they will continue to be unbeaten when on the road.
Kerr said: “We have had a couple of tough sessions on Tuesday and today to get ready. Tuesday was particularly tough, you know, we spoke about things that have gone wrong and we try to implement them in training. So yeah, we have been working really hard.
Despite Bedford being a difficult place to go and win at, Kerr suggested “We are pretty optimistic. You know, we’ve watched a couple of Bedford’s, games. We know the way they play and we think we can implement our game plan on them pretty well.”
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Doncaster are then back in town on Friday November 1st to face premiership club Sale Sharks in the Premiership Rugby Cup. You can secure tickets here!
