Twickenham 12 - Civil Service 62.

Once again Twickenham were unable to field a first selection due to injuries and non- availabilities and for the third time in five weeks found themselves facing league leaders Civil Service, recently augmented by new signings form higher level clubs. The result was entirely predictable.

Matters were not helped by the early loss of winger Chris Russell and full back Jimmy Peters, and with the amount of possession won by the visitors and the pressure they were able to exert on the Ts there was only going to be one winner, and they were 5 - 31 up by half time.

Twickenham did manage to breach the Service defence with well worked tries from Ronnie Howden and Matt Wadden and Joe Foley and Charlie I’anson made a prodigious number of telling tackles, as usual the forwards kept plugging away but the strength of the Civil Service attacking backs was just too much for Twickenham to contend with and they ran in twelve tries forcing Ts to concede their greatest points against tally in recent times the final score being 12 – 62.

Twickenham will be grateful for the Christmas break and it can only be hoped that they will be able to pull themselves together quickly enough to face Essex club Thurrock in the New Year.

Team: J.Burt, M.Nicholson, R.Moses, P.Thomes, A.Wakefield, C.I’anson, S.Colquorn, N.Walker, A.Rogers, M.Wadden, P.Astbury, J.Foley, T.Howden, C.Russell (P.Moses), J.Peters (B.Isherwood).