St.Albans 7 – Twickenham 21.

Twickenham travelled to St. Albans in the knowledge that a loss what almost certainly mean relegation. To their credit they rose to the occasion and were winners by a fourteen point margin and in some style. Despite having three forwards yellow carded they finished the first half six points in the lead and without conceding any, by virtue of two Phil Astbury penalties.

At the start of the second half, and with Ts having only thirteen men on the field St.Albans scored their only points, a converted try. Shortly after T’s winger Russell Witham scored a try in the corner which went unconverted. It was now the turn of St.Albans to have men sin binned and indeed, when T’s James Clark beat fellow player Jimmy Peters to ground the ball for their third try the St.Alban’s full back had the fabled red mist descend on him and ran in from fifteen yards to try to land a haymaker on a Twickenham player, mercifully missing, he received a red card, the try was converted by PhilAstbury who went on to cap a good game with a nicely taken drop goal.

This was a creditable performance by Twickenham, now with a settled side and the forwards and backs beginning to work in unison. However the was just the first of two games that they need to win to feel safer from relegation, the next being the home game against Suffolk side Hadleigh in two weeks time but on this performance they will be very competitive.

Team: D.Thomas, C.Tytherleigh,,( M.Nicholson) R.Moses, J. Davies, P.Goff, C.I’anson, R.Kirby, V.Holden, J.Peters, ( A.Rogers 70),P.Astbuty, J.Foley, J.Clark, T.Howden R.Whitham, M.Wadden, Sub. A.Wakefield,