Wold were three points up in less than two minutes from a Luke Wade penalty in front of the posts and it was 10 – 0 five minutes later when Jonny Utting broke down the right wing and fed the ball inside to Ollie Carlstroem who forced his way over for Wold’s first try. Wade added the two points from wide.

For the first twenty minutes it was a pretty evenly matched encounter and at the end of that quarter Wold had a narrow one point lead from two Luke Wade penalties to an unconverted try by Waldon.

With Southwold concentrating on maintaining their league status after promotion to London 2 North East last season , this was an opportunity to rest a few players and give some youngsters their first taste of first team rugby, and there was no shame in their performance in this intermediate vase encounter with their London counterparts.

It was a wet windy day on the common and we should have made the best of the conditions which the visitors did not like but got used to as the game went on.