Before the kick-off, players and supporters paid their respects to two Leamington Rugby Club members, Fran Goymer and Paul Ford, who both died recently. These two highly thought of individuals played a key role, in differing ways, for the Club and they will be sadly missed.

The spring sunshine, interlaced with, at times, a biting cross-wind, meant the Moorefield’s pitch, was, in the most part, ideal for free-running rugby. Droitwich started the game in a manner that belied their league position with a series of attacks, deep in the Leamington half. They had the first opportunity of the day with an attempted penalty kick at goal before, Leamington’s Sam Nunn, finally got his side some breathing space with two timely clearances to touch.

In their first positive attack, the pressure exerted by the Leamington pack was such that the visitors were unable to cope and they conceded a “penalty try”, converted by Ben Jenkins. From the kick-off, prop, Aled Thomas, raced down the far side wing to get Leamington quickly back on the attack and shortly afterwards, Jenkins increased his side’s lead with a penalty. With the game now flowing in Leamington’s favour, the hosts went further ahead with a well worked try. The visitors once again conceded a penalty and from the resulting line-out, Craig Smith claimed possession and allowed his forwards to drive towards the try line, giving Danny Phillips the chance to dive in for the score.

With Leamington now in full control, another drive from their pack got them close to the Droitwich try line. Danny Ruyssevelt retrieved the ball from the ruck and sent out a quick pass to Ben Jenkins, who had timed his run to perfection, to outwit the defence and crash over.

Half Time: 20 – 0

Barely four minutes of the second half had passed when Leamington winger, Ryan Byrne, took possession of the ball on the half way line and raced away, leaving a trail of defenders in his wake, to score a fine individual try. Leamington went further ahead when Ben Jenkins broke out of defence at pace and found Joe Walton in support. As the defence closed in, Walton sent a clever kick through which fell into the grateful hands of Byrne, for his second try in quick succession. Sam Nunn nailed the conversion and his side, already in bonus point territory, were looking good value.

Droitwich have, in recent years, proved a very tough test for Leamington, however this season has not been one of their best and they continued to come under a constant barrage from the home attack. Sam Nunn and Byrne combined to get the ball to Danny Ruyssevelt, deep in the Droitwich 22 metre area and the Centre’s clever movement fooled the defence, allowing him to crash over. The creative, Mark Baldwin, was next to break the home defence with a strong run before unleashing the ball to Will Fievet who raced in under the posts. Nunn once again claimed the conversion.

With energy levels high, Leamington were keen to push further ahead and a kick upfield from Nunn provided the next opportunity for points. Ruyssevelt took the ball before getting in a pass to the tireless John Brear, who powered his way over.

Before the final curtain fell, Ruyssevelt once again got his side moving forward with a break on the half way line. His neat inside pass to Joe Walton was sufficient to fool the defence and allow the young winger to score his side’s last try of the season. A Sam Nunn “drop kick” conversion closed proceedings.

Full Time: 56 - 0