No doubt Liverpool Collegiate deserved this victory, dominating territory and posession throughout.

A curate’s egg of a performance from Lymm, some very good performances but poor application in some areas. The first half was all Collegiate, who ran in 2 tries, one of them a belter. Lymm struggled to adapt to some of the enforced positional changes, giving Collegiate virtually 100% of the ball in set and loose play. Lymm’s tackling was not up to their usual standard and rucking lacklustre.

The second half was very different, Lymm having had a serious ‘discussion’ with their coaches at half time. Having said that, Collegiate ran in a third try at the beginning of the half on the back of sone woeful Lymm defence, 15 - 0.  But then Lymm remembered which badge they had on their shirts and played with pride.

All of a sudden Lymm got on top and dominated the game with Loughridge scoring a trademark forwards try, expertly converted by Downes. Huge performances followed with Diamond and Loughridge finally playing to their abilities. But the stars today were Mick Bellerby who put in a monstrous performance throughout and Tim Downes who decided to take on the entire Collegiate team himself!

But Lymm left it too late and the final score was a fair reflection of this match. Collegiate are always a good side to play – you know you’ll get a tough fixture with no quarter given or taken. Their ref did a good job and the bacon butties were pretty decent!