A very strong Broadland pack was the difference between the two teams today. With Lee Durrant winning and spoiling everything in the lineout and constant pressure from the eight-man scrum and good solid support from the backs ensured Broadland had the majority of possession today and, with the strong wind behind them in the opening period, they used it to their every advantage.

From the outset the home side were in the ascendancy leading by three points from the boot of Macintosh with the first try coming from a scrum out on the left on the half-hour with Millar, the scrum-half, feeding Ruddick, to Able, to Bold and then to Durrant who set up good ruck ball ten yards from the March try-line. Millar, who was in the thick of the action throughout the game, again giving good ball to a speeding Paul Able who, with support from Si Ruddick and then Andy Smith, gained some excellent ground feeding the ball out again to Justin Millar, on to Macintosh who, with a quick pass, enabled Smithdale (image is 800k) to make the try in the right-hand corner: a well-worked Broadland try encompassing the entire width of the pitch.

That try set the course for the last ten minutes of the first half, with two further tries taking the score to 18 - 0 at the halfway mark.

The second-half saw March with the wind at their backs but, unfortunately, their frequent kicks down the park did not afford respite from the Broadland onslaught. With four further tries in the second half the game finished at 38 - 0 but the score could have, and should have, been greater.

To their credit, March battled away through the entire eighty minutes coming close to scoring mid-way through the second-half which, though it would only have been token points on the board, would have been a consolation for a disciplined and determined side.