The visitors started the game playing up the slope and quickly put Norton on the back foot with a series of determined attacks, pressurising the Norton try line. The home side’s defence was up to the task, and stopped the attacks close to their line.

Having weathered the initial onslaught, the team worked their way down the field, where Norton’s big pack won a ball against the head. Number 8, Button, picked up the ball going forward, and scored from 25 metres out to collect the game’s first points. Taylor added the extra two.

Wells bounced back quickly, and scored a well-worked try under the posts, making the conversion easy – this levelled the score. Territory advantage allowed two of Norton’s big forwards, Edgell and Gimson, to go close, but were unable to cross the line. A great break by full-back, Jeffery, in the 25th minute, put Norton back in the lead, and fly-half, Taylor, added the extra two points.

The pack was now supplying good ball from both setpieces and the breakdown, allowing wave after wave of attacks to be initiated by fly-half, Abbott. The possession allowed Norton’s runners, Holmewood, Taylor, Schuster and Jeffery, to spread Wells’ defensive line. This eventually cracked, allowing Button to score his second try of the game, and with the conversion added, Norton went into the break with a 21–7 lead.

The second half was completely different to the first, as it was all about Norton’s defence and their missed chances. Wells used the slope to their advantage, but were unable make a dent in a determined and well-organised Norton defence.

Norton ran the ball from deep, but small errors near the Wells’ line stopped the home side increasing their points tally.

This was the format for most of the half, but the final minute saw an end-to-end attack started by Button and Clark, and finished off by Jeffery, to close the game with his second try. As ever, Taylor added the extra points. The final score was 28–7, and another bonus point win for the home side.

The team had given the massed ranks of former players a great spectacle of rugby, leaving Midsomer Norton at the top of the table with a three-point lead after six games.

Before the game, the club was presented with the new RFU Club Accreditation by Somerset County RFU’s Secretary, Steve Mead. This accreditation allows clubs to exhibit all that is good about rugby in their adult sections, mini and youth, women and girls, and touch rugby, while demonstrating that this is all achieved in a friendly, welcoming environment.