Beckenham travelled to newly promoted East Grinstead and were totally outclassed by a team reckoned by many of the away supporters to have been the best team that we have face at this level.

With an array of quality players from 1 to 15, the home side earned their bonus point by half time and in the last quarter of the game they showed their class and ran in a number of quality tries.

The hosts were first on the scoreboard after six minutes when left wing Nathan Daly was left with a simple run in after the forwards sucked in the defence with a concerted series of drives.

Beckenham levelled within minutes when the pack won quick ball for James Curr who slotted in a grubber behind the defence and Julian Rogers collected to score out wide.

Beckenham held out for ten minutes as the attacks kept coming and Walter Downey found the gap to score an unconverted try. Matt Tamalii added another for the hosts before Curr slotted over a penalty to reduce the gap to nine points.

However the home side added another try through Daly to leave the half time score at 22 to 8. Beckenham were pleased with their defensive effort but were starved of any decent possession with which to mount any meaningful attacks.

The second half continued in much the same vein, the home side loading on the pressure but Beckenham’s continued defensive effort restricted the hosts to a converted try and a penalty to leave the score at 32 to 8 going into the last fifteen minutes.

But the inevitable happened and the hosts turned on the style and they ran in five unanswered tries including a hat-trick by Sam Hampson to rack up a final score of 63 to 8.

Beckenham will be sorely disappointed with those last fifteen minutes where they conceded 31 points and although there was no questioning the result they can take plenty of heart from their performance against a side that will surely will be the team to beat in the league this season.

15. A Santamaria
14. C Daly
13. M Baker
12. A Jones
11. J Rogers
10. J Curr
9. C Thomson
1. B Tinsley
2. S Forrest
3. T Bateman
4. P Hooton
5. E Ikediashi
6. G Coogan
7. C Beard
8. N Archer

16. A Dolphin
17. C Scade
18. J Narbey

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