Barnes are a very tough team that epitomises what makes this league so good. On their day they are capable of beating anyone and play a great brand of rugby. All credit must go to Jamie and the team for constantly over achieving and I wish them every bit of luck in their fight for survival. The league would be a lesser place without them (starting next week though!).

Last week felt like a real breakthrough scoring five tries to Exmouth's two. This was by no means an easy fixture and with the sad demise of London Welsh, it has given all teams at the bottom hope for survival with only two teams relegated this season. Our flair in attack was back to somewhere near the start of the season and I want to congratulate young Roddy Giles from Oxford Brookes University who started at 10 and was a definite contributing factor to a smoother ball-in-hand attack. We scored two perfectly good tries that I'm not convinced should have been disallowed which would have put the score past 50.

But as per many games this season, our defence was aggressive but disciplined and that is a key reason we have now put a winning run of three games together, two of which were away from home.

I'd also like to welcome our new boys to the fold: Ben Pienaar, Joe Hutchinson, Josh Davies and Jonny Bentley who arrived on Thursday evening. In return, we are a club that has always stated it is a growing ground for future Champ. and above stars and therefore when the opportunity arose for Ricky Cano to go to Rotherham, he had our blessing to go forge a career... I hear the Kebab van on the High Street shed a tear.

With Frank Jones and Alex Waddingham out for the remainder of the season and Cano to Rotherham reinforcements are key, particularly if we are serious to stay in the promotion mix. The boys have welcomed the chaps and we continue to push ourselves in training.

With 10 games remaining our home form is vital. It's the business end of the season and we need the black and white army in full voice. Get behind your team and let’s feel the sixteenth man!

We’re black, we’re white…

Matt Williams