Playing with the gale at their backs, Stortford turned over early possession and Moseley's powerful forwards seized on the opportunity to drive at the Stortford line and force a penalty after 4 minutes, producing a three point lead for the home side. This advantage was soon cancelled out, with Stortford pressurising the Moseley defence into conceding a penalty for a high tackle, which George Cullen coolly slotted over. Stortford took increasing control over possession and territory, spurning the opportunity to kick for territory and keeping the ball in hand. This confidence was rewarded after 14 minutes, when a tremendous break up the middle by James Apperley took his side into the home 22, where Sam Winter was at hand to take an inside pass, spin out of a tackle and crash over for a try near the posts, which Cullen duly converted. It was now Moseley's turn to enjoy a period of dominance and with their strong forwards in the vanguard, led forcefully by captain, Buster Lawrence it took some tremendous Stortford defence to keep their line intact. Eventually, though the pressure told and a second penalty goal after 38 minutes narrowed Stortford's lead to 4 points. Back on the front foot from the restart, Stortford went through multiple phases, but the home defence looked solid, until Cullen drew a couple of defenders out of position with a show and go to make a half break and lightning support from his forwards saw prop, Will Roberts forcing his way over close to the posts for a converted try. This took his side into the break with a 17-6 lead, a far from comfortable margin, with the second half to play into the wind.

In fact, the second period could not have started better for the visitors, with Johnny Neville making a great clean take from Cullen's restart kick and four or five phases of quick handling later, winger, Chris Smith was able to crash through a despairing tackle in the corner for an unconverted try . The elation of Stortford's large band of supporters was short-lived, however, as Stortford were penalised at an attacking scrum and Roberts was binned for questioning the decision. The home side smashed the penalty into Stortford's 22 and a further penalty at the maul from the resultant lineout was taken quickly and two passes saw the home side in for a converted try. With their tails now up, Moseley drove Stortford's 14 men back into their own 22 with a tremendous kick and, quickly forcing a turnover were able to power over for an unconverted try and a scoreline of 18-22. Mosely now appeared to have the upper hand and another good positional kick put them back deep into Stortford territory again, heralding another period of sustained pressure. As Stortford struggled to run the ball out against increasingly aggressive Mosely tackling, a knock-on was forced, giving Moseley a 5 metre scrum and two passes were all that was needed for them to touch down under the posts, the 7 points taking them into a 3 point lead with some 20 minutes left. Undaunted by the battering they had been taking, Stortford fought their way back into the game and enjoyed a short period of sustained pressure of their own which ended with Alex Patton darting his way over down the blindside of a driving maul to touch down in the corner. This left Stortford 2 points ahead with some 5 minutes on the clock. With Moseley’s powerful forwards once more to the fore, it took some outstanding backs-to-the wall defending from the visitors on their own line to hold out. A knock-on was eventually forced, at which point the referee blew the final whistle to signal another remarkable bonus-point win for the National One new boys of Stortford.