Having repelled some early pressure, Stortford launched an excellent counter-attack, with Jimmy Rea making a great outside break to take his side into the opposition 22,but a clumsy knock-on a couple of phases later was seized upon by the home sides' 7, Arthur Ellis, who stepped through some sloppy Stortford cover to dash upfield and some quick and cohesive support running saw his side in for the opening try out wide after 5 minutes. The conversion attempt went wide, but Rosslyn Park were spared the need to even kick a conversion, when they were awarded a penalty try 15 minutes later, after Stortford were penalised for entering a maul from the side, as it drove at their line, following some more impressive attacking play from the home side. Worse was to come for the visitors 5 minutes later, as Rob Duff's effort to regather his own kick ahead failed and his team mates signally failed to provide for that possibility, leaving a clear run to their line for a supporting Park player. The conversion was made and a penalty goal another 5 minutes into the game, saw the home team to a 22 point lead. Stortford did battle back bravely, though and, finally taking advantage of their edge at the scrum, they ran through many phases against the determined home defence, before finally making room for fullback, Tom Walker to score an unconverted try out wide.

Despite Park's continued edge in aggression both in possession and defence, Stortford had far the better of the second half, with the scrum and lineout continuing to go well and the resulting possession being used much better than in the first period, A second try for the visitors resulted after 5 minutes, with Jimmy Rea, capping an outstanding performance by winning the tussle with his opposite number to touch down from a chip kick from Sam Winter. George Cullen made an excellent conversion from the touchline, but the home side countered very quickly with a penalty goal from a breakdown penalty to stretch their lead to 13 points. Stortford continued to press, but found it very hard to make headway up the middle through Park's quick and aggressive defence. Eventually, though their persistence paid off and a strong driving maul was halted illegally only a couple of feet short of the home line. The referee clearly didn't think, that a try would certainly have resulted, since he failed to award the penalty try, but a yellow card was shown to Park's No 6 and, from the resultant scrum, a quick pass from scrumhalf, Ben Creasey to Cullen, looping round on the blindside saw the flyhalf in for a try after 19 minutes. Unfortunately, his conversion effort from out wide missed the target, leaving his side two scores behind and, crucially 1 point outside a losing bonus point. Despite valiant efforts in the rest of the game, in which a couple of Stortford try-scoring opportunities went frustratingly begging there were no further scores. To be fair to Rosslyn Park, over the piece, they deserved their win and, indeed it took a couple of pieces of brave, scrambling defence from Stortford to prevent another breakaway score for the home side,