Old Wimbledonians faield to take advantage of a home side that had not played for more than a month as they went down 8-0 at home to Camberley.

The visitors, who had not played for more than a month, looked rusty with their handling letting them down repeatedly.

And, while their forwards dominated the line-outs and the scrums, they were held by a brave and mobile Old Boys eight in the loose.

The OWs' backs were also sharper and looked to have the measure of the visitors, except that they kicked away too much possession speculatively - a lot of which went down opposition throats.

Honours were even for the first half-hour, both sides pressing in turn, but many handling and tactical errors kept returning well-earned ball to the opposition.

Neither side was able to build up a concerted period of pressure and each side missed a penalty early on.

After 32 minutes the experienced Camberley stand-off half put in an excellent cross kick which landed behind winger George Attipoe over the home try line, took an arkward bounce for the Camberley right wing to fall on the ball for the only try of the match.

All this time Tom Connolly at full-back for the Old Boys was having a brilliant game, always fielding cleanly and making ground forward on the counter attack.

In the second period the pattern continued, neither side establishing a clear cut advantage.

The visitors showed little ambition to do other than sit on their lead and wait for a penalty to give them a two score margin.

Meanwhile, the OWs, led by some attacking forays by scrum-half Richard Travers, were looking for victory but had no player who could break down the visiting defence.

Brian Boundy and Stef Disilvio each made forceful breakaways, but were not able to make the ball available quickly enough to to surprise a broken defence.

Tom Wheeler and George Attipoe both looked dangerous from time to time, but the home back play rarely stretched the Camberley defence.

Skipper David Robertson had a sterling game, being involved in most defensive rearguard actions.

With ten minutes to go some illegality by an OWs forward gave a penalty to the visitors which was converted to to give Camberley the points insurance they sought and the victory.