Chiltern, despite fielding a much changed side through injury and unavailability, proved far too strong for a competitive but ultimately outplayed Letchworth side in a 57-5 win. 

Having had the dominant scrum in the first two games of the season, an all-new Chiltern front row struggled at times to cope with a more experienced Letchworth pack. 

Despite this, the home side’s fitness and pace was too much for Letchworth to handle and, after only four minutes, quick ball from the forwards saw Lloyd Anderson score the first of his three tries with a scything run through the centre to touch down in the left-hand corner. 

After 15 minutes, scrum-half Michael Brothers picked up the ball from the base of the Chiltern scrum just inside his own half, saw a gap on the blindside and raced 50m for our second try which was nicely converted by outside half Stuart Pearham, the first of his six successful kicks during the afternoon.

The combative centre partnership of Anderson and Davies, both in attack and defence, was causing Letchworth all sorts of problems and it was no surprise when Davies broke through three tackles to score Chiltern’s third try, which was again successfully converted.

The bonus points were then secured after half an hour when Brothers received overlap ball on the halfway line and had the pace to outflank the covering Letchworth defence for his second try. 

The Chiltern back row was proving extremely difficult to stop, especially man of the match Dave Francis whose pace and strength caused mayhem at times. 

His reward came after 34 minutes when he stormed through several tackles to score the fifth try, duly converted by Pearham. 

Probably the best try of the game, however, came in injury time of the first half when Francis was passed the ball, probably 40m from the line; he made ground with his pace and with 10m to go had sufficient strength to carry three Letchworth defenders over the line with him. The try was converted and Chiltern went into half-time 38-0 ahead.

In the second half and playing into the wind, Chiltern carried on very much as they had left off with the ball quickly switched out to the right wing to Anderson, whose pace took him clear of all the defence. The try was converted and Chiltern were 45-0 to the good.

Unfortunately a serious injury to one of the Letchworth props meant their was a delay.

A potential neck injury meant that the player could not be moved and an ambulance was called. As happened twice last season the ambulance took an inordinate amount of time to arrive and there was no option but to move the game to another pitch which meant stopping the game for well over 30 minutes 

This undoubtedly allowed Letchworth to regroup and to make the most of the enforced break. 

It must also be said that Chiltern’s concentration was not good when play resumed and the game descended into a forward’s arm wrestle. 

There were a couple of bright moments with two further long-range tries - a third for Anderson and another for club captain Jack Kenyon.

The result was satisfactory with Chiltern retaining their unbeaten record and securing their second bonus point of the season.

Tomorrow sees the team travel to Ealing where they will face Old Priorians, 3.00pm kick off.