Chingford travelled to a wet and windy Welwyn Garden City, to face the league’s basement club, with yet again a much changed starting XV. Directly from the kick-off the visitors attacked, with Pike, who was making only his second start for the First XV, taking the ball at pace making useful yards, before finding Campbell, who fed Fitzgerald and he ran in to score under the posts. Campbell added the conversion, and before Welwyn could make a tackle or touch the ball, Chingford were 7 points ahead. The visitors continued to push hard for the next score, but either bad passes or poor hands meant the opportunity disappeared. Chingford put together one awesome passage of play that deserved a try, which started deep in their own half. The lively Pike stepping opponents, found the ever supporting Campbell, after Hollis and Child had secured possession, passed onto his back-row partner Moore. Moore maybe should have put the foot down, and scored himself, but he passed onto the normally reliable Aussie lock forward Mike Lee, and with the try-line beckoning only feet away he managed some how to drop the ball. Welwyn once again sighed a breath of relief, but Chingford did manage a further try before half-time. With the visitors camped deep in Welwyn’s territory, Campbell faked to drop a goal, passed onto Captain Piper who drove forward, before Bolton-Smith slipped the ball to Moore, and he dived over the line. Campbell added the extras and at half-time Chingford led by 14 points. Chingford now had the slope to contend with, added to the extreme elements meaning that this fixture was becoming more difficult by the minute. Chingford for the opening 10 minutes put some good phases together, but once again the accuracy was not there to turn the pressure into points. Welwyn towards the end of the half spent time in the Chingford 22, but solid defence meant that Welwyn got nowhere near to scoring a try, and final score read Welwyn Garden City 0 Chingford 14. “The weather was a great leveller today, with a referee that liked a scrumage or 2 and a determined opposition, it meant we could not get our game together. Thanks to Hendri Colitz and Kiwi Biddle who both played out of position today, but both played excellently. We are glad to have come away without any injuries, and the 2 points that keeps us joint top of league, with the weather and unavailibities even tough they are the bottom team in league this could have been a banana skin for us. We now have a week off before we play the final two games of this half of the season, and hopefully some of our many injured players will be available for selection to strengthen our 1st XV squad,” said a wet and cold Chingford Captain Steve Piper.