Illness, injury and Remembrance Sunday depleted the Wimbledon ranks to 22, however this was still a disappointing result considering our recent victories. All credit to Mitcham who played strongly, out-muscled us especially in the second half and have definitely improved since we won last years corresponding fixture.

Mitcham arrived with a strong A/B team and by agreement we played the game with a largely B contingent in the first half and mainly A players in the second. The first half saw us go in 10-14 down, with the Wimbledon tries coming from Damian Cherry-Fox and Alex Browning. In the second half, Mitcham brought on some very strong 'A' standard players, who were too much for our already-tired pack and swapped-in A back line. Some missed tackles showed that this is still an area for more work in training. A late fightback from Wimbledon saw another good try from recently joined wing, James Waghorn

Taking some positives from the day, we were without several key players especially in the pack, and the boys never gave up at any point. A big thank you to Louis Hogan for filling in as hooker in extremis, we know he does not like it!