Sherbourne brought a full strength side on their long journey to Calne including ex-harlequin Richard Nias who ran rampant scoring 4 tries. The first being from Calne's kick off. The home team fiercely contested their own opening kick but knocked on. Number 8, Nias, picked up just inside his half to carry inside Calne's 22 to offload in a Charlwood tackle leaving the backs with a clear overlap to exploit.

Young flanker Mike Robinson had his work cut out trying to contain Nias but with support from Alan Wicks he managed to keep the stand out talent quite for long periods of the game. More plaudits were received for new hooker Mike Palfrey, who although is still finding his feet in the middle of the front row, is proving to be a thorn in the oppositions side with his powerful rucking and his mobility in the loose. Calne started to build some phases though forward carries from Trev and Alan Wicks for fly half James Gladding, Centre Neil Young and winger Alan Henley to exploit. The pressure was soon turned into 6 points thanks to scrum half Andy Donegan and offside infringements by Sherbourne.

It was clear the Calne's resistance was a surprise to the visitors as any drams of a clear 60 points soon faded. Sherbourne, now knowing they had a stiffer opposition than they thought, stepped up a gear and won a penalty of their own, which they followed up with Nias' first try. Near the end of the second half flanker, or rather retired scrum half Mick McDaid, made way for the Titanic Daron Thomas. Thomas soon put his stamp on the game with his trade mark ball carries, bouncing a number of attempted tackles on his way.

The second half got off to the worst possible start for Calne, two Nias tries in the first five minutes killed off the Calne insurrection. Both of Nias tries were wonderful individual efforts and very similar. The number 8 picked up from the scrum and headed straight to the wing where he out ran the back row to dummy and side step the defence.

Charlwood and his troops never gave up and the rallying cries from Matt Arnold kept the boys going. Quick ball form Donegan allowed Gladding to move the ball wide for Smithy and Young to combine. The ground made from Young resulted in an ecstatic moment as Graham Neale beat his man to take the covering defence over the line with him to score his first try for the club.

Although Calne were disappointed with the final score, solace was taken from the fact that Sherbourne would be even more so, and that, in fact, they had really been beaten by an individual who obviously enjoys being the big fish in a little pond.

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