After being forcefully beaten, both home and away, by Cooper Avon Tyres during the last campaign, Calne showed that their well reported whirlwind like preseason was not propaganda. The new look side Calne side confirmed their progress as they and Cooper Avon finished level at 17 a piece.

Cooper Avon were leading 17, 5 into the break with both sides realising the game was going to hinge on the next try. Calne's 12 unanswered points left the game in deadlock but left Calne declaring the moral victory.

The first half was a different story however. Calne's unfamiliar starting line up knew it was going to take the best part of 20 minutes for them to show any signs of cohesion and the question was always going to be could Calne chase what CAT had put on the board in that time. The first, precarious, 20 minutes saw CAT stroll into the lead with a Penalty and a converted try. Cooper Avon's try was scored from quick 2nd phase ball and a missed tackle was swiftly exploited.

Calne captain, Andrew Donegan, was next on the scoreboard, but not with his trade mark left boot. A quick tap penalty on Calne's 10 meter line was run in, nearly unopposed, whilst Cooper Avon continued to argue with the referee. During Donegan's 60-meter sprint it was just Cooper Avon's fullback who was alert, but he was not able to keep pace with Calne's skipper.

Cooper Avon were keen to preserve their recent supremacy over Calne and replied to Calne's solo effort with a classy team try on the stoke of half time.

As the second half got underway Calne were able to impose themselves on the game as openside, and man of the match, Damon Murphy along with lock Pete McGarry dominated the lineout and supplied clean ball which was now finding it's way to Calne's flying wings. Calne's back row put in a monumental amount of work. Murphy's tackling created the openings for, new signing and No. 8, Neil Watkins to turnover Copper Avon's ball, which in turn created opportunities for Alan Wicks, playing on the blindside, to inflict havoc on the CAT defence with his volatile running.

Quick ball form the lineout was the source of Calne's second try. The ball was conveyed rapidly to wing James Gladding who stepped his way in to the danger zone before off loaded to fullback Mike Charlwood who in turn off loaded to lock Viliame Tabalakia Sukani to score one the clubs best try's in a few seasons.

Now in the ascendancy and creating multi-phased ball Calne struck again. Fly half, Paul Jenkins, broke the game line and sent a sublime miss pass for Neil Young, who set winger John Hope-Smith up for the try. Donegan's conversion, made easier by Hope-Smith's cheeky placement, was the final score of the game.

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