Round 5 Predictions, Officials, Team News, Scores

Just got back from the away trip. Ampthill played very well. They took all of their chances, were extremely disciplined, but showed great aggression at the breakdown to force a number of turnovers. The lineout was, however, a major weakness for Ampthill and kept Ealing in the game.

Ealing played a decent game as well, but suffered from a number of mental errors, especially with silly knock ons, including one past the try line by Craig Willis that set up an Ampthill try. Ealing were massively saved by Jordan Burns coming on around 65 minutes - he injected a startling level of pace to the game and made an immense individual break to score Ealing's 3rd try. The bonus point was within Ealing's grasp in the last five minutes, but Matt Cornish went for one pass too many when he might have been better served by putting his head down (also created by a Burns break). Still, the phase of play led to an Ealing penalty kick for the win.

Ampthill look every bit a Championship calibre club to me. Also, I'd keep an eye out for them in an upcoming issue of Rugby World Magazine based on the photographer that was there. No issue with the official this week ;)