Old Wimbledonians were pipped in their final league game of the season by Old Wellingtonian on Saturday.

The hosts never combined well as a team and territory and possession was usually made through individual efforts.

In this respect Matt Lucas standing in at scrum half had an excellent game both with his darting runs and astute kicking ahead diagonally for position. Alex Prew and Matthew Bell took all their own lineout ball and this week this area was a strong aspect of the home sides game. However, tight scrum ball always came back slowly and under pressure from the Wellingtonian pack.

A half time lead to the home side following two Jason Murphy penalties against a Wellingtonian try did not reflect the overall territorial advantage that the home team had attained.

More of the same in the second period occured although the Wellingtonians threw more effort into attack to secure a win. The Wimbledonians went further ahead through another Murphy penalty although the home side seemed to be tiring after their excellent first half work rate.

After the visitors camped for several minutes on the Wimbledonian line and dominated the home tight scrum that a visiting loose forward went over for the winning score.

It was great to welcome Matt McHale for his first game for the Old Boys, a testing experience for him, and with the steady stream of recruits from Wimbledonian College coming to play at 1st XV level the next few years should see an improvement in club fortunes.

If the most senior players are just able to hang on for another season or two the younger element of Robbie Westacott , Jason Murphy , Cormac Healy and Paddy Donaghy will then carry the club forward.