This away fixture could be classed as the one that got Stoke had many chances of winning this game up mistakes allowed the home side to score three tries which was enough to see of Basingstoke who scored their points through Simon Appleby and Jamie Fish tries both converted by Simon Humberstone who also posted [...]

Basingstoke showed just what they can do in this game controlling it from almost the first On 10 minutes Mike Goodall opened the home account with a penalty only for Stoke to go and give an immediate opportunity to Abbey which they gratefully took to equalise. The rest of the half was nip and tuck [...]

Basingstoke went down to a narrow defeat to Reading 25-19. Stoke had the best of the first quarter and deservedly held an early 12 point lead, however Reading hit back with two unconverted tries to go in at 10-12. Stokes scores came from Dave Lambert and Myles Rutherford tries, the latter being converted by Simon [...]