We started as though we were going to put 50 points on Bridlington who were desperate for a win to stay in the league. If they had have won it would have been Horden who went down after Stockton's amazing 90th minute penalty win against previously unbeaten Hull! Stockton's second team narrowly beat ours in a game in which both sides struggled to field full sides.

After 20 minutes at Brinkburn I was able to send a text message to Horden's Jonty Groves telling him we were 15-0 up and seemingly coasting. Davy Tighe slotted an early penalty with the wind at his back, and then Henry Tones popped up in the right place to finish off a quick backs move which saw Allan Milne make the space.

Then another peach of a try with Carlo making 20 metres in midfield, Davy feeding Stu Bennett from the ruck. Stu whipped the ball out to Brett Cullinane who made the gap for Davy to gallop in from 20 metres.

We had been starting to showboat with Allan Milne and the backs looking sharp whenever they got the ball.

It all changed when Brett took a nasty knock on the thigh as he caught the ball from the restart from Davy's try. He lasted five or so minutes but had to limp off. John Painter came on ... hardly a bad replacement. But we missed Brett's lineout acumen and Painter has had little time to learn the first team's lineout calls.

As the game went on the lineout became more and more messy and the backs were denied the posession their sharpeness demanded.

Brid stuffed the ball up their jumper, used their greater weight whenever they could, and got back into the game just on half time with an unconverted push over try.

We had also lost Carlo to a shoulder injury with Tim Sawyer moving up front and Phil Gilbraith coming into the back row.

With the wind in their favour Brid put up a brave fight and got back into it with a converted try after Bickerdyke was fed on the right wing. He managed to cut inaside beating despairing lunges from Dan Abraham and Andrew Hare.

Then came another superb try from the West backs. From a lineout the classy looking [and hard tackling] Phil Wallis fed Allan Milne who sent in a grubber kick, which he raced through to collect, and then slipped the ball to a grateful Peter Hodgson. Hodgy sped in under the posts to give Davy an easy kick.

Brid didn't give up, and they didn't change their tactics, and got their reward with a second pushover try with four minutes left on the clock.

They're back down to Yorkshire One so our difficult coach journey down the East coast will be replaced by a slightly easier jaunt to Steetley Mews.

Next season promises to be a fascinating one. But it's one we can look forward to with some quiet confidence.