IT WAS a disappointing performance and result for us against Cambridge at the weekend as our winning run came to an end.

Playing on the Sunday made for a great day for the club and there was a really good crowd in attendance.

But it just seems to be at the moment that whenever the numbers are up we can’t deliver the right kind of performance on the pitch.

I thought we initially started quite well against them at the weekend and were in front quite early on.

However, we then gifted them a couple of tries.

One came from an intercepted pass, the other when we got caught out defensively from a quickly taken penalty.

And that gave Cambridge a huge boost.

They came to us having not been on a great run of form but those tries gave them a huge confidence boost and they suddenly played like world beaters.

We could’ve got back in to it and we do start to get on top in the scrum, scoring a penalty try and a pushover try in the second half.

But we conceded another soft try ourselves in between those ourselves and we ended up losing the game.

However, it’s still very close in the division and although we’ve dropped down to 11th in the table now we are only five points from sixth.

I think that’s obviously an indication of how close the league is but that we also have nothing to fear.

It’s pretty basic stuff as well and whoever makes the least mistakes will win the game.

We made more mistakes than Cambridge did at the weekend and that cost us.

Next up, we’re off to Clifton and we certainly can’t afford to do the same there.

NEW ZEALAND WERE MORE CONTROLLED THAN ENGLAND

ANOTHER advantage of us playing on Sunday was that it meant I was able to watch England’s game with New Zealand.

England had quite a disrupted side with all the injuries they have at the moment but they made a good start with Jonny May scoring a fantastic try.

But New Zealand were more controlled and more clinical after that.

They didn’t make many mistakes and just did what they had to to win the game.