Clevedon Travelled up the M5 after a week’s break looking to reverse their recent form after losing two winnable games in recent weeks, there hopes were thrown into turmoil however with the late withdrawal of three players including skipper Crew through injury. Tucker came into the hooker shirt and picked up the captains armband, whilst Davey made his debut on the wing with Fisher moving to Fullback and the evergreen Williams coming in at 9.
Clevedon started well and shocked the home side with a brilliant counter attack that saw Fisher cross the line and Thomas convert to go 0-7 up after 4 minutes. 5 minutes later good build up with strong runs from Ed Martin and Will Trollope then a bullocking run saw the leagues leading try scorer Brian Largenton stretch the lead to 0-12.
Clevedon now started to dominate the set piece with Lugtig, Tucker and Fear strong in all areas of play and despite spirited play from the home team in the Clevedon 22 they never looked as if they would cross the visitors line in fact it was Clevedon who went close as Largenton was penalised for running into his own player in the act of scoring.
On 34 minutes Livingstone broke the home teams hearts after a promising attack was well defended from the following scrum just outside the 22 Adam Livingstone went on the rampage beating 5 would be defenders on his way to a 65 yard score to make it 19-0 at the break.

The second half saw The visiting seasiders come out strong and sustained pressure saw a saw Clevedon attack from deep, a chip and catch from Thomas release Commrie, who found Thomas again before he offloaded to Fisher for his second try of the game and a 0-26 lead.
Now came Norths only spell of sustained pressure as a mistake in exiting from the kick off gave Cheltenham good field position, this was then backed up by a lost line out and following a penalty and a couple of loose tackles the home side scored to give Clevedon a wake up call. North smelt blood now and threw everything they had at the blue and golds however despite a questionable yellow card for Egerton North wouldn’t cross again, after soaking up pressure a turnover at the breakdown from Trollope and Williams saw Clevedon exit Thomas kicked deep then substitute Warren Taylor pounced on a loose ball before releasing Thomas for a try which he converted.
It was one way traffic now as Cheltenham were broken hearted and sustained pressure saw Davey cross in the corner for a try on debut before Fisher wrapped up his hat-trick after supporting a Livingstone break in the last play of the game.

All in all a great performance on the road against an improving North side however there will be tougher games in the coming weeks and this young side will look forward to taking on those Challenges.

MOM – Ethan Thomas