The Blues started well enough and Josh Plowright opened the scoring after 7 minutes when a clever box kick from Ryan Conyard bounced kindly for the Blues centre to touch down. In the difficult wind, Joe Daniel's conversion drifted wide.

Playing into the stiff breeze, the Blues still had the better of the half, but failed to add to their score until well into injury time, when the best play of the half saw the backs move the ball wide, and then a number of neat offload passes resulted in Shane Ling diving over for a try which Daniel converted well, leaving the score 12-0 to the Blues, at the break.

The 2nd half was much the same as the first, with Huntingdon showing little ambition to move the ball and the Blues defence negating their forward drives, whilst for their part Kettering failed to take advantage of the spaces out wide and the game degenerated after Jamie Manley scored on 50 minutes, following a fine handling move had stretched the visitors defence one way then the other.

Daniel's conversion made the game safe, at 19-0. Then, both sides suffered yellow cards, one for Huntingdon and 2 for the Blues, as the referee ran out of patience with the players, perceived, constant infringements.

The Blues finished stronger and Aaron Kellman was on hand to score the bonus point try in the dying seconds of a game, which both sides would be unhappy with in a number of ways.

For the Blues there were 2 very obvious consolations. Firstly a 4 try bonus point, and secondly, a clean sheet for the 2nd time this season. However, they will be aware that they need to improve the consistency of their performance this week, away at Ilkeston, the venue for many memorable games in recent seasons.

RAJ Man of the Match - Shane Ling