Western Counties North

Burnham on Sea 19, Chew Valley 29

BURNHAM’S season suffered another setback against recently promoted Chew Valley, as a lack of cohesion, organisation and commitment for lengthy periods of the game proved to be their downfall.

James Osgood, Jordyn Wikiteria and Ben Gibb crossed for the hosts in a disjointed display, with injury and unavailability hitting Burnham hard.

Burnham started the match tentatively and after 20 minutes were ten points down courtesy of a penalty and a converted try – the latter coming following a series of scrums in the Burnham 22.

As in last week’s match, this seemed to kick start Burnham and within three minutes James Osgood had crashed Tom Chaffey added the conversion to close the gap to three points – and ten minutes later, a spell of sustained pressure saw Burnham score their second.

Ben Gibb latching on to a pinpoint pass from scrum-half Lewis to crash over from close range - Chaffey converted.

But Chew Valley came charging back at the hosts and turned the game on its head with a try either side of half-time.

The visitors added another on the hour mark as Burnham receded into their shell – but they did cross for their third try with 15 minutes remaining as Sam Lewis fed Jordyn Wikiteria for a well-worked try.

Burnham have to realise that whilst they going through a transitional period with injuries and new players settling in, they must put in even more effort in communication with each other and keep their concentration for the whole 80 minutes.

Burnham are away this coming Saturday to Avon, currently third in the table.