A yellow card for Tring inside 2 minutes immediately put them on the back foot. However, some loose bits of play prevented Hertford from capitalising. Instead, Tring earned themselves a 3 point opportunity after great work at the breakdown, and fly half Ben Hogan successfully kicked over.

Hertford were soon ahead when Elliot Mcphun made his first telling contribution of the game. His clever kick into space behind the Tring defence was chased down by Alex Kay who popped it up for the supporting Ben Bridgewood to score. It remained 5-3 as Louis Kendrick’s conversation attempt unfortunately rebounded off the post.

After some aerial ping pong, Kyle Lemon neatly evaded the onrushing Tring defence and made a delightful offload to set up Ollie Cook for a certain try, but the pass was marginally forward.

Mcphun looked to keep the scoreboard ticking with a couple of long range drop goal attempts in quick succession, but he narrowly missed the target.

A good spell of pressure from Hertford inside Tring’s half led to 3 points from the boot of Kendrick. The visitors then quickly struck back with 3 points of their own, leaving the score 8-6 at half time.

A penalty straight from kick off gave Hertford the chance to make an ideal start to the second half. Kendrick stepped up and calmly slotted over. It then got even better 5 minutes later when Alex Banna scored a trademark try. Mcphun started things with a darting run to the 22 metre line. The ball was recycled and found its way to Banna. The big man used his strength to evade numerous tackles and dive over the line, a sight the home fans will never tire of seeing.

Tring kept plucking away and scored an excellent try to get themselves back in the game. They broke away down the blindside after turning over a scrum on halfway and efficiently exploited the gaps in Hertford’s defence to score in the right corner. A well converted kick pulled them back to within 5 points.

This compelling game took another turn when Sonny Swift was sin binned for a high tackle. It was all hands on deck as Tring pushed for a decisive try.

Hertford relieved some of the pressure with much needed possession. Suddenly the balcony erupted as the marvellous Mcphun delivered a cross field kick that fell perfectly for Joe Robinson to collect and score.

Moments later Alex Banna made sure of victory with a remarkable solo try. He caught the ball from the restart and ran nearly 70 metres leaving a trail of flailing bodies in his wake, to score under the posts. An incredible moment and what a way to seal a valuable bonus point win for Hertford. In the last kick of the game, Kendrick nailed a penalty through the posts to put the icing on the cake.

A great win, a great all around performance, a great MOTM performance from Alex Banna and a great way t to honour Skipper Josh Hewitt's 100th league cap.

We've had worse days!