DESPITE being four points clear at the top of London South, Division II, following their 36-10 win over Sidcup, Jersey are likely to have two points deducted for fielding an unregistered player earlier in the season.

We’re waiting to hear from them (the RFU) but they’ve admitted themselves they might be partly to blame,’ explained coach Barry George.

‘Rory Steel didn’t play for the club last year and he was taken off the registration list.

But he was on the bench at the start of the season and was part of the squad for another four games before the RFU picked us up on it.

‘They seem prepared to admit it’s partly their fault – but I expect to lose two points because of it.’ Despite that potential two-point deficit, Jersey RFC are currently four points ahead of the other clubs in London South II after beating a game Sidcup XV after the home side had gone seven points clear after the first 15 minutes.

‘They scored a converted try from a line-out and drive,’ said George.

‘But, even then, I thought they were limited in their ambition and I always expected Jersey to win.’ ‘Even when we were seven points down in the first 25 minutes, we played some awesome rugby,’ added the JRFC’s Director of Rugby, Dai Burton.

‘In the end we could have won by over 40 points, if we hadn’t over-elaborated our style of play.’ Jersey’s first try came from centre Sam Tuia, who touched down in the corner following good play from a line-out and ruck ball two minutes after Sidcup had scored.

In similar fashion in the 32nd minute the same player ‘ran over the top of a guy’ from a line-out to score again, to make it 10-7 to the visitors at half-time.

During a no-nonsense half-time talk, in which George told his players they ‘weren’t hurting the opposition enough’ and to ‘up the intensity’, Jersey scored direct from the kick-off when flanker Graham Bell eased himself under the posts following mauling rugby and a neat pass from Tuia.

Stand-off Jon Swift converted.

Seven minutes later Sidcup pulled themselves marginally back into the game following a penalty by their No 10 before, in the 59th minute, a clever James Cooper chip into space bounced kindly for winger Richard Stevens who regathered and scorched through for the first of a brace of tries.

Swift converted.

Latu Maka’afi then scored with four minutes to go before Stevens deftly wove in and out of a static defence for the final try with minutes remaining.

He then had the audacity to convert his own try to make the final score 36-10.

Afterwards, both Burton and George talked about the tries that had gone begging, rather than about the tries that they had scored, before George added: ‘That was some of the best rugby we’ve played all season.

I’m still waiting to hear from the RFU; but my new ambition is to remain unbeaten by Christmas.’ Jersey: Steve O’Brien, Ryan Morgan, Sam Tuia, Keiaho Bloomfield, Richard Stevens, Jon Swift (James Milner), James Cooper, Marcus Nobes, Josh Chamier, Jon Brennan (Jim Brimelow), Ian Henderson (John Allo), Talite Vaioleti, Latu Maka’afi, Graham Bell, Kern Yates (Christian Weald).