JERSEY RFC might have scored over 50 points to set up a winner-takes-all confrontation for promotion to London I against Staines on 26 April, but coach Barry George wasn’t too impressed by his team’s demolition of Guildford RFC away from home on Saturday.

It was too patchy,’ he explained, ‘and it isn’t just me saying it. Afterwards the players were pretty despondent because they knew it should have been 70 or 80 points.

‘As a coach, though, you’d take 50 points at every level of the game, although we scored in quick blocks – four tries in 11 minutes in the first half and three quick tries in the second.

‘And Jon Swift put a marker on the game with five conversions and two penalties to take his points total to 164 in the league this year. And it was good to see Sam Tuia come off the bench to score in the second half. That was a big plus for us. We’re heading in the right direction for next weekend against Wimbledon, and then the play-offs.’

As expected, Hayward’s Heath in Jersey’s Division London South II, and Staines, in London North II, both won comfortably, which means that while Hayward’s Heath should win automatic promotion to London I, Jersey will almost certainly take on Staines at St Peter on 26 April for the right to go through as the best second-placed team from the two divisions.