Ealing the ultimate test

Friday 18th February 2011, 3:00PM GMT.

Academy product Charlie Clyde-Smith, a replacement against Richmond last weekend, gets a start at flanker tomorrow

THE only team to beat National II South leaders Ealing Trailfinders this season, second-placed Jersey RFC, face an epic battle to repeat the feat tomorrow afternoon in London.

Ealing, with 89 points, are 12 clear of Jersey and although they have played a game more, they well know victory tomorrow would virtually seal automatic promotion. But, just as pertinently, Jersey need wins to secure, at the least, the second-place play-off spot.

Big spending Ealing have bossed this division almost every time they have taken the field, though Southend and Richmond ran them extremely close in addition to the solitary 32-18 defeat Jersey inflicted on them in October.

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