CALNE'S young side, consisting of four under 20's, were given a lesson in controlled, patient rugby by CAT.

Mike Benson and Mike Smith made their league debuts after good performances in recent friendlies. They were accompanied by fellow debutant Graham Neale. Dave Holmes and Mike Robinson, now established members of the team, joined the under 20 contingent.

But the young, pacey and energetic side lacked the cohesion and experience of their opponents. Neal stood out with some first class tackling.

CAT were very professional in their victory. They relentlessly ran the ball back at Calne and on four more occasions breached the Calne line with well worked overlaps. In the last of these scores saw, full back, Neil Young made a covering tackle but have to leave the field with a bloodied and broken nose to sum up Calne's day up.

A day which saw many fine individual performance such as Pete McGarry's outstanding line out work and, flanker, Mike Robinson's work ethic.

But the result clearly highlighted the need for pack to train together, get on the scrummaging machine and do some damage to the opposition in the next game.

Likewise, with so many new faces in the backs Calne's running options were limited and in the bad kicking conditions they were left with no real option to clear their line.

A few training session together as a unit could correct this and add another valuable weapon to their armoury.