The Haringey Rhinos were back at the New river stadium which was packed to the rafters to welcome West London to the hallowed turf (rubber crumb). After the postponement of the Hendon game the Rhinos were fresh and ready to tackle a well organised West London team.

The opening phases concluded with the Rhinos dominating possession and territory put handling errors and discipline kept the scoreboard at 0-0.

With the Rhinos forwards dominating the set piece a five meter line out resulted in the Haringey Captain Amrit Derry rumbling over for his first try in two years.

Further strong phase play especially from the forwards concluded with a second try for the Rhinos outside half Owen Luckwell who charged off a short ball from Dani Cudlipp to crash over the try line.

After a slow start from West London, some nice offloading in the mid-field gave a platform for the opposition to attack. Exploiting an overlap down the blind side, West London were able to break free by crisp passing from the backline allowed the full back to touch down, making the score 12-7 to the Rhinos at Half time.

The second half started with much the same dominance from the Rhinos in the set piece, with Rob handles proving to be a nuisance in the line out for the opposition.

A strong performance from the Rhinos front row in the scrums allowed clean possession for the Rhinos back line to press up the field.

Slick offloading and sharp running angles around the West London 10m put the Rhinos in prime position to launch an attack. Like a meandering gazelle the veteran Tom (rabbit) Burrows took a beautiful lofted ball on the fringe of the ruck to steam roll through the defensive line and Shane Ede in good support to finish off a well worked try.

With the Rhinos beginning to cut out the handling errors this allowed continuity in the attack.

Another strong five meter line out and driving maul allowed Sean Rees to crash over for his first try of the season.

Sustained pressure from the Rhinos on the West London 22m allowed the Rhinos number 8 Jared Robinson to fly hack the loose ball through the cover defence and to pounce on the ball for a fifth try.

Andy Emmott rounded the second half off by dotting down in the corner to get the Rhinos sixth and final try to make the final score 36 – 7.

A hard fought display gets the Haringey Rhinos back to winning ways from a strong performance by the pack and especially James Dwight Evans with a man of the match performance.

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