Yorkshire Division Three: Baildon 14 Northallerton 42

POOR match preparation and a sluggish warm-up cannot be the only reasons that the home side started slowly.

But, although Baildon did some good things, the first Northallerton try came after multiple, fluent Northallerton phases and a sweet offload.

That try was converted and they soon added two penalties for offside before sleepy defence allowed Northallerton a second converted try, this time from first-phase possession from a scrum.

Great defensive efforts from Chris Peel, Josh Strauss and Will Craven were undone when the hosts came round the corner for a third try.

Worse followed, however, when the visitors switched off after a knock-on, waiting for a whistle that never came as Northallerton scored a converted try, and they made it 39-0 with another when Baildon lost control of their own put-in at a defensive five-metre scrum.

Put simply, Baildon needed to show pride in the shirt and win the second half, and they backed up skipper Dan Cookson's words.

The defence was more intense, holding out the hosts for ten phases, and they began to force errors.

Guy Price barged over for a try after good work by Matty Robinson and Tom Stanley, and Robinson converted it.

Nathan King then made a try-saving tackle and, although Baildon were lucky not to have a player yellow-carded for consecutive penalties in the red zone and conceded a penalty that Northallewrton kicked, Baildon had the last word.

Chris Peel put his body on the line to feed Joe Robinson, and the interplay between backs and forwards was dazzling, with both Josh Strauss and Matty Robinson involved before Luke Hope-Robertson took the try-scoring pass for Matty Robinson to convert.