Rugby league: Thatto Heath 4 - 48 Mayfield

Photo: Aidy Gleeson Snr

Man of the match Ben Metcalfe

With five enforced changes from last week's team Mayfield could have been excused if they had not performed well at Thatto Heath on Saturday 27 May.

The new improved Mayfield showed how far they have come as a team as they dominated the game from start to finish. Thanks to some dogged defence from the home side it took them 20 minutes before they got on the scoresheet after a brilliant break from the returning Cole Connolly saw him give a perfectly timed pass to Ben Metcalfe who opened the scoring, Jordan Parr converted, 0 - 6.

With half an hour gone, Harry Sheridan began imposing himself on the game from acting half. He brought the forwards onto the ball and they were making good yards every time. Seta Tala, Metcalfe and Luke Fowden made the hard yards in very warm conditions. From a Fowden drive Sheridan snapped the ball left to Sam Wright who in turn found the in-form Jordan Parr who found a great cut out pass which reached another in-form player Wayne English who crossed in the corner to continue his impressive scoring ratio, 0 - 10.

It just seems at the moment that the whole team is on form and they have started playing for each other and as a team. This was evident when James McDaid made an explosive break from centre, drew the full back in text book style and who was there on his shoulder, Parr, who took the pass to score under the sticks, he then converted to make it 0 - 16.

The next try came just before half time and it was a copy of the last with Wright making the break drawing the defender and putting Harry Sheridan in for a well deserved score, Parr again added the two and Mayfield were 22 points to the good at half time. An analysis of the first half showed that there was nothing wrong with the Thatto defence, they were moving up and making the tackles in twos and threes but the Mayfield attack was just different class on the day.

The second half followed the first with Mayfield not able to break the defensive wall for the first 20 minutes. It took a brilliant offload from Travis Long as he was hitting the ground to finally break the deadlock. His pass found McDaid in support who in turn found Lewis Butterworth who beat six defenders on his way to the line, some of them twice. 0 - 26.

The next 20 minutes saw Mayfield play some spell binding stuff, Dakota Long sprinted through untouched from the half way line, converted by Parr, 0 - 32.

Tala started the next move with a long ball out wide, play reached Butterworth with nothing looking on, so he created something, with yet another long break from his own half. He found Travis Long who was unstoppable as he increased his sides lead, converted by Parr. 0 - 38.

Parr then grabbed his second as he got on the end of a Wright orchestrated move, 0 - 42.

Wright was ripping the defence to shreds at this point and with two minutes left he found Harry Sheridan in support and put him through for his second and Mayfield's final try of the game, converted by Parr, 0 - 48.

A never say die attitude saw Thatto round of the scoring as they threw caution to the wind with some speculative passing which just seemed to fall for them as they crossed in the corner, 4 - 48

This was an all round performance from an in-form Mayfield team and they are beating all the top teams on their way. Man of the match for Mayfield was a tough choice and Parr very nearly got the vote with his personal tally of 20 points but when pressed the Thatto coaching staff went for Ben Metcalfe who put in a superb shift.