Despite all their cheap shots and dirty tricks, which were in evidence all afternoon, Mersea must have secretly wished the tide had stayed up and not let the Black and Golds across the causeway leading to the island, as Wold handed them a sharp lesson in modern day rugby and teamwork.
Offensively the Wold backs were superb, the Wold pack dominated in the scrum, clearly something the Mersea big boys were not used to, and defensively the entire Wold side were resilient and simply unbreakable
If ever anyone needed evidence that pure size and weight together with dirty tricks were no longer the ingredients needed to cook up a win in a rugby match at this level, this was it, and not even the punches, elbows and various other dubious attacks could stop the Ally Butler inspired Wold train from steaming right through the Mersea station and on to it's 20th straight win of the season out of the 20 games to date
Wold were in front from the first minute when Mersea failed to control the ball at the kick off, the ball was stolen and after three quick phases of play the ball was fed out to the right for Josh Crick to outpace his opposite number and score the first try which Chippy Middleditch converted.
The seven point lead was eventually increased to twelve, in a wind dominated first half when Chippy Middleditch took a quick tap penalty and fed the ball to Zak Loader ten metres out and the young back row Colt smashed his way into three light blue giants before stretching out his fingertips to put the ball down right on the try line for a great score wide on the left on 35 minutes.
The game then really turned when Wold were shoving Mersea back in a scrum and a fist came through from the opposition second row to cut Des Brett's eye with the result that he had to leave the field for blood treatment just before half time.
That incident was the last of note that Mersea contributed in the remainder of the game, and the Ally Butler half time team talk which demanded Wold ignore the dirty tricks and simply wounded Mersea with rugby skills, inspired Wold to score five more unanswered tries in the second half.
The backs scored the next three tries with first Josh Crick, then Richie Thickett and finally Ben Haddingham all running in from distance as Mersea simply wilted and their lack of fitness became apparent
The final two tries were two of the best of the season
First, Johnny Stevenson, standing in at centre for the injured Pete Holmes and unavailable Aaron Bliss, sidestepped and jinked his way 40m up the centre of the pitch beating four or five defenders to score under the posts to make it a thirty four nil lead to Wold. His grin said it all as he strolled back to the half way line.

It was a great try but the next and last was even better which started when a patched up Des Brett, who had been back on for most of the second half, ripped the ball away from the Mersea pack right on the Wold line., when Wold were seriously under the cosh in one of the very few moments of Mersea domination.

The ball was fed out by Chippy Middleditch to fly half Rob Owles who took the decision not to make a clearing kick from behind his own try line but feed the ball out to Richie Thickett on the right wing who made 50m up the pitch before being finally held and he cleverly offloaded to Ben Haddingham backing up well who simply sprinted the rest of the way up the right wing and looped round to touch down under the posts and with the simple conversion from Chippy Middleditch the final score at the whistle was 41 points to nil in Wolds favour

It was a great end to a pretty eventful game and it merely emphasised the key to Southwolds's great season, which has been team effort and spirit rather than individual brilliance

Man of the match was a hard decision when all played so well but great catching and kicking all afternoon topped off with two tries meant Ben Haddingham at full back tipped the balance just in his favour

Only two more league games during which to preserve their 100% win record means Wold's promotion season will be completed in some style if they are successful in both, but in any event one more win will see Wold reach the magical 100 point mark for the season. Amazing really for the Small Club with the Big Heart

MOM V MERSEA ISLAND : Ben Haddingham

Arn the Wold !!!