Ely Tigers travelled to Norfolk at the weekend to face North Walsham II, writes Steve Wells.

Ely were looking to build on their win the week before at home to Cantabs, again they were forced to make changes to the starting XV.

This included a start for  Alfie Allen from the club's colts side, who was down as a replacement, but started the game.

There was an early chance for the home side when they were awarded a penalty, opting to kick, but the upright post came to the aid of Tigers and bounced off the post to safety.

It was then only a brief spell before the home side had points on the board. 

A quickly taken penalty from Walsham saw them cross the line once more to extend their lead, to 13-0, as they once more wasted the conversion start, on 32 minutes the Tigers went down to 14 as they received a yellow card for a late tackle.

First-half injury time and Walsham scored again, as Ely fail to make their tackles count, with the conversion added to lead at the break 20-0

The second half started with a penalty to Ely and Matt McCarthy opted to kick but the ball fell short.

A list of errors while Tigers were pushing towards the Walsham try line, saw Walsham break free,  adding another try to the scoreboard.

Another penalty to Ely, saw them opt for the kick, this time McCarthy added the points, more missed tackles saw the home side add to the scoreboard with another try and conversion saw a further try and conversion.

The final score of the afternoon came as full time closed in, and it came from another mistake from the Tigers, as the home side added a further try and conversion to run out 39-3 winners

Tigers face league leaders, Norwich, this coming weekend at the Cambridge Commodities Park, as the injury list continues to grow for Des Lloyd's side.