For the second week running Wheatley came out of the blocks with real intent and were able to contain a rampant Milton Keynes attack with some staunch defending and fluid attacking rugby.

Milton Keynes travelled to Holton with a physically bigger team and from the outset showed an intent to move the ball to their big runners in the hope of breaking down the Wheatley defence, Wheatley stood strong with superhuman effort to prevent the visitors opening the scoring.

It was Wheatley who scored first with some broken field play turning the ball over at the break down Jack Taylor was able to find space to get beyond the last defender to go under the post with Aaron Laman converting 7-0

3 minutes later it was Alex Gabbidon who was added to the score sheet, after popping up on the shoulder of Laman Gabbidon found himself out in the open and applied the after burner to gallop in from 35 yards with Laman notching up another conversion. 14-0

It was Milton Keynes who scored next after moving the ball wide and the winger in space MK were able to score out wide with the conversion missed 14-5

Half Time

Wheatley hit the ground running scoring inside 2 minutes of the re-start with some great running from Harry Walker Joe Taylor the beneficiary and eventually blasting over for the try with the conversion missed. 19-5

Milton Keynes sprung into life and hit back 5 minutes later with a converted try of their own closing the deficit to 19-12

Laman added 2 penalties inside the following 8 minutes after some indiscipline at the breakdown 25-12, Wheatley seemed to take their foot off the gas in the preceding 20 minutes allowing the visitors to close the gap to just 5 points, on sixty six minutes some confusion at the line out saw the ball go loose and subsequently get pulled back for a scrum to MK , quick hands saw the ball move wide for an unconverted try in the corner 25-25

Wheatley broke out from the kick off and got them selves in a strong position and poised for the drop goal, only to see it drift agonisingly wide

Pretty physical battle but played out in the right spirit, Wheatley have built on the previous 2 fixtures and with Milton Keynes a far stronger opposition than anything we have faced this season to date, some strong individual performances from many players and with the squad now growing in size and real competition for places emerge things certainly look to be headed in the right direction at Wheatley.

Full time 25-25