Bulls remain focused despite flying start to season

AYLESFORD HASTINGS

Aylesford set up a top-of-the-table clash with new leaders Bromley by beating Hastings & Bexhill on Saturday. Bromley took top spot after Thanet Wanderers’ defeat by Old Williamsonians, with Bulls up to second and now the only unbeaten team in London 3 South East after six games. Bulls go to Bromley this weekend and coach Jay Jenkins said: “The way the results have fallen sets up the game. “At the moment we’re in the top two and that’s where we want to be, having been at the other end for most of last season. “It’s a better place to be but it’s one game at a time because we know how quickly things can change. “We’re certainly ahead of the curve at the moment. “If you’d said after six games we’d be second in the league and unbeaten we’d have bitten your hand off but we must remain focused.” Aylesford scored all their points in a dominant first-half performance. The visitors touched the ball twice in the opening half an hour as Jenkins’ side built a 26- 0 lead with tries from Pete Webdale (2), Sam Proctor and John Rumsey, plus three Rumsey conversions. Hastings put points on the board with a penalty and crossed the line twice in the second half with their pick-and-go game. Jenkins, who handed chances to 2nd XV players Elliott Wood and Andre McKenzie, said: “It was a really good game. Hastings came to play but we strangled them in that first 30 minutes. “We were a little bit disappointed with the second half but it shows how far we’ve come in a year-and-a-half that we’ve achieved a bonus-point victory, and in the huddle after the game the players are talking about being disappointed. “We’d scored 127 points and conceded only eight in our previous two games and it can be difficult to get your mind back on it but overall we did manage it.”