Trailfinders cruise into the quarter finals

BRYAN MBEUMO took the roof off Griffin Park with his first-half goal which was enough to beat west London rivals Fulham in the Championship.

The impressive victory took the Bees into the top six for the first time this season as they leapt to fourth place in front of a sellout 12,305.

Mbeumo scored his fourth goal in as many games to ensure the Derby

RAMPANT Ealing Trailfinders secured a home quarter-final in the Championship Cup after a dominant 56-19 victory over Coventry.

Director of rugby Ben Ward was delighted ahead of a crunch Championship clash against Newcastle, on Saturday.

“I thought the players were outstanding throughout and had a great energy about them,” he said. “Any team on the front foot is hard to stop and we enjoyed plenty of ball, which gave us the platform.

“It’s great to get through to the knockout stages and now we can park this competition until the New Year and focus on the league.

“We know that it’s a massive

Day spoils remained in TW8 and the win was a fourth straight at Griffin Park.

Boss Thomas Frank described the win as “unbelievable” and said: “We talked before the game about the need to outplay them, but the bigger thing was that we needed to out-run them and the players did that brilliantly.

“Because then we knew we could game against Newcastle and we want to test ourselves against the best, so we’ll embrace this challenge and make sure we’re ready.”

Ward’s side scored eight tries in total as their physical dominance gave them the platform to run away with another impressive win at Trailfinders Sports Club.

The tries came from Jordy Reid, Andrew Durutalo, Craig Hampson, Tommy Bell, Rayn Smid, James Cordy Redden, Jordan Burns and Kieran Murphy as they booked a place in the last eight of the cup.

Reid gave the hosts the perfect start with a try after just three minutes.

A rolling maul powered towards the line and the Australian broke win the ball and counter high, or low, and still go at them. It also showed a lot about the players’ attitude, determination and mentality.”

The Bees face a massive test on Saturday as they head to The Hawthorns to face leaders West Bromwich Albion, who are 13 points ahead of them after 22 matches.

The Baggies have lost just once in the Championship all season. away, giving himself a clear run to the line.

Steven Shingler’s conversion put them 7-0 in front.

The visitors hit straight back 60 seconds later to level, but Durutalo, who was outstanding throughout, then gave the Trailfinders the lead after 12 minutes.

Shingler then kicked a penalty before the 20-minute mark to extend the lead to eight points.

Coventry got back in to the game as Andy Bulumakau intercepted a pass and ran the length of the field to score, but the hosts then took their performance up a level to secure the bonus point before the break.

Hampson spotted a gap in the

On Boxing Day, Frank’s men host Swansea City and the games come around quickly as there is hardly any recovery time before they head east to take on Millwall in another derby clash.

Bristol City away follows on New Year’s Day and after an FA Cup third round tie at home to Stoke City on January 4, another west London derby against QPR follows. defence from the base of a ruck and dummied his way to the line, before Bell pounced on Shingler’s grubber kick to give the west Londoners a commanding lead.

Ben Nutley was sent to the sin-bin for killing the ball for the visitors, and Shingler then added another three points from the resulting penalty to put the host 32-12 up at the break.

The second-half started in electric fashion and Smid scored a captain’s try with just 90 seconds played.

Coventry scored an opportunistic try as Jack Ram took advantage of an overthrown lineout, but the Trailfinders then went on the rampage with three tries in the final 10 minutes.

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