Streatham continued their winning start to the season with a fine victory away to Reigate. A side showing several changes from earlier matches showed that Head Coach Bob Dickinson and the selectors will have several difficult decisions to make in coming weeks as a number of players return from unavailability and injury. With backs Coach Trevor Young and a fitness team of Andy Belchambers and Mel Healy supported by specialist coaches mean the Frant Road outfit have coaching resources the envy of many clubs in higher Leagues.

Streatham starting this match slowly and were under early pressure from the large Reigate forwards but after 10 minutes a flowing backs move from a turnover put centre Ed Williams in space to slice through the Reigate defence to open the scoring which he converted himself. A feature of the game was the physicality of the Streatham forwards with ball in hand with 2nd row Josh Smith making some significant inroads into the Reigate defence and form one such charge scrum half Dave Langmead went over. Reigate again pushed deep into Strets territory but a turnover again saw a break out resulting in another score for Williams who again converted to make the score 19-0. With Williams sustaining an injury Harry Peddle took over kicking duties and slotted a 3 pointer to give Streatham a 22-0 half time lead.

Reigate however were still very competitive and the opening 15 minutes of the 2nd half saw Streatham again under pressure and a series of rolling mauls saw Reigate pull 5 points back. Reigate maintained the pressure but the work done in some defence sessions by ex Iran National Coach Liam Dunseath, one of the clubs Community Coaching Team, was paying dividends and Streatham worked their way up the park for Josh smith to crash over with Peddle converting. Streatham were now firmly in control but were guilty of not using the overlaps out wide that the forwards were creating . When they did push the ball out centre Harry Clarke, who had a fine game in attack and defence, was able to crash his way over wide on the left. From the restart a strong run from Elvin Grant saw the ball fed inside to Full Back Tim Perry who went over. It was then left to a final bullocking run from Smith to complete the scoring making it a final score of 48-5.

Streatham will be pleased with the victory but also aware that there is still plenty of room for improvement. With the 2nd team being awarded a walkover when the Old Freemen's failed to show up and the 3rd Xv registering a 40 point win over Reigate twos it was a strong weekend for the Thornton Heath side. Next weekend the 1st XV host Mitcham and Carshalton with a 2pm kick off whilst the match will be preceded by the Streatham-Croydon Salamanders playing their first fixture of the season against Beckenham as Georgia Cooke's Ladies XV pay their first ever home fixture.