Bees trounced London Welsh making up for last years misery piling on 7 tries.

Deputising for injured players, Rob Hurrell scored and Nathan Carter got two tries. Also scored were Aaron Takarangi, Shaun Woof, Nick Baxter and Tim Walsh

Walsh picked up 19 points from this match (1 try, 4 cons, 2 pens,)

With just one win from eight previous meetings against London Welsh, Phil Maynard had suggested the Exiles were the nearest thing Bees had to a bogey team.

But as they emerged from Saturday’s mismatch having been well and truly picked, licked, rolled and unceremoniously flicked to one side, Welsh must have wished they had never got up the noses of the men from Sharman’s Cross Road.

For the last hour, Bees were substantially stronger, quicker and better organised than the hosts, and with three players missing — captain Ed Orgee, Dave Knight and Gavin Pfister — they also demonstrated the depth of Maynard’s squad this year.

Indeed, you got the feeling it was the outstanding performances of lock Rob Hurrell and flanker Nathan Carter, both making their first start of the season, that gave Maynard greatest pleasure from a most satisfying victory.

Carter scored the decisive first two tries for Bees to gain just reward for an unending willingness to carry the ball and tireless defensive work, while Hurrell, also rewarded with a 62nd-minute touch-down, was impeccable in the line-out.

“We can now bring people off the bench knowing they will make an impact on a game,” said Maynard.

“We have real selection problems now and we’ll have to make big decisions over whether to play people like Scott Williams or Mike Davies, Robbie Hurrell or Ed Orgee when he comes back and Gav Pfister or Nathan Carter.” To begin with, however, Bees had to fight hard against awkward opponents, themselves beset by injuries to seven first-team players.

And after a closely fought, slightly scrappy first 20 minutes in which both teams struggled to cope with greasy conditions, the visitors found themselves 10-3 behind following Welsh winger James Strong’s 15th minute try.

But Tim Walsh brought Bees to within four points with a penalty shortly after and once Carter put them in front on 32 minutes, crashing over from five yards out after Paul Knight and Nick Baxter had both been held up on the line, Bees took complete control, running in another six unanswered tries to leave Maynard delighted.

“I am pleased with the result, it was one of those fixtures that we had isolated for special attention having not won here before,” he said. “In the second half especially, we managed to keep to our game plan which was to keep the ball and build some phases and I think we did it very well.”

Certainly, far too well for Welsh, who following two narrow defeats at Exeter and Bristol, simply fell apart once the result was no longer in doubt.

Carter added a pushover in the left corner three minutes before half-time and Baxter effectively settled the game as a contest five minutes after the restart, his strength allowing him to beat two tacklers and squeeze home in the corner.

Shortly after, an altercation between Baxter and Exiles’ flanker Martin Anayi saw them both sin-binned and winger Aaron Takarangi took advantage of Welsh disorganisation to score Bees’ fourth try.

After that Hurrell (62mins), Shaun Woof (64) and Walsh (71) all got in on the act as Bees left Old Deer Park with the points for the first time.

LONDON WELSH: Meenan (Hayward, 74), Strong, Vines (Greenslade-Jones, 72), Cannon, John, Whitehead, Chilten (Shaw,

70), Millard, Ritchie (Greenwood, 2), Cano (Hannon, 65) Burke, Bowley (Slade, 46), Starling (Field, 65), Anayi, Ramsey. PERTEMPS BEES: Martin, Takarangi (Woodard, 62), Woof, Davies (S Williams-Greenaway, 64), Baxter, Walsh, P Knight (Richardson, 70), Thorp, Miles (Merritt, 63), Long (O’Keefe, 56), Hurrell (Hughes, 65), Walton, Fakatou (White, 37), Carter, Jenner.

Referee: Steve Leyshon (RFU).

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