Stortford started slowly, but took a 7 point lead after as many minutes, when Jake Morris was given room to round his opposite number and sprint under the posts, after a well-timed incursion into the line from blindside wing, Chris Smith caught the home defence off balance. It was Smith himself who scored a second try 5 minutes later, when David Hayes showed great composure to hold up the ball inside the DMP 22, after a move had threatened to peter out, which had been set up by a piece of sleight of hand in the form of a flicked pass behind his back from the scorer. Far from piling on the pressure from this strong start, Stortford became a bit sloppy and invited the home side into the game, paying the price after 21 minutes, when DMP mounted a few phases of hard-driving play and were able to crash over the line for an unconverted try. With both sides committing numerous errors, the game had little pattern for a while, but the visitors finally managed to impose themselves again with 34 minutes gone, when Smith again touched down out wide, after a short period of sustained pressure on the opposition line.

Stortford again started slowly after the break and had to withstand a spell of early aggression from the home side, before Declan Murphy finally forced a turnover on Stortford's 22, by putting his opposite number under pressure at the back of an attacking scrum after 13 minutes. It took a remarkable 30 metre lineout drive to complete the turnaround, allowing Alex Rayment to touch down the bonus-point try, after a huge drive was sustained through two switches of direction. The conversion attempt went just wide and Stortford's lead was soon narrowed to only 12 points, when some sloppy defence out wide allowed DMP's big right wing to run in untouched, after some smart handling in their midfield and Gary Law added an excellent conversion from out wide. It was now the visitors' turn to strike back quickly, with Will Rogers leading from the front, making some thirty metres through the heart of the defence from the restart kick. Another dominant lineout drive followed, but the home side was this time able to halt the maul, only for the ball to be switched quickly down the backs for Smith to go over on the opposite wing for his third try. Morris added his second 5 minutes later, with quick hands along the line again stretching the home defence, which had doggedly resisted a number of strong thrusts up the middle. Alex Gilham was unfortunate after 29 minutes to be deprived of a try, when the referee blew up for violent play well off the ball by a DMP player, before the newly-arrived replacement winger was able to touch down, having run clear of the defence after leaping high to intercept a long pass around halfway. The severity of the offence was such that the culprit was red-carded and Stortford's 7th try was not long-delayed, when pressure from the resultant penalty allowed Tom Mills to score from a neat Austin Pope chip kick under the hosts' posts. The conversion took the score to 12-41 with more than 10 minutes remaining, but the game rather petered out after that, with Stortford and their many travelling supporters happy to come away with 5 valuable league points from a rather fitful performance.