End of season games very often have no real meaning to either side but East London were keen
for the win to give them a home tie in the promotion playoffs. Unfortunately for them, it was Ilford who looked the
like promotion candidates, pressing hard into the home sides half only to allow East London off the hook with
sloppy handling. In fairness, East London took these opportunities well to score three unanswered tries but their coaching team may be a little concerned that they were living off scraps.
Ilford also, given their dominant forward pack, will rue three tries going begging to forward passes but may find consolation in their overall performance.
The second half looked to be following a similar pattern as East London opened the scoring with a try and with Ilford being hit with game-ending injuries to four players things started to look ominous for the Forest Roadside, but as we have seen before this season, against high flying opposition the Wanderers gathered themselves, with 12 fit players left on the park to score two tries, split by another for East London. Ilford had no option but to go to tight forward drives which East London found irresistible. Jason Taylor first smashing his way over and then Flanker Lawrence Brown being last up with the ball after a powerful 9 man drive.

Skipper Taylor commented after" This is a sweet and sour feeling. With a depleted side, before and during the game,
we pushed the second place team hard. Our forwards put in a shift today but our mistakes changed the game.
We're proud of beating our mid-table target and the fact that we have beaten 3 of the 4 teams above us.
Its been a long hard season but, already, the talk is of next year and maybe going a bit further"