Chalking up 186 points to just 39 against, Rams waltzed through their opening group rounds seeing off Badgers, 45-10, Army side SEAE, 36-0, and town rivals Abbey, 43-10, before crushing Maidenhead, 36-14, in the semi finals.

As Rams centre Steve Bryant said afterwards: “It was a good evening and nice to beat Bracknell as always. There’s some good wheels on these boys. Gav’s (Dampies) a great asset as our full back and scrum-half, while Ollie Poole was as strong as always. I’m in my third year with the side and this is the strongest we’ve had so far.”

And it was a great tackle from Bryant, after his side had soaked up the early Bracknell pressure, that paved the way for his teams opening try in the final as pacy Rupert Norville sped over before converting his own touchdown.

Good work from Poole then saw the nippy Dampies racing through to score under the posts. He converted his own try to make it 14-0, and, by half time, they were 21-0 in front when Dave Massey also cantered in under the sticks for Luke Flower to add the extras and put Redingensians in total command at the break.

Flower himself grabbed the opening try after the restart and while former Rams wing George Owen did spare the Bracknell blushes by touching down immediately afterwards it was the only further score that either side could muster during the final few minutes.

With Reading pulling out prior to the evening Redingensians fielded a second team under the Badgers banner and they too reached the final of the Plate but went down heavily, 33-10, to the Forest team.

Forest were 28-0 in front by half-time before tries from Badgers Steve Casey and scrum half Mike Vinluan spared the home side’s blushes to finally lose out, 33-10, to their visitors.