By BEN CONEYBEARE

In a sport decided by the most razor-thin margins, experience is one of the most precious things a rugby team can have.
Unfortunately for Hornets, it was also the one thing they were sorely lacking when they were handed a surprise promotion to National League 2 West at the beginning of last season.
For director of rugby Jon Richardson, the lessons of the divisional reshuffling were both plentiful and sharp.
He told The Rugby Paper: “It wasn’t until five weeks after the end of the previous season that we found out we were going up, so for us to have stayed up last year was...