In addition there were very few players in their ranks who put their hand up for promotion to the first-choice squad apart from strong-running three-quarters, Anderson and Joey Walton, and abrasive flanker, Tom Hooper.
But they made a decent start when, from their first attack, they took the lead with a break from Walton putting the defence on the back foot before a long pass from Isaak Fines-Leleiwasa gave Anderson a walk-in.
The dangerous Walton soon made another huge dent but the centre blotted his copybook by being yellow-carded for not retreating 10 metres as Gabriel Ibitoye sou...