Tamworth travelled to Burntwood with a tinge of frustration having had their chance to clinch the title of league champions seemingly taken from them with the eleventh hour postponement of the previous week’s game.
That said they still had to win at Burntwood to stay on course and that they did with some style.
It took only 3 minutes to get their noses in front Dean Smith crashing over from close range. Danny Norton converted to give them an early 7-0 lead.
Burntwood closed the gap with a penalty on 14 minutes and were putting Tamworth under some pressure which was dealt with well with some well drilled disciplined defence.
The home team got themselves back to within one point with a harsh penalty for not releasing 7-6
Tamworth drove back up the slope to get within 5 metres only to knock the ball on. But the solid forward pack turned over the resultant scrum and as the ball was worked smartly along the back line Jon Arnold was stopped just short. The ball was kept alive though and Danny Huntley came sniping around the blindside to dive over in the corner 12-6.
Burntwood stayed in touch with a further penalty their kicker in great form from the tee to go into the break just 3 points adrift 12-9
Tamworth started the second period playing down the slope and with the half but 2 minutes old a driving maul trundled towards the Burntwood line and fly half Norton broke off the back to score 17-9
10 minutes later Norton crossed the whitewash again with a piece of individual skill weaving his way through the Burntwood defence to score a fine try 22-9.
On 61 minutes the forward pack formed another maul that Burntwood were powerless to stop this time it would be Tommy Franks breaking off to score and Tamworth had a comfortable 27-9 lead.
The forwards were dominant now against a tiring home side and it would be front row Dan Boardman that would round off the try scoring diving over a pile of bodies to touch down. Norton added the extras to cheers from the travelling Tamworth supporters.
Tamworth saw out the final few minutes without incident and headed to the changing room to find out that with second placed Newcastle losing at Cannock they had in fact just become league champions with this impressive victory.
Final score Burntwood 9 Tamworth 34