KIDDERMINSTER Carolians' season fizzled out with a poor performance against Veseyans last Saturday.

KCs conceded six tries, three in each half, to fall to a 40-7 away loss.

However, it was not all bad news as Newcastle (Staffs) also failed to pick up any points in their last fixture at Old Salts and as a result Kidder finished in ninth place in Midlands Two West (N), which they would have settled for at Christmas when the possibility of ending in the bottom two was a real concern.

Right from the start the home side appeared to have a greater appetite for the game, clearly looking to run the ball at every opportunity, and they should have taken the lead after eight minutes when they had men to spare on the left but over elaborated and were unable to capitalise.

Only three minutes later they again created acres of space wide out left to enable their winger to outflank the cover defence and run around under the posts for the opening try which he converted himself.

It was pretty much one way traffic and it was no surprise when, with twenty five minutes played,Veseyans doubled their advantage. Using possession from a five metre lineout, they put the ball through the hands and although their centre was cut down just short of the line by a trademark Mike Protheroe tackle KCs were powerless to prevent the hosts’ scrum-half picking up the pieces to go over for a second try, again converted.

The visitors just could not get a foothold in the game and on the rare occasions they did manage to venture into Veseyans 22 good attacking positions were squandered by unforced errors and despite the best efforts of Rhys Kay their inability to secure hardly any of their own lineout ball.

A missed penalty to touch which went dead instead summed up their afternoon so far and when possession was coughed up again Veseyans launched another attack down the left before switching the ball inside to their number seven who ran in unopposed for a third converted try which extended the lead to 21-0.

Encouraged by a late rally at the end of the first period, Kidderminster made a more purposeful start to the second half with a long raking kick to touch by scrum-half Freddie Morgan putting them on the front foot and after five minutes a penetrating break by Protheroe in centre field got him in behind Veseyans’ defence.

They scrambled back to drag him down on the ten metre line but he was able to offload to Morgan and it was then a straight foot race for the line. The scrum-half was caught just short of the right corner but the referee deemed he had been brought down by an illegal no arms tackle and awarded a penalty try.

Any hopes of a Kidder comeback were quickly dashed as only four minutes later a lovely reverse pass out of the back of his hand by Veseyans flyhalf sent his winger under the posts for another seven pointer.

There was still half an hour left to play during which KCs made a much better fist of things until the last five minutes when they conceded twice more to end a difficult campaign.