Yatton's hopes of back-to-back victories were dashed by a strong and well-coordinated Taunton team.

After a huge win last week, Yatton travelled to Taunton expecting to face a team cut to bare bones due to college commitments.

However, as they would soon find out, this was not the case.

From the outset, Yatton found themselves overwhelmed, being run through in the tackle and driven backwards in contact across all areas of the pitch.

An early Taunton lineout deep in Yatton's half was successfully defended, but quick hands and strong carrying saw the hosts score their first try with little more than two minutes gone.

The second try resulted from Yatton's failure to react quickly enough to a penalty, allowing a swift tap-and-go that was crashed over the line.

The third came from some poor tackling as the Taunton scrum-half ghosted through defenders from around 30 metres out.

Three minutes later, Yatton were turned over at the scrum, and the Taunton scrum-half sniped through a gap, leaving Yatton four scores down in less than a quarter of an hour.

As the rain became torrential, the pressure increased, with Taunton scoring another three times.

Finally, Yatton took the ball back to their hosts, showing quick ball movement, good hands, and running at the defence to commit the tacklers.

This unleashed winger Mo Sayce, who clawed one back, making the score Yatton 7, Taunton 43 at the break.

Into the second half, and despite the near-biblical conditions, Yatton's tempo increased significantly, along with their speed and commitment at the breakdown.

Suddenly, they were challenging for the ball, making a number of dominant tackles that allowed them to go forwards.

Taunton scored early against the run of play, but after that, it became a two-way battle.

Yatton scrapped and fought much harder, taking the game back to Taunton.

A couple of superb breaks were unfortunate not to yield a score.

Hooker-come-centre Dan Goldberg released a fantastic pass as he was flattened in a tackle, but Yatton were stopped just short.

A tremendous piece of individual skill by scrum-half John Hancock saw him regather his own chip before offloading out of the tackle to supporting centre Sam Tyas, but again the attack was cut short by some frantic Taunton defending.

A try late on by Taunton was the final score of the game.

But the last few minutes saw Yatton's defence holding firm against a number of attacks.

When the final whistle blew, it was Yatton who were on the attack, taking the game back to Taunton.

The final score was Yatton 7, Taunton 55.

Given the results of the first three weeks, the overriding lesson for Yatton has to be the importance of being switched on and up for it right from the very start.

Attitude will be a significant factor when they take on Gordano at home next weekend.