After putting in an underpar first half display on the 3G all-weather pitch at their temporary home of Maidenhead RFC, Redingensians scored 49 unanswered second half points during a seven try blitz which sealed a bonus point.

And head coach Mike Tewkesbury confessed: “You can say there were a couple of new guys in the team and it takes time to settle, but I just felt we didn’t have that real energy early on.

“In the second half when we actually found that energy - and I must pay tribute to Andy Amor for when he came on he seemed to provide it – we scored seven tries in 40 minutes which is some going and I thought that it was very, very, impressive.”

The visitors grabbed the first points after 10 minutes, when Rams coughed up a line-out ball and found themselves frantically defending their line before flanker Scott Warren finally smashed over.

Wing Luke Berry converted but Rams hit back with a James Brooks penalty, although it was the visitors who ruled the rest of the half.

A Berry penalty restored the visitors seven point lead and his own converted try then put his side 17-3 ahead.

However, on the stroke of half time, Brooks banged over his second penalty to reduce the arrears as visiting centre Ryan Carter was yellow carded for preventing the ball being released at a ruck.

And a resurgent Rams overturned the scoreline to go 20-17 ahead in just six minutes after the break

Firstly a wonderful inside pass from full back Joe Duffelen to fly half Luke Flower saw him put wing Ollie Poole in, and it was Duffelen himself who grabbed the second after steaming through the middle of the visitors defence to run in under the posts.

Centre Steve Bryant grabbed the next following a great attack up the left before Duffelen was held up on the line and the supporting Poole gratefully dabbed down.

A move featuring substitute Amor, Bryant and skipper Matt Weller then set up Flower for a well-deserved debut touchdown with Brooks adding his fifth conversion of the half for a 16-point haul before handing over to Flower to convert the final two tries.

Replacement scrum half Jack Hill claimed try number six, put away by Duffelen, and it was the inspirational Amor who rounded the try spree off, swerving and dummying his way past three floundering defenders to the line.

Speaking after the game, Duffelen admitted: “I think that we were just a bit slow out of the box. We were getting used to each other as a team and once we realised that, individually and as a team, we had a lot more than them, we played at a tempo that they couldn’t deal with.

“Once we were in behind them the tries kept flowing.

“I managed to get my hands on the ball quite a bit from full back and, to be honest, that’s credit to the platform that the forwards gave us and also having a nine and 10 who ran the game.”

Rams travel to Bournemouth on Saturday, with Amor restored to the starting line-up as skipper.

Aaron Hopkins must pass a late medical but is included in the starting line-up while No.8 Gus Davies is named on the bench.

Ollie Foxley covers the 15 shirt for the unavailable Duffelen with Sean McDermottroe taking over on the left-wing.