AN ERROR of judgement and a dropped ball with an overlap on hand gifted Romsey a home victory over rivals Southampton in London Division Four South-West.

Saints skipper Marcus Coffin immediately put his hand up to admit the mistake of not taking the simple three points in front of the posts with ten minutes remaining, instead hunting for the virtual match clinching try.

With his side surging forward and "having the momentum" despite trailing 7-6 at the time, his decision backfired as he saw the chance go begging and Romsey leapfrog them into eighth.

Romsey flanker Tim Darby finished off a well-worked move and with Graham Noble converting, the hosts edged into a 7-0 lead. But Dave Griffiths hit two penalties in response before Coffin's erroneous moment, which cost them the game.

"We were going forward and dominating and we got the penalty," he said. "My initial thought was to go for the three points but we had the momentum to go for the full five or seven."

In London Three South-West, Winchester's troubles just go on as they dipped into the bottom half of the table and their lowest league position for six years with a depressing 15-12 home reverse to Farnham.

Winchester started poorly but stepped up to score two excellent tries and lead 12-3 at the interval lead.

With ten minutes remaining the visitors scored a debatable try, which seemed to have been grounded short of the try line but they tossed away the win in the dying seconds, conceding a second.

Tottonians recorded an outstanding 28-13 victory over Chobham but were still overtaken by Effingham & Leatherhead.

The win, their sixth from eight starts, sets them up for a crack at the unbeaten Channel Islanders next week and they totally dominated this encounter, only allowing the Surrey visitors two tries as they tired late on.

It took them nearly half an hour to break the deadlock but once they did, they were running their moves and phased plays at will as James Weeks crossed before the break and the excellent Paul Brading added a brace in quick succession midway through the second.

It opened up a 28-3 lead with Goodall cracking over three penalties and two conversions to boot but Chobham added two of their own to close the eventual winning margin. "I asked the lads for full commitment and a belief that we could win and that is what the gave me," said skipper Paul Goodall. "I felt the passion from them and from one to 15, they were outstanding, especially Tom Pearson, Jason Jones and Neil Angell."