Unfortunately, this was to prove the case again last weekend, but the squad must be asking themselves how they lost a game they had dominated for the first fifty minutes, and which by the end they looked a well beaten outfit.

What would have been even more worrying for the coaching team, was the fitness of the team, something that had looked encouraging at the start of the season but which now seems to have evaded them.

They appeared to completely run out of steam in the closing stages of last Saturdays game. The good news is they now have a three week break to work on this before their next game, with league action taking a break due to the Autumn Internationals.

The home side were given an early opportunity to take the lead but the penalty kick was badly timed and the visitors were able to clear their lines comfortably.

The game was played mainly between each sides twenty two but it was littered with mistakes.

Lampeter were dominant in the scrums taking two strikes against the head but their lineout play continues to be a problem area and something which needs to be rectified sooner rather than later if they are going to compete in the top half of the league.

The game was almost half an hour old before the first score came.A simple move, saw centre Jonathan Evans draw his opposing centre allowing fly half Huw Thomas to race through a clear gap to score the first try which Thomas converted.

This was no more than the visitors deserved and at this stage they should have pressed home their dominance and gone on to set up a winning margin but a mixture of over elaboration in the backs and the inability to break down the home defence meant they reached the break with a only seven point lead.

The backs were guilty on too many occasions of taking the ball standing still and despite having two young quick wingers in the side, namely Aled Morgan and Carwyn Gregson, the ball failed to itself going wide.

The second half started as the first ended, with Lampeter pressing the home line and an excellent opportunity to get the second try went begging when centre Marc Saunders decided to cut back in when there was a two man overlap with the try line beckoning.

The failure to convert pressure in to points would prove crucial in the final outcome of the game and had the next score gone to the visitors then we might have witnessed a surprise result.

As it was, a loose ball on the Quins ten yard line was spread out wide and the pace of winger Simon Colman enabled him to get the home sides first score which was converted by Gareth Scourfield.

Up until then, the normally vociferous home supporters had been kept quiet, but the score brought them back to life and within five minutes of the restart they had taken the lead. Scourfield scoring a penalty from close range that also resulted in the visitors being reduced to fourteen men, second row Gavin Simpson seeing yellow for an infringement on the ground.

The pressure was now firmly on Lampeter and it was the home forwards who were dominating proceedings.It was no surprise when Colman scored his second try.Some weak and poor defending by the visitors saw the winger getting the touchdown which was converted.

The last move of the game somewhat typified the last half hour of the game for the visitors.In an effort to keep the ball alive and get a score of their own, the ball went loose from a poor pass and it was the winger Colman who got the final pass to get his third try of the day and give his side in the end a comfortable winning margin of 24 –7.