However, on this occasion Maids managed to find answers to the questions being posed to them and - once they managed to turn the momentum in their favour - Brighton found it impossible to wrestle it back. Off their game from the opening minutes, Maids were quickly pressed onto the backfoot by a Brighton team who shot out of the blocks as they chased a first league win of the season. The game was only 10 minutes old when Brighton made the most of a quick break down field to score through their number 16. Drew Prince was the man to get it over in the right corner, collecting the ball in acres of space after Maids had drawn Brighton players in defending their try line. The referee, not up with play, couldn't see what most of the crowd at Braywick Park clearly could, which was French grounding the ball before Brighton players managed to get hands underneath it.
