Whitland finished the season in style at home to Tondu on Saturday.

But, to their diappointment, results elsewhere went against them, meaning they just miss out on promotion to the new first division next season, by the narrowest of margins.

The Borderers were in excellent form on the day and showed that they could hold their own in a higher league on this performance. Whitland were simply too good for poor Tondu, who never really found their game in the last game of the season.

Although, whereas Whitland were pushing for that sought after seventh spot, Tondu's season was more or less over, the team looking to be content and used to the prospect of a bottom five finish in the first division, so their foot was not as firmly on the gas as the Borderers.

Whitland were 14-0 up after 20 minutes, with Anthony Jakeman and Fakahata Molitika both crossing the Tondu line early on.

Fly-half, Daniel Griffiths added the extras to give the early cushion, which he later added to with a well placed penalty.

Then at the mid-way point Mike Buckingham managed to find space and broke to score a wonderful 60-metre try which Griffiths duly converted to increase the lead to 24 points.

Tondu were trying and hadn't turned up to make the numbers and got their chance right before the interval, when scrum-half, Ross Cuningham, latched onto the end of his kick-and-chase to score the uncoverted try and narrow the deficit slightly.

Tondu managed to add two more tries in the second half, but unfortunately for them, Whitland scored five more tries. They came from Daniel Griffiths who scored two, replacement prop, Ricky Davies, Wayne Lewis, and John Kaloi, who ended the rout.

On this performance, Whitland would surely have wished there were more games in the season, but instead finish with nothing to show for their hard efforts all season.

Hind-sight is a wonderful thing, but this season has been full of pluses for the Borderers and hopefully they can capitalise on their errors next season.