Tomorrow the club, languishing third from bottom in the league, travel to Bath and then entertain Leicester on May 6 - the two clubs battling it out at the league's summit.

A win in either game could be crucial but after Monday's 50-10 mauling by Saracens at Vicarage Road neither team will exactly be quaking in their boots.

However the Twickenham side did show signs that they could cause a few problems last week with a brilliant 29-17 win against Northampton, the third team in with a shout of being the champions.

They meet the current champions, Leicester, tomorrow in a crucial game for both sides.

Quins' record against Bath is dire, the London side having won only three out of 19 league encounters since 1987.

However they did post a 13-17 victory over the west country side in the last league game at the Rec just under a year ago.

Quins were ending the season on a high at the time and on their way to a top five finish and qualification for Europe while Bath were, by their standards in the duldrums.

But this year has seen a resurgence in the fortunes of the once dominant European Champions of two years ago while Quins have been heading in the opposite direction.

Against Saracens there were welcome returns for Darren O'Leary and Guillame Delmotte, the 22-year-old French international still on loan.

Delmotte replaced the teenage try-scoring hero of the previous week, Ben Gollings.

Quins' management are keen to see what the Frenchman can do before deciding whether to make the move permanent.

Since his arrival an injury in his first game against Bristol has limited the total time he has spent on the pitch to just 10 minutes, albeit an impressive 10 minutes.

Saracens are due at the Stoop tomorrow to face Quins' co-tenants, London Irish, who made hard work of beating the league's bottom side Bedford 33-23 on Saturday.

An injury-time try from lock, Nick Harvey secured the win for the home side which had also scored through Justin Bishop and Ben Whetstone.

The league's top points scorer, Jarrod Cunningham, added three conversions and four penalty kicks.

The game marked a welcome return for Mark Gabey, who was injured in the Tetley Bitter Cup semi-final, who came on as a replacement on 48 minutes for Brent Cockbain.

Irish are looking to Europe for their only chance of cup success this year and have been drawn against French side, Castres, in the semi-final of the European Shield.

Delays caused by the organisers, European Cup Rugby, mean tickets for the game, which will be played at Colomiers on Friday May 5, are not available from the club.

They can, however, be bought directly from France on 00 335 61 78 92 00.

Welsh in points

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London Welsh boss Clive Griffiths was pulling his hair out after watching his team stumble to a 42-13 defeat at table toppers Rotherham last weekend.

Griffiths was pleased with the way his side performed, but not with the 21 points that Welsh gave away through interceptions and careless play.

He said: "The scoreline sounds as if we got beaten heavily, in fact we gave away points that were gift wrapped for them which from our point of view isn't good enough.

"Rotherham said that it was their hardest game since the turn of the year. We were not poor, it was only because of these aspects that we appeared to lose heavily," added Griffiths.

That was the first defeat in three games for the exiles and only their second reverse in seven outings - a record that pleases the Welsh boss.

"Since Christmas we have made excellent progress. In December I thought with the financial situation, the side would feel the pressure.

"But if we win at Rugby in our last game we will have exactly the same number of points as last year. To achieve that shows that the side has shown progress which has delighted me," said Griffiths.

This weekend Welsh have no fixture and Griffiths has hinted that he may travel to Coventry to check out Rugby ahead of their league contest on May 6.

"They (Rugby) are fighting relegation which means they will be battling for their lives and should give us a tough game," said the Welsh supremo.

"Most of the players have got the weekend off and the others are playing in the Middlesex sevens. As for me I might go and see the game or watch the video of it over the weekend," said Griffiths.

Having had six forwards on the bench and eight fit forwards at the club for their last game, Griffiths is poised to have available for selection Tom Lucy, Colin Alexander, Scott Roskell, Peter Shaw and Nick Mardon after a spell on the sidelines.

Blackheath clubbed into submission

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Blackheath 7 Bernard Wiggins

An end of season encounter at Roehampton, was all to evident in first half play, in as much that Park were not on message, while a brave Blackheath side struggled to avoid another drubbing.

Club, as Blackheath are affectionately known as, are the oldest Rugby club, formed in 1858, and were promoted to Allied Dunbar Two. It all started to go wrong when they went professional.

Relegated last season, Blackheath had to re-group.

All contracts were cancelled. When the paid players moved on, it resulted in an almost new side in Jewson National League One, which has won only twice all season, and Club were already relegated before this match had started.

Brave tackling in the first half kept the score respectable, but after a stern talking to at half time by head coach Kent Bray, Park upped the ante and scored nine tries. While Blackheath were battered into submission.

A cricket score seemed likely when Crawford Henderson cut loose in the fourth minute, but Park's lethargy, coupled with some brave tackling from "Club", kept the score unchanged until the 37th minute, when Ukrainian international lock Gia Ruskin crashed over for a deserved try to equalise at 7-7.

Park hit back with Toby Rakison forcing his way over, but at 12-7 there were some glum faces in the crowd at Park's lack of effort in the first half.

Eight mins into the second half James Hendy scored a solo try, offering three dummies, all were accepted.

A quick throw from Crawford Henderson, led to Matt Dowse looping round Gavin Thompson for another excellent try.

Goals from Chris Ritchie, Matt Dowse again, two more from Crawford Henderson rounding off a hatrick, advanced the score to 58-7, and there was still time for club captain Ben Fennell to score his first of the season .

With only 13 fit Blackheath players, referee Dave Edmunds did not to play any of the copious injury time and ended the match.