February 21, 2001 9:37: IF High Wycombe don't take at least a point from their match at Tadley on Saturday they will be relegated.

The wooden spoon favourites moved a step closer to the trapdoor when they crashed 54-7 at home to table-topping Chinnor last Saturday.

Wycombe are now rock bottom of South West Division Two having played more matches than anyone else. They have picked up just four points all season and they have the worst goals difference column of anyone in the division.

To stay up Wycombe can only afford to drop one more point all season and pray that both Witney and Stow don't harvest another point all season.

And even that might not be enough as league bosses have yet to decide whether a third team could also be relegated this season.

Although saving themselves from relegation looks a forlorn hope Wycs are determined not to finish bottom of the heap.

Club manager Dave Hunt said: "We don't accept that we are going to finish bottom."

Wycs were up against it before they even arrived for last Saturday's match with seven players crying off through injury or work commitments. And their perilous position worsened when one of their players, Matt Free, tore his calf in the warm up.

Chinnor cruelly emphasised the gap between top and bottom as they ran riot.

Wycombe's man of the match Steve Philpott offered the only resistance scoring the home side's only try with Danny Bocock adding the conversion.