This game was always going to struggle to live up to the impressive nature of last weeks win over Kingfishers but it was an intriguing contest nonetheless.

A fractious first half opened with a missed penalty from Norwich before they opened the scoring, Nomads replied promptly though with Joe Olds and Emma Cole putting the home side back in the lead.

The game was then punctuated with a horrific scream of pain from Steve Green as his knee gave out when he leapt forward to defend, the game was delayed for a short while whilst the injury was assessed but Steve and Nomads will be hoping the injury is not as bad as first feared.

Simon Cole replaced Green and Nomads settled back into the game with Sytze Bijker and Joe Olds extending the lead to 4-1, Norwich Knights pulled one back to take the game to 4-2, Bijker then made it 5-2 before a good spell from Knights saw two quick goals bring them back to a goal behind.

Joe Olds sank his third goal to end the scoring for the half with the game poised at 6-4, Nomads were edging the game but not far enough ahead to feel comfortable against a Knights side who were harrying and making it difficult for the reds to hit any sort of flow. A sustained period of good shooting would see them right back into the game.

The first goal of the second half was therefore crucial and it was Nomads who took first blood, with Sytze Bijker opening the lead to three goals, Knights replied to keep the pressure on before an Olds free pass dropped in the Korf to take it to 8-5.

Norwich then hit another good spell, scoring a penalty and then from open play despite some legitimate Nomads shouts for pushing through. At 8-7 Norwich had the chance to take the game on and regain the lead but the celebratory fist of Bijker was pumping the air again as he scored from long distance.

Olds then showed great composure to score two high pressure penalties and take the game to 11-7 and away from a Knights come back despite a last goal from a free pass to take it to 11-8.

Having played exceptionally well defending her towering opposition girl, Sam Rowbottom then curved in for a classic running in shot as Nomads ended the game building up some nice moves, Simon Cole then showed great awareness to pass out from the feed position to give Ana Osbourne the simplest of short shots to wrap up the scoring and the game at 13-8.

With no other HSKL game this weekend Nomads move onto 9 points and into fourth place on goal difference although they will have played one more fixture than other teams, the points are won and on the board.

The run of home games continues against Nottingham next weekend and a win and other results going our way could see Nomads sitting in second place in HSKL after Week 10's games.

Come on you reds!