Coach Grant Holmes believes Banbury Bulls are making progress despite losing their first two matches in Midlands West 1.

Bulls were edged out 22-20 at home to Bournville on Saturday after a 33-15 defeat at Walsall in their opener.

Holmes said: “It was an improved performance on last week’s which indicates we are heading in the right direction.

“But there are still several aspects of our game that need to be worked on “We look a much better side when we move the ball at pace and there were times during the game where we had the opposition stretched, only for the next phase to be too slow or a simple pass not being put in the right place.

“We have played some good rugby in both our games to date, but we don’t want to form a habit of coming off the pitch encouraged by the way we have played the game without getting the right result.”