Yet it started so well, with a classic 5m lineout catch and drive, which at first was illegally pulled down, and then the second attempt saw Tom Graham go over in the corner, Jason Israel adding the conversion for a 7-0 lead after just 4 minutes.

For the next 10minutes Carlisle continued to press, but often that final pass was just out of reach or dropped, meaning that the game just didn't flow. Eventually Keswick broke out of defence, just being stopped short of Carlisle's 5m line. Though they managed to get the ball out into touch, the visitors used the lineout to their advantage eventually scoring close to the posts, fullback Kieran Mewse adding the extras to level the scores. Mewse would turn the screw up adding two 40m penalties with ease to put Keswick in control 7-13, with just over 20mins gone.
Keswick then added a second, as after a period of kick tennis, a Carlisle attack broke down, and the ball was fly hacked up the field. The bounce beat the last Carlisle defender, and with Keswick kicking it through, their winger easily won the foot race to dot down, Mewse adding the extras for a 7-20 lead.

Keswick just piled the pressure on the home side, and former player Glen Weightman was expertly controlling the visitors, kicking deep into Carlisle territory to keep Carlisle pinned back in their half. A 50:22 from him, gave the visitors possession around Carlisle's 22 long enough for him to be put in space to drop kick Keswick further into the lead 7-23 on the half hour mark.

Another Carlisle attack broke down with a knock on, and Keswick attacked from deep, the kick through again catching Carlisle out, the last defender getting pinged for holding on. With Jake Whittaker getting binned for preventing a quick tap penalty, it just delayed the inevitable. The visitors moved the ball right across the park from the scrum for their third try, again converted by Mewse, and they were 7-30 in front and heading out of sight.
With a man down, Carlisle were struggling now to defend the wide spaces, and another ball quickly across the park, exposed the gaps, and Keswick had their try bonus point and a 7-37 lead at half time.

Carlisle started the second half with a lot more intensity and had a sustained 10 mins in the visitors half trying to look for another score. A mixture though of dropped balls, knock ons and Weightman's kicking, meant that Keswick were back up deep into Carlisle's 22 before long. It was inevitable then that a crossfield kick from him to their winger brought their next score, increasing their lead to 7-44, Mewse yet again with the conversion.
Carlisle just simply couldn't get things going at all, through a mixture of their own mistakes, and Keswick's defending. Another knock on on the half way line, gave Keswick a chance to attack from deep, and a miss pass from Weightman to their replacement outside centre, saw him break through the Carlisle defence for a 50m dash to the line, for their sixth converted try on the hour mark, 7-51.

Keswick weren't finished and added their final try, 5 minutes from time, as Carlisle's tiring defence let the Keswick back weave through unchallenged to finish the game at 7-58 to the visitors.

This was undeniably a bad day at the office for Carlisle, and Keswick took full advantage of it. They had no answer to Weightman's kicking game, and with another kicker with unerring accuracy in Mewse, who had a 100% completion rate keeping the scoreboard ticking over, Keswick exploited every single mistake Carlisle made. Fair play to the visitors who had a game plan that Carlisle simply couldn't match, and who struggled to put into action any plan of their own.
They'll need to concentrate on putting those errors right this week, before they entertain Morpeth at Warwick road next Saturday.