The woes continue for Saxon Safety sponsored Andover as they endured a nightmare of an outing away on the South coast last Saturday.
Andover made the journey in atrocious conditions with a much changed side and were immediately given a further set back losing Harry Ward to injury in the warm up.
Kicking off against howling winds and heavy rain Andover actually played very well in a tight first half.
Ball retention was good as was the Andover scrum, where man of the match Stan Pearson was dominant, gave the visitors plenty of ball.
At the lineout Tom Waite threw superbly despite the conditions and both Ryan McGealy and Callum Hollinshead were a constant thorn in the Bournemouth side.
With skipper Alex Hibdige, Dave Barber and Nic Reed and CJ Feirn all carrying hard as well Andover enjoyed plenty of possession.
With a thrown together set of backs however, Andover were always susceptible to the pacey Bournemouth counter attacks and by the time half time was approaching the home side had racked three tries two converted.
Undeterred however Andover kept to their game plan with further raids into the Bournemouth twenty two and when good work from Matt Ryan saw Evan Roll finish well in the corner, Andover felt they had literally weathered the storm.
It was not to be however as from the restart Andover fielded the ball and were penalised for alleged back chat.
From the resultant lineout Bournemouth pressed, but when what seemed a perfectly timed hard tackle by Waite was seen by the referee as dangerous, he saw yellow and Bournemouth increased their lead from a quick tap penalty.
Andover lost Ryan McGealy to a rib injury at the break to further their problems.
Andover regrouped and with such weather conditions in favour still felt they were in it, but this hope was quickly dispelled when big lock Tom Erskine was shown a red card minutes into the second half in hotly disputed circumstances.
His loss didn't deter the Andover scrum however who kept supplying good possession and when Waite returned Andover again looked threatening.
A couple of key missed touch kicks didn't help the Andover cause and when Waite was shown a second yellow the game was up for Andover.
Andover continued to defend heroically, but with thirteen men the job was too much and when Ryan was also shown a yellow for an offside offence they finally capitulated as Bournemouth scored further tries to run out easy winners.
After the game Director of rugby Andy Waite said ' It's been a nightmare week with injury and unavailability, but I cannot praise enough the players who made the journey to play and represented the club with such pride. With Dougie Shaw, Louis Shinton, Callum Barber Starkey, James Wallace and Scott Kay all making huge contributions, skilfully Marshalled by Harvey Maloney, the players can hold their heads high.'
