The home side took the lead within two minutes of the start, fly-half Craig Harper fizzing a hard, flat pass to release wing Alex Brooks, whose offload in the tackle gave flanker Josh Walker the easiest of scores. Harper, who enjoyed a successful afternoon from the tee, added the extras.

It was a miserable start for the visitors, who were lucky not to concede a second try after 10 minutes, when Brooks slightly over-egged his kick ahead with the cover defence beaten.

But Grasshoppers paid for their failure to regather the ball from the 22m-restart, the ball passing swiftly through Hampstead hands for man-of-the-match Seb Stacey to score on debut under the posts for another seven-pointer.

Even when Hampstead made handling errors it led to points for the home side, who pushed the Grasshoppers pack off their own ball all afternoon. From one such turnover Hampstead's Max Moncrieff scored his team's third try.

Hampstead secured the try bonus point shortly before half-time when second row Stefan Psota, whose crunching tackles had already left their mark on several opposition players, smashed his way through a less than robust Grasshoppers defence.

Leading 26-0 at the turn around Hampstead were first to score after the break, Rob Sykes continuing his fine scoring run to go over near the posts after more strong phase play from Hampstead. Harper again added the extras.

Grasshopppers' only successful attack came 10 minutes into the half when a lapse in concentration by the home side saw them grab five points, the only time the visitors troubled the scorers.

Five minutes, later normal Hampstead service was resumed when Moncrieff went over for his second of the day from another driving maul, a try expertly converted by Harper from out wide.

Grasshoppers briefly threatened to stage a recovery of sorts but their attacks foundered on Hampstead's well-organised defence.

The home side extended their advantage with less than 10 minutes to go when full back Neil Watt, who was outstanding all afternoon, drew the last defender to allow Walker a second easy score.

A relentless Hampstead continued to press for more in the dying minutes of the game, playing the ball from the back after the kick-off before winger Brooks exploded through a gap in midfield to wrap up a comprehensive destruction of a well-fancied Grasshoppers side.

Head Coach Peter Breen said:

Hampstead, who moved up to fourth in London 2 North West, next play away at struggling local rivals Hackney on December 14.