Fixtures and Results 2017 - 18 Club President Wolves Vikings Hawks CHRIS GEORGE N1W Cotton Traders Halbro 4 East Championship Welcomes September 2 CARLISLE W WIRRAL W Broughton Park D 9 Altrincham Kersal W Vale of Lune HWO TRAFFORD MV AWO 16 WATERLOO W ROCHDALE W Glossop HWO 23 DOUGLAS (IOM) W Preston GH 3 W Manchester W 30 St. Benedicts L ROSSENDALE W DUKINFIELD W

October 7 STOCKPORT L Macclesfield 3 W Stockport W 14 Macclesfield 2 W 21 Vale of Lune L HEATON MOOR W We welcome the players, committee and supporters of our close neighbours from Manchester for this final “Derby” 28 ROCHDALE W LYMM L Ashton on Mersey of the season. For the first time ever Wilmslow, Manchester, Stockport, Burnage and Altrincham Kersal have found themselves together in the same league, so I thought it would be interesting to see how we have faired against each November 4 Warrington L Stockport W NORTH MANCHESTER W 11 NORTHWICH W VALE OF LUNE L L Altrincham Kersal W other in what amounts to a Manchester ‘conference’. Which one of us is currently the top Mancunian dog? 18 Rochdale L 25 Burnage W PRESTON GH 3 W BURNAGE HWO Well, it’s not Wilmslow. If we lose today then we’ll be last in the pack despite our more exalted overall league December 2 BLACKBURN W Rossendale L Hope Valley W position. With Stockport playing Burnage today, we’ll know later on this afternoon. As it is at the moment, 9 Manchester P Macclesfield 3 P LITTLEBOROUGH P 16 ALTRINCHAM KERSAL P Trafford MV W Manchester are top. I didn’t though take bonus points into account as that would have taken far too long to sort 23 out. What the ‘conference’ does show is how little there is between any of the sides, which has been a feature of 30 this league for all of this extraordinary season. January 6 Waterloo L Lymm L GLOSSOP L 13 Douglas (IOM) L STOCKPORT W MANCHESTER W 20 ST. BENEDICTS W Wirral L Dukinfield W Played. Won. Drawn. Lost. For. Against. Diff 27 Stockport W VALE OF LUNE L STOCKPORT W

February 3 VALE OF LUNE P Rochdale P Heaton Moor Alt. Kersal. 8. 3. 1. 4. 152. 170. -18 10 Manchester L Burnage. 7. 4. - 3. 156. 142. +14 17 Rochdale W Preston GH 3 L ASHTON ON MERSEY Manchester. 7. 4. - 3. 145. 121. +24 24 ALTRINCHAM KERSAL L Stockport. 7. 3. 1 3. 138. 177. -39 March 3 WARRINGTON P Rossendale L North Manchester Wilmslow. 7. 3. - 4. 164. 145. +19 10 Northwich W MACCLESFIELD L ALTRINCHAM KERSAL 17 24 BURNAGE L Burnage HWO Next season with Broughton Park and De La Salle looking set to come up, the ‘conference’ could be even larger. 28 WARRINGTON W W 31 PRESTON GH 3 All that aside, both Wilmslow and Manchester have plenty to play for today which makes this game very interesting. April 7 Blackburn W Lymm L HOPE VALLEY L 14 MANCHESTER STOCKPORT Littleborough Both will want to win for different reasons. Wilmslow, not least, to avenge the 28-15 beating we got at Grove Park a 21 Carlisle Wirral BROUGHTON PARK couple of months back but most of all to keep their late charge up the league for a second place finish alive. After 28 today, we have Carlisle away next weekend and then a rearranged game here against Vale of Lune the week after,

either on the 28th. or earlier in the week under floodlights if that can be arranged. Raging Bull Senior U18 Colts : League C Following the conclusion of We had a great win away at Blackburn last week 5-26 with tries coming from Sean Street (2), Ben Day and Max September 3 Macclesfield W February 4 the Preliminary Wortley. Whilst I mention the try scorers, coach Richard Jones says that it was a fantastic team performance, 10 WIDNES D 11 Crewe & Nantwich League season 17 Blackburn W 18 FYLDE perhaps the best of the season. This win came after the 29-7 home victory against Warrington under the floodlights. 24 Kirkby Lonsdale HWO 25 Makos W during which each team plays Lets hope that this form continues through to the rest of the season. October 1 March 4 each other once, 8 Fylde HWO 11 WIDNES HWO Last week the 2nd XV lost away to Lymm 37-11 and the 3rd XV went down at home 17-39 to Hope Valley. I hope that 15 BOLTON W 18 the organising 22 25 WINNINGTON PARK seeding this week brings back our winning ways. 29 committee will November 5 Widnes April 8 FYLDE select the Dates for the diary: 12 15 conference April 20th. Kings School Macclesfield end of season match and dinner. 19 BLACKBURN W 22 Crewe & Nantwich 26 Winnington Park 29 leagues. April 28th / 29th. Junior Festival May 3rd. Garner Cup Golf at Prestbury GC December 3 CREWE & NANTWICH W May 6 Cheshire Cup Final The Colts also 10 Fylde W Winnington Park TBA Club Dinner. Originally booked for 4th. May but postponed in view of the Wolves late charge 17 MAKOS W have a League up the league with a possible play off on 5th. May 24 Cup competition May 13th. Beating the Bounds - charity walk for East Cheshire Hospice 31 and the Cheshire June 24th. Wilmslow Half Marathon.” January 7 Colts Cup to 14 Blackburn W compete in. 21 WINNINGTON PARK W In the meantime, enjoy the game and let’s hope for a bit of balmy spring sunshine. 28 Widnes W The Artisan League N1W Forecasts Last week there was a draw, so no full houses, though 8 people got all the other predictions correct. The Manchester/Waterloo game fooled a lot of people but it was a close result. Redgauntlet’s grip on the league is getting tighter but there are 7 people within 10 points of second place.

This week, all home wins with the exception of the Rochdale/Warrington game, seems to be the most popular set of verdicts. The matches at Waterloo and Vale of Lune are expected to be home wins. Everyone has gone for a Wilmslow win. The games which have most divided opinion are at Kersal and Stockport.....though strange things happen when a side is fighting against demotion!

Saturday WEEKTHIS TOTAL

Waterloo v Carlisle Waterloo

Rochdale vRochdale War-

7th 14h April 2018

Carlisle vCarlisle Alty

Manchesterv

Warrington v

Altyv Kersal

Blackburn v Northwich v

Manchester

Stockport vStockport

Wilmslow v Wilmslow

V of LuneV v of

Northwich

Douglas vDouglas

Stockport

Wilmslow

V of LuneV of

April Rochdale

Waterloo

Burnage

Douglas

rington

TOTAL 2018 Kersal

Bar Steward A A H H H A 18 491 A A H A A H

Basher A H A H H H 12 444 A H A A H H

Beer Keeper A H A H H H 12 432 A H A H A H

Braveheart A H H A H A 21 515 H H A H H H

Chicken Sarney A H H A H A 21 470 H H A H H H

Dick D & Mutley A A H A H A 21 506 H H A A H H

Draichgoch A H H A H A 21 513 H H A H H H

Fiery Basher A H H H A A 15 497 H H A H H H

Flying Scot A H H A A H 15 490 H H A H H H

H H H H A H A 18 521 H H A H H H

Jonty H H H A H A 18 498 H H A H H H

Kiwi A A H A H A 21 484 A H A A H H

Millie 29 H H H H H A 15 502 H H H H H H

Nob H H H H H A 15 511 H H A H H H

Pilgrims A H H A H A 21 481 A H A A H H

Red Gauntlet A H H H H A 18 532 H H A H H H

Romulus & R A H H H H A 18 504 A H A A H H

Shakey A A H A H A 21 502 H H A A H H

Super Ted A H H A H A 21 499 H H H A A A

Uncle Fester H H H H H A 15 465 A H H H H H

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We lost 3-13 and there was no chance to return the fixture There was an air of quiet satisfaction in the Wilmslow camp after this one. Players and supporters alike knew that they before the club closed down in 1901. After the club re-formed in 1923, our had rarely seen the Wolves play quite as well as they did in this critical fixture at Blackburn. Not only did they play like a fixtures included Manchester “A” teams up to the advent of the war. However, in side that would be capable of holding its own at the next level but they also played as though that’s where they want to the 1948-49 season, we played the full Manchester team and had the cheek to be. If we played like that every week, said coach Rick Jones afterwards, we’d beat every side in this league, home and win 17-9. Since then, the results were fairly balanced until Manchester started away, every week! climbing up the leagues and vanished for several years, having beaten us 79-0 in 1996-97. These are the statistics up-to-date: After such a good all round team performance to which all the players contributed, one is reluctant to pick anyone out, nevertheless, mention has to be made of scrum half Sean Street, whose play has made the difference in recent weeks. P W D L PF PA At Northwich four weeks ago, his try in the last play of the game turned a losing situation into a bonus point win. Against 71 37 4 30 820 792 Warrington last week he scored at the death to give the Wolves another five point win and here at Blackburn he crossed twice, his second try just on full time giving the Wolves another five league points. This result leaves Wilmslow in third We did play them a few years ago, on their hurried way down the leagues, and it is place with a game in hand behind Northwich and the only side left who could conceivably overhaul them to finish in good to play them again. For many years, we used to play them on Boxing Day, second place for a play off match to go up into next season’s Northern Premier League. with a large crowd of supporters fed-up with Christmas. Many of the matches were frozen off, but the home supporters still turned up. They are near the bottom Blackburn started this match one point ahead of Wilmslow. For much of the season they had looked like promotion of the table this season and there is a chance that they may be relegated, but I suspect Altrincham/Kersal will be the contenders but in recent weeks had lost ground with losses away from home at this season’s league winners Vale of third to go down. I understand that they have already appointed a Sale Sharks coach for next season, whether they go Lune, Waterloo and Carlisle. This was their last chance to stay in the race but on the day, they were well outplayed by down or not. the Wolves for the whole duration of the game and couldn’t have any complaints at the outcome. Only in the set piece was there a hint early on that they might have the edge but by the end the Wolves were their equal even in this I have played many times against them and, although we could get a bit cross from time to time, I am now pleased to department. see the Wright brothers, Alan Hanson, Bob Lees, etc., etc. A couple of memories spring to mind. I, rather surprisingly, was picked for a team entered into the Manchester Sevens (a particularly good day out at the end of season). We had The Wolves started well, retaining possession for several minutes before they got penalised at the breakdown. Once reached the quarter-finals and were doing all right until Brian Lowe broke his leg. No subs in those days, so we lost, but again, they had patiently probed the Blackburn defences, protected the ball in the tackle, passed and handled it sensibly. poor Brian never played again. On another occasion, I fell awkwardly in a tackle and dislocated my elbow. Luckily, their Apart from a short spell in the second half, they retained this discipline throughout. full-back, Barry O’Driscoll, was a doctor, he told me to lie on the ground, put his foot on my chest and pulled the elbow back again, to my eternal credit. I am pleased to say that Barry is here today. I think I owe him a pint. Blackburn’s first attack ended with a turnover in the Wolves twenty two. Then, on the quarter hour, Wolves centre George Witham injected a bit of pace and venom into the Wolves midfield play with a piercing run and when the ball was To revert to the Sevens. These were a great day out and continued for several years when Manchester merged with quickly recycled, right winger James Coulthurst found the space to break the Blackburn line and to release Street for the Cheadle Hulme Rugby Club and moved to where they are now. It was a top-class event, with teams from all over the opening score. country. In the early seventies, Wilmslow won two to three times on the trot, with flying winger, Mike Tinkler, Gareth Jones, Rick Green and Johnny Haries in the backs; Mike Silcock, Peter Shufflebottom and John Webster (now President The home side soon hit back with their only score of the game. Wilmslow lost possession on their own put in at the of Macclesfield) scrummaging. One year we got to the Final and were playing Broughton Park. They kicked off, Mike scrum in midfield and some good running and enterprising play by the Blackburn backs eventually created space for the Silcock (17 stone and formidedly fast) caught the ball and set off unopposed to the try line. A spectator was heard to say, extra man, prop Tom Lavelle, to canter through a wide open gap. It was a well worked score which showed what they “If that is the prop, what are the wingers like”. were capable of. It is a shame that there are now no seven-side competitions. We used to run a Floodlight Sevens; again with clubs from It was short relief for them though as before half time, the Wolves won a clean attacking lineout and when the ball was far and wide (in memory of a young man Andy McIntyre). It was good fun. Why have they vanished. Is it because of released along the back line, full back Ben Day did what he does so well, taking a pass at pace to intrude the line and league rugby? Are players not prepared to commit to non-league matches? Is it time to resurrect our Floodlit score under the posts. competition? I would like to think so.

The Wolves would have gone further ahead shortly just after half time if referee Bygrave hadn’t cut play short because of what could have been, but fortunately turned out not to have been, a nasty injury to a Blackburn defender as he went in to tackle Wolves left winger Will Maslen as he was bearing down on their try line. When the game restarted the Wolves Alderley Edge Golf Club couldn’t make anything of the position and another chance went begging soon after when the referee blew to stop a skirmish, of the kind that rugby players so enjoy, amongst some of the forwards. The third try though followed soon after Alderley Edge Golf Club has something to offer all golfers, regardless of age and experience. when Alex Taylor broke from No. 8 at the base of a close in scrum and after several drives he was there to get the Visitors and new members are equally welcome at this friendly and hospitable local club, which touchdown. The Wolves then had the better of the stalemate in the final quarter and the game was already well won with has several great value golfing and membership options available. These currently include: time running out when Street, alert as ever, took an inside pass and set off through the gap for the final score. A 3-month Trial Package for those who would like to give the course a try – unlimited ‘social Rick Jones was well pleased with his side’s performance and, in truth, there wasn’t much to find fault with. After a few golf’ and full use of the Club’s facilities for 3 months (£100) early wobbles the scrum had stabilised, Adam Hewitt, Max Wortley and Seb Pemberton were masters in the lineout and the rest of the pack, with hooker Alex Donaldson prominent in just about every phase, gave better than it got around the Introductory Membership scheme for new golfers – 6 months membership including 9 lessons field. Ethan Harding stood out in the centre and there were good moments from Witham, Maslen and Coulthurst. There (£295 plus affiliation fees) was one head on try saving tackle from full back Day in the second half that stood out but really there were only a handful of line breaks by the home side in the face of a stubborn Wolves defence. This again has been a feature of their Full 7-day membership options - play any day as often as you wish for £6.70 - £10.60 per week (Intermediate play in recent weeks. members) or £15.20 per week (Full members) when taking out a 12 month contract.

Jones now has to prepare a side for next week’s home game against near neighbours Manchester. They’ve probably The Club’s PGA Professional Charles Le Sueur can tailor a coaching package to suit any golfer - on the course or in the done enough to avoid relegation but they’ll need a win in their last game to be absolutely certain. They will remember state-of-the-art Golf Simulator Room attached to the shop. Charles also offers top quality golf products and a custom that they saw off the Wolves at their place in January and will come to The Memorial Ground believing that they can pull club fitting and club repair service. it off again. The Wolves, of course, just have to win their last three games. They can’t afford any lapses as they attempt to finish in second place. As well as being an excellent 9-hole golf course, it has a modern clubhouse, with a bar and the ‘Edge View Suite’, ideal for parties and other celebrations and available to non-members. The Club are also able to host Business Meetings at very competitive day and half-day rates.

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Nothing was settled last week. Vale had already won the league but for fifty minutes were held in check at Warrington, until the home side ran out of gas to allow Vale to score seven tries in the last half hour and eleven in all. A cricket score indeed to remind us all that cricket is on its way, Warrington will soon find Walton Lea closed for rugby to allow for the summer game and will probably become a kind of touring side for their last home game against Douglas (IOM). The Manx men themselves have enjoyed a good first season at this level, their high light being that famous win at Vale of Lune.

Northwich were taken all the way by Stockport but on this occasion the Blacks didn’t concede a last minute try to allow Stockport to take the spoils. Once again they had a lot to thank Joel Barbour for, two tries and a courageous tackle to stop Dean Schofield in the first half. Their other two scores came from Richard Dale and Chris Heywood as they secured the maximum five league points. Defensive resilience wrote John Blower had seen the Blacks through. They now face a season defining moment today as the visit champions Vale of Lune.

It’s still an unholy scrap at the foot of the table between Altrincham Kersal, Carlisle and Manchester to decide which one will fill the third relegation spot. AK survived to fight another day when they scored in the corner in a last play at Carlisle to tie it up at two penalties and a try apiece. Carlisle probably had enough of the play to deserve it but AK were clearly up for it. You just feel that if they had played WHAT THEY SAID AT WARRINGTON with the same commitment earlier in the season they On a dry pitch under the Wilmslow lights, no wind and with only two wouldn’t have found themselves needing ten points changes in the team - Harry Kellett replacing the unavailable Sean from their last two games to stay up. Manchester lost Callander and Dan Fleming coming off the bench for Paul Thompson - the at home to a last minute penalty from Waterloo. Two scene was set for the repeat of the entertaining fare served up against Stockport just four days previously. Whether it was the mind-set of playing losing bonus points though may yet be very significant after work, the short turn around between games or the unfamiliarity of when the final day of reckoning comes. playing under lights, the expected spectacle just did not emerge. Once again, Warrington found themselves a try behind in the first five minutes of Manchester are sure to scrap to the final moment the game. This was not self-inflicted, however, but due to an erratic piece of here this afternoon and next week Wilmslow have an refereeing. With a penalty indicated against Wilmslow, Warrington unenviable trip to Carlisle unless they can pick up the proceeded to run the ball out from their own 22. Scant progress was made, Warrington lost possession to Wilmslow who promptly ran the ball back to points they need at Waterloo this afternoon. You do score under the posts. With no return to the original offence, Warrington feel that none of these three have been all that far off were 5 points down as Wilmslow inexplicably failed to convert. the pace this season but one of them has to draw the short straw. From the restart, the home side kept possession, recycling the ball well and mixing it between forward and backs without making much headway WHAT THEY SAID AT BLACKBURN against a Warrington defence, spearheaded by Lynch and O’Rourke. This was Burn’s first home loss since September. Wilmslow Warrington then had their turn in possession but seemed to have no cutting scored two tries in each half, while Burn were unable able to edge, failing to capitalize on the speed of wingers Arnold and Beesley. Up keep pace and could only respond with one try of their own. front, there was just insufficient power, continuity and penetration. The game largely became a succession of rucks played between the 10 metre Wilmslow had the better of the opening play and were lines. rewarded with a try on 14 minutes following some good

interplay which saw the number 9 score. Burn hit back on 25 Neither side looked like scoring until, with 20 minutes gone Wilmslow minutes, from a lineout 5 metres out their initial drive was hoisted a kick onto the Warrington 22 metre line. The challenge from full halted, Burn had several more drives through the forwards, back Thompson was deemed illegal, he retired for 10 minutes and Wilmslow the ball then found its way to Lawrence Nelson, his well timed slotted the penalty. This seemed to galvanise them into putting some good pass put Tom Lavelle in just enough space to cross the try phases together and a neat inside pass for a try under the posts. line to score. The conversion was missed leaving the scores

5 all. This proved Burn’s only highlight of the game as Warrington struck back on the stroke of half time when centre Hughes split Wilmslow steadily took control of the game with their ability to the Wilmslow defence with a beautifully weighted grubber kick. The centre keep control of the ball which restricted Burn’s possession. was impeded going for the ball and awarded a penalty try with the Wilmslow Wilmslow capitalised on their control of the game with a try defender yellow-carded to boot. The homes side’s woes were compounded and conversion on the half hour mark which gave them a 5-12 just two minutes in to the second half when a second man received 10 half time lead. minutes rest for unwarranted use of the boot. Warrington, however, did not capitalize on this considerable advantage, kicking the ball away instead of Burn would have started the second half with hopes of a retaining possession and loosing two set scrums in quick succession to a 7- comeback, however this never materialised, firstly Sean Hall man pack. Wilmslow got their men back and then Hughes was singled out was sin binned in the early stages of the half, then on 55 for a yellow after a scrum developed into a general argy-bargy. With 20 minutes Wilmslow extended their lead. From a 5 metre scrum minutes to go, a superb kick from scrum -half Hockenhull took Warrington the Cheshire side picked and went for the line, Burn stopped into Wilmslow’s 22 for the first time in the half. Although Warrington the initial attack, but Wilmslow recycled and scored too easily regained possession they could not build any consistent pressure and were for the home sides liking. The conversion was added and turned over too easily by a competent Wilmslow defence. Wilmslow had a 5-19 lead. For much of the rest of the game

Wilmslow were in control, with Burn rarely out of their own Five minutes from full time, Wilmslow were awarded a penalty for a high half. To Burn’s credit they prevented any further tries until the tackle, the likes of which had been occurring all game. From the line-out on last couple of minutes when the away side scored their fourth, the Warrington 5 metre line they drove over for a converted try. They then followed by the conversion to give them a 5-26 victory. took the restart cleanly, ran through some tiring Warrington tackles and despite an apparently forward pass touched down under the posts. Game Wilmslow deserved their win as they controlled the ball more over. effectively. Burn failed to spark and will be disappointed to

have been unable to put a stop to their recent bad run. Burn Coach Roberts said “ Despite the score line it was a very close game, full of now have one game left this season in two weeks against mistakes from both sides but Wilmslow probably deserved the win as they Stockport. Despite recent struggles Burn have come along managed the game better.” way this season and they will hope to finish on a high.

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Team P W D L For Agst Diff Pts +/- VIKINGS 67 - 5 PRESTON GH 3 BEFORE KICK OFF, Preston GH announced Lymm 2 21 19 0 1 848 247 601 81 0 that they had no front row. They did have though a very capable set of backs, arousing Vale of Lune 2 21 16 0 3 843 221 622 75 0 suspicion that this was a tactic to gain unfair advantage. Wirral 2 22 15 0 6 725 405 320 64 -2 Rossendale 2 20 11 0 8 306 409 -103 52 0 This infuriated Adam Taher’s Vikings because the set piece is a part of the game in which Wilmslow 2 21 9 0 11 537 427 110 47 0 they are strongest. They aren’t mugs outside either as Ms. Kennedy, Witham and Raynor Macclesfield 3 22 8 1 12 481 662 -181 44 -2 showed by playing the game at unrelenting pace, popping the ball back in the tackle, Stockport 2 21 5 0 16 353 674 -321 36 0 quickly getting to their feet again and both rucking and counter rucking vigorously. Rochdale 2 21 5 0 16 357 724 -367 36 0 Kennedy and Raynor led from the front. . The reward of a succession of tries took its Preston Grasshoppers 3 23 3 1 18 268 949 -681 34 0 toll on PGH’s players and facing a deficit of 35-5 at half time, it was clear they’d had Sale Sharks Leagues - Division 4 East enough.

Team P W D L For Agst Diff Pts +/- The second half didn’t run its full course due to an unfortunate PGH injury but the Littleborough 3 21 16 1 2 650 298 352 76 0 relentless pace continued with the Wolves Heaton Moor 2 22 13 1 6 628 375 253 68 0 accruing a further 32 points. The opposition never breached a water tight defence to get Glossop 3 21 12 0 6 429 291 138 64 0 as far as the Vikings 22. With no exertion in the scrum, the Vikings pack ran around to Wilmslow 3 21 12 2 3 675 259 416 61 0 break the gain line at will, Taher, Nicholson and Lewis all standing out. If there is a Dukinfield 2 21 8 1 8 417 594 -177 54 0 criticism, it’s that there were still too many Wilmslow errors, Overthrowing at the lineout, Ashton on Mersey 1 22 10 0 10 474 461 13 54 0 knock-ons, and perhaps the biggest offence Stockport 3 21 10 2 8 455 382 73 52 0 of all, white line fever !. With space and supporting players all around, a bit more head Hope Valley RFC 1 21 8 1 12 576 690 -114 46 0 up and passing would have paid even more dividends than some of their head down into Altrincham Kersal 3 21 8 1 10 465 579 -114 44 0 traffic play. But it was still one of their best performances of the season. Trafford Metrovick 3 22 5 0 15 386 705 -319 43 0 Nick Jones Burnage 3 22 7 1 11 399 440 -41 41 0

Manchester 3 22 5 1 14 370 678 -308 36 0

Broughton Park 4 21 3 3 12 280 452 -172 30 0

Senior Colts Conference League - C Team P W D L For Agst Diff Pts Wilmslow 7 7 0 0 232 90 142 20

Makos 8 4 1 3 141 151 -10 17

Fylde 7 3 0 4 95 101 -6 12

Blackburn 7 2 0 5 140 191 -51 11 Crewe & Nantwich 7 1 1 5 129 204 -75 10 Widnes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Winnington Park 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Saturday 24th. March Saturday 7th. April Hawks HWO Burnage Lymm 37 - 11 Vikings Hawks 17 - 39 Hope Valley Sunday 25th. March Colts HWO Winnington Park

Saturday 31st. March Vikings 67 - 5 Preston GH 3

Manchester Rugby Club

Manchester have been around for 160 years so their troubles of the recent past should be put in perspective. After sliding from the upper reaches of the club game in what must have been a debilitating few years to the basement league or at least close to it, they started again to progress and came up this season into this league. Throughout this period their second and third teams have continued to play and they’ve always had a full offering of mini, junior and colts rugby.

This year, their colts are masquerading as MAKOS, an amalgamation of Manchester and Stockport, neither of which could manage a full senior colts side. A Mako, I understand, is a small breed of shark. We had the same problem a few years ago here and merged for that season with Altrincham Kersal. I can’t remember though that any special name was conjured up for that team.

In a normal season, their playing record of ten wins from twenty three with one to play would have pointed to the second half of a mid table finish. As they had played St. Benedicts only once, their relative position against Carlisle and AK, who had both played St. Benedicts twice, improved by five points. They’ve only garnered six bonus points all season, which just shows how important they are when the final reckoning is made.

Last week, they narrowly lost at home to Waterloo by 22-25 in a game that would have guaranteed their league status for next season, if they’d managed a win. They scored four tries and were tied at 22 apiece until the final seconds when Firwood Waterloo knocked over a late late penalty to win it. So they come to the Memorial Ground, probably safe enough for Level 6 rugby next season but if they were to lose today and AK were to end their season with two five pointers from two home games, then it would all come down to how Carlisle fare in their last two games, one of which is next week at their place against Wilmslow.

Manchester, however, gave us the run round when we met on a wet wintery day in February at Grove Park. It was one of those rearranged fixtures which seem to cause Wilmslow so much trouble. Manchester were on a three match winning run, which included an away win at Northwich. We were well beaten on the day by 28-15 and a fortnight later they won at Stockport. Since then, the gloss has dulled a bit with only one win from their last four.

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91 Chapel Lane Wilmslow SK9 5JH Nobody here at Wilmslow will take any pleasure from the demise of St. Benedicts a fortnight ago. Speculation was rife on 28th. March, despite league secretary Ken Potter Act as a cheat telling us that Wednesday evening that they had assured him, they would be completing their fixtures for the season. positive role because you model to all disagree with Their recent results have included four 70 point plus hammerings away from home this players. him over where year alone. Relegation became a mathematical certainty weeks ago. And then there the ball went were their well publicised pitch difficulties. It all pointed in the same direction. An early Abide by the into touch, bath looked increasingly a distinct possibility. RFU’s Child whether or not Protection it was in touch I’m not certain exactly what the final straw was but the writing was on the wall when Guidance in at all or Northwich made the journey three weeks ago and then after inspecting the pitch on relation to who the throw arrival decided they wouldn’t play on it.. If their pitch was still unplayable a week later verbal and has been when Rochdale were due to visit, then I can understand the league losing patience with emotional awarded too is them. It’s a relatively straight forward matter for a club like ours to rearrange a match abuse. forbidden. for a mid week kick off under floodlights against opposition in our locality but it’s not Remember that viable to haul yourself all the way up to Whitehaven if you’ve got to do a full day’s work before travelling. Heaven alone knows when they might have been able to complete Abuse of children play their season. primarily for Match Officials their own It’s a prerequisite that a rugby club has a pitch to play on unless you’re exclusively an enjoyment not Code of occasional touring side. St. Benedicts didn’t or don’t fall into that category. Their pitch that of Conduct has been unplayable for a large part of the winter and I would guess that with so many spectators. regulations games being postponed, interest amongst their players will have waned, especially if state that a their next game was to involve a three hour plus coach trip down the motorway to end Acknowledge person shall not up on the wrong end of a 90 point threshing. The novelty element of coming down to good play, abuse, threaten Manchester every other weekend had probably long since worn off and in that scenario, effort and or intimidate a many players will just drift away. You only have to ask Sean Street about what it was performance referee, touch like at Stockport last season to understand the debilitating effect of every game ending irrespective of judge or other up as a massacre. . It’s not that there’s no interest in playing up in team or player. match official, Whitehaven, it’s just that they haven’t got a ground that they can regularly play on. A tweet, now taken down, on their web site hints that some of the games they did manage Shout ‘for’ whether or not to complete had to take place on other grounds in the Whitehaven area. If you haven’t players not ‘at’ on the field of got a pitch which is fit for purpose, then it’s impossible to run a proper rugby club and them. Never play. Crude or you can’t rely on other clubs loaning out their pitch indefinitely. ridicule a abusive player. language or What the future holds for them is not yet known. Is it a temporary shut down or have gestures they completely folded? If they can find a solution to their pitch difficulties then there’s Respect match towards officials no reason why there shouldn’t be a resurrection. We wish them the best of luck in officials’ is not permitted. trying to solve their problems. decisions even if they appear Abuse is The Cumbrian League this season has ten sides competing in it, many of them from to have made a defined as West Cumbria. There also appear to be roughly an equal number of rugby leagues in mistake. individual the same area so there doesn't seem to me to be any shortage of clubs playing one Remember they perception of code or the other for former St. Benedicts players to join if their own club fails to get reformed by next season. are volunteers personal too. degradation, be Paradoxically, in league terms, Wilmslow and Northwich are the only beneficiaries. In it mental, or declaring all matches against St. Benedicts null and void, most clubs have incurred a Never verbally physical before, ten point deduction. Northwich, whose matches against them had been postponed abuse players, during and after three times, face no deduction and Wilmslow, who have been the only side to lose to coaches, match a game and them all season, incur a six point deduction. Northwich are now clearly favourites to officials or includes verbal finish second in the league but they still have the small matter of playing Vale of Lune fellow or physical away to contend with. Only Wilmslow are mathematically still in with a chance. What spectators. assault, can be said with some conviction is that whoever it is that finishes second will face a Such abuse intimidating play off away from home, probably against either Penrith or Driffield. can create a conduct and/or negative racial and environment for sexual The Colts have only to raise a side for their final league game against Crewe & Nantwich to win Conference League C. They have won all seven of the games that players, which harassment. have actually been played but the competition has been marred by two of the sides their behaviour withdrawing from the league altogether and other games ending as either H 0r AWOs. will often Abusive Still you can’t do better than beat the opposition that actually turns up so congratulations reflect. behaviour are due to the senior colts. affects the Explicitly calling reputation of The Colts also have an interest in the Cheshire U18 Plate competition with a last four the opposition the club and will game against Northwich still to be played. team’s touch not be judge a b tolerated. Wednesday 28th. March 2018 North 1 West

Wilmslow 29 – 7 Warrington It was a long time coming but two late Wolves’ tries in the last five minutes of this rearranged floodlit game assured them of a convincing and deserved win together with five league points which shunted them four notchess up the league into second place and play off position, albeit only until the rest of this week’s matches are completed. Even then, they’ll still have a game in hand over all the other second place contenders, except Northwich. The permutations for an interesting run in after Easter are huge. There’s just a nod to the changing season in this week’s supper. Not quite summer food but nor are these recipes the A win for Warrington would have moved them into joint second place so there was plenty at stake for both sides. Rick broths and stews of winter. Jones would have told his charges that Warrington’s strengths lay in their back division where danger lurked in every pair of hands in every part of the field. In the autumn their tries against Wilmslow all had their origins from deep in their own PISTOU SOUP half of the field. Their centres Kieran Hughes and Steve Pilkington are the equal of any in this league, the wingers 4 tablespoons olive oil, 1 onion, 3 cloves of garlic, 3 leeks, 3 potatoes, 3 carrots, 1 stick of celery, 3 courgettes, 2 sprigs Nathan Beesley and Tom Arnold are both greased lightning and they have two half backs in Ben Hockenhull and Tom of fresh flat-leaf parsley, 2 bay leaves, 250g baby green beans, 400g tin of chopped tomatoes, 400 g tin of cannellini Wood, who have inflicted their fair share of damage on their opponents during the season. The Wolves defence would have to be clinical in cutting down their space before they built any momentum and rock solid in bringing them to the beans, 400 g tin of borlotti beans, 70g small macaroni ground and driving them back in the tackle. Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic, then trim and slice the leek. Chop the potatoes, carrots, celery and For the most part, they were just that. Warrington didn’t get many scoring opportunities, several times they got turned courgettes, then pick and roughly chop the parsley leaves. Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat over at the breakdown in positions from which they might have scored, only occasionally did they threaten to break the and sauté the onion, garlic and leek for 5 minutes. Add the other chopped ingredients, the bay leaves, green beans and Wolves defensive line and when they did the cover was there to haul them down. It was the best organised Wilmslow chopped tomatoes. Now add all the beans. Cover with water, season and simmer until the vegetables are tender. Add defence that had been seen for several weeks. the pasta and simmer until cooked, adding water if the soup is too thick.

All season Wilmslow’s strength has been in the pack and it was no exception this Wednesday evening, particularly in the scrum where the front row of Robert Taylor, Alex Donaldson, Jordan Ayrey and the young substitute Rhodri Lewis all You can either buy a ready made Basil pistou sauce from any supermarket or make your own from 5 cloves of garlic, 6 exerted considerable leverage on their opponents. They frequently disrupted the Warrington scrum, shoving them off sprigs of fresh basil, 60g Parmesan cheese, 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil. Peel and add the garlic to a pestle and their ball, slowing it down and making it difficult to use. Slow ball from a backward retreating scrum is just what your half mortar, add the basil leaves and sea salt. Pound until puréed, then finely grate in the Parmesan and drizzle the extra backs don’t want, especially with your opponent’s back row consistently bearing down on you like, well, ‘a pack of angry virgin olive oil to make a paste. Serve the soup with a dollop of the sauce. wolves on the trail’. Consequently they and their team mates became frustrated and bad tempered. In the second half particularly, they conceded far too many penalties of the kind that sides do when they’re under pressure at the scrum and SLOW ROAST PORK BELLY at the break down. For the pork: 3kg skin scored pork belly, 8 cloves peeled garlic, 2tsp thyme, 4tsp smoked paprika, 3 tsp salt.

The Wolves lineout though was something of a lottery as several times ball that should have been won missed its target For the apple and chilli yoghurt dressing: 5 Granny Smith apples peeled, cored and diced, 2 green chillis sliced with and came out on the Warrington side. Clearly in the last couple of games something hasn’t been quite right in that department. seeds, 1 tbsp chopped coriander, ½ tsp cumin seeds, 150 gm greek yoghurt

The first half was fairly evenly contested. The Wolves came out with real intent to force Warrington back into their own Blitz the garlic, paprika, thyme and salt in a processor, then rub the paste all over the pork and into the score marks. twenty two and when fly half Wood tried to clear, the ball was taken by Wilmslow’s Will Maslen on the left wing. The Roll the pork and tie with butcher’s twine as tightly as possible. Roast at 200c for 20 minutes, then turn down to 180c running and handling was good until the final pass but, no matter, lock Tom Bull was present to scoop up the loose ball for two hours. The skin should be crackling. Mix together the apple and chilli yoghurt ingredients and serve as a and swoop for the opening try. Barely a minute had been played. relish.

Play now fluctuated from one end to another, until on the half hour, Wilmslow full back Elliot Rowe was taken out in mid To drink, I’d go for a medium bodied red wine such as a Beaujolais or Pinot Noir. It’s also the sort of food that a full air and visibly shaken up on or around the Warrington twenty two as he chased a high kick ahead. The offender received a yellow card and Bob MacCallum stepped up to kick the penalty for 8-0. Five minutes later, after yet another lost lineout, bodied white wine such as Albarino will go with. the Wolves scrum provided their backs with more go forward ball and this time for a still shaken looking Rowe to cross under the posts from close range. Just on half time, Warrington hit back to force a scrum on the Wilmslow line. They For a change, you could also pull the cork out of a decent bottle of cider, brut or dry would probably be best. didn’t make much of the scrum but when the ball was moved right their winger Arnold was high tackled and a penalty try was awarded.

The second half was nearly all Wilmslow, emanating from their superiority in the set piece. That they didn’t bother the score board man until the closing minutes was mainly because of their own inaccuracy. All referees have their idiosyncrasies and referee Brown’s is the forward pass. Too many marginal forward passes just handed scrum advantage to Warrington, who then got shoved off it and frequently penalised. Bob MacCallum didn’t always get the field position he wanted with his kicks, his goal kicking was obstinately awry and the lineout was suspect. Actually, the Wolves handling was quite good, it was just their passing that let them down and referee Brown was in no mood to let anything marginal go.

A Warrington breakaway could have caused a lot of angst. You could just see it, a touch of genius from Kieran Hughes setting up a half chance for one of his wingers and then Rick Jones shaking his head afterwards, inwardly seething and muttering about another game the Wolves should have won. It didn’t come to that though! Yet another MacCallum penalty set up a lineout in the ‘Fitism’ corner for at last a clean Alex Hewitt catch followed by a good controlled drive and touchdown by Alex Taylor, which eased everybody’s state of mind, whether on the pitch or the terrace. Stress and tension now waning, the restart was cleanly taken with authority, a couple of drives around the fringes made ground and a quick interchange of passing saw Sean Street galloping away like a thoroughbred colt for the fourth try.

At the end there was a jauntiness about Rick Jones. It was a win which will give the last month of the season a bit of edge. The Wolves now have plenty still to play for when they go to Blackburn, another of the play off contenders, on 7th. April.

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This rearranged game clashes with the first day of the mini festival so it’s possible that, if Vale agree, the game will be moved to be played under Wilmslow v Manchester floodlights on Wednesday 25th. April. More to come on this.

Wilmslow XV and their Sponsors Manchester XV PLAYERS AND THEIR Next Saturday the Wolves are away SPONSORS to Carlisle. 15. Ben Day Concept Group 15 Seb Lingwood The players and coaches would like to thank those organisations and individuals CARLISLE RFC, WARWICK who have supported the cause of Wilmslow RD., CARLISLE, CA1 1LW 14. James Coulthurst Curtaincraft 14. Doug Day rugby by becoming their personal sponsors. All the funds raised are directed towards 13. Jonnie Kennedy 13. Zak Round funding coaching, kit, equipment, physios Just go straight up the M6 to J43. and team travel. At the A69 exit, turn left into 12. Richard Hughes 12. Anthony Tiatia Warwick Rd. Carlisle Rugby Club If you would like to support the team by 11. George Witham 11. Joe Houghton becoming a sponsor, then please let either is situated about 1 mile along on Mike Blackett or David Pike in on the secret. the right, immediately after Carlisle There are players still looking for personal sponsors this season. Football Club. 10. Bob MacCallum Ian Stewart 10. Richard McCartney

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