Club President NIGEL DAY Welcomes NORTHWICH
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Fixtures and Results 2016 - 17 Club President Wolves Vikings Hawks N1W Cotton Traders Premier Sale Sharks 3S NIGEL DAY September 3 ECCLES W Caldy L CAPENHURST L 10 Altrincham Kersal W PRESTON GH 2 L Marple 2 L Welcomes 17 BIRKENHEAD PARK L Stockport W WIDNES 2 L 24 WEST PK (ST. HELENS) W Sale L VILLAGE SPARTANS L NORTHWICH October 1 Blackburn L CHESTER L Whitchurch 3 W 8 LEIGH W Sedgley Pk L LYMM 3 L 15 CHESTER (Cup) L This weekend the Wolves (1st XV) have a game with double the usual significance when they welcome our 22 Vale of Lune W VALE OF LUNE L Holmes Chapel L visitors, Northwich, to Pownall Park because there are more than just league points at stake. Both teams, 29 ROCHDALE W Fylde Wanderers HWO CARRINGTON W separated by one point in the league battle for the 3rd place spot AND a berth in the Final of the Cheshire Vase November 5 Warrington W ROCHDALE W Dukinfield 2 HWO against Birkenhead Park! 12 BURNAGE W Preston GH 3 L BROUGHTON PARK 3 H 19 Northwich W FIRWOOD WATERLOO L Wirral 3 HWO 26 ST. BENEDICTS W Macclesfield Lions L MANCHESTER 2 L With neither side having played last weekend, Northwich arrive buoyed from a battle of attrition a fortnight ago when they took on, and beat, Birkenhead Park not just by a handful of points but 32 – 6 no less! December 3 Kirkby Lonsdale L New Brighton 2 W The Wolves (1st XV), away at Burnage, in a game that was limping towards a 6 – 6 draw stole, and we mean stole, 10 ALTRINCHAM KERSAL W LYMM W MARPLE 2 L 17 Birkenhead Park L Widnes 2 HWO a last minute try with an interception to make sure the league points came home to Pownall Park. David Pike’s 24 match reports of a ‘Street Robbery’ which is certainly what Burnage must have felt like. 31 With Kirkby Lonsdale out of sight at the top of the league, congratulations to them for an excellent set of results, 22 wins from 22 played, it is now about today and some maths as to who gets the next spot. January 7 West Park (St. Helens) W Stockport W Village Spartans W 14 BLACKBURN W Rochdale W WHITCHURCH 3 W 21 VALE OF LUNE W The Vikings (2nds) unfortunately let a win slip through their fingers last weekend, in the rearranged game against 28 Leigh P Lymm 3 W Rochdale here at Pownall Park. Today they travel up the M6 to Preston Grasshoppers 3’s, who are currently 2nd February 4 Leigh L PRESTON GH 3 L in the Cotton Traders Conference B league, and with no game for Hoppers 2nds, it is likely to be a tough 11 VALE OF LUNE W Firwood Waterloo L HOLMES CHAPEL L afternoon for Bryn’s boys! 18 Rochdale W LYMM W Carrington L 25 ROCHDALE L The Hawks (3rd XV) have a tough trip West to Wirral, needing much sought after points to battle against relegation. March 4 WARRINGTON W Vale of Lune L DUKINFIELD 2 L The Hawks (3rds XV) have had a tricky season, very often having to support the Vikings (2nds XV) with players 11 Burnage W Broughton Park 3 L through injury and unavailability which demonstrates the havoc that the Premier League can wreak on genuine 18 amateur teams. Only now do the powers that be seem to be aware there is a problem, and with the retention of 25 NORTHWICH Preston GH 3 WIRRAL 3 players being uppermost on all amateur clubs agenda, the mismatches that take place are not helping the cause at all! April 1 St Benedicts FIRWOOD WATERLOO Manchester 2 8 KIRKBY LONSDALE Lymm NEW BRIGHTON 2 15 Well ‘Super Saturday’ didn’t quite live up to its billing, depending on your nationality of course, and just did not 22 Eccles STOCKPORT Capenhurst deliver the level of performances that we have seen in past weeks. Ireland certainly had not read the script, and 29 set about spoiling England and Eddie Jones’s party which they did quite successfully by completely bamboozling and snuffing out England in almost every area of the pitch! Raging Bull Senior U18 Colts League D and Conference C The Colts League Committee has determined to introduce a new In recent years there have been fewer opportunities for representative honours, certainly with the seeming format for 2016/2017 to provide a greater number of more equitable downgrading of County rugby however Wilmslow, always proud of ‘their own’, are proud to boast two players who, September 4 Bolton W games for our Colts Teams. Conferencing of the Leagues after the in the space of two weeks have proved to the outside world of the worth, and their heritage. Firstly, Hamish 11 GLOSSOP W Preliminary League stages will mitigate the effects of any mis-seeding Watson, of whom much is written on the club website, came of age for Scotland during the Six Nations having 18 Ashton U Lyne W and will permit us to accommodate the fallout from any early season 25 NORTHWICH W joined Wilmslow Juniors back in the late 1990’s, then on to Macclesfield, Leicester Academy and is now playing withdrawals. his rugby for Edinburgh, and Scotland! October 2 Crewe & Nantwich L The Conference Leagues will likely be slightly different from the 9 SEDGLEY PARK W Secondly, there is a young man who has been making a name for himself in the Wolves front row this season, seedings for the Prelim Leagues, and Teams may be moved up or 16 Liverpool Collegiate W Jonnie Evans, who played a major part in Cheshire U20’s 41-7 point victory against Lancashire U20’s, at Lymm, 23 County Cup P Rd. down a league. 30 County Cup 1st. Rd on Sunday last. I’m sure he will not exaggerate the distance he fought through for his try, if you ask him! Prelim' League Season... November 6 ROCHDALE L Last Sunday, the 33rd running of the Waters Half Marathon took place when just over 3100 runners took to the 13 Sefton HWO Playing in Seeded Leagues using an 8 Team Format; the first 7 20 BIRKENHEAD PK L weekends will be the Prelim' Season. Teams play each other once, roads around Wilmslow, Ilford and Mobberley. An event like this does not just happen and an army of around 490 27 Eccles W home or away as drawn. Trophies will be awarded to the Prelim' volunteers, comprising of Wilmslow Running Club, Wilmslow Phoenix Sports Club, Wilmslow Rugby Club and League Winners. many others helped make it happen. Our thanks are extended to everyone involved, all the volunteers and December 4 WHITCHURCH L 11 MACCLESFIELD W conscripts, Rusty and Fran’s bar and catering teams, the medical staff, the spectators and to Waters for their Conference League Season... continued support of the event. January 8 SEFTON W It is intended that The Conference Season will consist 8 team leagues 15 Birkenhead Pk W with 14 fixtures, subject to any necessary restructuring. 22 ECCLES W The County Cup Prelim Round and First Round weekends will provide February 12 Whitchurch W the timescale needed to determine any restructuring required for the 26 Macclesfield Conference Leagues and fixtures. March 12 Rochdale The Artisan League N1W Forecasts Sponsored by The Artisan Meat Company Millie has dropped out, so only 16 players now. On 11th March there was a postponement which meant that nobody got full marks. However, we seem to be getting good at this. Nobody got more than one result wrong and 7 players got all 6 results correct! Draichgoch still leads the way but the chasing pack is getting closer. Seven people have today gone for exactly the same results. Wins are completely or almost unanimous for Kirkby Lonsdale, Birkenhead Pk., West Park, Warrington, Vale of Lune and Wilmslow. The closest to call looks like the game between Blackburn and Burnage. Warrington v Blackburn Northwich Northwich v Birkenhead Vale of Lune v Rochdale Saturday Wilmslow v Northwich Birkenhead v StBene- Blackburn Blackburn v Burnage St BenedictsSt v Kersal Burnage v Wilmslow West v Park Vale of Leigh Leigh v Warrington 25th March 2017 25th March Eccles v ParkWest THIS WEEKTHIS TOTAL Kirkby Lonsdale v Kersal v Kirkby L 11th Rochdale v Leigh March TOTAL Eccles Lune 2017 dicts Barsteward A H H H H A A 22 452 H A A A A A H Beer Keeper A H H A H H A 22 392 A H H A H H H Braveheart A H H H H A A 22 500 A H H A A H H Chicken Sarney A H A H A H A 22 448 H H H A A H H Dick D & Mutley A H H H A H A 28 492 A H A H H A H Draichgoch A H A H H H A 22 518 A H H A A H H Flying Scot A H H H H H A 28 480 A H H A A H H H H H H H H H A 22 509 A H H A A H A Jonty A H A H H H A 22 489 A H A A A H H Nob A H H H H H A 28 512 A H H A H H H Red Gauntlet A H H H H H A 28 511 A H H A A H H Romulus & R A H H H H H A 28 504 A H H A A H H Shakey A H H H H A A 22 476 A H H A A H H Super Ted H H H H H H A 22 466 A H A A A H H Uncle Fester A H H H H H A 28 474 A H H A A H H Zoo Keeper A H H H H H A 28 475 A H A A A H H Results for Week A H H H P H A Cherry Tree F a r m Lees Lane Mottram St.