Club President CHRIS GEORGE Welcomes SANDAL
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Fixtures and Results 2017 - 18 Club President Wolves Vikings Hawks CHRIS GEORGE Northern Premier Cotton Traders Halbro 4 East League Championship Welcomes September 1 KIRKBY LONSDALE L Macclesfield W Ashton on Mersey L 8 Vale of Lune W ALDWINIANS W 15 ALNWICK L Rochdale W Altrincham Kersal SANDAL 22 Hull L WIRRAL W MARPLE 29 LYMM L Blackburn L Rochdale October 6 13 Harrogate L ROCHDALE L ASHTON UNDER LYNE 20 SANDAL Firwood Waterloo Broughton Park Good afternoon and a warm welcome to our 27 Billingham KENDAL HEATON MOOR visitors today from Sandal. From memory I think November 3 ROSSENDALE Stockport Stockport its about 30 years since we last played when the 10 17 Wirral ROCHDALE BURNAGE leagues were first formed. At that time we were 24 BLAYDON Wirral Manchester put into a league above our ability and ended up December 1 ILKLEY BLACKBURN dropping through the leagues to find our level. 8 Kendal Rossendale Hope Valley 15 VALE OF LUNE FIRWOOD WATERLOO Aldwinians 22 Some 30 years on we have worked our way up to 29 the North Premier again to once again struggle at January 5 Alnwick Kendal ALTRINCHAM KERSAL this level. Last week at Harrogate with only 6 12 HULL STOCKPORT Marple 19 Lymm MACCLESFIELD ROCHDALE backs travelling we played well in the first half 26 HARROGATE Ashton under Lyne against a strong wind ending the half 12-5 ahead! February 2 DUKINFIELD I’m not sure what was said in the Harrogate 9 Sandal BROUGHTON PARK 16 BILLINGHAM Heaton Moor changing room but they came out a different 23 team running in 45 unanswered points in the March 2 Rossendale STOCKPORT second half!! Still, our objective is to try to stay in 9 WIRRAL Burnage 16 this league but to do that we are going to need a 23 Blaydon MANCHETER 30 Ilkley Dukinfield little more commitment from players across the squad. April 6 KENDAL HOPE VALLEY 13 Kirkby Lonsdale ASHTON ON MERSEY 20 27 A big welcome also today to our ladies for the second Ladies Lunch. We hope you enjoy the day and that this time we have enough fizz behind the Raging Bull Senior U18 Colts : League C bar! Thank you to Sue Muckle and all the ladies September 2 Birkenhead Park L February 3 who have helped make the day happen, despite 9 MACCLESFIELD L 10 BIRKENHEAD PARK many being away on half term holidays. 16 Caldy 17 23 SANDBACH 24 30 Last week the Vikings lost out to a slick October 7 Lymm March 3 Rossendale side who apparently had seven first 14 SOUTHPORT 10 21 Chester 17 teamers playing and the Hawks lost to Ashton- 28 24 under-Lyne second team. 31 November 4 April 7 11 Macclesfield 14 The only ray of sunshine over the weekend came from the Senior Colts who beat Southport Colts 31-0 18 CALDY 21 in the first ever meeting between the two sides. Travelling to support the away side was their President 25 Sandbach 28 Graham Ellis who came to catch up with me as well as support his Colts. Graham and I started Bramhall December 2 May 9 LYMM Grammar school and our rugby careers, 51 years ago, playing for the school team together with Murray 16 MacCallum, Captain Bob’s Dad, long time Davenport / Stockport player - Martin Taylor and former 23 30 Wilmslow and Waterloo player, Wynne Morgan. A reunion lunch at Wilmslow is in the planning January 6 Southport 13 20 CHESTER 27 2018- 2019 SEASON Hon. President Wolves Captain Wilmslow RUFC Chris George Bob MacCallum Kings Road Immediate Past President Vice Captain Wilmslow Nigel Day Robert Taylor SK9 5PZ Hon. Club Chairman Head Coach Jon Hitch Rick Jones Tel : 01625 522274 Hon. Secretary Coaches Rob Milner Richard Hughes pitchero.com/clubs/Wilmslow Hon. Treasurer Wolves Team Manager Alan Hill Mike Blackett Magazine Editor and Club Press Officer NORTHERN PREMIER Vikings Captain David Pike LEAGUE Matt Shufflebottom Tel 01625 525616 www.rfu.com Vikings Head Coach M 07886 588524 www.rfunorth.com Adam Taher E mail Vikings Team Manager davidpike61220@ talktalk.net HALBRO NORTH WEST Chris McPartland LEAGUES Hawks Captain www.nowirul.org.uk Jim Senior NORTH 1 WEST : HALBFO NORTH WEST LEAGUES Wilmslow RUFC is an http://www.rfu.com http://www.rfu.com http://www.rfunorth.com http://www.nowirul.org.uk open community based club, offering a game to anyone SPONSORS AND ADVERTISERS 2018-19 coming through the gates from the age of Alan Lang : six upwards - with no Artisan Meat Co : Barry Fisher : Beauchamp Charles : Bengal Tiger Lily : Byrom upper age limit. Calder Peel FGP : Concept Group Country Home Furnishing : Curtaincraft Nevertheless, CVSL : David Barker : Jonty Fallows : Gascoigne Halman subscriptions and bar gas-elec : Gusto Alderley Edge Hallams Property Consultants : Bryn Lewis receipts are just not Edge Fencing : Iain Milne : Ian Stewart : Jon Hitch sufficient to maintain Kinsella Tax : M2 Recruitment : Ioniq Gobal : Neubria the wonderful sports Norman Herring : Old Mutual Wealth : O’Neills field we have here. On Point Developments : Peter Turner P J Design : Printerland : RHS Property Services Running Bear : S C & P Jones: Shoosmiths : Stig We, therefore, The Vets’ Place : The Wilmslow Half Marathon acknowledge and Tim Holloway : Wilmslow Preparatory School thank all those TSG Properties : TWP Wealth : Vision Express Wilmslow Waters : Wheatsheaf Press : Wilmslow Electrical : individuals and Wilmslow Glass organisations, who have supported the club, the teams and the players this season either by sponsorship, advertising or donation. Without them we just would not be here. I Nothing from Fisher this week, except copies of emails regarding the crisis in playing numbers and a request to cobble something together from them. IT’S A TENNER I know Harrogate’s new ground is well laid out and aesthetically This club is not alone in being unable to field a third pleasing with all kind of viewing options, an attractive club house, a rich grassy pitch, etc..etc.. But I still thought a tenner was a bit team every week. The league system is just not dear to get into it, especially if you’re not paying the players, as working at that level. The authoriiies are well aware Fisher claimed was their case. ‘It’s worth it, said the jocular fellow of what is or more appropriately isn’t going on and on the gate when I gasped that it was only a fiver at our place and desperately need input from their constituent clubs as three quid for pensioners (trying it on there, of course, I was). to what can be done. The time taken by Chris You’re under selling yourself, he said as with a huge grin he McPartland and Adam Taher in getting their teams pocketed the folding stuff that I handed over, and the programme out every week is totally disproportionate. Their task here’s included in the price. And so it should be at that price, I of course is made even more difficult by the number quipped, and how much is there to read in it apart from the ads. of injuries in the first team squad. Not much it transpired. Smarter than ours, all of it in full colour printed on better quality glossy-ish paper but not much original Comments from Chris include more local fixtures, content, whether editorial, features, reports or photography. There less travelling and a change in league policy. It were four gate keepers present according to their programme, should be enough, he says, just to forsake the points probably all of them on a bonus, so It was all jovial banter, I should add. I guess if you travel with the team on the bus, you don’t have when a fixture is missed. Expelling a team from the to pay and you also get your lunch when you arrive. league is not going to solve the problem. The fellow who followed me into the ground and parked alongside He also adds that colts, who would normally be a me seemed a thoroughly decent sort and he wasn’t at all pleased. sizeable proportion of the side are increasingly We’d never get away with a tenner at our place he said. Where’s unavailable because of school and other that, I asked. Lichfield, he replied. Now Lichfield, is a pretty commitments. If you’re playing for your school side decent kind of a club, which plays at this level in the Midlands on a Saturday morning, you certainly don’t need Premier League, so he was a man who really ought to have another game on Saturday afternoon and then known. What do you charge, I asked. A fiver he replied. He was there’s the colts league coming up every Sunday as also a long time Harrogate member but whether he made his well. Three games in a weekend, that’s madness! feelings known to his former mates I wouldn’t know. Just a few words now from Rick Jones on how the So there you are. We don’t want our treasurer having thoughts above his station in life unless it’s to be a one off surcharge for first part of the Wolves’season has gone. Firstly he’d Harrogate supporters when they call here next spring. like to thank everyone who keep supporting the side, home and away, especially those travelling diehards. WHO’S NEXT FOR A CRACK AT THE Next our thanks go to Mike Blackett for organising the NORTHERN PREMIER AND WHO’S FOR smart professional looking kit from o’neills. THE MIDLANDS? Given that both Vale of Lune and ourselves are currently propping ‘After six games, one win, five defeats we now realise up the other twelve sides in this league and that just above us are the step up at this level, he says The boys have Kirkby Lonsdale and Kendal who got promoted just the season competed well in most of the games but only for forty before, it doesn’t show Cheshire and Lancashire rugby in a great minutes here & there, never for the full eighty!!!! We light that the bottom five clubs should all be from the North West.