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Fixtures and Results 2016 - 17

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Kirkby Lonsdale ALTRINCHAM KERSAL Birkenhead Park

LYMM New Brighton 2 MARPLE 2 Widnes 2

January 7 14 21 28

West Park (St. Helens) BLACKBURN Leigh

Village Spartans WHITCHURCH 3 Lymm 3

February 4 11 18 25

VALE OF LUNE Rochdale

HOLMES CHAPEL Carrington

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WARRINGTON Burnage NORTHWICH

DUKINFIELD 2 Broughton Park 3 WIRRAL 3

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St Benedicts KIRKBY LONSDALE Eccles

Manchester 2 NEW BRIGHTON 2 Capenhurst

Raging Bull Senior U18 Colts

League D and Conference C

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Bolton GLOSSOP Ashton U Lyne NORTHWICH

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Today sees the return of Burnage to the Wilmslow fixture list; they have had a similar start to the season as Wilmslow, in terms of opponents beaten and lost to, so sitting third and fourth in the league probably isn’t much of a surprise. We welcome the players, committee and supporters from Burnage to Pownall Park today. Last weekend the Wolves (1st XV) travelled to The Fortress, home of Warrington, where a thirteen try thriller ensued full of running rugby which a billiard table flat pitch and a referee who wants the game to flow allows. To date the weather has held up and allowed the type of rugby that spectators want to see and more often than not suits the style of rugby that most clubs play. What happened to ‘stick it up the jumper’ rugby, maybe in the New Year? Good luck to all teams today. Last Saturday, The Vikings (2nds) hosted Rochdale 2nds and came out on top 29-12 winners, a good start to an evening of festivities for coach Bryn. Today Bryn takes the guys North to the home of the second Preston Grasshopper team in the league, this will be a tough game but just pretend Bryn is celebrating tonight and take the win! The Hawks (3rds), on the other hand didn’t have a game last weekend due to circumstances and so, well rested, entertain Broughton Park 3’s who have an almost identical track record so far this season and would be level on points apart from the application of Rule 13. Next Friday evening, 18th November, there is the second in the series of Friday Night Vets matches, the opposition is Wythenshawe, the venue is Pownall Park, the kick-off time is 19.30hrs (7.30pm). Wythenshawe is newly formed rugby club currently running a senior team and several junior teams, a great opportunity to support local rugby. So spectators, see you there; players get on the Vets Facebook page and make yourselves available, Jim & Macca are looking for a cast of thousands! The Autumn Internationals start in earnest this weekend with the Southern Hemisphere invading the North, despite a, some might say, wobble last weekend with the Irish victory over New Zealand, one does have a sneaking suspicion that normal service will be resumed this weekend. With England’s opener against South Africa today, it will be interesting to see how England have moved forward and developed under the guidance of Eddie Jones, we certainly saw a different team last Six Nations. Aside of hosting our visiting teams today; we also welcome a plethora of home grown talent in the form of the U13’s friends and families team lunch, along with a select group, gathering, squad, flock, case or whatever the correct term for multiple Vets is! Ladies and Gentlemen you are very welcome and I hope you enjoy the day. On Sunday, at 11am, we will be holding a minutes silence to honour and remember all those who lost their lives in conflicts around the world defending the right of freedom. We will also remember those who returned with visible and invisible trauma, as well as those who were left behind, whilst loved ones were fighting elsewhere, and continue to care today for those that returned.

They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

For the second half

of the season this

league splits into

two conferences.

Those clubs in the

top half at 3rd.

December will form

Conference A, the

others will form

Conference B

The Colts League Committee has determined to introduce a new format for 2016/2017 to provide a greater number of more equitable games for our Colts Teams. Conferencing of the Leagues after the Preliminary League stages will mitigate the effects of any mis-seeding and will permit us to accommodate the fallout from any early season withdrawals. The Conference Leagues will likely be slightly different from the seedings for the Prelim Leagues, and Teams may be moved up or down a league. Prelim' League Season... Playing in Seeded Leagues using an 8 Team Format; the first 7 weekends will be the Prelim' Season. Teams play each other once, home or away as drawn. Trophies will be awarded to the Prelim' League Winners. Conference League Season... It is intended that The Conference Season will consist 8 team leagues with 14 fixtures, subject to any necessary restructuring. The County Cup Prelim Round and First Round weekends will provide the timescale needed to determine any restructuring required for the Conference Leagues and fixtures.

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Four full houses last week including Red Gauntlet who is now the front runner from Braveheart. Their positions in relation to each other won’t change this week and three others have also forecasted the same. Dick Dastardley and Mutley is the only tipster team to back Burnage and if they’re right, they’ll move into second place. Leigh v Rochdale is the match which most confounds everyone this week

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Chicken Sarney H H A A A A A 19 183 H H H A A A H

Dick D & Mutley A H A H H A A 33 212 H H H A H H A

Draichgoch A H A H H A A 33 209 A H H A H H H

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Kiwi A H A H H A H 25 195 H H H A A H H

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Super Ted H H H H H A A 22 192 H H A A A H H

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Zoo Keeper A H A H H H A 25 192 H H A A A H H

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2016 - 2017 SEASON Wilmslow RUFC Kings Road Wilmslow SK9 5PZ Tel : 01625 522274 pitchero.com/clubs/wilmslow

Hon. President Nigel Day Immediate Past President and Hon. Club Chairman Jon Hitch Hon. Secretary Rob Milner Hon. Treasurer Alan Hill

Wolves Captain Bob MacCallum Vice Captain Robert Taylor Wolves Team Manager Mike Blackett Vikings Captain Tom Raynor Vikings Team Manager Bryn Lewis Hawks Captain Hawks Team Manager James Senior Head Coach Rick Jones Coaches Richard Hughes

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Burnage 15 - 22 Birkenhead Park Park paid a heavy price at Burnage with further serious injuries adding to an already lengthy list of unavailable players. In the continued absence of Dave Hall and Simon Mason, Dave Morgan again took the number 10 shirt and acquitted himself well to his new role. Adam Wellington, who had a fine match last week, was another absentee through injury with Sam Tyrer and Jordan Lomax joining a reshuffled back line. Both teams set up good early positions before infringements by both sides drove them back. It took 35 minutes before Jordan Lomax kicked a penalty as Park began to stretch Burnage. As half time approached scrum half Sam Chidley dummied and broke through for an excellent individual try converted by Lomax. A second quickly followed from prop Gareth Jones finishing off a catch and drive. Burnage winger Alan Riley hit back with a debut try after 49 minutes before full back Lomax cut through on the angle and bounced off three players to score Park’s third try. Park were unable to add a bonus point try as they were disrupted by injuries to the effective Gaz Coy and second row Josh Smith. They were still heading for a comfortable if hard fought win before two tries deep in injury time by Burnage number eight Ralph Lawson and a second for Riley gave the score a respectable look for the home side. Tragedy struck for Park’s Rob Doolan with the very last play of the match as he suffered a re-occurrence of a knee injury. Northwich 43 - 20 Altrincham Kersal Northwich scored seven tries but the game only became safe for them in the last eight minutes. At that stage it was 24- 20 with AK keeping in touch through five penalties from Smith. When he kicked his last one just after the hour, AK felt they were still in it but Richard Dale’s second try and two late touchdowns from Sam Naylor took the Blacks to 43 points. Other scorers were Joel Barber, Chris James and James Reilly. West Park 35 - 41 KIrkby Lonsdale Vale of Lune 29 - 18 Leigh Vale’s only five pointer so far this season was secured in the last quarter with tries by prop Jack Ferguson and Fergus Owens, once again at No. 11.

What they said at Warrington In an exciting game, an injury hit Warrington eventually ran out as losers to fourth placed Wilmslow even though they scored twenty nine points in a gutsy second half come back. Warrington lost no time in getting on to the scoreboard when a speculative kick out of defence by Wilmslow was taken by Tom Wood. He passed to full back Ben Hockenhull, who fed Tom Arnold. The winger showed great speed to sprint over for a try converted by Hockenhull. The early momentum continued, especially up front where the Warrington front row established superiority over their opponents. Their lead could have been extended but a simple penalty was missed. The visitors forced themselves back into the match with two penalties but the turning point came when Warrington were reduced to fourteen five minutes before half time. Merciless Wilmslow fully exploited their numerical advantage with three tries. First their forwards drove over and then they scored a second from a neat miss move. When Wilmslow’s second row ran virtually unopposed to put them 41-24, their lead looked untouchable but Warrington soon cut this to five points with two quick tries, one from a mid field turnover enabling Max Caudwell to squeeze over and the other when Andy Roberts broke the Wilmslow line and Tom Wood put Nathan Beesley away for his second try. Warrington were now in a good position to reprise their famous lazarus act but it was not to be when Wilmslow had the

final word with a well taken try in the corner. Coach Andy Roberts said: ’This was a game we could easily have won but once again we were a little lax in defence, something we’ll have to tighten up on in the coming weeks.’ David Jervis’s full report is on the Warrington web site.

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Wolves Appearances and Point

Scorers : 2016 - 17

Jordan Ayrey 7 5 25

Henry Baker 1

Nick Barker 2 1 5

Sam Beckett 5 2 10

Mike Black 5 1 5

Tom Bull 7 1 5

James Burgess 4 1 5

Sam Cutts 8 1 5

James Coulthurst 8 4 20

Ben Day 7 2 10

Alex Donaldson 5 1 5

Hugh Ellis 1 1 5

Jonny Evans 4

Ethan Harding 5

Max Harvey 10 4 20

Adam Hewitt 8

Richard Hughes 7 2 10

Hone Karaka 1 1 5

Ollie Lee 1

Charlie Levings 2

Jack Masters 4

Bob MacCallum 10 1 21 19 106

Conor McMurdock 4 1 5

Wilf Noden 2

Harry Patch 2 1 5

Jonny Ridley 1 1 5

Toby Rowe 3

Matt Shufflebottom 3

George Smith 1

Loui Staples 1

Adam Taher 6

Alex Taylor 9 3 15

Robert Taylor 7 4 20

Jack Walmsley 2

Callum Westaway 5 1 5

Josh Whiteley 6

Tom Williams 7 3 15

Ollie Wilkinson 7

Tommy Wilkinson 2

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Saturday 5th. November 2016 North 1 West Warrington 36 - 46 Wilmslow The first icy blasts of on coming winter were blowing across the Walton Lea ground but they didn’t prevent these two sides from playing rugby to warm the cockles of your heart. Between them, they scored thirteen tries, five from the home side and eight from the visitors. Ten of them were scored in a helter skelter second half at the rate of one every four minutes. Wilmslow had their noses in front for all of the second period but Warrington kept hitting back and the matter wasn’t settled until the last few minutes of play. That the players could produce such a game was largely due to referee Robert Sheard, whose enlightened brand of officiating allows the game to flow. Mr. Sheard is a regular on the North 1 West refereeing panel, he knows the players and they know him but it’s his clear audible instructions to them such as ‘Penalty Advantage’, ‘Scrum Advantage’, ‘Get Back’, ’Leave It Alone’, ’Release It’ and others that all help to keep the players on side, to reduce the number of stoppages and to just make the game a better experience for everyone. The Wolves were missing three of their most influential forwards and there were concerns that the pack might not be as effective as it had been in recent matches. Not a bit of it. Young Jonny Evans at loose head prop is to the manor born and was never once inconvenienced throughout the whole game, Loui Staples brought into the second row also settled well and the side was also fortunate to have their experienced past captain Mike Black to take the Number 8 spot. The strength of this season’s Wolves has been in the forwards and this was apparent again as they scored six of their side’s eight tries. That’s not say that the usual suspects in the back division didn’t play their part as well. Warrington showed that they possessed a quick silver set of elusive backs who looked as though they could score any time they got the ball. In particular, their two wingers Nathan Beesley and Tom Arnold scorched over the turf, after burners fully ablaze, every time they had the chance. Their two tries apiece were testament to the havoc they caused in the Wilmslow defence. It was Beesley who set up Warrington’s first attack straight from the kick off, finding space on the right touchline to race into the Wolves twenty two where only a forward pass prevented an opening score in the first minute. No matter, from the ensuing scrum and clearing kick, Warrington regained the ball and crisp handling put left winger Arnold in for a try converted by Ben Hockenhull with the only successful kick at goal from that end of the field throughout. It soon became apparent that the Wolves had the stronger set piece as they began to play more in the Warrington half. After just five minutes big Tom Williams made a surge into the home sides twenty two and off loaded to Full back Ben Day, whose scoring pass was spilt by the recipient taking his eye off the ball. Soon after, Hockenhull had a chance to extend the home side’s lead with a penalty which the wind got hold of and pushed wide of the goal posts. It was an escape for the Wolves but they were soon getting on top and creating decent positions. A Bob MacCallum penalty got them off the mark after twenty five minutes and a second followed ten minutes later from a typical break by Day. Warrington were then made to pay dearly when they lost a man to a Yellow Card, a period during which the Wolves scored three tries. The first on 40 minutes was a straight forward catch and drive finished off by Max Harvey. The second followed immediately when MacCallum kicked a penalty into touch on the Warrington twenty two. Good lineout ball led to a powerful surge by Harvey and quickly released ball spun along the line where Sam Beckett coming in off his wing found the space to run in for an excellent try. The second period started with Hockenhull kicking three points to peg the Wolves back to 16-10 but within moments they had penalty advantage from a lineout in the Warrington twenty two which ended when somehow Robert Taylor got across to score out wide on the other side of the field. A Ben Day surge from halfway set up a series of drives on the Warrington line, the last of which yielded a second try for Taylor. They were attacking again when a pass was intercepted enabling Beesley to run in the first of his two tries. Five minutes later, it was No. 8 Black’s turn to touch down from another series of forward drives, followed by a second catch and drive from Harvey. A good restart kick then got the Wolves into trouble, centre James Coulthurst was lucky not to see Yellow for a deliberate knock on but Hooker Alex Donaldson did for an offence on the floor which enabled Warrington prop Tom Green to score from the penalty. MacCallum’s restart returned the compliment and was knocked back to be gathered by Williams who galloped from 40 metres for try number 7. At 41-24, you would have thought the Wolves were now out of sight. You would have been wrong. First of all, a Wolves knock was latched on to by Warrington winger Arnold who ran the distance for his second try and immediately afterwards Beesley got his second after his team had run the restart from their own twenty two. There was now a jaunt to the Warrington step as they fancied a sixth match winning try but sadly for them they knocked on. The Wolves won the scrum and with time running out started to play down the clock with some tight pick and drive stuff. The last thing they wanted was the Warrington back line running at them again so they went down the narrow side and released MacCallum who had the gas to score the eighth and final try which settled it. It had been an excellent match but the players won’t be surprised if their respective coaches have them doing a lot of tackling in this week’s training.

29th.October 2016 North 1 West Wilmslow 28 - 12 Rochdale If the faithful gathered together along the shiny railings in the club’s colours, on the Memorial Ground’s new terrace were hoping that the Wolves’ good form at Vale of Lune a week before would be carried forward against Rochdale, then they were to be sadly disappointed. For fully thirty minutes, they just didn’t turn up. Quite why there were so many unforced knock ons, line out throws missing the target, misdirected kicks and a lack of intensity to their play is hard to understand. True, the conditions were more like Autumn than in previous weeks, the overnight rain and poor light may have made the ground sticky and the ball slippy and heavy but nothing to make it so difficult to play decent rugby. Fortunately, they then started to play to something like what they’re capable of for the middle forty minutes, during which they scored all their points, before ‘going off the boil’ again for the last ten minutes. The Rochdale side is going through a period of rebuilding. Only five of the side who started this game were listed for the corresponding fixture last season. To add to their difficulties, their young inexperienced team had come up against four of the top five sides in this league in their opening seven matches so a return of only two wins wasn’t as disastrous as it might first appear. They will take solace from going down against Wilmslow, currently the fourth placed team in the league, by only three tries to two, and with fixtures against sides in the second half of the league now to come, they have every chance of improving their record and moving up the table. In contrast, Wilmslow have played only one of the top sides and now face a testing period during which they face Warrington, Burnage, Northwich, St. Benedicts and Kirkby Lonsdale in succession. The visitors scored first after twenty five minutes following a piece of sloppy play by the Wolves in which they allowed themselves to be turned over in midfield. Plenty of space opened up for the Rochdale runners as they showed that they knew how to pass the ball alright and how to create a scoring opportunity. It took the Wolves until the 35th. minute for Bob MacCallum to have a pot at goal to reduce the deficit and in the next five minutes, he had two further chances. The Wolves went into the half time break with a 9-5 lead, which they hardly deserved. They looked a different side though after the interval. Right winger Sam Beckett fielded a not very good kick out of defence By Rochdale’s No. 10 Duffy and set up an attacking move which ended after several phases when MacCallum made a half break into the Rochdale twenty two and slipped a neat pass to the supporting second row Tom Williams, who with nobody to stop him ran in for the Wolves first try. They now enjoyed their best period of the game as they put together some serious assaults in the Rochdale twenty two. After fifteen minutes or so of this, a MacCallum penalty to the corner set up a catch and drive from which prop Robert Taylor broke off to score the second try. The Wolves then dropped the restart and were forced back into their own half, where they were penalised once too often by referee Richard Smith, who Yellow Carded Beckett before awarding a penalty try. Danger threatened for the Wolves but they didn’t allow their one man disadvantage to disrupt them over much as another fluent piece of play created the space for flanker Max Harvey to run in the third score. At 28 – 12 with just over ten minutes still on the clock, it was going to take something pretty heroic for Rochdale to make real contest of it but they gave it their best shot and spent most of the final few minutes in the Wilmslow twenty two. The Wolves found themselves regularly penalised, Adam Hewitt saw Yellow and they must have come close to conceding a second penalty try. A final break out by full back Ben Day threatened briefly to bring up the fourth bonus point try but that broke down and soon after the referee blew for no side.

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Act as a positive role model to all players. Abide by the RFU’s Child Protection Guidance in relation to verbal and emotional abuse. Remember that children play primarily for their own enjoyment not that of spectators. Acknowledge good play, effort and performance irrespective of team or player. Shout ‘for’ players not ‘at’ them. Never ridicule a player. Respect match officials’ decisions even if they appear to have made a mistake. Remember they are volunteers too. Never verbally abuse players, coaches, match officials or fellow spectators. Such abuse can create a negative environment for players, which their behaviour will often reflect.

Explicitly calling the opposition

team’s touch judge a b cheat because you disagree with him over where the ball went into

touch, whether or not it was in

touch at all or who the throw has been awarded

too is forbidden. Abuse of Match Officials

Code of Conduct regulations state that a person shall not abuse, threaten or intimidate a referee, touch judge or other match official, whether or not on the field of play. Crude or abusive language or gestures towards officials is not permitted. Abuse is defined as individual perception of personal degradation, be it mental, or physical before, during and after a game and includes verbal or physical assault, intimidatory conduct and/or racial and sexual harassment. Abusive behaviour affects the reputation of the club and will not be tolerated. Action will be taken against any member or other spectator considered to be in breach of the IRB Code of Conduct.

Back in 2011 Looking back at what was happening at the club five years ago when we last played Burnage, I note that we had surged to 55 in the pitchero rankings, today our ranking is 250. Either the novelty has now worn off or there are just so many more clubs now using the service. So why was it so much popular here back then. Well, in those days we had a fourth team with a correspondent who posted much of his match reports in Latin. Clearly this must have attracted a wide readership from the classically educated and scholarly members of the club. Elsewhere, Sale were languishing at the foot of SLC1 and about to be deducted twenty league points for playing a minor. Amateurism just wasn’t working for them so they promptly changed their policy to become a paying club again and now sit in second place in National 2 North, an even money bet, do you think, to replace Macc in National 1 at the end of the season. No Shows It’s a cause for concern that both our second and third teams have been unable to fulfil all their fixtures this season. A fortnight ago it was the Vikings. Whether or not this was players deciding it wasn’t worth it to motor up to Fylde to receive yet another almighty stuffing or something else, I don’t know. Last week it was the Hawks who couldn’t get a team out to go to Dukinfield. It would be nice to think that this has been only a temporary shortage of players but I suspect that the malaise lies deeper. If we look at other Cheshire clubs with whom we have regular fixtures, it can be seen that Macclesfield, Lymm,

Crewe & Nantwich and Wirral all manage four sides. Congleton, Marple, Glossop, Didsbury Toc H, Burnage, Manchester and plenty of others all manage three. Up in Lancashire, Preston Grasshoppers have six teams and I recall that back in the 1980s Wilmslow could also put out six sides most weeks. So why the growing problem here. It can’t be the facilities which are second to none. It’s easy to conclude that this area sends more of its young away to university but what happens then. We never see most of them again despite the two Marks, Shotton and McCall, trying in the last two years to retain contact with past juniors and colts by organising an U21 Boxing Day game for undergraduates and others back at home over Christmas. Another view is that the clash between school and club rugby is breaking down club connections with school leavers who are then lost to the game altogether. Last season, of course, there was an attempt, driven by the south, to reduce the size of the leagues so they started later, finished earlier and didn’t clash with summer sports. This was rejected by the North but maybe in the case of second, third and fourth teams in the recreational leagues, the idea should be revisited. Without knowing what the problems really are, it’s not possible to sensibly surmise what can be done but clearly for the time being Wilmslow is in danger of becoming a two team club.

Sam Beckett has come through from Juniors and Colts here at Wilmslow to now having made five

Wolves appearances this season. It takes time to

adjust to the physicality and pace of 1st. team rugby but Sam is making huge strides and scored

an excellent try last week at Warrington.

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Team P W D L For Agst Diff Pts +/-

Macclesfield 2 9 8 0 1 504 137 367 33 0

Fylde 2 9 5 1 1 359 115 244 31 0

Preston Grasshoppers 2 9 7 0 2 417 135 282 30 0

Caldy 2 9 7 0 2 361 254 107 30 0

Sale FC 2 9 6 0 3 393 163 230 27 0

Chester 2 9 4 1 3 225 167 58 25 0

Sedgley Park 2 9 5 0 4 286 187 99 24 0

Preston Grasshoppers 3 9 5 0 4 290 234 56 24 0

Lymm 2 9 3 0 4 212 216 -4 20 0

Firwood Waterloo 2 9 3 0 5 155 291 -136 15 -2

Vale of Lune 2 9 2 0 7 202 411 -209 15 0

Wilmslow 2 9 2 0 6 119 354 -235 12 -2

Rochdale 2 9 1 0 8 137 487 -350 12 0

Stockport 2 9 0 0 8 41 550 -509 -3 -11

Team P W D L For Agst Diff Pts +/-

Widnes 2 9 9 0 0 472 110 362 36 0

New Brighton 2 9 7 0 1 315 80 235 33 0

Capenhurst 1 9 6 0 1 208 110 98 33 0

Holmes Chapel 1 9 7 0 2 390 113 277 30 0

Carrington 1 9 4 1 3 262 167 95 24 3

Lymm 3 9 5 0 3 203 302 -99 23 0

Dukinfield 2 9 2 1 4 129 238 -109 22 0

Wirral 3 9 3 0 6 253 292 -39 18 0

Manchester 2 9 3 1 4 203 257 -54 18 0

Village Spartans 1 9 3 0 6 171 319 -148 18 0

Broughton Park 3 9 2 1 6 162 291 -129 16 0

Marple 2 9 2 0 7 193 314 -121 15 0

Whitchurch 3 9 1 0 7 104 418 -314 11 0

Wilmslow 3 9 2 0 6 156 210 -54 8 -6

Team P W D L For Agst Diff Pts +/-

Rochdale 1 1 0 0 38 14 24 3 0

Birkenhead Park 1 1 0 0 14 11 3 3 0

Eccles 1 1 0 0 20 18 2 3 0

Sefton 1 0 0 1 18 20 -2 1 0

Whitchurch 1 0 0 1 11 14 -3 1 0

Wilmslow 1 0 0 1 14 38 -24 1 0

Macclesfield 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Senior Colts Confernce - C

29th. October Fylde HWO Vikings

Hawks 29-10 Carrington

As the Vikings were unable to raise a side to go to Fylde, the knock on effect was that no league points were awarded to the Hawks for their win

against Carrington.

5th. November Vikings 29-12 Rochdale

6TH. November

Colts 14 - 38 Rochdale

No sooner than the colts conference fixtures had been published than they were restructured following the withdrawal of Preston GH and Liverpool Collegiate. Wilmslow end up in

Conference C

Most of us enjoy Indian food so this week how about a dish of possibly the finest example of British-Indian fusion cooking. Kedgeree has its origins in India as a mildly spiced rice and pulses dish containing beans and/or lentils and in some parts it was embellished with a piece of fish. The dish found favour with the early colonists as far back as about three hundred years ago. It was then adapted, presumably by returning colonists or military, to produce a British version, which was at its height of popularity in the Victorian era when it was served as a breakfast dish but which also makes for an excellent supper. The Portuguese who also had an Indian interest have a similar and equally tasty dish based around salted air dried cod. Today, of course, modern kedgeree it’s nothing like the original ’khichri’ which has been eaten in India for hundreds of years. KEDGEREE For two people: 500gm of undyed smoked haddock, two eggs, one chopped onion, two chopped garlic cloves, basmati rice, peas, chopped parsley, small tub of double cream, butter and a dessert spoonful of mild curry paste. Start by soaking the haddock in a frying pan of simmering (just off the boil) hot water. In another saucepan, melt the butter and soften the onion and garlic until they start changing colour. Add the rice, stir it round to make sure it’s fully coated with butter and allow to fry at a lowish heat for up to five minutes. Make sure you don’t burn any of the ingredients or that they stick to the bottom of the pan. Now add a spoonful of mild curry paste so that there’s a good hint of curry

flavour and aroma. Stir and add a soup ladle of the water in which the haddock has been simmering. It should be imbued with a bit of smokiness from the haddock. If the mixture starts to dry out before the rice is cooked, just add another ladleful of smoky water and continue doing so until the rice is cooked and all the liquid absorbed. Now add the cream to taste, the chopped parsley, a handful of peas and flaky chunks of the haddock. Stir and season to taste. To finish, garnish the plated kedgeree with either a quartered hard boiled or poached egg. I prefer the latter, which I crack open and gently tip into a small shallow sauce pan containing sufficient simmering water to cover the egg and ½ tsp of vinegar. The vinegar causes the egg white to coalesce around the yoke and after a couple of minutes you have a perfect poached egg. Mango chutney makes an excellent accompaniment. To drink, go for either a golden ale, a lager or spicy white wine such as a Gewürztraminer.

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I have been watching our neighbours, Macclesfield, this season, to see how they have performed in National League One. In 2014-15, they finished bottom of that league with 22 points and were relegated in to League Two North. They flourished there last season, having won the league by a clear 15 points and were back in League One again, where they are struggling. Some of my friends who support them thought they would do better this term, as they had a bigger pack. Another friend, on a flight back from Jersey, found himself surrounded by very large men, who turned out to be the Jersey Reds flying over for a match in the Championship. He went on to their website to check on the players and found the following results for their pack: Props 6ft. 0 to 6ft 1 Weight 17.11 to 18.10 Hookers 6ft.0 to 6ft 2 Weight 16.11 to 18.11 Locks 6ft 2 to 6ft 8 Weight 17.9 to 19.1 Back Rows 6ft 2 to 6ft 5 Weight 17.13 to 18.4 Obviously, a very big pack so, how is it that Jersey Reds are third from the bottom of the league. Equally obviously, it shows that a big pack is not enough (actually it might be a hindrance having to cart all that bulk around a rugby pitch for 80 minutes) unless they’re also skilful, powerful, fit, quick and able to last the course. In passing, Macclesfield had a good win last weekend and have moved off the bottom of National One. ------- Ben Day asked me the other day how many tries he has scored and how near he was to Mike Tinkler’s 1971/72 record. Mike had a career total of 109. Ben has 95, so he has a bit to go yet. Although Mike played in 283 games, whereas Ben has only played 192, so a far better average! ------- David Coates, a great friend and an immovable 1st XV prop from

1966 to 1973, died last week following a long fight against Motor Neurone disease, which slowly but surely, deprived him of speech and the ability to eat properly. David did not feature strongly on the points table, but he had an annus mirabilius in the 1970/71 season, when he scored a try. Our condolences go to his wife, Nan, and the rest of his family. His funeral will be on Thursday, 24th November at 2.00 pm. in St. Michael’s Church, Macclesfield.

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BURNAGE Of all our neighbouring clubs, Burnage is the one that we have played least at 1st. team level. In fact we never came up against each other until December 2007 and since then only five more matches have been played. Consequently, when they do appear on the fixture list, there is not quite the same resonance and echoes from history that there would be if it were Stockport, Manchester or Broughton Park that we were playing. Part of the reason has been that until the mid ‘noughties’ Burnage were classed as a North Lancs and Cumbrian side, whilst, of course, clubs such as Leigh, Rochdale and Wigan came into the South Lancs and Cheshire set up alongside Wilmslow. Quite how the brains of the RFU

organising committee worked that one out is a study in itself. Someone must have eventually had a map put in front of them and they discovered that Varley Park, where Burnage played was in fact situated in the borough of Stockport, so they were transferred to the SLC leagues from 2007/08 and their fortunes immediately improved. It no doubt helped that, with Manchester just down the road now in free fall, it was easier to attract players and ground improvements at Varley Park all sent out the right messages. Wilmslow won the inaugural game by 32-12 and went on to win the SLC1 league that season. They then had to play the last fixture of the season at Varley Park and got properly beaten by a Burnage side, which against all the odds then went on to lose a play off fixture against Rossendale. None of us had really appreciated how far Rossendale had gone in their cheque book driven recruitment. The following season (08/09), there were no such mistakes as Burnage won promotion to this league and then in 2010/11 rose again to National 3 North, where they were for five seasons until this autumn. In the late autumn of 2010, Wilmslow were properly beaten on the artificial pitch at Varley Park by 42-18. Burnage were on a run , unbeaten at that stage, and gave the Wilmslow pack a good going over but it took two very late converted tries to pull them away. In the Wilmslow ranks that day were Elliot Brierley, Chris Lillee, Matthew King and Ryan Parkinson and it was the likes of them that had kept Wilmslow in touch. Parkinson had left to go to Macclesfield by the time the return was played in February 2008 and Burnage were still clear at the top of the table with sixteen wins from eighteen matches and only one loss against Northwich. The stats though only told part of the story, of convincing wins at home and wins away from home by only single score margins. They arrived favourites for another one of those but on the day, Wilmslow produced their best performance of the season to run out winners by 23-9 with tries from Danny Kennedy, Chris Lillee and Ricky Chadwick. Of that team only Mike Black, then a No. 12, and Alex Donaldson are still playing. The result sent Altrincham Kersal to the top with Burnage dropping back to second position, which is where both sides finished at the end of that season. Burnage then settled for an extended stay at level 5 but AK were promptly ejected back to N1W.

This season, Burnage have come unstuck only three times, away from home twice at Kirkby Lonsdale and Northwich and then at Varley Park last week when Birkenhead Park were the visitors. Two tries in added on time got them close enough for a losing bonus point which is also what we managed against Park. Points difference is a good indicator of a side’s relative strength. They’re eighty four points worse off than the Wolves but they’ve played all the top three and we haven’t. So on paper, today’s game looks a hard one to forecast.

Pictures from 20 Feb 2010 (above) and 30 Oct 2010

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5th. November Wales v Australia Principality Stadium 2.30pm Barbarians v South Africa Wembley 3.00pm New Zealand v Ireland Soldier Field, Chicago 8.00pm 11th. November Barbarians v Fiji Kingspan Stadium, Belfast 7.30pm 12th. November Italy v New Zealand Stadio Olimpico, Rome 2.00pm England v South Africa Twickenham 2.30pm Scotland v Australia Murrayfield 2.30pm France v Samoa Stade Municipal, Toulouse 4.45pm Wales v Argentina Principality Stadium 5.30pm Ireland v Canada Aviva Stadium 7.15pm 19th November Italy v South Africa Stadio Artemico, Florence 2.00pm England v Fiji Twickenham 2.30pm Wales v Japan Principality Stadium 2.30pm Scotland v Argentina Murrayfield 5.00pm Ireland v New Zealand Aviva Stadium 5.30pm France v Australia Stade de France 8.00pm 26th. November England v Argentina Twickenham 2.30pm Scotland v Georgia Rugby Park, Kilmarnock 2.30pm Ireland v Australia Aviva Stadium 5.00pm Wales v South Africa Principality Stadium 5.30pm France v New Zealand Stade de France 8.00pm 3rd. December

England v Australia Twickenham 2.30pm

AUTUMN INTERNATIONALS

12 21

At the A J Bell Stadium

Friday 9th. September 8.15pm Harlequins

Friday 16th. September 7.45pm Gloucester Saturday 1st. October 2.30pm Leicester Tigers

Sunday 20th. November 1.00pm Saracens Friday 2nd. December 8.15pm Exeter Chiefs

30/31 Dec or 1 Jan TBC Bristol Rugby Friday 10th. February 8.15pm Newcastle Falcons

Friday 17th. February 8.15pm Wasps Friday 3rd. March 8.15pm Northampton Saints

Friday 7th. April 8.15pm Worcester Warriors

League North 1 West

2016-17

League Fixtures & Results—2016/2017

HOME TEAMS

Altrincham Kersal 22/4 17/12 3-36 26/11 25/3 31-14 4/3 43-28 12/11 14/1 11/2 8/4 20-21

Birkenhead Park 37-21 34-6 4/3 8/4 26/11 14/1 12/11 11/2 25/3 29-26 55-17 62-12 17/12

Blackburn 13-9 7/1 25/3 10/12 14-27 11/2 26/11 4/3 8/4 13-20 12/11 14-36 21-14

Burnage 18/2 15-22 19/11 29-15 28/1 1/4 7/1 22/4 27-24 3/12 20-16 17/12 11/3

Eccles 1/4 3/12 18-27 11/2 12/11 17/12 10-31 14/1 4/3 22-7 28-33 25/3 22/4

Kirkby Lonsdale 19/11 22/4 1/4 53-0 11/3 55-8 11/2 62-3 52-3 17/12 14/1 4/3 3/12

Leigh 7/1 21-37 10-50 26/11 29-12 10/12 8/4 12/11 9-43 4/3 25/3 18-0 28/1

Northwich 43-20 11/3 1/4 41-15 18/2 21-24 3/12 30-13 28/1 22/4 41-36 14/1 19/11

Rochdale 28/1 15-45 3-22 6-12 15-12 7/1 11/3 10/12 16-8 19/11 8/4 26/11 18/2

St. Benedicts 11/3 19/11 3/12 14/1 17-15 18/2 22/4 19-23 17/12 31-0 25-7 11/2 1/4

Vale of Lune 23-20 28/1 18/2 8/4 7/1 8-50 29-18 8-21 25/3 10/12 26/11 12/11 19-40

Warrington 41-27 18/2 11/3 10/12 28/1 14-52 19/11 17/9 3/12 7/1 1/4 22/4 36-46

West Park St. Helens 3/12 10/12 28/1 21-37 19/11 35-41 18/2 10-70 1/4 36-3 11/3 12-15 7/1

Wilmslow 10/12 25-31 14/1 12/11 16-8 8/4 24-3 25/3 28-12 26/11 11/2 4/3 25-15

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Birkenhead Park v Northwich

Blackburn v Warrington

Eccles v

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Kirkby Lonsdale 9 9 0 0 416 106 310 45 9 0

Birkenhead Park 9 9 0 0 352 158 194 43 7 0

Northwich 9 8 0 1 321 155 166 39 7 0

Wilmslow 9 7 0 2 239 165 74 33 5 0

Burnage 9 6 0 3 191 201 -10 29 5 0

Blackburn 9 5 0 4 180 171 9 23 3 0

St Benedicts 9 4 0 5 177 185 -8 21 5 0

Warrington 9 3 0 6 215 306 -91 18 6 0

Vale of Lune 9 3 0 6 140 244 -104 15 3 0

Altrincham Kersal 9 2 0 7 194 256 -62 14 6 0

West Park 9 2 0 7 177 289 -112 13 5 0

Rochdale 9 2 0 7 111 262 -151 9 1 0

Leigh 9 2 0 7 130 281 -151 9 1 0

Eccles 9 1 0 8 140 204 -64 8 4 0

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Saturday 12th. November 2016 North 1 West

Wilmslow v Burnage

15. Ben Day 14. Toby Rowe 13. James Coulthurst 12. Ethan Harding 11. Hone Karaka 10. Bob MacCallum (capt.) 9. Ollie Wilkinson 1. Jonny Evans 2. Alex Donaldson 3. Robert Taylor 4. Adam Hewitt 5. Tom Williams 6. Mike Black 7. Max Harvey 8. Alex Taylor Subs Jack Walmsley Tom Bull George Smith

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Wilmslow XV and their Sponsors Burnage XV

PLAYERS AND THEIR SPONSORS

The players and coaches would like to

thank those organisations and individuals who have supported the cause of Wilmslow rugby by becoming their personal sponsors.

All the funds raised are directed towards funding coaching, kit, equipment, physios

and team travel.

If you would like to support the team by becoming a sponsor, then please let either

Mike Blackett or David Pike in on the secret. There are players still looking for personal

sponsors this season.

Jordan Ayrey - Nigel Day Nick Barker - Barker Brothers

Mike Black - Jonty Fallows Tom Bull - Barry Fisher

James Burgess - James Coulthurst - Curtaincraft

Sam Cutts - Hugh Ellis - Loui Davis -

Ben Day - Concept Group Alex Donaldson - Drew Donaldson

Jonny Evans - Ethan Harding -

Max Harvey - Norman Herring Adam Hewitt - Robin Gregory Rick Hughes - Jimmy Toole

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Ollie Wilkinson -

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Wishing the Wolves a Successful Season

15. Allan Riley 14. Charlie Bray 13. Greg Newton 12. Stuart Oldham 11. Andy Dowdall 10. Rhys Evans 9. Jordan Chappell 1. Gavin Woods 2. Henry Gong 3. James Williams 4. Nick Scholes 5. Ryan Grange 6. Andy Ashcroft 7. Harvey Derby 8. Ralph Lawson Subs Matt Walker Shaun McRae Sam Jennings

TODAY’S REFEREE

Daniel Taylor

MDRURS

NEXT MATCH AT THE MEMORIAL GROUND

19th. November Cotton Traders League

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19th. November - Wolves away at Northwich

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