Club President NIGEL DAY Welcomes

ST. BENEDICTS

Fixtures and Results 2016 - 17

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Kirkby Lonsdale ALTRINCHAM KERSAL Birkenhead Park

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Village Spartans WHITCHURCH 3 Lymm 3

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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

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Raging Bull Senior U18 Colts

League D and Conference C

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Bolton GLOSSOP Ashton U Lyne NORTHWICH

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Q: What do the following players have in common, aside from being current Wolves players. Rob Taylor, Alex Donaldson, Adam Hewitt, Alex Taylor, Max Harvey, Sean Street, Ben Day, Toby Rowe and Jonny Evans? Today is the first time, so far as I can ascertain, we have had the opportunity to welcome our visitors, St Benedicts, to Pownall Park since 2006. All their players, supporters and committee members who have made the journey are very welcome. St Benedicts, promoted from the North Lancs & Cumbria league last season are based up in Whitehaven, and have been flying the flag in a strong rugby league part of the country since 1974. At almost halfway through the season they currently sit mid-table after a good start which had them at the top for a short while. Let’s hope for a good, well fought game with the result going the way the supporters want! Last Saturday, the Wolves travelled the short distance west to Northwich, the result being a hard fought battle for both forwards and backs in all areas of the pitch. The key moment could have been when the Wolves cleared their lines after a sustained period of pressure from the Northwich forwards and ran out eventual victors, 6 – 21. On the other hand, The Vikings hosted Firwood Waterloo at Pownall Park and despite injury and availability issues they battled hard and went down fighting with a 7 – 24 loss. This weekend they make the short hop up past The Wizard to, top of the table, Macclesfield which is likely to be their toughest test so far this season and it goes without saying we wish them the best of luck! Manchester are the opponents for The Hawks in a home match today, they are four places above the Hawks in the league, and will be a tough opposition especially as the Hawks had to sit out last weekend due to unavailability of players. Squad members, we need you to support not just Jim & Macca but your team mates and your club. Last Friday evening, the second in the series of Friday Night Vets matches kicked off, in appalling conditions against newly formed Wythenshawe. Despite the weather, the players put on a good spirited, well fought game for the band of hardy supporters with Wilmslow scraping past the winning post three tries to two. The important thing on display that night was rugby in all its rawest forms, the highlight for Wilmslow was the birth of a new star, someone who, until that night, had never played rugby before but who is a vital and integral component in Wilmslow Rugby Club as a whole, our steward Rusty! Following the game last weekend at Northwich there were comments and questions raised about the ball we were playing with and, since we were not able to answer these at the time, I thought I would investigate further. The IRB rules state that the shape of a rugby ball must be oval and made of four panels, between 280–300mm in length with a longitudinal circumference of 740–770mm and a latitudinal circumference of between 580–620mm. It must weigh between 410–460 grams with an air pressure, at the start of play, of between 9.5–10.0 psi. Spare balls may be available during a match, but a team must not gain or attempt to gain an unfair advantage by using them or changing them. There you go, Bob! I would like to take this opportunity to wish Jimmy Toole a speedy recovery and we look forward to seeing the whole family back amongst us. A: They have all come through the ranks of Wilmslow Mini, Juniors and Colts rugby and they all ran out last weekend for The Wolves at Northwich last weekend, that’s nine out of the squad of eighteen! A clear demonstration of the success that can be had by creating a home for players.

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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Last week, 7 people all predicted the same as Bar Steward. Wins for Burnage, Kirkby Lonsdale, Birkenhead, Warrington and West Park were almost unanimous. Rochdale against Vale of Lune and Northwich against Wilmslow (no favouritism there then) seemed to be the predictions that divided

opinion. Great win for Wilmslow; Burnage v Blackburn fooled almost everyone and 2 postponements didn't help the predictions. Only Beerkeeper got the

5 remaining games correct and Draichgoch has now (narrowly) taken the lead. This week, everyone has gone gor a Wilmslow win, Kersal and Burnage also are favourites for wins, The games that most divided opinions are the top of the table clash at Birkenhead and the game at Rochdale. PS Place your Christmas order for a Turkey or ‘Himalayan Salt Chamber’ matured Rib of Beef, Steaks, Ham and other joints as soon as you can.

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Chicken Sarney A H A A A A H 19 221 A H H H H A H

Dick D & Mutley H H H A A H H 16 247 H A A A A A H

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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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The Future of Lower Team Club Rugby In Fisher’s Half Page this week, you can or will have already read his report on the last Cheshire RFU meeting, which he attended in his role as Wilmslow’s county representative. A substantial part of the meeting discussed and touched upon the problems facing second team and lower team rugby at both Stockport and Wilmslow, being the two Cheshire club’s adversely affected by the structure of the Cotton Traders League. I write ’touched upon’ advisedly because I don’t get the impression that all the issues, there are more than one, are fully understood by our constituent body and that they have really examined what the solutions may be. It’s not just the Cotton Traders League, that’s a problem but also the threatened UDI by some Lancashire clubs to withdraw from playing Cumbrian teams. It may not be possible to resolve these two issues in isolation. The problems of the Cotton Traders League shouldn’t be put as simply one of professionals playing amateurs. To be a professional rugby player you have to be earning a full time wage and to be described as a semi professional, you would have to be earning half of a full time wage. Even if some of the players in the second teams of clubs like Sale, Chester etc..etc.. are receiving , say £100 per game and they then play in every one, the total earned during a season will be considerably less than a full time job on the minimum wage and certainly well below the threshold for NI and Income tax. It will still be useful pocket money for a student or apprentice but hardly the stuff of professionalism. What differentiates players at Level 3/4 clubs from those at Level 6 is the mind set , motivation and effort put in by the former group to eventually achieve higher first team rugby. Currently the preferred solution seems to be to hive off the second teams from Level 3/4 clubs into a merged league with their Yorkshire and North East counterparts, except that there doesn’t seem to be much of an appetite for that from any of the clubs involved. Other options would be to just reduce the size of the league to include the top ten sides only or more radically to let them join the official RFU Leagues at around Level 6/7. Before neanderthals dismiss this as absurd fantasy, let me add that there is already a precedent in the Berks/Bucks/Oxon Leagues which contain the second teams of clubs from Level 6 upwards. And this is now where it becomes more complicated. Currently the North Lancs and Cumbrian League has fourteen clubs, seven each from Lancashire and Cumbria. The Lancastrian clubs include Bolton, Aldwinians, De La Salle (Salford), Trafford MV, Oldham, Littleborough and Fleetwood. They no longer wish to play in the same league as the Cumbrians, preferring, I assume, to have either their own exclusively Lancashire League set up or to merge into a new All Cheshire & Lancashire League, leaving the seven Cumbrians out on their own. That would hardly be viable for the Cumbrians so what next to do, try hiving the Cumbrians off into Durham & Northumberland. Don’t involve us in your internecine squabbles, I can just hear the Northumbrians saying. The discontent has been simmering for a few years now. So where does the National Competitions Committee go from here, towards a one, two or three league solution or just a firm ‘Non’. Everybody, I think, is quite happy with the Cheshire & South Lancs Leagues but it would be a mistake for Cheshire to think it won’t get drawn reluctantly into the swamp. We now get to third team rugby which here at Wilmslow is currently dying a death because of the reluctance of so many players to get beaten up playing in the seconds, leaving the thirds without sufficient players to put out a side. Here Barry suggested reverting back to traditional non league rugby. Again, there is a precedent. In the South West Division, there is no competitive league rugby below second teams. In the North though the genie is already out of the bottle and it seems to have been forgotten that a league competition was introduced for every side in a club about ten years ago, precisely to resurrect lower team club rugby. I find myself wondering whether the thirds at Wilmslow is primarily an ’old man’s side for over 35s’ with a sprinkling of younger players or a gateway to adult rugby for those just out of colts rugby and other twenty somethings plus a few ’old heads’. If it’s an old man’s side, then social rugby would probably suit but are we sure that ‘the old men’ are not blocking youngsters from coming through? If I was a youngster in my early twenties, I think I would prefer to play with my mates in some kind of competitive rugby with the chance to develop and if not, to go off and do something else on a Saturday afternoon rather than be in a team made up predominantly of people old enough to be my father.

What they said at Northwich Northwich fell to the second loss on the bounce against a very strong and determined Wilmslow team. It was particularly disappointing as for the first time in two seasons the Blacks failed score a try or capture a bonus point. It was also a very expensive defeat for Northwich as Chris James suffered a serious eye injury that will keep him out of action for some time and Sean Phillips suffered a broken nose for his efforts. With Jimmy Reilly out of action resources are becoming stretched. There was an air of conflation prior to the match as the program showed Mark Chunky Thompson propping both sides of the scrum, a challenge for any prop. From the kick off the visitors laid down the gauntlet. Receiving the ball Northwich were penalised for not releasing in the tackle and within the first minute Wilmslow took a 3-point lead. Five minutes later the home side were again penalised for the same offence and once again the visitors were successful with the kick. For the next 7 minutes both sides entered into an arm wrestle until Northwich were awarded a penalty for off side. Baldwin slotted the kick. On the 20th minute the blacks levelled the score with another Baldwin penalty for off side at the ruck. The parity was short lived as 5 minutes later the visitors scored a fine try. Wilmslow won and scrum midfield in the black’s half. A lapse in concentration provided a gap that was exploited and the ball was moved to the wing for a well-executed try in the corner. The extras went begging and the 11-6 score line remained for the rest of the half. For the next 15 minutes the blacks tried to break the visitors defence without any success. They proved to be the noisiest side to visit Moss Farm as they screamed at each other organisational instructions, this spirit proving the difference between the two sides. The first thirty minutes of the second half were a stalemate with both defences working hard and no quarter asked nor given. Northwich pressed the Wilmslow line for long periods without breaching the defensive wall. To the visitor’s credit this was the basis for their success. On the seventieth minute Northwich were dealt a real blow. Another scrum, a missed tackle and some quick hands led to a second try for the visitors. Although the extras were missed Northwich were faced with a mountain to climb. As the match moved into added time Wilmslow had a territorial stranglehold on proceedings and when the blacks took a quick lineout the ball was intercepted by a Wilmslow player. The Northwich players appeared rooted to the spot as Wilmslow scored a try virtually unopposed. This brought the match to an end and a deserved win for the men from Pownall Park.

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Wolves Appearances and Point Scorers : 2016 - 17

Jordan Ayrey 8 5 25

Henry Baker 1

Nick Barker 2 1 5

Sam Beckett 5 2 10

Mike Black 7 1 5

Tom Bull 9 1 5

James Burgess 4 1 5

Sam Cutts 9 1 5

James Coulthurst 10 4 20

Ben Day 9 3 15

Alex Donaldson 7 1 5

Hugh Ellis 1 1 5

Jonny Evans 6

Ethan Harding 7

Max Harvey 12 5 25

Adam Hewitt 10 1 5

Richard Hughes 7 2 10

Hone Karaka 3 1 5

Ollie Lee 1

Charlie Levings 2

Jack Masters 4

Bob MacCallum 12 1 25 20 120

Conor McMurdock 4 1 5

Wilf Noden 2

Harry Patch 2 1 5

Jonny Ridley 1 1 5

Toby Rowe 5 1 5

Matt Shufflebottom 3

George Smith 2

Loui Staples 1

Sean Street 1 1 5

Adam Taher 6

Alex Taylor 11 4 20

Robert Taylor 9 4 20

Jack Walmsley 3

Callum Westaway 5 1 5

Josh Whiteley 6

Tom Williams 9 3 15

Ollie Wilkinson 8

Tommy Wilkinson 2

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Saturday 19th. November 2016 North 1 West Northwich 6 - 21 Wilmslow Against the odds, the Wolves downed the Northwich Blacks on their own Moss Farm cabbage patch, scoring three tries and two penalties whilst just conceding two penalties to the home side. Not for the first time this season, they raised their game to overcome one of the best teams in the league with a compelling performance, which was their best showing since the demolition job they did almost a year ago to the day in Penrith. All autumn this fixture had been looming as one of the most daunting on the fixture card. Northwich had built on their promotion from the South Lancashire and Cheshire league to assemble a big and powerful side which could take them straight through this league. Despite this set back it might still do so as the only other reverses it has suffered were by two points away at second placed Birkenhead Park and by three points at home to Kirkby Lonsdale. Their other games with the single exception of St. Benedicts in darkest Cumbria where they had been taken to the wire had been won with plenty of points to spare. Whether this was just an off day, they were missing key players or couldn’t find the answers can all be debated but on the day they were outplayed in the critical final quarter, when this game was won and lost, by a pack of hungry Wolves whose fangs got a firm grip on the game to keep their opponents chewed up deep in their own half. What can make rugby so fascinating are all the subsidiary contests that can go into making up the whole game. In the set piece, the Wilmslow front row of Robert Taylor, Alex Donaldson, Jordan Ayrey and substitute Jonny Evans, all squat little men, had the edge against their bigger Northwich opponents. It meant that Northwich’s possession from this source was probably slower and more static than usual, so denying their back line that extra fraction of time and space that you get when your scrum is dominant. Richard Dale and back row Sam Naylor, drafted into midfield, just didn’t get the time they needed and even if they managed to go forward in the tackle more often than not, their break down ball was slow and the Wolves defence was able to cope throughout. Only twice when Joel Barker broke through was there a hint of any line break. No. 10 Nick Baldwin had to try the kicking game but he was up against a Wilmslow back three of Ben Day, Toby Rowe and Sam Cutts, all of whom are rock solid under the high ball which they just caught and ran back with interest. Tactically, Wilmslow were just better. When it was necessary to pick and drive, the pack did so, when the ball was slow there was some astute kicking from Bob MacCallum and only when it was right did they move it along the line. Elsewhere the bigger Northwich forwards just about edged it around the field, especially in the first half when they continually crossed the gain line and at the start of the second half, when they really ought to have scored from a succession of penalties and lineouts in the Wolves twenty two. Nevertheless, there was a suspicion that they ran out of steam later on, when the Wolves pack definitely got into the ascendency. And finally, there was the return of Sean Street, an authentic number nine, to Wilmslow colours, back to the club where he grew up and learnt the game. He’s developed, of course, in the meantime, more combative, mature and street wise whilst still retaining his trademark quick lengthy pass. He’s clearly the best No. 9 that Wilmslow have had since Charlie Mulchrone and it made such a difference. The game got underway with two MacCallum penalties in the first five minutes followed by two from Northwich’s Nick Baldwin in the next ten. Wilmslow’s first try came mid way through the first half when lock Adam Hewitt broke from a ruck on the Northwich twenty two and had the pace to hold off the defence and to touch down in the right corner. For the next fifteen minutes or so, Northwich pressed hard in Wilmslow territory against a feisty defence until Street broke out with an

interception to take play for the last few minutes of the first half to the Northwich line. Street then got himself Yellow Carded for illegally holding back a supporting player. He knew a try was on, took his chance, knowingly offended and got caught. The Wolves conceded a handful of penalties in quick succession and could count themselves fortunate not to have conceded anything more, not least another Yellow Card. As it was, they played down Street’s suspension with some canny picking and driving, even though the passing link to the backs without a scrum half was at times chaotic. No matter, no harm was done and when Street came back on again, a quick pass to MacCallum, moved through centres Ethan Harding and James Coulthurst to the intruding full back Day set up Rowe for a gallop to the right corner for what was to be the decisive try. There was still twenty minutes to play and most of it was spent in the

Northwich half. They became increasingly frustrated with too much whingeing which just annoyed the referee. The Wolves sensibly kept their mouths shut, Jordan Ayrey bossed the scrum, Tom Bull took charge in the close quarter stuff when he came on as a substitute for Hewitt and Hone Karaka, on for Coulthurst, buzzed around like a demented wasp. Alex Taylor somehow failed to touch down when the scrum drove over the Northwich line but the final denouement was not long coming when a desperate quick throw from Northwich was seized upon by Street who gleefully ran in for the third try. The door had already looked closed for some time but Street’s try just slammed it shut and that was that. Afterwards, plenty of Wilmslow eyes were smiling and, I swear, if you listened closely to the sound of Jonah’s laughter, you could hear the angels sing.

12th. November 2016 North 1 West Wilmslow 20 - 14 Burnage This game between the fourth and fifth placed sides in the N1W league always had the hallmarks of a closely contested affair which would be hard to call. Burnage’s three losses this season had all been against the three leaders at the top, two of which Wilmslow have yet to play. And so it proved to be with the result in doubt until the final play had been concluded. The Wolves scored three first half tries to lead by 20 – 6 at half time but when the tide turned shortly after half time, as it always does in an equal contest, they showed sufficient resilience in defence to concede only a penalty and try in the middle of the period. Both sets of supporters will claim that their side had missed opportunities that could have changed the outcome but in outscoring their opponents by three tries to one, a neutral would probably think that the Wolves had done enough to deserve the spoils. Rhys Evans, Burnage’s No. 10, had the Wolves fumbling the ball with a well placed kick to start the game and when they got penalised as the ball bounced around, he planted it in the corner to set up an excellent early attacking position for his side. Burnage though also fumbled the slippy ball and the Wolves were able to soon work their way down the field. A series of penalties in their favour as Burnage repeatedly offended at the breakdown led to referee Daniel Taylor showing Yellow to a Burnage prop. Wilmslow’s attempted catch and drive though was halted but referee Taylor was doing Burnage no favours when he awarded their readjusted scrum the put in. They were heaved off the ball and Wolves No. 8 Alex Taylor will never have an easier touchdown. Once again, Evans had the Wolves catchers failing to gather in the restart as his team took the game into Wilmslow territory. Both sides though were making relatively unforced handling errors until the the Wolves were penalised twice in quick succession, enabling Evans to pot a simple penalty. It was now Burnage’s turn to foul up the restart, the Wolves pilfered the ball, forced themselves into the Burnage twenty two, knocked on and then regained possession before earning a penalty shot at goal from the twenty two, which Bob MacCallum duly put away. Burnage soon offended again and this time MacCallum set up a catch and drive position. The Wolves forwards tried to drive over but when this was held up, a quick pass by scrum half Ollie Wilkinson on the narrow side put flanker Max Harvey in for the second try, converted by MacCallum with a fine kick from the touchline. In a carbon copy of the game’s opening some thirty minutes earlier, Evans’ restart had the Wolves in trouble again and a subsequent penalty had them on the Wolves line. Once again the Burnage drive was held but the Wolves defence conceded a penalty to Evans to make it 15-6. The Wolves once again pressurised the restart to regain the ball and they swung it along the line where they had an overlap until an over ambitious pass went into touch. Moments later they were back again to lose a lineout throw and then to regain the ball with some vigorous counter rucking, which gave their backs the chance to run. As ever, full back Ben Day scythed through and although he was brought down by what looked a high tackle, he had sufficient momentum to get the score. At half time, one would have thought that they were capable of running away with this game and two thrusts just after the break, both involving Toby Rowe, could have put them out of sight. The first move broke down with the line beckoning if only the final pass hadn’t gone to ground and the second was ruled out after referee Taylor asked his touch judge for an opinion as to whether Rowe had put a foot into touch before touching down. The poor fellow, a Wilmslow man, had been gasping to keep up with play from about forty metres behind. He was probably correct in ruling that Rowe had been in touch so he just received a mild chastisement from a sympathetic referee for not having raised his flag. Given the circumstances the Burnage people present were epitomes of gentlemanly conduct in not audibly passing any comment. The Wolves now reverted to trying to do everything in just one phase and in doing so their errors passed the initiative to the visitors who got the Wolves stuck in their own half without much sight of the ball. Evans missed a very gettable penalty on about sixty minutes but moments later was successful from much the same position. He then made a comprehensive line break which looked as though it had to yield a score until a stunning tackle just short of the line by the covering Rowe saved the moment. No such fortune though from the ensuing scrum which saw the ball passed in acres of room to left winger Charlie Bray for the Burnage try. With the best part of fifteen minutes still on the clock, it was now anyone’s game. Burnage still had the best chances but lacked composure on the ball in a period during which neither side were able to make a decisive break. With two minutes left, the Wolves had a scrum in the Burnage half from which they very nearly succeeded in running down the clock with a series of picking and driving. They didn’t quite manage it though and got penalised. Burnage had to run it from their own half and when they knocked on the game was over. Neither side will have felt completely satisfied. Amongst the turnovers, knock ons and lost lineouts, there had also been some perfectly decent play from two sides seeking to keep in touch with the leaders but who just have to become more accurate to get to the next level. Wilmslow now have a week to prepare for the challenging visit to Northwich, who were just edged out by two points at Birkenhead Park and are now just three points ahead of the Wolves in the table.

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A SUCCESSFUL SEASON

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.

Erstwhile Mini, Junior and Colts Coach Harry

Gradon remembers Hamish Watson, Scotland’s

first choice No. 7 for their last two Internationals

Hamish was born in October 1991and played for

Wilmslow mini’s and juniors for 6 or 7 years. To begin with, he accidently played in a higher age group but then

joined the age group he should have been with all along.

In it were Adam Hewitt, Alex Taylor, Laurence James, Jayam Patel, Joe Spence, Jason New, Harrison Lewis,

Elliott Brierly, Rory Bell, Harry Stott, Johnny Newsham

and Ned Brooks.

In retrospect, Hamish must have been quite good as he

more than held his own in the year above and he wasn’t big at 12! We never really saw his full potential as he

then went away to Oakham School. However,

whenever back home and available, he always volunteered and was always picked, because we

knew he was good. Three incidents stick in the

mind.

Hamish played at an Under 13 tournament in

Nottingham. We usually played him in the centre but his father, Les, nagged that he played in the back

row. Eventually Les got his way but Hamish was

promptly taken off, injured. About 4 years later he (and Elliott Brierly) was playing in the centre

against a Macclesfield side that included future

England hooker Tommy Taylor. Macc thought they

were “The Bee’s Knees” but were knocked back

repeatedly by the two of them. His last game for

Wilmslow was for a Colts side against tourists from Sydney Grammar School. He got Man of the Match – a

sign of things to come?

The Argentina game was his 4rd cap for Scotland and he currently plays for Edinburgh after having had a spell at

Leicester Tigers. Hamish got into the Scotland system via

Scotland Schoolboys (with Rory Bell) and went on to play Under 19’s, Under 20’s and Scotland 7’s. His first cap was

in 2015 but may have been earlier but for a broken jaw the

year before.

Who knows how many future internationals are playing for

the mini’s now?

Club of Origin, Wilmslow Wolves

Sean Street, who returned to the club last week after several years absence. Sean played mini,

juniors and colts here and made his debut for the

Wolves before going off to Loughorough University. He then joined Stockport but is now

very welcome back here. Sean is an old boy of

Wilmslow High School

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

Macclesfield 2 11 10 0 1 663 137 526 41 0

Caldy 2 11 9 0 2 399 280 119 38 0

Fylde 2 11 6 1 2 376 140 236 36 0

Preston Grasshoppers 2 10 7 0 3 417 171 246 31 0

Sale FC 2 11 6 0 5 427 206 221 29 0

Preston Grasshoppers 3 11 6 0 5 375 269 106 29 0

Chester 2 10 5 1 3 253 193 60 29 0

Sedgley Park 2 10 6 0 4 301 187 114 28 0

Firwood Waterloo 2 11 4 0 5 179 298 -119 23 -2

Lymm 2 10 3 0 5 226 235 -9 21 0

Vale of Lune 2 11 3 0 8 236 450 -214 20 0

Wilmslow 2 11 2 0 8 133 437 -304 14 -2

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

Stockport 2 11 0 0 9 41 673 -632 -2 -11

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

Widnes 2 11 10 0 1 542 162 380 41 0

Holmes Chapel 1 11 9 0 2 450 170 280 38 0

New Brighton 2 11 8 0 2 370 134 236 38 0

Capenhurst 1 11 7 0 2 254 170 84 38 0

Carrington 1 11 6 1 3 322 197 125 32 3

Dukinfield 2 11 3 1 4 148 250 -102 30 0

Wirral 3 11 4 0 6 280 306 -26 26 0

Lymm 3 11 5 0 5 246 358 -112 25 0

Manchester 2 11 4 1 5 259 312 -53 23 0

Village Spartans 1 10 3 0 7 183 338 -155 19 0

Broughton Park 3 10 2 1 7 172 306 -134 17 0

Marple 2 11 2 0 9 231 373 -142 17 0

Wilmslow 3 11 3 0 6 171 220 -49 12 -6

Whitchurch 3 11 1 0 8 117 449 -332 12 0

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

Birkenhead Park 3 3 0 0 62 36 26 9 0

Macclesfield 2 2 0 0 72 38 34 6 0

Sefton 3 1 0 2 25 59 -34 5 0

Eccles 3 1 0 2 42 90 -48 5 0

Whitchurch 2 1 0 1 47 21 26 4 0

Rochdale 2 1 0 1 69 47 22 4 0

Wilmslow 3 0 0 3 24 50 -26 2 0

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12th. November Preston GH 3 59 - 7 Vikings

Hawks 15 - 10 Broughton Park

13th. November Sefton HWO Colts

19th. November

Vikings 7 - 24 Firwood Waterloo Wirral HWO Hawks

20th. November

Colts 10 - 12 Birkenhead Park

This week’s recipe must be the classic designed for the slow cooker. Beef cheeks are just about the toughest bit of meat from the cow, just think of all the chewing of the cud they do but with slow careful cooking, they render down into a glorious gelatinous stew with a rich gravy flavour, which couldn’t be bettered for a late autumn or winter supper.

OX CHEEKS WITH MASH For four people you’ll need 1kg of ox cheeks, 2tbsp olive oil, 1 peeled and chopped onion, 1 diced celery stalk, 1 diced carrot, 4 crushed and chopped garlic cloves, 1tsp dried thyme or equivalent fresh thyme sprigs, 3 bay leaves, 1tsp mixed spice (optional), 1tbsp plain flour, 1 cup of beef stock, 1 large mug of inexpensive full bodied red wine (not so inexpensive that the rest is undrinkable), salt and black

pepper to taste. Cut the cheeks into large bite sized chunks or the size of half a steak, season all over and sear in a pan with hot olive oil until browned all over. Remember not to over crowd the pan. Better to do a second batch than trying to squeeze them all in. Same principle as a game of rugby - for best results go patiently through the phases. Set aside in the slow cooker. Now add the remaining olive oil to the pan together with the onions. When they begin to colour, add the celery, carrot, garlic, herbs, spices and flour. Stir around for three minutes or so before adding the wine and the stock and bring to the simmer for about two minutes. Scrape off any bits that are sticking to the pan and add the liquid, vegetables and all to the cheeks in the slow cooker. Set at ‘high’ and cook for about eight hours. You can now eat it as it is or to add a touch of ’je ne sais quoi’, remove the meat, take out the bay leaves and thyme stalks if necessary and transfer the liquid to a saucepan where you can smooth it out with a hand stick blender, check the seasoning, and add a slug of brandy, if you’re feeling that way inclined. Reduce to your desired consistency by simmering for up to ten minutes. Return the meat to the gravy and when hot again, serve. For the mash 500gm peeled Maris Piper or other floury potato, boiled and mashed, 2tbsp butter, up to a cup of milk, tbsp. full cream, seasoning to taste all stirred in. For the glass It has to be a rich robust full bodied red, a French GSM cuvee would be ideal, or an Argentinian/Chilean Malbec, Aussie shiraz or such like.

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The last Cheshire Meeting , normally a very bring hour or so, had several points of interest. Firstly, there was almost an hour of discussion about the Raging Bull and Cotton Traders Leagues and the particular problems relating to Wilmslow and Stockport in particular. The Northern Competition Committee have had a large amount of complaints regarding firstly amateur sides coming up against semi professional sides and being heavily defeated in matches of no use to either side and secondly the knock on effect to a club’s lower sides when they can’t fulfil fixtures either because of withdrawals by second team players and others not wanting to play in these mismatches or from mounting injuries arising from them. The sides affected forfeit points and eventually get removed from their league for failing to fulfil fixtures. The Competitions Committee have a meeting at the end of November and their members from the Cheshire Committee, were asked to present our case, following a vote with a 28 to 2 majority, that something must be done to finish with these mismatches from next season. Possibly, by choosing the obvious decision to put the more professional North West and North East teams together. After a few words as our Cheshire Representative, I suggested that the lower teams should forsake the Leagues altogether and go back to the old system of arranging fixtures suitable for the team, a vote was taken and was again passed by a majority. Of particular interest, it was mentioned that there was already a fixture “pool” for those not in Leagues. To find it, Google “nowirl” and click on “Pool/Casual rugby”. On another tack, Lancashire have canvassed all their teams to ask whether they still want to play teams from Cumbria and have received a resounding “No,” just Cheshire and if this was turned down by the NCC. they might make a unilateral decision to just play in Lancashire. It was mentioned that this would leave Cumbria out on a limb, with no chance of progressing up the Leagues, so there could be trouble ahead. I think today’s visitors will be pleased to be in this League if Lancashire pull the plug on Cumbrian clubs in the Leagues below. Editor’s Note The North Lancs and Cumbrian League currently contains nine Cumbrian sides and only five from Lancashire. Below this league the Lancastrians and Cumbrians already have separate leagues. It doesn’t seem to me to be beyond the wit of man to abolish the NLC league and to merge the clubs affected into either a Cumbrian or Lancastrian League with end of season play offs to decide which one(s) will go up into Level 6 rugby. On another matter, the RFU have money to burn and several clubs have taken advantage of it. I know we have done very well with our floodlights, but there is a Fund for ground maintenance, etc., and I thought we might try to get a new tractor. Hoole, Chester where the Meeting was held, have had thousands of pounds and now have a fine set-up. As Graham Marrs, the

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ST. BENEDICTS Only once before have we played St. Benedicts. That was back in April 2006 when they visited us for a play off match to what was then North 2 West. We had both finished second in our respective leagues - South Lancashire and Cheshire 1 for us and North Lancs and Cumbria for them. Broughton Park were winners by two points of SLC 1 and Leigh finished third just one point behind Wilmslow, who had won sixteen, drawn two and lost four of their twenty two games.. The previous week the Wolves had visited Anselmians. President of the day, Norman

Herring, reported a very sociable clubhouse lunch, which included wine, with the Anselmian alis. Norman tended, I recall, to judge a club on the quality of the vintage served at lunch. An extremely twitchy afternoon then followed

watching the Wolves who put their supporters through the mincer before prevailing by 22-17. Only Bob MacCallum and Charlie Levings of that era are still playing Wolves rugby. Alex McLennan turns out for the Hawks and a few of the others, Steve Braddock and Andy Vassall, are now junior coaches here. And what of the rest? Occasionally, one or other of their faces can be seen here at a function but a few have just disappeared into the wide blue yonder. St. Benedicts finished some way behind Carlisle that season but held off Burnage by just two points. It was a league which also included Heaton Moor and Trafford Metrovic, in those days deemed to be located in North Lancs and today still are. Wilmslow won the play off in front of a large crowd on a very decent late spring afternoon by 43 - 10, went up to N2W but only lasted a season before being ejected back into SLC1 once again. They won it in 2007-08 and have played at this level ever since. North 2 West in 2005/06 was won by Stockport who then went on to beat Morley in the final of the Intermediate Cup. They were golden days indeed at Davenport, a far cry from the sad news now emanating from them. St. Benedicts came up this season after winning the NLC league in 2015/16 by twelve points from Bolton. They’re now ahead of Aspatria, Wigton and Carlisle, three clubs we know quite well, in the Cumbrian rankings.

We know from experience that not only is it a long trek to West Cumberland but coming away with a win is even harder. These guys make the journey in the other direction every other week from Whitehaven. Their nearest fixture is at Kirkby Lonsdale, a round trip of 140 miles, not exactly neighbourly or just down the road; Vale of Lune comes next, nearly two hundred miles. Now add another 150 odd miles and the round trip to Wilmslow is well over 300 miles. Over the season as a whole, I estimate, they’ll do over 3000 miles, up and down the M6 and round the Fells. Whatever else you might think, that’s dedication to the cause of rugby union . Of course, it’s nothing compared to the mileage clocked up by the Los Jaguares, also known as the Pumas, but they’re flying and staying in decent hotels. It’s also their job. On the pitch, their record shows five wins and five losses. On the road, they’ve won at AK and Leigh, two out of six, and at home against Eccles, Vale of Lune and Warrington. Only Northwich have made the trip to Whitehaven this season and won and that was a close run 23 -19 affair. A fortnight ago, it was a comfortable ride when they visited AK for the first time in twenty years. AK’s hospitality extended to conceding five tries and twenty nine points to a St. Benedicts side, which had the match won in the first half hour, but still short of a number of first choice players. The report names seven players all expected back before the year ends. Last week’s home match against Birkenhead Park was postponed. It’s the time of year now when the weather is capable of taking its toll so let’s hope for a decent afternoon and a game for both players and watchers to enjoy. It has the potential to be a closely contested affair.

Saturday 29th. April 2006 SLC1 & NLC 2nd. Place Play Off

Wilmslow v St. Benedicts

Wilmslow Tim Medwell Mark Walmsley Steve Braddock Phil Carr

Liam Dunseath Bob MacCallum Dan Hargreaves Andy Vassall Will Masters Rick Meagher Alex McLennan James Vail Chris Jones (capt.) Charlie Levings Jamie Fletcher Rob Fahey Will Hitch Liam Neveling Chris Lee

St. Benedicts Mark Coldfield Les Smith Liam Nicholls (capt.) Graham Hartley Daniel Appleton Stephen Wood Graham Cartmill Brian Fleet Mark Routledge Graham Andrews Lee Wood Jamie Jardine Elliot McGrady Stephen McKeowan Lee Robson Dave Walker Mike Harvey Stephen Howse Ian McQuire

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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 17-29 14/1 11/2 8/4 20-21

Birkenhead Park 37-21 34-6 4/3 8/4 26/11 14/1 26-24 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 17-0 14-36 21-14

Burnage 18/2 15-22 21-27 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 16-35 17/12 10-31 14/1 4/3 22-7 28-33 25/3 22/4

Kirkby Lonsdale 62-13 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 P 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 6-21

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

St. Benedicts 11/3 P 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 19-17 19-40

Warrington 41-27 18/2 11/3 10/12 28/1 14-52 37-28 17/9 3/12 7/1 1/4 22/4 36-46

West Park St. Helens 3/12 10/12 28/1 21-37 25-23 35-41 18/2 10-70 1/4 36-3 11/3 12-15 7/1

Wilmslow 10/12 25-31 14/1 20-14 16-8 8/4 24-3 25/3 28-12 26/11 11/2 4/3 25-15

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Kirkby Lonsdale 11 11 0 0 513 135 378 55 11 0

Birkenhead Park 10 10 0 0 378 182 196 48 8 0

Wilmslow 11 9 0 2 280 185 95 41 5 0

Northwich 11 8 0 3 351 202 149 40 8 0

Blackburn 11 7 0 4 224 192 32 31 3 0

Burnage 11 6 0 5 226 248 -22 31 7 0

St Benedicts 10 5 0 5 206 202 4 26 6 0

Warrington 11 4 0 7 252 351 -99 23 7 0

Vale of Lune 10 4 0 6 159 261 -102 19 3 0

West Park (St

Helens) 11 3 0 8 219 331 -112 18 6 0

Altrincham Kersal 11 2 0 9 224 347 -123 14 6 0

Leigh 10 2 0 8 158 318 -160 10 2 0

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

Eccles 11 1 0 10 179 264 -85 9 5 0

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Saturday 26th. November 2016 North 1 West

Wilmslow v St. Benedicts

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

Concept Group Terra Nova and Peter Turner Ian Stewart Nigel Day Jon Hitch Harvey Finance & Vehicles Robin Gregory Barry Fisher Jonty Fallows Norman Herring Iain Milne and Easyfish John Folds Terra Nova and Peter Turner Curtaincraft

Wilmslow XV and their Sponsors St. Benedicts 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.

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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 - John Folds

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

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Jonny Ridley - Toby Rowe -

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Robert Taylor - Harvey Finance & Vehicles Josh Whiteley - Jon Hitch

Jack Walmsley - Callum Westaway - Rick Green

Ollie Wilkinson -

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Wishing the Wolves a Successful Season

15. Ryan Amor 14. Andrew Middleton 13. Stephen Wood 12. Dan Rowell 11. Toby Finlay 10. Dan Rayson 9. Gordon Maudling 1. Jamie Jardine 2. Ben Harrison 3. James Taylor 4. Sean Walker 5. James Finnegan 6. Gary Gibbons 7. Stuart Wilson 8. Stephen Nelson Subs Craig Harrison Ian McGuire Neil Carruthers

TODAY’S REFEREE

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MDRURS

NEXT MATCH AT THE MEMORIAL GROUND

3rd. December Cotton Traders League

VIKINGS V LYMM

Next week, the Wolves visit Kirkby Lonsdale

KIRKBY LONSDALE RUFC, UNDERLEY PARK, KIRKBY

LONSDALE LA6 2DS

Leave the M6 at J36, taking the A65 towards Skipton and Kirkby Lonsdale. After 6 miles, take the first left turning into Kirkby, pass

the schools and at the T(ish) junction go down the hill into

Mitchelgate. Then at the bottom of the hill, turn left and follow the

road round, past The Orange Tree and up the hill. Take the first right into Raygarth, cross the cattle grid

and stay on the left fork to approach the Kirkby clubhouse.