VICTORY SETS VIKINGS PURRING

VALE VIKINGS  34  ALTRINCHAM K 10
Miller Homes Division 2

Slowly, slowly, very slowly the Vikings have been getting their season back on track and their recent performances suggest they are up and running. The wheels are back on, but checks are needed to make sure that all the nuts are tight, if not they are likely to fall prey to 'The Anthill Mob' who are certain to be lying in wait around the next corner.
When skipper Paul Bolton assembles his crew he is able to draw on an experienced group who can handle a spanner and know one end of a monkey wrench from the other and are not afraid of getting their overalls dirty; shining examples for the fresh faced apprentices who are hauled into the inspection pit on occasions.

HIGH FIVES AND TIES ALL ROUND

VALE OF LUNE  35    WHITCHURCH  0
NORTH TWO WEST

On a day when the Vale of Lune went nap, the pheasant pluckers had been at it, Brian had been in the smoker, Andy Higgin and Trevor Glover, the dream team, were on ground duty and Chairman Brian McCann had arrived by train and had booked the overnight sleeper back to Grange. Phil Rogerson Ltd were the match sponsors; Phil was a sharp suited, beaming generous host, who looked fitter and leaner than when he played for the first team.
After Trevor had finished wrestling with the complexities of putting on the post protectors, well worth the admission charge by the way, it was discovered that the bag of practise balls had gone missing. Unfortunately Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau are not part of the back up team so until the balls turned up some of the pre match moves were mimed with all the intensity of a Monsieur Hulot movie.

PRICELESS POINTS PROCURED AT POWNALL PARK

WILMSLOW  19    VALE OF LUNE  20
NORTH TWO WEST

When John and Geoff gaily tripped across the car park at Wilmslow, not a Roller or Baby Bentley in sight by the way, John's footwear became a topic for discussion.
'You look like a lounge lizard,' observed Geoff.
But John Gill had not travelled to Wilmslow to shimmy around cocktail parties with a silver cigarette holder firmly gripped between gleaming molars and his hair sleeked down. He had come to meet old friends and enjoy a game of rugby.

ONE LUMP OR TWO, ALISTAIR?

VALE 'A'  10    KENDAL 2nds  7
Bateman BMW Premier Division

The films The Alamo and Zulu were playing back to back in the clubhouse as the rain lashed down on a soggy Powder House Lane. Out on the mud flats, two sides at the wrong end of the league table produced a mini epic of their own that thoroughly entertained a large crowd.
John Wayne and Michael Caine were not required to urge on the troops, there was enough collective motivation flooding through the ranks as everyone rallied to the cause. Gavin Speak and Dave 'Chest freezer' Halliwell took to the conditions like a pair of hippos who had found the Promised Land; they wallowed, they rolled, kicked up their legs, ploughed many a furrow and when it was all over and the mud had been scraped away, their complexions would have been the envy of Max Factor.

NOTHING UNDER THE TREE, LEAVES VALE OF LUNE POINTLESS.

VALE OF LUNE  0  ASPATRIA  17

It's the season to be jolly. The Vale's match programme was packed full of Christmas cracker jokes; Who does Sants Claus use if he is feeling poorly? The National Elf Service!! (This one failed to measure up to the high standards set by John Adams.) Unfortunately it was a case of Christmas Day in the workhouse for Santa Morgan and his merry band of little helpers, leaving the Vale like a lonely pup in a Christmas shop; their soft brown eyes failed to melt the hard nosed gentlemen from Aspatria who were intent on keeping their dreams alive of returning to the big time, sooner if not later.