Wilmslow Wolves' victory over West Park is Taylor made

WILMSLOW bagged a third win in four outings in North One West but felt they should have done better by securing a bonus point too.

With newly promoted West Park struggling to adapt to the pace and physicality of level six rugby, coach Rick Jones told his players afterwards: "We’re better than that."

If it had not have been for number eight Alex Taylor scoring two tries and creating a third in an outstanding personal performance, Wolves would have been sunk.

Bob MacCallum, his goal-kicking apart, had an afternoon he will want to forget but when your captain and chief playmaker has an off day others have to step forward, but that did not happen.

After nine minutes MacCallum put away a penalty without any fuss.

West Park full back John Pape tied things up again with a penalty and then his winger Lee Rosney ran home from a ricocheted kick.

MacCallum reduced the deficit with a second penalty, before Taylor took a short pass to barge over.

Then Taylor made 20 metres from a scrum, the ball being recycled twice before full back Callum Westaway stretched out an arm to score for 18-8 at the interval.

It was 18-15 after a MacCallum kick was charged down and regathered by West Park lock Lewis Harris.

A catalogue of handling errors, lost scrums and lineouts prevented a calming score arriving until the 70th minute when Taylor eventually made the pressure count from the last of several lineouts on the West Park line.