WILMSLOW Wolves will seek to build on a strong start to their season when they welcome Firwood Waterloo to the Memorial Ground on Saturday for the first time in more than 30 years.

An opening triumph at home to Carlisle was followed by a 36-9 success at Altrincham Kersal in North One West at the weekend.

Coach Rick Jones was all smiles afterwards, particularly with his side having dealt with a first-half siege before firing back with interest.

He said: “It was a really good team performance to come back after being battered for half an hour and then to score 36 points without reply.”

The Taylor brothers were immense, the unsung Matthew Shufflebottom grafted and grafted in close play, tackling anything above daisy height and slowing down AK’s possession.

Connor Loomans at number seven put in another powerful shift, while Nick Barker, called up in Sean Street’s absence at scrum half, never put a foot wrong and nor did left winger James Coulthurst, whose decision making, running and play throughout caught the eye.

“But above all it was a team performance with everyone contributing and you couldn’t ask for more than that,” said Jones.

What a difference a few weeks can make.

It was all doom and gloom after a thrashing in the final warm-up game at Sandbach.

Two decisive wins with different sides have changed coach Jones’ perspective.

From wondering who to put in, he is now left wondering who to leave out against a Firwood Waterloo side which will be something of an unknown quantity.

Nevertheless, the first half hour at Stelfox Avenue was absolutely torrid.

Playing into the face of a nasty squall coming out of the west, Wolves had AK throwing everything at them and were under constant siege.

Somehow the defensive line held, they nicked a couple of lineouts on their own line and AK had only three penalties to show for all their pressure and advantage.

The squall then died down and so did the venom in AK’s play.

It took Wolves 30 minutes to get into AK territory and quick thinking immediately produced a try for Elliot Brierley.

Wilmslow took complete control of the second half, scoring five tries and never once allowing Altrincham out of their own half.

AK, who never once got out of their own half, corralled deep in their own territory. Bob MacCallum kicked to the corner and from the lineout number eight Alex Taylor worked the Wolves’ favourite move for the second try.

Moments later, while AK were working out how they were going to stop a repeat from a five-yard lineout, Alex’s brother Robert broke off from the drive infield and touched down.

From the same position soon after a further drive produced a second try for Alex.

If that piece of the Stelfox ground were to be renamed Taylors’ corner you would know why.

Yet another forward drive led to a flowing backs’ move which saw Coulthurst touch down and the game ended soon after when substitute prop Adam Taher scored the sixth try.

Taher was in the middle of the line, where you wouldn’t expect to find a prop of his stature, but he took the pass, sold a dummy and you could hardly blame the defence for standing off in the face of a 20-stone runaway goods train.