Unlucky Rebels lose their unbeaten record but retain their principles!

Nobody likes a sore loser but the Rebels coaches were kicking themselves after giving away their unbeaten record on the back of confused arrangements and some odd reffing!

Wilmslow are one of our rivals with a huge squad and pre-match conversations apparently agreed to run two games, an A side and a development side, with Wilmslow sending the rest of their squad elsewhere.

However, Wilmslow turned up with just an A side.

In game one the novelty of the all weather pitch seemed to affect Warrington who played like headless chickens and quickly fell behind to the very disciplined Wilmslow team.

In the latter stages of the match, the fighting spirit of Ben Lomax led a comeback and Ben added four tries in quick succession to an earlier one from Sam Hanna to give the Rebels an unlikely 5-4 victory.

In game two the coaches stuck to the team principle of 'everyone gets a game' and fielded a mostly development team for the first half.

Unsurprisingly, Wilmslow ran away with the scoring, and the planned introduction of super-subs could't come soon enough.

However, after what seemed like a very long first half, calls from the touchline revealed that the Wilmslow ref had forgotten the clock so full time was called!

One try from Ruari Byrne and a pair from A teamer Sam Roberts couldn't match the six scored by Wilmslow, 3- 6.

The fixture was now in disarray and two final mixed Rebels sides lost one match by a single try, and drew the final game.

Ryan Edwards (2), Ben (2), Sam (1) and Harrison Dillon(2) and new payer Jacob Dalton scoring the Rebels' tries to end a somewhat unsatisfactory morning.