In windy conditions at Audenshaw park Aldwinians hosted another team from the league above in Blackburn. In the first half Blackburn played with the wind at their tails and played most of the game in the home sides half. However i combintion of good defence and poor handling mistakes meant blackburn failed to take advantage of the wind. In fact it was the home side who had the better chances to score in the first half, however their was little sense shown by the home side who decided to keep tapping and going on penalties instead of taking the points infront of the posts. The blackburn kicker had four shots at goal but missed all four. This meant at half time the scores were tied at 0-0.

With the wind at the home sides back it was expected that they would use the boot of full back Brad Cook in camp in the opponents half. However from the restart they decided to run it and nearly at some cost with the blackburn centre intercepting a pass and streaking through. However a great try saving tackle from wing Dave Hudson saw the ball tied up and a scrum awarded to Blackburn. However from the resulting scrum a knock on allowed the home side a chance to clear the ball into the opponents half. For the next 20 minutes there was no way of seeing where a score was going to come from for either side. Then just as talk of a 0-0 draw was starting the referee awarded the home side a penalty on the 10 meter line infront of the posts, which Brad Cook slotted with some ease to finally put a score on the board. Then with just 5 minutes remianing a missed knock on by blackburn full back allowed play to move up to the half way line before a knock on was given. From the resulting scrum number 8 Jake Cassidy went on a serging run into the 22 before off loading to danny waterhouse, who then shipped it off to a returning joe suthers who passed and got a return from danny marrow before a pass was given to second row adam green who was in support and went over in the corner. It was a stunning try to watch and was the only lively part of the game. This was the only action of the last 5 minutes.