The first half seemed a tense affair and after some dominant performances from the pack in recent weeks, the scrummage struggled to make an impact this week. Park started off keeping good possession however whether through nerves or over elaboration the attack seemed fairly ineffective and Kersal proved they weren't there to make up the numbers and the Kersal fly half kept Park pegged back with the boot and with what was their first and possibly only meaningful attack of the half Kersal scored a converted try to take a shock 7-0 lead.

This seemed to spur Park into action and whilst the game was a generally scrappy one at this point some good work by Mike Beer pulled the scores back to 7-5 and soon after Mike Benson scored a try, converted by Si Evans to give Park a 12-7 lead at half time.

Park reshuffled at half time, introducing Hugh Fry to Full Back, Warren Duffy to Fly Half and in spite of a totally inept performance by Michael Rogers, who fumbled and stumbled his way through his worst performance of the season, Matt Chandler was brought into the Back Row at the expense of Mike Benson.

Parks recent attacking flair seemed to kick in and some good handling moves and support play led to Park scoring 33 unanswered points in the second half with try's coming from Hugh, Warren and Andy Simms. The try of the game however came from none other than Terry Zindi upon his return to the team. He rounded 4 of the opposition to score a 90 metre breakout try. Clearly his time off hasn't affected his nose for the line and his searing pace.

This performance capped what has been a season of extreme highs and lows for the 3rd team. The season started with a team of 7 or 8 lads receiving a 100-5 thumping at the hands of Sale and continued with Park playing with anything from 10 to 13 players for most of the games in the opening half of the season and seemingly odds on for relegation.

Credit must be given at this point to the work of Del Trotter, who took it upon himself to organise the team and created a better atmosphere around the 'squad'. Del's hard work and the arrival of such players as Tim Reid and Ally Williams to name a couple as well as the likes of James Cooley who has improved week on week led to a gradual improvement in performances culminating in 4 straight wins to avoid relegation.

Possibly the most pleasing aspect of the Kersal win was that most players seemed disappointed to not have scored 50 points. An indication of the progress made thanks to the work of Del and the settled squad that has developed.

Park 3's have used in excess of 100 players this season, however it is no coincidence that in the last 4 wins the starting 15 barely changed throughout and we can only hope that the team ethic and the camaraderie that has emerged by the end of the season can be carried forward to next season because if we can then we will surely be battling at the other end of the table next season, and we can only hope that the finish to the season has only acted as a spur to the players responsible for it to prove that they are as good as their recent form shows.

Well done lads!'

Report by Andy Donnelly.