Two kicks in the dying minutes meant we had to be content with a single bonus point on the artificial surface at Burnage.

With just one minute of normal time left we were leading by 17 points to 14 but a superb drop goal from home fly half Ross Winney levelled the scores right on 80 minutes, and then he won the game with a penalty deep into injury time after we were adjudged to have collapsed a maul.

It was harsh on West and specially severe on Chocky who had scored one of his trademark long distance efforts. On 50 minutes the veteran second row burst out of a ruck forty metres out and scorched away to leave the defence trailing. He outpaced both the full back and winger to touch down.

That made the score 14-8 to West and it was a well deserved lead after the much changed side had successfully nullified the home attack.

We had gone ahead after five minutes with a Stuart Waites penalty before Burnage got their only try of the game when Mick Scholes touched down after 20 minutes.

Waites was sin-binned for a deliberate knock on, but full back David Heckles restored West’s lead with a penalty following a deliberate knock on by the home side.

Both sides converted one more penalty each with West going into the break with a one point lead. Chocky's try was the first score of the second half , but Burnage pegged away and reduced the arrears to 14-11 with another penalty.

Stu Waites did restore the six point with another penalty on 62 minutes only for Burnage to take the points with a penalty on 69 minutes and those two match winning kicks right at the end.