On a pitch ideal for open rugby it was Wirral who did all the attacking in the early stages of the match and they opened the scoring after 12th minutes as leading try scorer Tom Akehurst walked over.

In the period up to half time Wirral scored four more tries through, Jacob Mitchell, another from Akehurst, Will Morris and a debut try for Nkateko Phakula. Two of these tries were converted to leave the score at half time 29-0.

In the second half there was more resilience from Rochdale as they tried to stem the flow of the Wirral defence and there were times when the Wirral defence had to work hard to keep Rochdale from scoring.

The try scorers for Wirral were Adam Don, Rhys James and a final try from Zane Pretorius with one more conversion.

The 46-0 win lifted Wirral to third in the table although they have three of the top four sides to play before the end of the year. There is no match next week for the first team and the next match will be at the Memorial Ground on November 21 against Leek (2.15pm).