LYMM reached the final of the Cheshire plate with a 29-18 victory over Anselmians.
Playing a team two levels below them Lymm took the opportunity to give 1st team debuts to colts Jordan Howson, at 10 , Scrum half Chris Griffiths and 17-year-old number 8 Sam Mullarkey. 
Howson looked a class act with quick hands and confidence which suggests a real future. Griffiths had 40 minutes, replacing old timer Kinsey and, again, looked confident and Mullarkey had 10 minutes. It seems that Sam is the youngest 1st team player at the club since the new age rules came into being and shows the rich seam of talent coming through.
The visitors may well be 2 levels below but they boasted a 7 match unbeaten run and a former Irish international at 10. There were times when a cup shock was likely with Lymm squandering possession through an endless run of errors and penalties.
Indeed as early as 90 seconds a misplaced pass was intercepted by the visiting winger and Anselmians were 5-0 up.
Miksys went over on 4 minutes, converted by Swetman, to put Lymm in the lead on 4 and when Rich Butler finished off a training ground move from Jack Johnstone on 23 the score, at 14-5 ,suggested the floodgates were about to open. However with the aggressive wind behind them Lymm needed more points and there were even doubts that Scott Harrison’s try on the stroke of half time, after good work from Ashall and Sutton , making the score 21-5 was enough.
Lymm have a tendency to restart poorly. Within 5 minutes they had given Mason the chance to notch a penalty and then allowed the impressive 12 to go over after a rampaging run to make it 21-15. On 52 minutes Bates was harshly alleged to have not rolled away and Mason slotted another penalty making it 21-18.
A Swetman penalty on 69 mins made the game safer at 24-18 and then the mercurial Johnstone latched onto to a 20 metre pass from the big 10 to bring the game to its conclusion at 29-18.
Coach Kinsey, unaccustomed to viewing the game from the dug out, was unhappy: saying “We were clear favourites for this game which is a position we don’t seem to respond well to. Our recent results make us favourites for most of our remaining games so we need to mentally adapt.”
Lymm will play fellow North 2 team Wilmslow on 4 May in the final. They entertain Liverpool St Helens next Saturday, 3 pm kick off, in an attempt to keep the unlikely pressure on the play off spot in this remarkable season.
Team: 1.Ollie Brown 2 Scott Harrison 3 Jim Fergusson (Danny Bates 49) 4. Darius Miksys, 5. Rob Calderbank (Tom Darbyshire 49) 6 Ollie Higginson 7 Jake Ashall (Sam Mullarkey 70) 8. Mark Sutton (Glenn George 70) 9 Chris Kinsey (Chris Griffiths 40) 10. Jordan Howson 11 Richard Butler 12.Tom Hughes (C) 13 Mike Swetman 14 Jack Johnstone 15. Dave Williamson
