WARRINGTON Town Captain Mike Tomlinson is pictured receiving the October UniBond First North Division Fair Play award, a 1.5 litre bottle of Famous Grouse Whiskey from UniBond League Representative Gareth Davies, watched by manager Joey Dunn, prior to Town’s 3-4 defeat to Vauxhall Motors in the Cheshire Senior Cup last night . 
Tailing 2-0 at half time and going 3-0 down early in the second half, Town almost pulled off an amazing fight back against their higher league opposition.
The second half needed a quick response from Town but in fact they went further behind as a looping shot that took a slight deflection lifted the ball over goal keeper Baker for a 3-0 lead for the visitors.
Town renewed some hope for the ever vociferous barmy army when Tony Evans turned to shoot home from close range following a goal mouth scramble off a corner. It would not last long though as a clumsy challenge by Tom Hardwick saw a penalty awarded to Vauxhall when there was little immiediate threat. Baker pushed the penalty onto the post but was unable to stop the rebound being slotted home into a now almost unguarded net.
Town’s never say die attitude started to pay dividends and a sharp passing move saw a break culminating in Chris Gahgan firing home for Town’s best goal of the night. A couple of minutes later and it was game on as Gahgan doubled his tally to take the scores to 3-4 with twelve minutes remaining. 
Warrington continued to push and some desperate Vauxhall defending saw a goal ward shot blocked but other than that they were unable to break down the Conference North side’s defence for a fourth time. Warrington may have lost the game but no one could complain about the entertainment value.
After the game manager Joey Dunn said: “It is a shame we had a slow start because we really took the game to them in the second half.
“They know they have been in a game and we were unlucky not to get soemthing out of it in the end.”
Warrington now face a crucial league game at Lancaster on Saturday, one of their main challengers for a place in the play offs at the end of the season.
Pictures show Tony Evans controlling the ball, Eddie Taylor taking on the Vauxhall defence, Darren Kinsey getting a shot on goal and the barmy army in full voice!
Fair Play as Town crash out of cup!
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The defence played well without Tommo who joined the Barmy Army on saturday but im sure with his presence at the back we will look more steady and secure.
Good luck to Chetcuti!!
Best supporters in the league – by a country mile!
Good performance from Warrington, really stepped on the ‘gas’ in the last 20 minutes or so. Vauxhall were going in ‘reverse’ and I really thought we were going to grab a fourth, but our players were simply ‘exhausted’.
On to Lancaster now, were hopefully Town will be ‘firing on all cylinders’.
I echo the above. It was a thriller, there were no bad tackles, some dodgy referee decisions, Vauxhall beat it though, and the way Tony Evans ghosted past the defence was a joy to behold, I thought he was going to do a moon-walk after it. Onto Lancaster though and at The Giant Axe Stadium, I ‘Hope our strikers don’t get ‘chopped down’. Should be a close game but hopefully we’ll get the ‘tree’ points, only if our defenders are ‘sharper’ than the past few games though’, but I feel we’ll have to ‘grind’ the result out, ‘smashing’ through their defence aswell as ‘pick axing’ their attack.
Thankyou.