The Thirds went into this match against Moorends trying to build on their draw against Willow park the previous week. The opposition Moorends had only suffered one defeat all season and were shaping up to be likely title challengers, despite this Rose were buoyed thanks due to the return of Nick Jackson as manager after 5 years out of the management fold.
 
Moorends started the match the better of the 2 teams cauing the Sherburn defence problems out wide with the pace of their wingers. Centre halves Liddle and Sammy stood strong and soaked up the early pressure.
The Thirds gradually got a foothold in the match with some strong tackling in the centre of the park Meaney and Bradley letting the Moorends midfield know they were now in for a tough contest if they didn't already realise this.
George and Lancy were begining to see a lot of possession and began feeding the front two of Roberts and Rich.
Roberts should have given Rose the lead as Sherburn took control, the Moorends defence was rocked and the contest was evenly matched.
It was the Thirds who broke the deadlock, a pinpoint free kick from Bradley found the head of a swooping Sammy who looped the ball over the static goalkeeper.
Moorends now deflated began to lift their game and their centre forward rifled home an equaliser on the stroke of half time after some very poor Sherburn tackling in the area.
 
The second half started with the Thirds on top stifling the Moorends passing again with some ferocious tackling all over the muddy pitch. Lancy on the wing now began to terrorise the Moorends defence with some fantastic dribbling and pinpoint crossing which had the Moorends defence in chaos. George and Roberts
also built on their strong first half performances,
using their pace to penetrate the defence working off the big target man Rich up front.
 
The Thirds deservedly went 2-1 up midway through the second half, after some great approach play Roberts
turned inside the area to clinically bag his second goal in as many games.
 
Moorends now began to see the game slipping from their grasp as Lancy
and Roberts both wasted good chances to wrap up the three points.
 
Approaching the final 15 minutes Moorends began to step up their performance and began creating chances only to find the Rose keeper Martin in fine form making a string of fantastic saves, Moorends finally got their equaliser with ten minutes on the clock, their central midfielder was given too much time on the ball as he threaded a ball through to his right winger who susequently curled a cross along the six yard box, the unfortunate Parnaby could only look up in despair as the ball cannoned of his shin and into the empty goal 2-2.
 
Moorends now had victory in sight and began to bomb forward chasing the victory, Sammy and Liddle were forced into some last ditch tackling. The decisive point in the match came when Shaun mistimed a tackle in the area and the referee rightly awarded a penalty. The impressive Martin made a fantastic save from the spot kick only to see the same player slam home the match winner from the resulting corner 3-2.
 
Westy and Jacko chose Lancy as their Third team man of the match after a hard working performance both in attack and defence.