INJURY-HIT Tyldesley produced a gritty performance held on to pick up all of the points in an 11-5 win against fourth-placed Fleetwood.

Both Lee Cunliffe and James O’Connor came out of retirement, adding some experience to the side, with Cunliffe guiding the team around the park, from scrum-half and O’Connor’s giving them added pressure upfront.

Although not a day for open rugby and with not many points scored, this was still an entertaining game.

Tyldesley started to get some good territory via clever kicks by Jamie Aldred and Martin Wallbank.

A solid scrum, 30m out, saw Cunliffe, Aldred and Scott Brown linking up well.

Jordan Kelly ran a good dummy line, confusing the defence, giving Martin Wallbank room, before crossing the line, in the corner, despite the attention of two defenders, conversion missed after 22 minutes.

The remainder of the half was relatively even, with Tyldesley adding another three points via an Aldred penalty, giving them an eight-point lead, as the first half came to an end.

The hosts continued to get into the Fleetwood faces, from the start of the second period, via some good team defending.

The set pieces continued to work pretty well, giving the hosts plenty ball, resulting in Bongs camping in their opponents half for the first half hour of the second period, but couldn’t get over the line.

Early pressure from Tyldesley was rewarded with Aldred adding another three points, after skipper Craig Pulman wisely elected to go for goal, from a penalty awarded 12 minutes in.

Dean Brown seemed to have extended the lead has he touched down, after some excellent forward progression, but the official adjudged he’d been held up.

With two other penalty attempts narrowly missing, and 10 minutes remaining, the gap was still, just 11 points, Fleetwood started to press, resulting in an unconverted try, making it a six-point game.

But a now, slightly nervy looking Tyldesley, managed repelled everything that was thrown at them in a tense last few minutes.

Lee Davies was the man of the match for Tyldesley.