With Albion Sports going through to the English FA Sunday Cup final last week, it's the turn of Division 3B side Wyke Wanderers this weekend.

Wanderers bid to be the next Alliance club to reach a major final when they play Ripon City Magnets at Woodlesford tomorrow (11am) in the West Riding County FA Trophy semi-final.

The winners will meet Linthwaite who won the first semi-final last week.

Dave Ryan's young side are at the semi-final stage in the District Cup, where they meet Eccleshill Sports, and in the Amateur Cup where fellow Division 3B side Holme Wood are their opponents.

In their two-season history in the league, which they only joined when the much talked about Shires Under-21 League in Sheffield failed to take off, the club are unbeaten in league games.

They won the Division 4A title last season and this time average seven goals per game.

Wyke's tight defence has only conceded five goals so far.

Ryan has added Nick Priestley from the Wyke Wanderers side in the Premier Division to his squad recently as a third striker to the Wayne Jones-Mark Smith pairing who have shared over 50 goals already this season.

Ryan's son Paul, who plays in defence or midfield for the club, is currently in Ossett Town's first team squad after spells at Guiseley and Thackley.

Nineteen-year-old Gavin Coonan has recently been a Bradford City trialist and several of the side play for the West Riding County Amateur League's Division Three leaders Batley Town.

Pudsey Royal put their Division 1A promotion hopes on ice for a week to meet Bank Top in a semi-final of the Alliance Intermediate Cup.

Bank Top, until recently in a false position near the foot of the table in Division 1A, gave title favourites Eccleshill United one of their hardest games of the season.

Now Bank Top bid to reach a final which they won in 1997-8 when they were called Nags 94.

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