Vale posted their highest points total of the season to move into second place in Conference B behind leaders Stockport 2 who they host on Saturday.

Victory again was forged by their solid, strong and mobile pack in which Joe Clarkson was superb on his return to the flock following his farming commitments.

As early as the fourteenth minute the Vale had established a 19-0 lead with forwards playing their part in the opening three tries. Lock Adam Foxcroft bustled his way over in the third minute, four minutes later Jamie Antcliffe crossed the whitewash after the pack had built an impressive platform. Prop, Joe Stevens was chauffeured over by his fellow forwards in the fourteenth minute; two of the tries being converted by Neil Walker.

The intensity of Vale's game dipped as they stated to freewheel but in the thirty fifth minute Neil Walker fired up the engine with a penalty goal from in front. Just before half time, and with Burnage pressing, man of the match, Scott Manning, intercepted a pass and set off on an eighty metre lung bursting run for a try converted by Walker.

Full back Manning, now fully recovered from his previous efforts, grabbed the first try of the second half when he came into the line at pace in the forty fifth minute, his try being converted by Walker.

Sean Coulshed displayed some nifty footwork when he stepped inside and then outside in a well balanced run for an unconverted try in the forty ninth minute. The hard running Ryan Needham proved difficult to haul down on his way over for another unconverted try eight minutes later.

With the Vale quietly cruising their way to victory a flowing attack from seventy metres out had the propellers churning, and Tom Cvijanovic, who has the perfected the knack of being in the right place at the right time, went over for try converted by Walker in the sixty ninth minute.

A gallant Burnage side, that never gave up, collected a deserved try in the seventy seventh minute to deny the Vale their first clean sheet of the season. But the last word belonged to the Vale because following this score they drove straight back up field in a move that saw the ball being passed sweetly through numerous pars of hands before Tom Crookall thundered over from five metres, Walker added the extras to complete another satisfying Vale win ahead of a testing opening two games in March, beginning with Stockport on Saturday, followed by a home cup semi final against Chester 2 on the fourteenth.