Sam Velasce Hoare (Spanish), Diogo Macedo (Portuguese), Khaizir Aziz (Malaysian), and Maxine Chevot (French), were all part and parcel of another Cotton Traders Premier League clash at Park Lane, Whitefield, headquarters of Sedgley Park.
Again the seconds were forced to make late changes and travelled with only 17 players. Their cause was not helped when Matt Mount aggravated a back injury in the warn up and was forced to sit on the sidelines.
Despite their problems the Vale made a positive start, trapping Sedgley deep in their own half and might have opened the scoring but Jamie Antcliffe was off target with a penalty kick.
Gradually Park came into contention, which was no real surprise, with their pocket battleship in the centre causing mayhem whenever he had the ball. But it was another explosive player, the home sides tight head prop, who crashed through for an unconverted try in the twentieth minute.
Building up a head of steam the home side increased their lead with a try from their right winger before the Vale were rewarded for their efforts when Sam Hoare, who was a massive presence throughout, embarked on a powerful thirty five metre angled run for his try in the thirty second minute. Jamie Antcliffe's conversion hit an upright but rebounded to safety as far as Park were concerned.
The last word of the half belonged to Park as their experienced number ten looped round for an unconverted try. Throughout an engaging half the Vale pack had worked extremely hard, everyone tackled with conviction, but unfortunately the backs had few opportunities to show their paces.
Vale rocked Sedgley at the beginning of the second half when Seth Wallbank charged down a kick in the forty first minute for a well taken opportunists try converted by Jamie Antcliffe.
Suddenly the Vale were within five points of Sedgley's lead but gradually the hosts regrouped. Vale's task became even harder when their influential skipper, Scott Manning, who has been in commanding form all season, had to be helped off with a knee injury. Hopefully the injury will quickly clear up and he will be available for some demanding up coming fixtures.
Scott's departure forced the Vale to reshuffle their resources. Park stretched their lead with two further tries one of which was converted.
A unconverted try from Isaac Turton in the seventy first minute gave Park some food for thought but their try with five minutes remaining completed the scoring. The closing minutes belonged to the Vale when they were camped on their opponent's line but were unable to engineer a break through.
For the second week in succession the Vale were able to field the same back division, while there were only three changes in the pack. A settled squad is starting too emerge, although injuries and late cry-offs are not helping, but bonds of teamwork are being forged. Major challenges still await the seconds but they appear better equipped to meet them than they did during the first five games of the season.