Andy Todd could have a difficult decision to make at training this week.

The 38-year-old full back has already been pencilled in to play at Baildon next Saturday in a veterans' match for Wib-sey alongside Richard King and Mark Ryan.

But if youngster Steve Had-croft is again not available, Todd will probably be needed for the first-team's match at Thirsk.

He may be in the late autumn of his career but Todd's skills provided the match-turning moment in this Yorkshire Divi-sion Five North West derby just when it looked as if Burley were going to complete a double.

Running down the left-centre channel, his sublime chip - born of a soccer background that led to him playing for Bradford Boys at Hampden Park - and catch set up Wibsey's clinching try in the 78th minute.

The rest of a stunning attack was down to the timing of the passes and men in support.

Todd scuttled forward and found centre Jamie Vogel on his shoulder and he then off-loaded to fly half Karl Walker, who plunged over the line to send Wibsey's travelling support delirious.

Todd, who converted the score, later explained why he had been promoted from the A team.

He said: "Our skipper Rob Greenwood asked me at training last week if I was available and I said 'I will help you out if you are short - as long as you don't ask me to play fly half'."

Todd may have provided the spark that led to the clinching points but he felt he owed his team something after spilling the first kick he fielded and missing penalties in the 49th, 64th and 68th minutes in a

second half that threatened to remain pointless.

He added: "Our young lads didn't deserve to lose that game - Jamie is a very talented player. We were the best side but we didn't convert our opportunities."

As for the match itself, Todd said: "For the first 20 minutes we rucked out and cleaned out but they came back at us - not through their great play but because of missed touch kicks from Karl, Dan Horsfall and myself.

"When Richard Hands came on at No 8 after an hour he tidied things up and got us going forward.

"The young lads sometimes want to play without a proper platform but Richard ensured we had that."

Todd said a lot of the credit for Wibsey's revival - they have now won three league matches out of five - was down to fitness conditioner Pete May.

The full back said: "Twelve months ago we would not have won this game but Pete, who played for us for 20 years, has made a huge difference with his sessions - he's even got me doing it.

"And the proof is that we beat Garforth in the last five minutes and we won this match in the last five minutes."

Referee John Riley, praised by Wibsey afterwards for knowing what was going on in the forwards, was not, however, Burley's cup of tea.

Their skipper Andy Bissett said: "The referee gave some strange penalties against players from our team but he has known some of our players a long time and we had a bad experience with him last season.

"However, I don't like blaming officials for defeats and we could have won it at the death."

In a picturesque setting near Kirkstall Abbey, Burley made the worst possible start by being offside at their own kick-off, and Wibsey went ahead in the 12th minute.

Always prepared to move the ball, they set right winger Matt Holdsworth away. He was half-checked but just had enough time to regain his feet and stretch past another defender to put the ball down.

And they crossed the whitewash again in the 20th minute, prop and man of the match Bob Wood getting the touchdown after flanker Jamie Birkbeck had caught a line-out and been driven forwards some five metres.

Burley replied in the 29th minute. Horsfall's clearance was hurried and flanker Richard Schmidt barrelled his way over down the slope.

Scrum half Paul Wheeler converted and it was his patience in seeking out the right option that paid dividends in the 34th minute,

centre Henry Bisson making the break and No 8 Ian Burrows getting the try.

Wheeler converted to give

the hosts a 14-12 interval advantage and could have added to that but was wide with a penalty in the 39th minute.

The second half was largely

a scrappy stalemate but Todd had to be alert in the 59th minute to drop on a ball that was spinning towards his own line after Karl Walker had a kick charged down.

Todd's 64th-minute penalty attempt was unusual in that it was retaken because second-row Michael Taylor tried to charge it down but he missed both efforts anyway.

Even after that, though, Wibsey had some nervous moments. Greenwood was sin-binned in injury time for throwing the ball away and Burley knocked on when they had a two-man overlap down the left in the last attack.