COMEBACK kid Stuart Rudd gave FC United a taste of what they've been missing as he climbed off the subs' bench to fire them into the UniBond President's Cup quarter-finals.
Rudd showed he's not lost his scoring touch during a long injury absence by latching on to Rory Patterson's cross to net an 82nd minute winner against Rossendale.
Patterson had earlier broke the deadlock with a clever 55th minute lob over the advancing Lee Bracey and, though Matt Edgington pulled a goal back after Rudd had made it 2-0, the rebel Reds held on to book a last-eight trip to Nantwich.
2 Liam Foster
3 Bradley Howard
4 Nicky Platt
5 Adam Turner
6 Rob Nugent
7 Adam Carden
8 Chris Baguley
9 Simon Carden
10 Jerome Wright
11 Rory Patterson(captain)
Subs Used
12 Stuart Rudd(for 9 71mins)
14 Josh Howard(for 8, 63 mins)
15 Jamie Baguley(for 7, 67 mins)
Attendance 1554
Scorers Patterson 54 Rudd 80, Edington 84,