Valley secured their first home league points of the season with a comeback win over Coleshill Town.
Late goals from Caine Elliott and substitute Callum Griffin turned things on its head, as Valley boss Grant Joshua was able to enjoy a win over his former side from a game that was a fairly even affair lacking an abundance of clear cut opportunities for either side.
Joshua made two changes to the line-up that had started in the penalty shoot-out Trophy defeat at Worcester with Stan Anaebonam and Ryan Sahota replacing Max Martin and the suspended Bleu McNeil.
Coleshill left-back Harry Sweeney struck a rising effort early on which was pushed over the bar by Marcus Bald after neat interchange play from the visitors on the edge of the Valley penalty area.
At the other end, Cairo Taylor cut in from the right and put in a shot that was deflected for a corner, and then Sahota impressively surged forward with the ball from inside his own half before ending with a strike that lacked the power to trouble Cameron Belford.
Anaebonam, Elliott and Sahota combined well for the hosts in their next attacking move, with Sahota's final pass to Sam Tye just too strong for his skipper to able to make a proper contact with his effort.
Bassit Mandey flashed one across the face of Bald's goalmouth, and Josh Thomas ably cleared a clipped cross from the dangerous-looking Ben Usher-Shipway - which both acted as a reminder of the Colemen's threat though.
Anaebonam's shot from an angled position was blocked after Sahota had slid the ball through to him, and then Elliott did well to play in Taylor - whose cross to the back post was fluffed by Anaebonam.
Thomas was on-hand again to thwart another Coleshill opportunity in the box with an excellently-timed sliding challenge on Usher-Shipway, with Alex McSkeane's speculative effort from distance in the closing moments of the first-half drifting off-target.
Daniel Gyasi's wild strike over the bar after good work from Usher-Shipway marked the opening chance of the new period, before Taylor's first touch let him down after Mardenborough's neat flick looked to have played him in on goal.
Generally, both sides were surrendering possession far too cheaply as the half reached its midway point, with the only shot of note seeing Belford gather Elliott's effort from the edge of the box at the second attempt.
When the stalemate was broken on 69 minutes it was therefore somewhat of the blue with former Valley winger Theo Rowe combining well with Usher-Shipway before firing a low shot into the corner of the net from eighteen yards.
Valley were back level eight minutes later though, when Elliott equalised with a fine finish from outside the box from Griffin's lay-off following good work by Rivel Mardenborough - with the midfielder taking his tally to seven for the season with a cultured side-foot finish from 20 yards.
Coleshill substitute Lukman Darboe struck an effort wide from outside the box after Thomas had appeared to have been pushed down in the build-up, with Usher-Shipway then rolling across a dangerous centre which Rugby just managed to clear.
The winning goal arrived with six minutes of normal time remaining when Griffin spun his man in the box from Sam Tye's throw-in and wrong-footed Belford with a snap-shot near post finish.
Town sub Harrison Nee then nearly successfully chased one down but Belford was out quickly to gather, and Mardenborough launched one wide from the centre circle after Anaebonam had passed the ball onto him - both from quick breaks by the hosts.
Bald preserved the three points for his team in added-time with a superb reaction save to push away Joe Morley's goalbound bouncing volley, before Mardenborough missed the opportunity of properly rounding things off by guiding one wide after Thomas's long clearance had left him clean through in the final action of the game.
Valley
Line-up: Bald; Tye, Lundoloki (West 90'), Thomas, Hanson; Elliott, Sahota (Griffin 59'), Adegoke; Taylor (Kabeya 59'), Anaebonam, Mardenborough. Subs not used: None. Booked: Adegoke, Taylor, Lundoloki.
