The great end of season competition for our local amateur sides starts tomorrow night.....

All Matches are being played at Ince Rose Bridge.....

Preliminary Round
Wednesday 4th May: Hindley 32 Spring View 40
Monday 9th May: Ince Rose Bridge v Shevington - POSTPONED (Shevington Pulled Out)

Quarter Finals
Wednesday 11th May: Wigan St Cuthberts 12 Wigan St Patricks 20
Friday 13th May: Hindley "A" 10 Ashton Bears 34
Saturday 14th May: Wigan St Judes 52 Spring View 18
Tuesday 17th May: Wigan Bulldogs 12 Ince Rose Bridge 60

Semi Finals
Semi Final 1 - Saturday 21st May: Ashton Bears 18 Wigan St Pats 36
Semi Final 2 - Sunday 22nd May: Wigan St Judes 16 Ince Rose Bridge 36

Final: Saturday 28th May 2:30pm: Ince Rose Bridge v Wigan St Pats

Cuthberts v St Pats has the makings of a good ole punch up.

That pitch is going to take some hammer, it was very poor for the three academy games on Saturday.

And Wigan Under 15s & 16s both play on it again on Saturday. It was a proper rock hard dust bowl last year off memory. It didn't look a nice pitch to play on.

There's another two on it this weekend before all this kicks off too.

It is the law that the Ken Gee Cup should be played on dust bowl pitches.

Welcome to Amateur Summer Rugby

Can't wait for the start of the Ken Gee, I absolutely love playing in this competition.

Only thing I'm not looking forward too is breathing and eating dust for 80mins and smashing into that rock hard ground. Ah well, be reet when the mighty Bears win it

I cant believe I'm gonna miss playing in it again ! Always seem to pick up injuries near the end of the bl00dy season.. anyways I'll try and get down to cheer the lads on , Come on Hindley !!!

Ill be cheering on Rosebridge

I long for the days of Coronation park and finals at Central park

SV 42-30 Hindley. Great effort by our fellas toneet, enjoyed it.

I'm informed Shevington have had to pull out so presumably Ince Rose Bridge go straight into the Quarter Finals.

Apparently so. Word goin round after the game. There has been a bereavement.

Indeed, I think I was told about this the other day sadly but not the time or place to discuss it on here.

I totally agree.

springview will have to improve alot if they want to beat st judes next week!

I remember the pitch being really bad last year surely, the "powers that be" should look at other venues with better pitches and give other local amateur clubs the opportunity of hosting the competition rather than the same club year in year out.

That pitch was bordering dangerous last night....aswelll as being as hard as Asda car park, it also had pot holes all around the middle of the pitch, some 3/4 inches deep, deadly on the ankles. I pointed it out to the ref.

Summer rugby.......not for me unless sides invest in decent sprinklers!

Bump....Cuthberts vs Pats tonight

Any idea how much it is to get in, price isn't an issue to me but me fatherinlaws thinking of coming and he's as tight as cramp

Off memory it isn't much. Fiver at most. I really can't recall though.

Cheers Bilko, I know a tight who's going to be miserable all night if he has to fork out that much

2 quid I think

do you know if springview can raise a team for saturday?

Can raise a team mate and were gonna give it a right good go. Gonna be honest and say that we are gettin on for ten lads short of our strongest 17, but I think you men might already know were struggling. It's one of the lad s stag do. But no excuses.....we entered it knowing this so were just gonna have to live with it, got a few young keen lads from the second team ready to step up. So we will see....were looking forward to it.