You seem to be having a good season which, from a neutrals point of view is good to see. Can you tell us a bit of background to the squad - how have they been recruited, experience, are they enjoying it as much as the results suggest.

There`s not much to tell really, this is their first season playing together, and they all come from a rugby union background although two of the lads had a couple of games for the Colts last season. As far as recruitment goes, the Crusaders held a trials day where 105 lads turned up and the squad was selected from that, although the coaches are always on the look out for new talent.
As far as enjoyment goes from what I can see the lads are absolutely loving it and that is reflected in the results I suppose. Ten of the boys who are involved in the Crusaders set up represented Wales in Prague earlier this year where they won the European championship and seven of the current squad are involved with the current GB under 18 community Lions.
As I stated on a different forum thousands of talented youngsters play rugby in Wales every weekend most of whom have been throwing a rugby ball around since the age of six. With the Crusaders opening the player pathways now through the schools the potential for rugby league in Wales is massive.

and will most likely miss the rest of the season but it is healing ok

Broken ribs still hasn't played , might play next weekend 29 th nov

Glad to hear it is healing ok, just a shame that he has to miss the rest of the season. Best wishes and a speedy recovery from all of us down here.

Leigh East 6 Leigh Miners 44 tonight at Ledgard Ave in front of about 3-400 spectators

A depleted Easts struggled against an up for it Miners team that showed some quality tonight

North London Stags 32 - 24 Featherstone Lions

No game for us this weekend or next. The RFL have stopped the GB boys playing, and along with injuries we are unable to field a side.


Leigh Miners are setting the standards in this league but excellent results for both North London and Gateshead who seem to be hitting a bit of form.

Didn't you have 120 attend trials?
So lets do some maths. 7/8 of the boys are with GB and a few injured thats still about 90 odd boys to pick from.

Doesn't sound like East Leeds are too impressed with the call off. They reckon they've lost £1000s in lost hotel bookings.

Siddal could only raise 14 players last week but they still travelled all the way down to fulfil the fixture.

There was 105 lads in the trials but obviously the club did not sign them all.
We want to play as much as much as any team in this league the lads were gutted there was no game this weekend. We played against Featherstone and Ince with 14 lads but with 7/8 in the GB squad, 2 out with long term injuries (broken jaw and shoulder injury) and 2 out with a virus there was no way we could field a team.

I know its early days but due to the weather can anybody up north let me know if any of the games for this weekend are cancelled.

Any news on games being postponed?

None as yet, bright but cloudy today no wind and no snow.

Thanks for the info.

INCE ROSE BRIDGE 4 V 34 LEIGH MINERS

miners won again scoring 7 tries to rose bridge 1 in a cold scrappy friday night game.

some of the foul and abusive language aimed at the referee from a small section of the rose bridge crowd was disgusting.

East Leeds v North London is off

gates head /Leigh east off

ANY GAMES PLAYED 2DAY?

Featherstone 8 Crusaders 30

leigh miners v keithley off 2nite

game now being played on sunday half 1 ko

Our game on the weekend was called off because unfortunately Waterhead were unable to field a team. I thought the game would have been postponed but it looks like the game will not go ahead now and we were awarded a 18-0 win, which is a little disappointing to say the least

LEIGH MINERS 22 V20 KEITHLEY COUGAR CUBS

MINERS STARTED WELL AND GOT THEMSELVES INTO A 10-0 LEAD, KEITHLEY HIT BACK TO SCORE 2 TRIES TO TAKE THE HALF TIME SCORE 12-10 TO THE VISITORS, IN THE 2ND HALF IT WAS A HARD FOUGHT CONTEST IN TERRIBLE WEATHER THE CUBS SCORED AGAIN TO MAKE THE SCORE 18-10 THEN ADDED A PENALTY GOAL TO TAKE THERE LEAD TO 10 POINTS.MINERS HAD TO DIG DEEP TO GET BACK INTO THE GAME AND WITH 9MINUTES TO GO THEY SCORED, THE TRY WAS CONVERTED TO GIVE THE SCORE 20-16 TO THE CUBS,MINERS SCORED AGAIN WITH 3 OR 4 MINUTES TO GO OR SO WE THOUGHT,THE GOAL WAS CONVERTED AND THE REF BLEW UP TO GIVE THE FINAL SCORE 22-20 IN LEIGH MINERS FAVOUR.

MINERS WERE FAR FROM THERE BEST BUT CREDIT TO KEITHLEY THEY WERE OUTSTANDING AND THEY DESERVED TO WIN TONIGHT AND IM SURE THEY ARE WONDERING WERE THEM 3 OR 4 REMAINING MINUTES WENT AFTER THE FINAL MINERS KICK WENT OVER.

SHOULD BE A CRACKER SUNDAY AS MINERS ENTERTAIN CELTIC CRUSADERS

Just been told that East Leeds Vs Waterhead is off as Waterhead have dropped out of the league

Translated to say "that we had a full strenght team that would have chalked up lots of points"


[size=59But dont ask us to play when we only have 13 not so good players.[/size