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

Sorry to hear that Waterhead have had to drop out of the league, would not wish that on any team.

Not really, we would have expected a bigger scoreline based on the previous game, but its just that we have only had one game in a month and the lads are busting to have a game.
We travel to the Miners on sunday who, on their showing this year, are the best team in the league but the lads are really looking forward to it. The lads dont mind who they play they just want to play.

Must admit it does sound like it though...........

The game against Leigh Miners on Sunday has been cancelled out of respect to Jon Davies who died in a tragic accident on Wednesday.
Jon was a well liked and respected player with the Colts, a young man with a big future and a true gentleman.

R.I.P young fella.

Condolences to he's family.

Tragic news. What a waste of a young life. RIP.

The same thing happened to us at King Cross six years ago. We lost one of our U18s in a car crash. The lad was buried in his 6 shirt and this season is the first since then that we have played with a no 6.

sad news RIP young man

Any games on tomorrow?

GATESHEAD 4 V 60 LEIGH MINERS

ANY MORE GAMES 2DAY?

Leigh East 50 Skolars/Hemel 0

The London team only had 12 players turn up

No game for us today because the pitch was frozen. Only played one game in seven weeks

same here very frustrating!!

Yep, and played the whole of the 2nd half with 10 (and for a 10 minute period 9 ) players...........again !

Was it due to injuries, or simply the lads not turning up?

I hear rumblings of discontent coming from Siddal.

Lack of interest and little team spirit.

Could be another team casualty before the season ends.

I hope not, losing teams like this can only be bad for the game in general.

Both but I believe there is enough determination within the set up for it to succeed. Numbers we can improve and their collective heart can't be questioned.

I think the concept of the NYL needs to change if it is to continue

At this level having clubs as widespread as Cumbria,Gatehead,Hemel and Bridgend as well as Hull is a very difficult situation


I can see a situation where more NL/Championship clubs use the NYL to develop thier juniors be that by running teams themselves [ Like Celtic,Skolars and Keighley or by association to local amatuer clubs [ possibly Fev using the Lions and Oldham using Waterhead/saddleworth

Then if more clubs can be found a regionalised comp either a North [ yorkshire with gateshead and Cumbria south [ Lancashire with Celtic/Hemel or an east west

Can`t believe it our game is off again

Why, haven't you got 200 to pick from.

The lads want to play but Mr. Frosty had other ideas




On a more serious note how are the league going to catch up with the backlog of games before the play offs

on national cup weekends when teams arent involved and midweek games thats all i can think of.