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.

Mid week games would be an absolute nightmare for us when you take in to consideration it takes on average four hours for either us or the away teams to travel to the games and bearing in mind the lads are either in college/university or work .

earlier in the season

And also the reason I have suggested a revised format if the competition is to continue

Cant answer the question on selection but on the other point of cancelling games I can honestly say the Crusaders did not cancel any games in fact due to injuries the head coach fought tooth and nail to get the GB boys released so that the games could go ahead but the GB selectors point blank refused. All the Crusaders boys want to do is play rugby and they would not worry about playing 2 games in 1 week, they are quite used to that coming from a union background.