cadishead rhinos av been awarded the points from our game with thatto ref my earlyer rant.a number of eliagable players was sighted as the reason

correct result in my view rhino all the best for the rest of the season

Hindley 18-0 Thatto Heath A - Failed to raise a team again.

like i said they should not be in the league
wasting everyones time, the only time they raise a team is when one of the other sides have no game

Cobras 24 - 4 Cadishead Rhinos

Both teams had weaker sides out than the 1st game, we had 8 lads on a stag do so had to draft in 2nds (again) but they did good, although that meant our 2nds going to Leigh with only 13 men!!??? Cadishead had 5 U18s in I believe and they all did good!!

Was a scrappy game with the weather although our pitch help up fine & the ref was sshi11te, kept pulling me n albino when we were only having a bit of banter?

On a sour note one of there lads went to AnE after an high Tackle of Jo, don't think Jo meant it at all, still got sent off so had to play half a game with 12!!

I'm out for rest of season with an ACL injury...dame!

Are Thatto not being thrown out of our division????

Thatto Heath Crusaders A have today notified the NWC that we will be withdrawing to Division 4. We have sent the following E-mail to Ron Girvin to notify him.

We cannot see any real prospect of raising a 3rd team any time in the near future and feel that it would be in the best interests of all concerned if we were to withdraw from NWC Div 4 with immediate effect. Obviously it is deeply regretable having pushed so hard to be included in the division that it has come to this but I don't think it is fair to waste the time of the other clubs in the division by living in hope that we may be able to field a team anytime soon.
If we were to continue giving up games on a weekly basis I feel that it would devalue the competition and be disrespectful to the other clubs in the division, thus harming the reputation of our club in the process. I can only apologise on behalf of the Open Age set up at Thatto Heath Crusaders to the NWC League and the other member clubs in Division 4, at the time of entering we felt we were in a strong position to proceed with an extra team, however the club has been let down by the by the commitment of some players that indicated their willingness to turn out in the beginning. Hopefully a 3rd team maybe something we can revisit with more success in the near future.



Just to clear a few things up about the way we entered the league late. Our request was initially turned down by the League and it was only after a lot of pleading e-mails from our club that we were allowed to enter Division 4 with the withdrawal of a couple of teams freeing up space. Ideally we would have liked to have begun in Division 6 as this would have suited the standard of our players much better. Unfortunately this wasn't possible due to the already large numbers in that division.

Apologies once again to all of the clubs and players in NWC Division 4.

Andy Houghton
Open Age Team Manager
Thatto Heath Crusaders

Saddleworth V Cobras PP... waterlogged pitch

I know hindley did Mayfield 4? - 6

any other scores??

what happened with the swan vrs eccles

Good game at Waterhead the final score was Waterhead 14 Bamber Bridge 30, both teams having lots of good young lads on show. Anyone come up with what happened at Eccles yet?

Swans were winning 12-10 then match abandoned and the ref put a score of 16-12 to Eccles

How does that work?

We beat mayfield 40-6. Mayfield put in alot of effort and never gave up (good set of lads) and the game was played in the right spirit but the result was never in any doubt and we blew at least 3 or 4 clear cut chances early in the game.

i was after your thoughts on number of teams who should be promoted this year with there only being 9 teams left.the norm is 3up 2 down and with my team aving a outside chance of makeing the top 3 be intresting to ere your thoughts. so here is my view i think 3 up no relagation cause there teams down there apart from waterhead av put teams out ever week and with 3 dropping out i think unfair punish the team still in the league

Think 3 up is right this year Hindley with either Cobras, Cadishead or Mayfield filling the other two spots.

I think waterhead should go down for their own good, there team is now the U18s team and although there is some talent in the team I dont feel they are up to it yet, that said the difference between 3 n 4 is not much!!!! we had a better side last year and found it harder!!

we lost to Hindley 24-10 on sat, good hard clean game ref was awful!!! don't think we would have won with or without him but he spoiled a close game!!

"difference between 3 n 4 is not much!!!!"

I mean 4 and 5!!!!!

sure we (Cobras) will find out about 3 next season!!

rhinos beat cobras it was a tough game we again only had 2 subs and by half time we had 13 fit players score was 23 16 a late drop goal and try with the last play off the game sealed it for us.so its any 2 now from rhinos saddleworth and corbas .well done hindley there champions now i beleave great team .

you sure???

Cadishead aint ever beat cobras!!!!!

haha my apologues i ment mayfield

Yeh hindley guarenteed finish top with a win last week against bamber bridge. Was a tough game this weekend v cobras, ref was terrible for both sides but slighty favoured us in fairness. Cadishead away and waterhead at home left to go unbeaten in the league which will be two tough games if waterhead turn up.

cadishead 12 hindley 28 best team won young team well done hindley hopefully see you lads next year

As suspected wterhead didnt travel today they let us know at 1.15pm that they werent coming. Unbeaten season tho and mayfield in bowl cup next weekend

Pathetic really

least we got a run out against Spring View

eccles didnt turn up at our place either but they were kind anoth to ring at 2oclock

So is it just between rangers and rhinos for 2nd with us beating cobras twice?

yeah looks that way

saddleworth 26 cadishead rhinos30 which means we finish in 2nd place well done to both teams saturday apart from the one idiot from saddleworth who whilst i myself was lying injured {neck injury} told me to hurry up and die .a disgrace to him self and his club he got 10 mins in the bin for it .good luck to ever one for the furture