Latchford 40 spring view 18
Which was Probably the score and the penalty count as well!!!

Good result pal. What's happened to SV this year?

They weren't a bad side to be honest,the ref just seemed to dislike them!!
We must have had 20 penalties in the 2nd half and at one point they were down to 11 men due to dissent

St Judes 20 - Bold Miners 32

We find ourselves 6-10 points down early in a lot of games, but on Friday night we raced to a 16-0 lead in about 10 minutes, Judes came back at us and stuck at it for the full 80. The opening really was the difference, still things to work on and improve for us but 3 wins from 3 is a great start and hopefully we can continue.

Another unbeaten team for us this week Leigh Miners and we will be preparing for a hard game, we had some good games against them in NWC 1 and a cup game in 2010/11 season.

The Leyland result was a surprise, was the 24-0 against Latchford a forfeit the week before?

Yeah leyland couldn't raise a side against us which they'd a strange as they have win every other game!!
Was a good win at st.judes for you as they are usually a tough team to beat at home
Shaping up to be a close league this season

Never played against Leyland or heard much about them, but giving the game to putting 50 on one of the early front runners seemed a big turnaround!!

I think it will be a very close league and can't see any 1 team running away with it.

From our initial games I can't see Spring View or Haresfinch being without points for long and think it's the kind of division where anyone can beat anyone on their day.

Struggling for numbers mate, travelled with 14 men again yesterday, i popped my ribs in the first ten minutes which left us with 13, the lad who came on for me was playing his first game of rugby league!

Trouble is we had a small squad to start of with and once you get lads working, and on stag dos etc etc aswell as the wigan v saints game kicking off at the same time we are gonna be struggling. We've been nowere near turning the side out that won the league last year...we have only lost one lad whos retired through injury, its just lads arent available on Saturdays at this time of year.

We could just do with 3/4 more regulars to fill the gaps when were short, but the thing is with local sides such as Pats, IRB, Judes, Cuthberts, Hindley & Riversiders turning 2 and some cases 3 teams out, then there arent many lads to pick from, we are relying on new lads that are brand new to the game.

Hopefully its as bad as its gonna get and things will start picking up. We play you men in midweek I think so we will see if we can turn a stronger side out.

I didnt see much of the game after I went off but im led to believe the referee was a disgrace.

To be honest I spoke to him just before the kick off and at the toss and he was an arogant git then aswell...I tried to tell him that we had glass and dog under our sticks he basically said "what do you want me to do about it!"....idiot.

Fair credit to your guys,they never took a backward step all game
Ref was unreal I've never seen a penalty count like it,no wonder yr guys were getting so wound up he was penalising you for absolutely anything
Could have been a much closer score on another day,it was only last 10 min when you were knackered that we scored a couple of tries

Seen Ste Worrall on tv before Albion. Fook me his highlights are getting worse.

Ha ha i'll tell him he nees them re-doing!!
z and his little joey too,lucky I had it on sky plus as missed the beginning,it was only when z put it on Facebook I knew about it and watched it
They'll get some stick for that ha
Pity bout result tho!!

With hindsight (a wonderful thing), Leyland shouldn't have tried to play the rescheduled Latchford game last weekend. Sufficient players had put their hands up but as the week progressed, players dropped off one by one until there wasn't a team available.

The Warriors are a very young side who like to play a fast and expansive game, 5 teenagers played on Friday. An old timer at IRB asked me where Leyland sign all their players from. He looked stunned when I told him they had almost all come through the juniors as he didn't know there was a club there! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. . . .

Ha ha ha. Ste / Chesney here!!

Glad you saw my tv appearance on Sunday!! And i'l have you know that i havent had any highlights in months. Maybe i need to get them again though if I look that bad without them!

Looking forward to our game with you guys next month!

I'm sure it was only due to the camera angle!!
Can I get yr autograph please?

Good win again today 34 18 against IRB.

Good win for Bold too. Getting good this league.

It was a good win for us, Leigh Miners are a very well organised side.

Both teams made quite a lot of errors and there was a high penalty count 20-odd - 13 in our favour I think.

They had a lad in sin bin as well, we had a lot of possession and territory in the final quarter and got 2 tries to seal it.

We have still not put together a very good 80 minutes but have won each game with bursts of tries. We have periods in every game where we can't complete and give away strings of penalties which needs sorting out or eventually it will cost us a game.

I think the main difference yesterday was the fact Leigh did it more than us! To be fair though I would rather be in this position than thinking we are playing really well but still getting beat.

Scrappy win for HfH over Haresfinch 20 28

We produced probably our best team performance of the season on Saturday, beat Rochdale Mayfield 50-6 scoring 10 tries and only conceding very late on.

Looks like it only me and you and posting pal. Shame cos I know the other teams in our division like to post.

Leigh Miners 26-28 Leyland Warriors

A tough game in scorching conditions, we only had 14 men and no forwards on the bench, fair play to our lads a great effort even if we did almost lose it at the end!

That's a fine result to go there short of numbers in that heat, well done.

HFH - when we were in Division 1 the last 2 winter seasons I was always a bit jealous of the other divisions who had good threads with plenty of banter on here, maybe it will pick up as we really get going.

Don't worry, it usually picks up as the season progresses.

Good work fellas. Already got more posters

Hopefully we'll get more on so this thread can get flowing!

Oldham away Saturday for us, rearranged from last week....hope they can raise a side.

Sorry not been posting as much as usual....been abit pre occupied with home stuff and a set if broken ribs thanx to one of Latchfords finest!

Oldham were very poor when they played us but at least they played it.