We let ourselves down badly again yesterday. Last minute pullouts etc could give all the excuses in the world, but if you dont play as a unit you wont win games. Credit Bury who played good rugby in the 2nd half, with 13, 15 and 3 going particularly well. Tigers shocking away record continues......On to Fitton Hill next week!

Fitton hill 24 Widnes tigers 26

Following some of the Fitton lads coming to bury last week heckling us from the touch line saying they were going to put 80 on us and 'do in our props' it was nice to see them lose today.

A discusting, dirty team not needed in the league. If any of you are reading this you would be better just picking fights in pubs because a) you might win that fight unlike today when you picked on the wrong set of lads and b) you can't play rugby.

To sum up the game fitton had 2 red card early on following a brawl which saw a fitton coward kick one of our players who was on the floor in the face. Then the match was abandoned after 65 minutes this brawl included their touch line getting involved including a woman who can only be described as a fat extra from shameless kicking our centre in the testicles and one of their players striking a 16 year old spectator who was off the pitch.

The RFL should throw the book at these pillocks


Brain dead thugs and oxygen thieves

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Can't really argue with any of the above apart from the score was actually 24-20 to Tigers. Fitton have some good strong lads but whatever they are injecting is clearly causing them issues.

Any team that has played us will say we are not a dirty side and are hospitable to all opponents, however when threats are made we have no option but to head straight home, particular when Fittons captain is ripping his shirt off to offer a 16 year old and anyone within 10 yards an introduction to his fists. Then there was Vicky Pollard who began hurling abuse at our female spectators when we were departing. Felt sorry for the ref who had no choice but to call time.

Is that who was in the minibus? We thought it was some of your lads. Sounds like an interesting game, not surprised at what you're saying if I'm honest. Was the ginger winger involved?



Anyway, we lost 20-12 at Wigan Bulldogs. Had 8 first-choice players missing at a wedding, a patched up team with lads out of position throughout, and by an hour had only had one fit sub. We were probably the better side for the first 20 minutes but a ripped ball in a 2-man tackle saw Wigan score against the run of play. We lost form from then on and a string of penalties and errors gifted them points - a 14-point advantage we never recovered from though if we'd converted our tries would've been 20-18. Did ourselves no favours with a terrible completion rate.

Hope we don't get this ref again. It's the third time and I'd say he's crap but that's being nice. Allowing dragging players into touch, losing 15 metre advantage from a knock-on, calling players out of touch from 40 metres away - he let Wigan and their touchline ref the game. One of their lads lifted our little full back (only 5'4"ish) upside down, legs vertical, head down, and he didn't penalise. At one point Wigan knocked on, we appealed and he said "it was only a little one, I'll let it go." WTF??

Wigan played it tough and crossed the line quite often with high tackles, elbows, punches, late shots, etc. None of our lads reacted but in the end two of theirs were sin-binned after one kicked off (again) and the other swore at the ref.

*edit - forgot to mention we kicked off 30+ minutes late due to football traffic. Most of the squad were there but the coach and kit didn't make it until 2.45. No warm-up or prep, straight into kick-off, in fact we only had 12 men on the pitch.

Not really surprised with the Fitton report, we had a bit of an incident in their pub a couple of years ago. Very surprised with the Bulldogs report though, we've always had tough games with them at their place but nothing really to write home about. For what it's worth & from what I've seen this division will be between Bulldogs & Orrell, two decent sides.

Little Hulton Reds 38-24 Ashton Bears A.
Really pleased with the young lads today who travelled with a bare 13 & had to call on an 'experienced' coach as the sub. At one point the combined age of our front row was higher than the rest of the team combined! Credit to LH though, they used their big lads very well & ran out deserved winners as did our 1st team with 4 of our squad called up at short notice. Hopefully back to normality next week when we host New Springs in our 1st home game of the season.

1) yes Cronus the mini bus at your place was their idiots
2) the ginger winger I believe was the one who got red for kicking a grounded defensless man in the face
3) I doubt any of their players have the interlect to turn a computer on to read this.

The ginger scores winger wasn't sent off, it was the other winger and the lad who started at hooker who got their matching orders. Fitton do have a few decent players to be fair, but will end up being another team spoilt by idiots on and off the pitch.

Bury 38 - 26 Orrell

Pleased to get the win today over a previously undefeated Orrell. Several first choice players still missing and a bit light on the bench but several lads stepped up today and took us forward. Orrell have several big units who run and tackle hard but tire quickly, and a few good runners, but I didn't think we were ever in danger of losing after about 30 minutes, only strings of errors and penalties kept putting us on the back foot to concede points. When we played territory and kept our game simple we controlled the game well.

With Wigan dropping a point at Widnes it's starting to get interesting at the top!

Ashton A 10-42 New Springs
It'd be very easy to blame missing players etc for this but that'd be very unfair on New Springs who picked up every dropped ball and capitalised on every mistake we made today. We just didn't turn up & NS played very well. No histrionics from us, just the hard work to get us back to where we need to be.

Widnes Tigers 18 Wigan Bulldogs 18

Wigan will certainly feel they got out jail yesterday. One of their props inexplicably booted one of our lads on the floor but only got a yellow. 10-10 at HT, Tigers took a 12-10 lead going into the last 20, but then conceded a poor try from a length of the field effort an the dogs went 16-12 up with ten left, Tigers scored a good try and converted to hold a 2 point advantage only for the ref to give a penalty to Wigan after the ball came loose, which their player missed with the goal kick, but the ref awarded the goal!

Feels like a loss to us but we feel we have played the 3 best sides away now and hope to notch a few wins in the next few weeks and climb the league.

Disappointing day for us. First Bank Quay Bulls rang to concede against our 2nds at 1.30.

Why they couldn't have figured that out earlier I don't know but extremely frustrating.

Then our 1sts we went down 10-8 at Ashton Bears. Couldn't get there but believe neither team played particularly well. Missed our final conversion to miss out on a point - kicking has cost us very dearly in every point dropped this year. From what I hear we tried too much one-up rugby down the middle and far too many errors and penalties in the 2nd half killed us off. We always score points shipping the ball wide - why some lads can't get that through their heads I don't know! Anyway, congratulations to Ashton - always strong in defence and sounds like you did the basics much better than we did.

Also believe an Ashton lad was taken from the field in an ambulance with a knee injury, hope it's not too serious.

Ashton Bears A 10-8 Bury Broncos.
If I'm honest Cronus I thought Bury played better today than they have in the last 2 times we've played you. Having said that I think our pace and defence forced you into the one out stuff. Each to his own I suppose.
A much improved performance from us and although we weren't spectacular I thought we were always in control. Another decent game though between two evenly matched sides, think there's been 2 points between us over 3 games now.

Just heard from our lad & he's dislocated his right knee. Will only know about ligament damage when the swelling goes down.

Chester 8 Widnes Tigers 28

Travelled with 12 lads unavailable and still managed a solid win. 16-0 up at HT then hardly saw the egg in the second half and had to settle for breakaway tries to seal the game. Credit Chester and their pack for continuing to run all game.

Next up Ashton at home where we will certainly be looking to continue our recent good form, but will be without dipper who is off on his jollys!

Widnes Tigers 18 Ashton 0

Solid enough performance from us today. Always in control of the game and probably should have put Ashton away today. Their lads ran hard all day, conditions unfavourable for both sides so nice to get a clean sheet and jump above Ashtoj in the league!

Mancunians 12 : 52 Bury

Was an evening kick-off so result not yet on the league website.

Bury went 20 nil up, loss of concentration conceded 2 tries but 32 nil in 2nd half. Another lad in hospital though...injuries mounting at minute!!!

Quite an even game I thought, with both sides having tries disallowed. Tigers used their big lads well & were deserved winners. The small pitch & the refs interpretation of 10m prevented any hopes of open play though. A frustrating day for us but onwards & upwards.

Did you play MG?

No, coach.

As an aside, I heard off one of 4 of my lads who played for our 1sts yesterday & apparently their game was held up for 40 minutes for one of Haresfinches lads who had a neck injury. Hope it's not serious & he's fit & well soon enough.

Were you the one on the refs back from second 1 until he blew up on 76 mins?

No, wrong one. From what I could hear & see the ref seemed to have loads of people in his ear from all round the pitch.

Little Hulton 12 - 33 Bury

Was 1 - 0 to Bury for a spell...

We laboured to a 36-22 win yesterday over New Springs who must have improved since their 72-0 loss to Orrell. NS will certainly win some more games this season.

Anyone know the score with Hindley A?

We're due to play Hindley on a weekend when they haven't a 1st team game. Having beaten certain sides last year easily only to play them again on the day their 1st team didn't play, and we then lost, we'll be interested in what's going on...should they simply drop out?

NCL website has Hindley down as being away at Crosfields. Not sure what's happening at Hindley but any club that's got enough players to run two teams would be daft not to use them to fulfill fixtures.