Hilton Park have withdrawn from the league

Any idea of the reason behind why they have withdrew? i know numbers are not everything but they seemed to have a decent size squad both times we played them, had an ok set up and some decent players, bet thier fines bill was a hefty one though!

Strange game for us against Hindpool last weekend, picked up the win which is always nice but the game lacked intensity, both teams wanted to throw the ball about which provided some good rugby from both sides, but on the other hand both sides would feel they could play a lot better as it was really scrappy game with too many mistakes.

Hilton Park's Twitter and Pitchero have both been deleted.

Weren't Hilton Park formed from the double relegation and fall-outs at Leigh East? A lot of their squad were ex-Easts. Wonder if some of that has resurfaced. Shame, always good to see new amateur clubs.

Something here on the Leigh East forum leigheast.forumup.co.uk/about5824-leigheast.html I wasnt there on Saturday Dime Bar and not taking anything away from yourselves but heard we played awful which at least means we are consistant because we havent played well away from home yet this season.

Something here on the Leigh East forum leigheast.forumup.co.uk/about5824-leigheast.html I wasnt there on Saturday Dime Bar and not taking anything away from yourselves but heard we played awful which at least means we are consistant because we havent played well away from home yet this season.

Shame they couldnt keep going, i did have a little chuckle over the link above regarding the prop with the ban over his head, sure he came back from a ban for our game, then in that game he got sin binned, came back on then lasted 10 mins then got sent off! shame for them was he was a decent player when on the field.......

I'm not surprised with the feedback you got! both teams were not great just a decent 20 mins from ourselves seen us through, but as i said a wins a win. We have Culcheth away this Saturday, never played them before always nice to play a new team.

Decent enough side. Nothing spectacular but carry out the basics very well, tightly drilled. They'll also get in your faces and try and bully things, and like to throw high shots, elbows, knees etc, but I'm sure you fellas will handle that. Just make sure you don't react, in our first 2 games against them we had 4 sent off and 4 sin-bins, and we're far from being a dirty side.

After speaking to hilton park last week on twitter then where sorry they couldnt fufil the fixure saying then had internal issues but would be back on the pitch this week so dnt really know whats happened

we are home to accrington know nothing about them what so ever

Cheers Cronus, looking forward to it should be nice weather wise which is always a bonus! only downside to summer rugby is the bloody cuts on kness and elbows that lasts for weeks on end!!! How are you lads getting on? i know when we was in same league you was a bit unlucky with numbers.

Accrington are ok, when we went to thier place the pitch was very narrow and it suited thier game. They had a big prop who could shift when he got going and even put the odd kick in which a surprise to us!! and a decent scrum half which everything went through, i would expect bamber bridge to win this one..

Yeah we struggled badly for a season or two, half the squad ended up having to take jobs with 1-on 1-off Saturday shifts and we lost a few others for various reasons. One week we'd have 20 lads, the next barely 10. I remember the season we ended up not playing you boys at all...

Since the full summer switch we've recruited well and are running 2 teams this year. Work is still a big issue, and in summer weddings, holidays and things like music festivals but we've got big numbers even if many are novices and RU converts. All in all, going well.

Good luck tomorrow!

bamber bridge 50 -12 accrington a solid performance by us to much dropped ball from and for long spells we had to defend our line accrington kept coming all day and had a few players missing but all in all a good win for us

woolston 20- bamber bridge 44 a really good 1st half 30 -8 up at half time then 2nd half just got lazy and took our foot of the gas not happy, another tough away at hindpool this week tried to get fixtured moved 6 weeks ago but couldnt no idea what tema is going be had 10 players out yesterday and picked more injuries up yesterday fair to play to woolston who kept going all day

Another good result for Culcheth against a determined Cadishead side, going into half time with a 28 point lead Culcheth lost some focus in the second half which became a bit scrappy.

hindpool 28-8 bamber bridge 8 awful performance from us shocking to my dropped balls esp in 2nd half gave them 3 quick trys in 1st half , no excuses that we had 8 players missing or coach was late the better team won on the day simple as that well played hindpool,also i liked to say sorry for the idiot who came with and coming on pitch at half time he embrassed our club and will not be coming again all best for rest of the season lads

A below par performance from Eagles managed to scrape them a win against Pilks. hard work on the training field before a journey to face the challenges that Bamber Bridge have to offer..... expecting a good game

bamber bridge 56-16 eccelston lions a good reaction after last weeks poor game by us,1st half blew them out of the water and as usually 2nd half slacked something that has to be address eccleston kept coming all day and has some strong running forwards and a good full back and never stopped, now on to next week big game agaisnt cultheth not played them for a long time looking forward to welcoming tehm next week hope weather was like yesterday

Big game for Eagles this week, looking forward to what should be a great game at Bamber Bridge

Gutted on our 1st defeat of the season but not taking anything away from HINDPOOL. The referee we had, had never reffed before and this was he's 1st game. He was a joke and should never do he's job again. He shouldn't of been in charge of a game which was way out of he's league it's a disgrace!! Onwards and upwards tho we had to get beat at some point well played lads

Haha, don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.
This was not that refs 1st game he has been doing it a good few years. He was awful (for both teams) but he is not the reason you got beat. Best team won on the day

bamber bridge 28-10 cultech tough tough game some sore bodies i bet in both camps,a bit scrappy in 1st 10-15 min from both teams dropped balls and pens but settled into a really good game some big shots going in and some nice trys in perfect weather to play rugby,

Hindpool 26-22 Wildboars

Good even game I thought. Boars were better 1st half and Hindpool ha the better of the 2nd.

Anybody got any prediction for this weeks games? The Portico and Wild Boars game should be a belter.

Pilkington Recs vs. Bamber Bridge - Bridge
Hindpool Tigers vs. Wigan St Patricks - Hindpool
Accrington Panthers vs. Cadishead Rhinos - Accy
Culcheth Eagles vs. Eccleston Lions - Culcheth
Portico Vine vs. St Helens Wild Boars - Draw

not far of with them predictions shawy

pilks 14-34 bamber bridge 34 scrappy game at time and ref didnt help either team and never let the game flow,not our best game too many mistakes with ball in hand and spent most of the game defending a good 70% but in the end we got there and scored some good and scrappy trys but 2 points away from home is always good
half way through now and the league is tahing shape now 4 teams at the top battling it out hindpool been on a good run and portico are still there next few weeks with everyone playing each other going good end to the season xxx

What's peoples predictions this week?
Some good games in store. We wont have it easy at Cadishead as we have a few missing due to suspension, holidays, injuries etc.
Portico should win easy probably 40+ and Culcheth shouldn't have too many problems against Woolston but think the other games will be a lot closer


Eccleston Lions vs. Portico Vine - Portico
Cadishead Rhinos vs. Hindpool Tigers - Hindpool
Woolston Rovers A vs. Culcheth Eagles - Culcheth
Wigan St Patricks A vs. Bamber Bridge - Brig
Pilkington Recs A vs. Accrington Panthers - Pilks

Will be a tough one for us at Woolston, 1st team play on Friday so are expecting a 'strengthend' A team who want to make up for the heavy defeat last time we meet, gotta love local derbys!

Another epic battle with the wild boars at the weekend finishing 8-6 to us. Both teams defended like warriors and think we just about deserved the win. Ref had a shocker as well and he agreed he needed help of linesmen in the game like I think a few have in a couple of games this year. Another great crowed well over 400 people