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yeah mate should deffo have a team got a couple of new lads down this week from work sooo should all be well andgood just a big turnover on the team though. Couple of the lads that have gone are god players so we may struggle

Not bowl this week, Lanks cup.

League :-

New Springs Lions V Rochdale Cobras
Thatto Heath A V Bamber Bridge
Waterhead V Eccles
West Bank Swans V Leigh Central Lions

Cup :-

Widnes West Bank V Saddleworth Rangers
Pilkington Recs V Hindley ?? dont know



Hope springs can get a side out, need to be playing each week!!!!



also hope it all turns around at Central, good lads!! sure it will!!!!

he's just a big girl...(i can say that now I don't come up against him!). I ended up playing 3 games back to back against him - last game of season v Rochdale, a mid-summer match where he played as a ringer for a summer team, and then first game of the next season v Cobras...

If any of these paphouse Fijians were any good they wouldnt be playing Division 4. Does my head in players playing Division 4 thinking they are super league. Plenty of clubs around in the NCL why not go play there...scared of getting smashed me thinks

Couldnt agree more!!!!

If I had half their talent (and youth) I would be paying NCL, but then you dont know fijians to well if you think 'playing at the highest level' is the main reason for the clubs they pick. not many of em drive, so it has to be local and Rochdale has the 2nd biggest Fijian population in UK (after London). And b4 you say it...yes there are Fijians at Rochdale Mayfield and they are in the NCL!!!!

dont think they even knew what division we were in when I asked em to play!!!!

All in all they are TOP lads and DEFO not paphouses!!!!!!

New Springs have a meeting tomorrow night to decide if we shall be carrying on or pulling out. Too many lads letting the side down with not turning up on game day.

hope all works out ok!!!!!! Was looking at the results for last season and NSL were one of the top sides in div 4!!?

Hogan do you think with the amount of teams in Wigan that Open Age rugby has become saturated?

St Judes x 2
St Pats x 2
IRB x 2
Shevington
Ashton x 2
St Cuthberts x 2
Orrell
Spring View
Hindley
Wigan Bulldogs
New Springs

Thats 16 teams there if each has a squad of 17 thats....a hell of a lot of lads in Wigan to find!

I defo think so yes.

I think also you will find 80% of those teams mentioned above are currently sitting fairly low in the division. Which gives you an indiction of teams being stretched accross the borough.

Correct, they where promoted to Division 3 then folded!

Postitive outcome from tonights meeting at New Springs. We shall be carrying on and have commitment from 19 players. Lets hope we can carry that commitment over into training and the games.

Personally I dont think it is saturated because theres every level of rugby available for every ability/desire to play. In terms of teams - for Wigan Bulldogs read Beechill, for New Springs read Crown Springs, for Hindley read Hindley Mk2. These teams aren't exactly new mostly reincarnations of old teams based in the same area that there's always been a team. There must a demand for places at clubs because Spring View and Hindley are both looking to establish a 2nd team due to numbers available or turning up to train play. The relative strength of teams will always ebb and flow as personell changes but with a strong junior scene around Wigan I can't see the number of teams changing much, a few name changes but not the number.

Good news, good luck with that.

Cheers, we will see what training brings!

New Springs 4 - 76 Cobras

Game played in the right spirit, Looks although Lions we be ok....glad aswell, top lads.

Hogan got man of the match for NSL n won half yard race too!!!!

Not sure what was wrong with us today, we started well and i cant see that we deserved to be on the end of a scoreline like that. Takes nothing away from Rochdale who are a very strong outfit, and outplayed us in all areas.

We have a lot to work on, yesterday again was like starting with a new team, 5 lads on debut. we'll re-group and come back stronger i have no doubt.

At least we won the important part after the game

Apart from Hindley think it will be all home wins this week, big game for us against Saddleworth, 2nd vs 3rd and local derby too!!!

New springs looked a good big side on sat and im sure once they click they may get some good results, mayfield will to soon though, got some good players up their this season!!!

Bamber Bridge v Waterhead
Cadishead Rhinos v West Bank Swans
Eccles & Salford v Hindley
Leigh Central v Thatto Heath A
Rochdale Cobras v Saddleworth
Rochdale Mayfield v New Springs Lions

whats goin on at leigh central, a couple of 18-0 conceded games? theyve been strong over last few seasons.

again this week too?????

Hope all gets sorted at Leigh

New on here and its my first post.

We got beat of a very good Hindley team yesterday 6-34. Was a good hard game. We just didnt have the fitness and pace to match them. Well done Hindley and look forward to coming to your place

Cadishead Rhinos 24 - 16 West Bank Swans
Eccles & Salford 6 - 34 Hindley
Leigh Central 18 - 0 Thatto Heath A (walkover)
Rochdale Mayfield 40 - 22 New Springs Lions

looks like you gave Hindley a good game eccles 2nds, not many keep em to within 30 points!!!!!

We (Cobras) have West Bank Swans this week, dont know anything about em????
Ive highlighted the teams I think will win this week.


Hindley v Bamber Bridge
Rochdale Mayfield v Eccles & Salford
Saddleworth v New Springs Lions
Thatto Heath A v Cadishead Rhinos
Waterhead v Leigh Central
West Bank Swans v Rochdale Cobras

Yea we did, was much closer at HT not sure what the score was but like i said before there fitness was much better and they finished us off in the 2nd half. We could of maybe got 1 or 2 more trys but just didnt have the finishing we needed. but good game. Hope we have 17 next week as we only seem to have 17 when playing at home

HUGE Improvement from NSL at the weekend, we travelled with 16 players, 2 players again making debuts. We held Mayfield up until 60 minutes when we took a few knocks and our bench simply wasnt strong enough.

Half time score 16-16 speaks volumes for our performance compared to the previous week, im convinced we are far better than our league position suggests. Once we get a regular side we will come up with the goods.

Leigh central have folded

. On the look out for a new club the problem is my work i work all week 4pm till 2am so cant train at all

how many lads you got down at springs hogan??