Just over a week away! Excited??? Quick profile of the clubs in the Division: www.pitchero.com/clubs/burybronc ... _id=363577

Just over a week away! Excited??? Quick profile of the clubs in the Division: www.pitchero.com/clubs/burybronc ... _id=363577

7 lads at our first training session last night. Seems to be more apathy than excitement but we'll see...

was similar with us...had 10, max 12 over recent weeks but picked up this week to 17 last night and 20/21 different people across the two nights this week. some lads have said that it's been tough playing winter, summer, winter back to back.

Good luck to all today, look forward to some good match reports later today! come on Newton Stormmmmmm

newton beat bolton by a score along the lines of 38 - 12

Chester 36 - 16 Bury (I think)

Gave a penalty 10 metres out on the very first tackle and conceded straight away - not a good start! Was fairly even for the next 40 or so though we let Chester in once or twice. After half time we fell apart a little and conceded a few on the bounce but then muscled up again for last quarter, scoring a beauty at the last minute.

Pleased with the performance today against a MUCH bigger Chester side. Travelled with no props and 3 lads on debut, with lads filling in all over the place and the smallest team we've probably ever fielded! Chester were unspectacular but effective and we couldn't organise ourselves at times, with some stupid errors. Very enjoyable game and a fair result, Chester are a good bunch and played in great spirit.

Bank Quay Bulls A 68 v Little Hulton 0

scoreline says it all really fair play to Little Hulton who never gave up tho

We had to admit defeat and concede our first game after only having 9 lads available to play against Folly Lane A.

We shall regroup at training this week and hope to start our season at Chester this weekend.

What happened to all the players in the Summer League

Not a bad result for Bolton really considering it was probably a brand new team

Large majority gone back to Winter clubs including Rugby Union.

One of our lads got married on Saturday which didnt help player selection (how selfish)

We "should" be ok this weekend.

Fixture change for Saturday 10th September

Bank Quay Bulls A v Thatto Heath Crusaders - 2.30pm Kick Off @ Bank Quay

This fixture has been arranged as Accrington (Bank Quay's opponent) and Leyland (Thatto Heath's oppenent) are playing in the RLC Play-Off Final this weekend.

Is this the only game thats going ahead today in this division?

No, we've got Chorley at home. We've all got bloody man flu though, dropping like flies. Gonna be a snotty game!



Should also be:
Bank Quay Bulls A v Thatto Heath Crusaders
Bolton Mets v Hindley A
Newton Storm v Folly Lane A
Chester v Wigan Riversiders
Little Hulton Reds v Culcheth Eagles
Burtonwood Bridge v Widnes West Bank

Well beaten by Chorley, think it was Bury 16-50odd Chorley. From a depleted squad of 15 we finished with 12, a few of us played with man flu and 4 finished with pretty bad injuries.

We started very cold and conceded 3 tries straight away, but then took control and had the better of the next half hour, scoring 3 tries and getting back in it, very even at half-time. Unfortunately we fell apart in the second-half as one went to hospital and others picked up knocks. Proud of the lads for grafting through a tough day.

Chorley were a lot bigger and played a simple but effective game - at least they started that way, but bombed 2 tries through showboating late on. Good game, very enjoyable and in good spirit even if the scoreline wasn't great!

I feel like complete crap. 70mins with what can only be really serious swine flu

probably wasn't the best idea.

Chester 40 Wigan Riversiders 38

Really pleased with the effort from our guys, we pulled 16 players together, 3 of which where playing there first ever game of contact rugby league! And the game wasn't decided until the very last play of the game.

We start to get players back over the next week so we are looking forward to the trip to Chorley next weekend.

Cheers to Chester for the game, always a pleasurable experience.

very fustrating amateur rugby league at times, saturday we (Newton Storm) were all kitted out on the pitch warming up and 45 mins before kick off we get a call from folly Lane A to say they cant get a team so games off. apparently the first team were short of numbers so they took 6 from the second team.

45 mins before kick off is a joke. spoit my weekend that has

Its odd how things turn around each week, they complained because we cancelled the game against Folly Lane A last week.

Each week seems to bring more cancelled games.

Results below, better completion rate of games this weekend:


Group B Newton Storm P V P Folly Lane 'A'
Group B Chester 42 V 38 Wigan Riversiders
Group B Bury Broncos 14 V 58 Chorley Panthers
Group B Little Hulton Reds 30 V 28 Culcheth Eagles
Group B Burtonwood Bridge P V P Widnes West Bank
Group B Bank Quay Bulls A 17 V 28 Thatto Heath Crusaders

and the Bolton game was off due to the pitch.

The issue may be that as clubs, we are preparing for March in some cases while the other reality is that you need a bigger squad. I look on my phone and have a theoretical 30 lads that could form the side...before saturday I looked at the 30 and took away injuries, then work commitments and it came down to 18ish. An illness on the day, a no-show and we played with 15 with many of them ill.

Injuries etc. meant we then finished with 12 and so we need to look at what those injuries mean - at least one is long-term following a hospital trip. We should have two lads back this week but at least one who's back in work so you're having to weigh it up all the time...

Yeah we had loads of players called up to the first team to play Bank Quay.

all clubs been sent this tonight i believe

Dear Club,

It is very unfortunate that I have to send this email out; however, due to the number of cancelled fixtures so far in this Interim Season without suitable notice or explanations, I have no alternative.

The NWML Management Group has made the decision to amend the rules to cover this. Going forward if a Club cancels more than three fixtures they may be removed from the fixture list for the 2011 Interim Season and this will obviously affect their League positioning for the 2012 Season.

For your information the following clubs have cancelled fixtures so far:-

· Adlington – 3rd Sept and 10th Sept fixtures (2 matches)
· Widnes West Bank – 3rd Sept and 10th Sept fixtures (2 matches)
· Bamber Bridge – 3rd Sept fixture (1 match)
· Wigan Riversiders – 3rd Sept fixture (1 match)
· Latchford Albion – 10th Sept fixture (1 match)
· Folly Lane “A” – 10th Sept fixture (1 match)

Thought I'd heard Adlington had folded

It's a shame there have been issues with call off's but given the short turnaround for summer clubs and uncertainty (which inevitably rubs off on players) it's not surprising.

On the flip side there are plenty of clubs who seem to be settling into the interim season.

Moved to Div 1 thread.