From what i know, the thatto heath team will be more of a new team rather than a team made up of thier 1st and 2nd team.



its all stemed from a chairty game i was involved in a few weeks ago between the 06 leavers of two st helens schools which was held at thatto heath. i would think the main core of players would come from that rather than the current summer teams.

Just like the summer switch the 'new' winter set-up will need time to develop. The summer switch has allowed lower league team(s) to develop with an influx of winter players who'd normally play at a higher level. It'll be interesting to see how things go for the remainder of their season now the winter league players have started to go back. I expect the consistency in games going ahead in the winter leagues to rise in a few weeks time.

In terms of blow out scores one week and then not turning a team out the next this is no different to the 1st few years of the summer leagues when some teams benefitted from higher league winter players playing against lower league players, those new to the game and ru converts. Funny how things have gone full circle.

Yeah true. The likes of Liverpool Buccaneers crumbled to dust when most clubs moved to summer. Though a genuine Liverpool City in the Emerging clubs league have arisen.



Hopefully it will settle but I think the RFL have a lot to answer for with the dual registration rule. It seems to wreck summer and winter

The dual registrations are an issue and the only sensible way forward is to have equal parity between both clubs and the player free to choose who he turns out for. The club are then free to choose if they want to enter into a dual registration for a player at all. Works for everyone then.

A player could owe fines and subs to a club then as it stands duel register then going from what your saying then just decide to turn out for the new club and avoid paying his commitments at his first club.

True, but the club then reports the owing fines to the league and that player is 'blacklisted' from playing for the other club. If the players name appears on a team sheet the 2nd club gets fined. It won't stop him playing under another name but that's been going on forever & will do, impossible to police that one. As I say ultimately the club has the choice to enter into the dual registration & the choice to let the player play for them while the money is unpaid.

higginshaw played irlam hornets today,proper game of rugby league mud rain plenty of points scored lots of hard tackles,you summer lot wouldn,t like it.hornets won 42 16,winter rugby not for fannys.

any other results?

Not seen too many apart from these from last weekend and the one's we have played in so far.



Albert Park 10 Widnes Tigers 0

Blackpool Scorpions 18 Leigh East 0

Widnes Moorfield 16 Rylands Sharks 4

Higginshaw 16 Irlam Hornets 42

Dalton 28 Golborne Parkside 2



We are down to play Thatto on Saturday at Home and the week after Irlam away.

This is the latest league table i believe:



1. Blackpool Scorpions 4 4 0 0 162 32 130 8

2. Golborne Parkside 4 3 0 1 80 46 34 6

3. Irlam Hornets 3 2 0 1 136 65 71 4

4. Rylands Sharks 4 2 0 2 80 82 -2 4

5. Albert Park 3 2 0 1 58 82 -24 4

6. Widnes Moorfield 3 1 0 1 51 84 -33 4

7. Dalton 1 1 0 0 28 2 26 2

8. Blackbrook 2 1 0 1 34 32 2 2

9. Leigh East 4 1 0 3 34 50 -16 2

10. Higginshaw 2 1 0 1 36 60 -24 2

11. Eccles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

12. Thatto Heath 1 0 0 1 0 18 -18 0

13. Langworthy Reds 3 0 0 3 38 102 -64 0

14. Widnes Tigers 4 0 0 4 28 130 -102 0

Fixtures for Saturday 20th October 2012



Dalton v Blackpool Scorpions - Not sure who is the home team. Can't find any details on the net.

Golborne Parkside v Eccles

Higginshaw v Blackbrook

Irlam Hornets v Widnes Tigers

Langworthy Reds v Thatto Heath

Leigh East v Widnes Moorfield

Rylands v Albert Park

Is the team playing our of Thatto playing as Thatto???



Might sound a strange question but the Thatto Chair has gone to great lengths to stress that the team playing in winter is just based at their ground and not an entry by the Thatto club.