Lets have a guess on what games will be on!! Crosfields had to close the 'Rec last night due to waterlogging in an attempt to get the games on at the weekend...



I'll have a guess, but a little bit out of touch with some teams



Bolton Mets

Ashton A

Crosfields A



Culcheth Eagles

Bury Broncos

Portico Vine

Got my predictions right!



Bolton Mets 14-24 Hindley A

Chester Gladiators 32-30 Ashton Bears A

Culcheth Eagles 28-8 Little Hulton Reds

Fitton Hill & Hathershaw 16-22 Bury Broncos

Portico Vine 18-30 Wigan Bulldogs



Scrappy win from us today, were awful for long spells, turned over loads of ball and gave away penalty after penalty but ground it out. Fitton were well drilled in attack and had 2 very strong runners who made life difficult, especially in the 1st half. Most of the game was 12-10 to us but when we finally started to play we got on top and eventually the tries came with yours truly somehow getting 2 tries in the last 10 to seal the game!



Fitton got a late one following several sets on our line and despite some fearsome goal-line defence.

Pleased with the win but too many errors, lots of improvement to come.

There's no thread for the Entry Division, but our 'A' team had their first EVER run-out today against Westhoughton and won 14 - 4





Buzzing for them and for the club. An 'A' squad of 21 with 6 lads on debut, a couple from RU, a few coming back after time away and several fringe and slightly older players. Some great defence, no backward steps and confident going forward. Probably the highest rate of completion we've ever had! Only 4 First-Teamers in the squad and none of them played 80.



Westhoughton weren't at their best but always a tough side to beat. We've come a massive way since scraping half a dozen lads together training in near darkness and thick winter mud over the last few years. A few more lads and we might be fielding 2 teams every week. The 'A's will face much sterner tests but chuffed to death today.



Was strange to play a team and hear THEM complaining, "loads of first-teamers playing..."

I'll start off predictions this week. Crosfields looking forward to a game after a couple of weeks off



Bolton Mets v Bury Broncos

Culcheth Eagles v Woolston Rovers A

Hindley A v Ashton Bears A

Little Hulton Reds v Fitton Hill

Portico Vine v Crosfields

Wigan Bulldogs v Chester Gladiators

Looks like its that time of the week then.

Looking forward to the game this weekend after a nice bank holiday weekend off.



Bolton Mets v Bury Broncos. Broncos for the win

Culcheth Eagles v Woolston Rovers A. I think Culcheth may just edge woolston at home.

Hindley A v Ashton Bears A. Hindley for the win

Little Hulton Reds v Fitton Hill. LH reds for the win of course

Portico Vine v Crosfields. Portico still looking for there first win of the season. Think they will get it at home on sat.

Wigan Bulldogs v Chester Gladiators. Bulldogs for the win

My predictions for week 3



Bolton v Bury

Culcheth v Woolston

Hindley A v Ashton Bears A

LH Red v Fitton Hill

Portico Vine v Crosfields

Wigan Bulldogs v Chester Gladiators

Bolton Mets 10-26 Bury Broncos





Pleased with another win against local rivals though we made hard work of it again. Bolton are a forwards-dominated team with a big pack and we got sucked into a forwards battle for too long. Their hooker was a great runner and couple of strong forwards troubled us, but for the most I felt we took everything they could throw and handled it fairly well.



Bolton scored first, we went ahead 10-4 before sloppy defence allowed them to draw level just after half time. Once we finally started to move the ball wide we began to dominate and following a nice chip & gather to take us ahead, some great work from our forwards put me away out wide to snatch another try (top try scorer at the moment somehow!), and the win was sealed on 80 with a devastating run out wide by a debutant winger.



4 more lads on debut today, the squad is shaping up well. Bolton are always a tough team and today was no exception, enjoyed the game and chuffed to be 2nd in the table even though there's a long, long way to go in the season.

Didn't attend Crosfields match as was back at the club entertaining Warrington Wizards 'A' 's first outing



Defences on top I see at 50-42. Coaches please with the win, unbeaten so far and looking forward to going to Chester next week.. bit of an unknown quantity for us

Might as well start it off

enjoy the games this weekend



Ashton Bears A vs Portico Vine

Bury Broncos vs Culcheth Eagles

Chester Gladiators vs Crosfields

Fitton Hill Bulldogs vs Bolton Mets

Little Hulton Reds vs Wigan Bulldogs

Woolston Rovers A vs Hindley A

Ashton Bears A vs Portico Vine - not played either

Bury Broncos vs Culcheth Eagles - Broncos for the win!

Chester Gladiators vs Crosfields - Crosfields tough to beat

Fitton Hill Bulldogs vs Bolton Mets - Bolton were a big set, but I thought Fitton were bigger!

Little Hulton Reds vs Wigan Bulldogs - not played either yet, I'll go with LHR

Woolston Rovers A vs Hindley A - hard to say but Hindley have started better



We've got a massive 20 lads missing this weekend, including 10 First-Teamers, but still trying to field 2 teams! Injury/work crisis!

I don't think you are the only ones to struggle with numbers...and it's early days yet. Think it's going to be a long hard season for some clubs.

Well we fielded 2 sides but both lost...had a few let us down for the Seconds, think they lost about 36-14, and then the Firsts took the field...



Bury 6-14 Culcheth



Completely refereed out of this game. Culcheth came to play hard and dirty - fair enough, some teams do that - but the ref turned up with a proper grudge after getting some grief last year. Took no end of high shots, elbows & knees and were offered no protection at all, yet the slightest infringement by us was a penalty. We ended up having 2 sin-binned and 3 sent off. First was a stupid brain-fart as a one lad tripped someone, the others were following a dirty late elbow which caused a couple of normally very controlled players to explode - frankly they'd had enough. Not happy with discipline but if the ref won't protect players you can't really blame them for eventually losing it.



Culcheth squeezed in a couple of tries while we were down on numbers and it was hard to get back into it from then, but we got a late try. On a level playing field I'm confident we would have won, we made better yards and our defence was on top but some poor decisions and that absolute muppet with the whistle killed the game. Oh, and we had 3 legitimate tries chalked off - 2 of them clearly grounded. Fuming.



The game was also held up for 30 minutes with a neck/spinal injury that required 2 ambulances (the first didn't have a spinal board!) - hope the lad's ok.