Hindpool 36 - 14 Hilton Park

Feels good to be back playing after a 4 week break.

A pretty strong 1st half from us this week which saw us take an 18-0 lead into half time. Defence was solid and our try's were worked very well, could have probably scored a few more had we taken all the chances we created. Both our attack and defence were very close to where we want it to be, just up to us to work hard and tweak a few areas.

2nd half we took our foot off the pedal a bit, so to speak and were forcing a lot of ball and giving away a lot of penalties offering Hilton park good field position. At one point I'm sure we defended our line for 8-9 repeat sets. Not good enough or acceptable when we were cruising at the start. The pressure finally told and we couldn't hold them out. Fortunately we regrouped for long enough to score a couple of try's of our own to put the game to bed.

I would like to thank the lads from Hilton Park for travelling as they turned up with a depleted team and could have quite easily done what most teams did last season and not travel.

i heard ecclestion and both newton are dropping down and pats a are dropping into our league has anyone heard that

That's correct. Clubs got an email last Friday (I think)
Eccleston dropping from division 2 to 3
Newton Storm from 2 to 5
St Pats from 1 to 2 and
Rochdale Cobras from 1 to 5

That should leave divisions 1 and 2 both with 12 teams.

It's news to me fellas, I play for Eccleston and as far as I know we are staying where we are. We've got Portico away this Saturday so I'm guessing were staying in Division 2.

The email does say Eccleston asked to drop to division 3 but then when the restructured leagues are listed it shows you still in division 2

bamber bridge 30-6 caddishead not for the faint hearted this game caddishead with an infulx of irlam players came to our place and iv played in some tough games but this was just stupid they where throwing punches headbutts 1 player ran in and kicked 1 of our players in a tackle but we stood up to that and just laughe at them in the end never heard a team moan about every tackle like they did we missed most of our kicks bombed so many chances they went down to 12 after 20 min and we got draggeed down to there level but 2nd half we re grouped and should of won by a lot more

Its been a while....

Boars beat Hilton Park 18-16 was always going to be tough with a few lads missing, it was a very scrappy game which wasnt helped by the ref, played Hilton Park twice now in a friendly and on Saturday and their discipline dosent half let them down, both games we have won thats been the difference for us. Sure they will still be up there at the end of the season but if they carry on with the unnecessary penalties they will lose a lot of games for that reason only as they play some good rugby and are a massive outfit, certainly will be one of the most difficult places to visit.

As for us we have had a slow start to the season and hoping to pick up momentum, even though we lost the highlight of the season will have to be the portico derby, great day for the amatuer game around our end with great tough game of rugby with the crowd being easily over 700.

hilton park v bamber bridge OFF rung us on a friday saying they had club big issues then told league we had agreed to move the game as they had players working or injured when we hadnt agreed to move the game so think its going be a 24 nil,they emailed on tues asking if we where good for game as well

also seen the league are playing fixtures on challenge cup weekend what is that about we can never get a game of even when we put a request in like we have with hindpool and they wnt agree to change it

Why should Hindpool move the fixture. We asked you the same thing last season and you refused so what did you expect?
We always accommodate other teams when we can like this season when we reversed the fixture with Portico and travelled to them when we didn't have to and meant we had 2 lads missing because they agreed to work.

its not tit for tat here you got the fixture moved last year,last year we had to re arrange so many fixtures for teams travelled to widnes only to be told when we got there they hadnt got a team,we played dishlington in the cup we didnt have to we could of gone through to the next round as they had messed up and they asked for a free we but once again we agreed to play it,we could ask the league to get involved but whats the point,it sounds like your dnt want to re arrange cus of last year