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| Excellent post, and excellent work from our favourite website. Brilliant stuff guys.
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| Great stuff and congratulations to all involved for winning the tournament..............ps any big units available to help out the Quins front row ?
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| Great story and great news.
Congrats to all concerned.
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| Great story and well done to the admin team.
Well done also on winning the competition.
can we have a pic of the kit?
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| Congratulations to all concerned. A great story.
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34_1430670222.jpg [url=http://wp.me/p1ImSi-n8:8gr6akfh][b:8gr6akfh]An Ode to Sepp Blatter[/b:8gr6akfh][/url:8gr6akfh]
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| Great story Roy. Nearly brought a tear to my manly eyes.
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| Quote: McClennan "Great story Roy. Nearly brought a tear to my manly eyes.'"
Where's your predictions for this week? Or have you given up..
Its a nice tale but a tear to your eye?? man up
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34_1430670222.jpg [url=http://wp.me/p1ImSi-n8:8gr6akfh][b:8gr6akfh]An Ode to Sepp Blatter[/b:8gr6akfh][/url:8gr6akfh]
[url=http://wp.me/s1ImSi-dadbod:8gr6akfh][b:8gr6akfh]Dadbod[/b:8gr6akfh][/url:8gr6akfh]
[url=http://wp.me/p1ImSi-mK:8gr6akfh][b:8gr6akfh]Next In Line To The Throne[/b:8gr6akfh][/url:8gr6akfh]
[url=https://mcclennan.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/st-helens-and-a-fitting-end-to-a-season-of-unsung-heroes/:8gr6akfh][b:8gr6akfh]St Helens and a Fitting End to a Season of Unsung Heroes[/b:8gr6akfh][/url:8gr6akfh]
[url=https://twitter.com/cinematicsoul:8gr6akfh][b:8gr6akfh]Follow my wisdom on Twitter[/b:8gr6akfh][/url:8gr6akfh]
[url=http://wp.me/p1ImSi-aA:8gr6akfh][b:8gr6akfh]Top 100 films of the 00s - The Top 5[/b:8gr6akfh][/url:8gr6akfh]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_34.jpg |
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| Quote: Dico "Where's your predictions for this week? Or have you given up..
Its a nice tale but a tear to your eye?? man up
I said nearly
Predictions will be up tomorrow. Been out and about this week so not had the time and I'm having a night of me time.
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| Well done to all involved, and good luck with the future.
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| For those interested, the national festival for Y9 and Y7 girls was played today at Hopwood Hall, Rochdale.
Our London girls paid to travel up yesterday and we stayed in the rather splendid Leigh sports village Park Inn (there were some truly bemused customers there this morning when seventeen 14 year-old girls in rugby league kit turned up for breakfast). Then we travelled to the festival this morning after playing "sidestep the dog " on a patch of grass roundthe back of the stadium.
When we got there we saw that the two development area teams (us and Midlands champs, Coventry), had been allocated to different groups, presumably as the easybeats, along with three other teams in each group from Cumbria, Lancs and Yorks. We also discovered that as two teams had apparently dropped out (why would anyone drop out of a finals comp ?), we were only going to get three 14-minute games unless we finished in the top two of our group and got a semi. At that point, as the heavens opened, I was beginning to question whether it had been worth the 10 hour round-trip.
I'll save the match reports for the school newspaper, but suffice to say here that my Bromley girls, confusing their northern foes by delivering "parsses" and playing on the "grarss", first beat the Cumbrian representatives, West Lakes High School 2 tries to 1 (I think), and then in a titanic battle defeated Lancashire champions, the mighty St John Fisher of Wigan, by (I think again) 3 tries to 2, defending their own line resolutely for much of the last nerve-wracking few minutes. As a St Helens lad, watching my team beat the pies was about as satisfying as it gets.
That win secured us a semi-final place, which was a good job, as we rather forgot how to play in our third group match against a strong Featherstone team. Our ultimate second place finish in our group therefore won us a semi against reigning champions Castleford High. Unfortunately, that was one step too far for the London girls, and their previous efforts told (plus growing tiredness from what I later discovered had been early-hours shenanigans in the hotel - the muppets), and Castleford showed why it'll take a fair bit to wrest that trophy from them.
It was a great day and a great experience, and although my lasses were understandably upset to be beaten, because they're all competitors, we had a wonderful time and the girls' resolve to be back challenging next year is stronger than ever (they've all promised me that next time they'll actually try to sleep the night before). I'm a very tired, but very proud, coach tonight.
And in my humble opinion, we definitely had the best kit in the tournament ! Thanks again RLFans.
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Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
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Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
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| Quote: Roy Haggerty "For those interested, the national festival for Y9 and Y7 girls was played today at Hopwood Hall, Rochdale.
Our London girls paid to travel up yesterday and we stayed in the rather splendid Leigh sports village Park Inn (there were some truly bemused customers there this morning when seventeen 14 year-old girls in rugby league kit turned up for breakfast). Then we travelled to the festival this morning after playing "sidestep the dog poop" on a patch of grass roundthe back of the stadium.
When we got there we saw that the two development area teams (us and Midlands champs, Coventry), had been allocated to different groups, presumably as the easybeats, along with three other teams in each group from Cumbria, Lancs and Yorks. We also discovered that as two teams had apparently dropped out (why would anyone drop out of a finals comp ?), we were only going to get three 14-minute games unless we finished in the top two of our group and got a semi. At that point, as the heavens opened, I was beginning to question whether it had been worth the 10 hour round-trip.
I'll save the match reports for the school newspaper, but suffice to say here that my Bromley girls, confusing their northern foes by delivering "parsses" and playing on the "grarss", first beat the Cumbrian representatives, West Lakes High School 2 tries to 1 (I think), and then in a titanic battle defeated Lancashire champions, the mighty St John Fisher of Wigan, by (I think again) 3 tries to 2, defending their own line resolutely for much of the last nerve-wracking few minutes. As a St Helens lad, watching my team beat the pies was about as satisfying as it gets.
That win secured us a semi-final place, which was a good job, as we rather forgot how to play in our third group match against a strong Featherstone team. Our ultimate second place finish in our group therefore won us a semi against reigning champions Castleford High. Unfortunately, that was one step too far for the London girls, and their previous efforts told (plus growing tiredness from what I later discovered had been early-hours shenanigans in the hotel - the muppets), and Castleford showed why it'll take a fair bit to wrest that trophy from them.
It was a great day and a great experience, and although my lasses were understandably upset to be beaten, because they're all competitors, we had a wonderful time and the girls' resolve to be back challenging next year is stronger than ever (they've all promised me that next time they'll actually try to sleep the night before). I'm a very tired, but very proud, coach tonight.
And in my humble opinion, we definitely had the best kit in the tournament ! Thanks again RLFans.'"
Hope you enjoyed the visit to the RL mecca that is the LSV
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| I don't mind putting my yacht purchase back a year for a cause such as this.
Good luck, Roy.
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| good to hear a league success down here in london. we need to keep spreading the greatest game!
well dome
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| Very well done to all concerned
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