Excellent game. Irlam came out fired up for the second half and Folly did well to absorb the pressure when they spent 20 mins with twelve men. Folly had that extra quality in attack but the game could have gone either way. Both teams didnt help themselves by failing to find touch on two occassions from penalties!

Cracking game, i thought that the stand off for Folly had a cracking start to the game but Irlam did well to come back into the game. i thought that irlam snatched it at the end. Dodgey reffing. what is it with the willows and refs?. Also i thought that Ave it had a shocker, Fancy starting a song and forgetting the words half way through. DOH

it wasn't a bad attendance either, more than the willows expected leading to long waiting times at the bar.
well done to both teams.

planned my trips to the bar to avoid queuing.
Great game, from where I was stood Irlam snatched it at the end but both the ref and the touch judge could not see the grounding, if the lad would have kept hold of the ball after touching down it would have been a try.

good to hear people enjoyed it and found it entertaining.... ...and don't forget, there are games right throughout the winter and games are always worth going to hope these are up to date: reds.originalreddevils.com/found ... o-play-rl/

good to hear people enjoyed it and found it entertaining.... ...and don't forget, there are games right throughout the winter and games are always worth going to hope these are up to date: reds.originalreddevils.com/found ... o-play-rl/

actually, looking at that. some definately aren't up to date!!!

Bury Broncos is right though - sure people from other clubs can say whether their's are right or not

I wasn't sure why the ref, who was 4 yards away, with another touch judge 10 yards away, then had to ask the touch judge 50 yards away to make the call.

I was stood on the barrier right at the grounding and it was a try IMO. The ref said try to the players but after consultation with the touch judge, changed his mind. Irlam should have gone for the two earlier anyway. Cracking game though.

That was farcical.

TBH i think the best team won.

your probably right over the 80 minutes, but considering the hornets are a 'new' set-up they did very well, i was expecting a whitewash.

so did most people outside of the irlam set up, we have got a good squad and i dont think we played to even 80% of our potential last night, and regards to the referee decision at the end

he said to us at the end of the game that he saw the ball get grounded but he wasnt sure if there was double movement or not... so he gave held up over the line???

it should of either been play of the ball on the line, or a penalty he got it wrong and there is no denying it, but we cant complain about decisions, we made it hard for ourselves during the first 40 and we came out second half like we should of in the first, all the lads, (including folly) are a credit to the amatuer game for performing so well on what is a huge pitch (15m wider than the hornets home pitch)