Good to hear about one of our local schools going well.

Just to add St.Marys Year 10 made it through to the National Schools knockout stages recently aswell as the NWC schools semis (where I believe they are to face Edmund Arrowsmith).

Still waiting for the name of the school they face in the National but I believe it to be a team from the London area but my lad couldnt remember the name but he said it had a long name!

The Watcher thinks that Lowton High School headmaster might have bigger fish to fry, a pupil there has tragically killed herself recently. Come on Mo lets keep it real.

LHS is a supposed 'specialist sports school' and will have known full well about the game in Hull long before this weeks tragic event.

I find that post offensive as my son knew the girl in question and had offered support to her previously.

Nowt offensive in The Watchers post Mo. Just stating the bleendin` obvious. The man has bigger concerns than a game. Common sense tells you that.

The Watcher's post seems to imply that there is no kit and no financial support because this tragic event has been a distraction whereas maurice's post implies that there is no support for RL teams at LHS.

If the former is true then it's very understandable, if the latter then it's fine by me for maurice to deplore this.

The teaching staff at Lowton High are more interested in making sure that the kids who they get paid decent money to teach .. Dont have short haircuts or extreme as they call it
only wear regulation footwear , dont wear owt with a hood on coming to school and many more bizzare rules . Dont get me wrong there are some great staff there but some have no idea its the same across the country............
It never did me any harm in the 60,s going to Manchester Rd with mi sea dog hipsters and baseball boots on

A 'Specialist Sports Collage' with no budget for taking it's succesful teams across the country for big games and finals?

I'm sure the irony isn't lost on them.

Not too sure if it's supposed to be renowned as a specialist sports school either now as the name Lowton sports college was dropped after a year or so!! But very well done all the same! Incedently I think the game was abandoned with 10 to go due to the hull (female) parents abusing the ref!! Hmmm hull eh!

Their website still confirms it as a specialist sports college.

You're quite right Alex's Dad. Their specialist subject is still PE but they dropped it from the school name as people were getting the idea that you had to be good at PE to go there and they felt that reverting back to it's original name was the best thing to do. It's just like Culcheth High is not known as Culcheth Humanities College even though it's specalism is Humanities.

Well done to St. Marys who travelled for around 6 hours, got off the coach, warmed up for about 20 minutes and came away 42-24 victors to go through to the quarter finals.

Very well done.