Yesterday saw Castleford Academy Y7 Boys reach Wembley with an exceptional performance against a Huge De La Salle side.

Along this journey they have had to beat the best Sirius( Hull ) Welsh champions Cwm Rhymni and yesterday North West Champions De La Salle whom they beat 22 - 0

Best of luck goes to Both Cas and Royal Grammar ( London ) who won their semi 52 - 16

It goes without saying Steve many congratulations to the boys and staff who yet again have got the very best out of the players.

Panthers 13s entertain stanningley looking to bounce back after last weeks cup defeat.

bit poor that a club's coach can't send the paperwork in for an under 13 transfer! wonder if seth can explain! some people need to realise that these are 13 year old kids they are dealing with not adults!

stanley rangers u15s travel to oulton this sunday to see if they can revenge their defeat in the cup ko 11.30

Panthers 13s beat stanningley 32-12. Not a pretty game by any stretch and the result was probably more of how poor stanningley were than how good we were,however you must be doing something right when you can play average and win comfortably against a side we've struggled with over the years.!!

How do you mean?

We (Oulton Raiders Under 7's) went to Thornhill today and drew 8-8, was 5-3 down at half time going uphill but we got going down it in the 2nd half. 8 games in and we are starting to see some good improvement from the lads in their first season.

Very nice reception from Thornhill, and everything about them (from the players, to coaching staff and the referee) was exactly how it should be for the kids and we look forward to playing them again.

So for our lads in their first year we have played drawn 2, lost 2 and won 4 and have shown steady improvement throughout the season so far. We don't seem to have any "big kids" but the lads are finding ways of making up for it.

Glad you enjoyed the day mate, I was the referee and it was a cracking game between two well matched teams.I coach the u-8s at Thornhill and all our mini age groups are inundated with new kids wanting to play the game which is great for the club. We think it's important the kids are well disciplined and have respect for their opponents from an early age. Best of luck for the rest of the season.

Another big improvement for the Raiders Under 7's last night against Kippax, a side that beat us something like 7-2 a few weeks ago in very windy conditions. We have been working on defense since the previous game against Kippax and it really showed last night, the lads seemed to have a really good success rate at completing tackles once they actually got to the players - but we still need to work on getting a bit of structure in the defensive line and get them to move up as a line. We have Townville Tigers on Sunday, a really good looking side who played last year too - played 3 games in a festival at the beginning of the year without conceding a try and they appear to be the best side in the league by all accounts - so that will be a real hard test.

Seems to be a bit of a struggle for us with the "new" rules this year, whereby each team completes their set of 6 regardless of errors made. I understand the concept of it and that it is trying to get players to play the game without fear of making errors but it seems counter productive to allow a team to offload the ball absolutely anywhere almost like the free play in SL, if it goes to hand (even after a few bounces) then there is every chance they will score given the compressed nature of the defense and if it goes to the other team the offloading team get the ball back and continue. I just think this is sending the wrong message about because there is no downside to

As a coaching team we have made the decision not to let the lads offload as yet - and last night we didnt make 1 all game, but we conceded a couple of tries to offloads that ended up bouncing all over before being picked up by their side and scoring from it, we will work on it soon when their general ability level increases. Does anybody else have a view?

shaw cross 11s still unbeaten

36-30 after what im told was a hard win over at leeds side staningley.

shame that the 13s game at cas seemed to be on but then off but then called off two weejs prior

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im sure i saw cas play a shawcross team that was understrength and didnt even have a full team.

is it all about winning or not?

i can let others in on a little secret now on perhaps why crigg do so well . if our so called better players were on holiday the development players would be playing, its a mith that its a 2,3 man show.
there is no pushing players out and thats why theses players also have winners medals .

i just thought better from a under 13s div 1 team who aspire to be better. is beating crigg that important to you ? its a game for the kids not grown ups. im sure all available players would of played for cas today maybe they are more proud.

i really do wish you good luck for season but with teams like hunslet and fev breaking a gut to get into div 1 i hope you change your attitudes.

i also accept that somewhere crosswires have happend and yep im ed off cos ive miss my yiung un play to get a message driving trough normy.

Fixture and KO time was confirmed earlier in the week, game does not show a postponement on YJARL website up to 12.30pm today 1st June
Think that communication has failed at all levels and a number of Crigg parents would have a valid claim for fuel expenses as the coach was only informed at 11am which will have been after a few had set off to the game.