Wish the lad a full and speedy recovery.

Raiders Under 7's again purposely took a small and (relatively) inexperienced side away to Bradford Dudley Hill yesterday. Dudley Hill were playing in only their 4th game and tried their best but inexperience really counted - our defense was pretty mean all the game, holding out right up to the last tackle when we game them the benefit of the doubt with a last play try. Common sense prevailed in the interpretation of the rules, with a tackle being called once the ball had been dropped/gone to ground - this approach made it much better for the lads to understand that you can't simply throw the ball anywhere at anytime in virtually a no risk free play, and the ball must be respected - but we obviously continued the full set of 6 for both sides on all occasions unless a try was scored.

Dudley Hill will no doubt improve with game time under their belt, as we have done in the last 3 months or so in our first season. They had a few potentially good players and plenty of enthusiasm but the lack of game time and inexperience/lack of organisation was fairly obvious. They did though have a decent number of players available, something that not may other sides at this age group seem to have.

We have managed to organize another game for Thursday evening that the boys who didn't play last night instead of training.

Once again, if anybody wants a friendly at Under 7's level in the coming weeks please let us know.

I would think most under 7's are small and relatively inexperienced Musky




On a serious note keep up the good work.

That's a nice and fair assessment t'out and I said to a friend in the first half , if you stop try to kick the door in and look for the keys you're going to get over.

But I'm sure brayton and some others like from oulton , easdtmoor , Stanley etc will all say the same we can be camped on our line for 10 minutes and then one pass to one of 3 and bang. The other 2 were not 100% so were rested.
But if like I'm sure you have before that was big jack as he's known and has won games before .

As for the lines , we as parents and fans are embarrassed and ashamed at the state of our club.

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You may well be surprised Al, there is a very wide gap between the confidence and ability not just within our group of 23 players but also throughout the teams in the league as well! No point taking a team full of our bigger/more confident ones to play against a side playing in their 3rd game - that would be fun for none and a waste of time for both sides.

I also don't think you can overestimate the amount of improvement they make from 1 week to the next when they get game time. Those teams who have had players playing last year at under 7's level are still well infront of those who didn't generally speaking. Should hopefully see it start to level out soon though.

Spartans play their last home League fixture this Sunday, KO 10:30 Vs East Leeds

The season has just flown by, I can't work out if it's just my perception or if the season is ridiculously short although I'm leaning toward the latter.

Anyhow, peeps are welcome down at Ossett Trinity to watch, as always there will be the welcome aroma of coffee, bacon and wintergreen wafting from the club house.

This weekend sees the challenge cup finals at fev rovers ground
One that I know of is
East Leeds v crigglestone AB 13s
Don't know what to expect as the top 2 fight it out.

About 2 years ago East Leeds beat Crigglestone All Blacks under 11s .
I don't recall the score but I bet spongebobs son will.
Today for the first time in competitive matches East Leeds Under 13s not only beat CAB 13s , ending a 2 year run . They thrashed them 56-16 I think it ended.

To sum it up . the best team won.
Congratulations to the parents coaches club etc but mainly the lads who in so much hard work.

If you are going to lose a two year run undefeated you may as well get a stuffing, it'll do em good in the long run.

Also hats off to my own lad felt his hand hurting after his first tackle and again a bit later, nothing said with adrenaline pumping . end of game one hand size of mine ,
A&E ***** BROKEN KNUCKLE , FINGER AND TO THE HAND ...... soccer players , we &%£# em .

Absolutely spot on, forgetting how loosing feels makes you complacent hopefully they can get that winning feeling back and it will mean more to them