Really ? ... That'd be a shame . They've always played cracking rugby since they were tiny , but always struggled for numbers - I thought this looked to have changed this year , they looked really good against us (Crigg) earlier this season & looked to have a good squad . Hopefully they can sort stuff out , but if not , then obviously someone else will gladly take their place .

While I'm on this thread ( which isn't often nowerdays ) , can I say congratulations to East Leeds on their inevitable league win . Definitely the best team this year & they'll take some stopping in the BARLA & national cup too .

Thing is at the start of the season the league would of set out a plan. I don't know that plan BTW and I know its heart wrenching to see sides in a lower league especially if you have a bond with them etc but if you completely rip all the strong clubs out of division 2 you end up weakening the lower leagues with the knock on ripple effect.

Surely as well the two relegated sides have a strong case to remain up even if I personally don't agree I'm just taking the devils view of it.

A bigger league would also fail as we are struggling to fit in 14 games because in their wisdom the YJL close the summer league in August for ....Summer!

We should wait and see as Milford have finished bottom anything could happen , which is not a dig at the poor players but the jump up when last year teams like Celtic and Stanley were around Milford got promoted from division 3or4 which was crackers and a slap for other clubs.

On a different note I'm sure Shaw cross will hopefully get things sorted, its crap when this s**t happens.
Shaw Cross are without a doubt the most profession run club I can think of regards juniors IMHO (yes I know you will disagree I don't want shuning ) and they will take action quickly. They will also recruit again.

All the best to Shaw Cross

And here's to the 14s

Cas & District under 13's cup final tomorrow at 6.30 p/m at Fev Lions,

Panthers v Lock Lane - should be a good game.

Would of liked to of popped down to fev to watch cas final but training day at 2 clubs . is it just 13s or are other year groups playing ?

Its usually just the one game, u12s final was played last night.

Just hope they have some decent floodlights or we might be finishing the game in the dark.

A bitterly disappointing performance saw the panthers 13s lose out 10-20 in the cas cup final.

2 tries in the dying minutes from lane won them the game which they fully deserved to win has they out played us on the night.a tough night for all concerned but you find out far more about players on nights like this.

interesting game at eastmoor today !shame a certain female in an orange high vis was screeching to the ref to send stanleys number 6 off after a bit of handbags !! look at your own 16 sweetie! it's on video if you want to watch and no wonder he retaliated!

Great to see crigg U13's back to winning ways with some great "team" rugby, even if the ref had different ideas at what should happen
Hope the Shaw Cross lad who was taken away in an ambulance is OK he looked to be in a lot of pain.

Apparently "bruised organs" - so v v painful , but nothing broken fortunately .

oooooh gets worse the older you get, glad he's OK tho

We (Raiders U7's) have had 2 games since the mid season break - Elland and Cas Panthers, both away.

Elland last week was a bit of an eye opener, with one of our lads having a "try" disallowed because of a double movement and one because he put the ball down over the dead ball line after breaking through and being in the clear - ah well. Elland had a couple of good players and put on the customary offloads like just about all teams, with the usual mixed results - they were a bit over aggressive though and tried to bully there way through parts of the game. After being 4-0 down early doors, as seems the norm for our lads, we got it back and lost out by 1 score in the end. A much improved performance from our lads from earlier in the season, with them starting to run onto the ball with more speed and defending as more of a unit.

Today we went to Cas Panthers, a side who unlike most sides have almost a structured passing game rather than offloading the ball anywhere in the tackle. They had the odd dummy runner, put a couple of passes together and even a drop off/inside ball and really look the part - the fact they passed it seemed to confuse our lads who were a bit reluctant to move in as we have been working on - so it game them plenty of room. Anyway, big effort from 2 very different teams (our boys are coached not to offload this year) and refereed very well by a young lad - our lads really enjoyed it and it shows we are going in the right direction in our first season.

Dudley Hill next week, so we will play a team of our smaller/less experienced boys and let them all have a good run out.

I am absolutely staggered that somebody can come onto this forum and post this comment. The game was an entertaining local derby, played by two teams who put everything into producing a great advert for junior rugby. There was a handbags incident which lasted about 10 seconds, but what about the other 49 minutes and 50 seconds? Rather than posting anything positive, and there was plenty on show, you’ve come home from the game and spouted off about the only negative. Junior rugby is a great participation sport for youngsters and we should be spending time shouting the merits of the game from the rooftops and not trying to kick the game down at any opportunity

Just for the record sweetie – although you may have heard somebody shouting, it certainly didn’t come from our touch line manager

Thanks for bringing some sanity back to this thread with a well thought out and reasonable post about junior RL.

The same poster also tried a 'subtle' accusation towards me for allegedly not forwarding transfer papers, without being in view of any facts at all, waiting for an apology for that one.