Turns out Fridays game isn't a " friendly " - it's a qualifier on the road to wembley ... so semi final or not , young sponge wants to play !

yep likewise , unlike what we were told earlier this season it looks like Ketty high have had a change of heart and entered something to play for ,i think its a first for the 12s. maybe the last few results have swayed them



young sponge is a good talker mate , mini mutts now plays both games told me he was tough enough to take on the world . i had to place him in a head lock and then pin him 1,2,3 to prove im 2nd in charge in my house.

lots of stanley players with some eastmoor , cas p and i dare bet others thrown into the mix .

lets hope no injuries,

I see you use the same modern parenting techniques as me!

My lad was playing whatever the occasion on Sunday, couldn't even contemplate telling him he couldn't play rugby for the school because he had a big game at the weekend at under 12's

couldn't contemplate telling my lad what he is doing . on Tuesday his coach asked him not to play and being a player who respects his coach he abides him as he has that respect .unfortunately at kettlethorpe the 12s were told they were not in any competitive matches until they saw they were capable of winning. not exactly my philosophy but its only due to a late entry that Ketty are even in a competitive game they were told 2 weeks ago no more training or games until after christmas. with that in mind the coach asked some crigg players not to play. ketty are that prepared they dont know if they are home or away



twas only a few week ago my lad was stretchered off and taken to pinders with back/neck injury hes only just finding his feet again.

should be a good game , shame that Ketty have not trained for near on a month and as said it twas his choice as it was when his captain asked him to play









be nice to see so many familiar faces

Only same as Outwood, don't think they know if home or away





Sorry to hear he was injured, never nice for any player but especially the youngsters.

Slightly unfair of the coach imo, should just leave them to it (imho).

heared a whisper that outwood were pretty comfortable winners against kettlethorpe 28-14 im sure we will get filled in some details.

cas high are at home to a school from hull in the first round of the schools yorkshire cup this tuesday.

it should be a great weekend for junior rl with two massive games at u12s in the barla cup.

Didn't go myself , but as expected , Outwood won easily enough .
Young Sponge said they'd lost 32-16 (!?) but wasn't as gutted as i'd expected. He said that they'd only got 11 players at dinnertime and so 4 of the lads that played hadn't ever played before ! He was quite chuffed that they'd won the second half & hadn't just given up .
Sounds like Outwood are going to need to up their game if they're going to get much further - but i'd genuinely love to see them or Cas at Wembley in August & cheer on our local lads .
All the best in the next rounds to you

passed on from my dad

yeah very comfortable , it doesn't help when at 1pm you only have 11 players and a message goes around the year if you want to play rugby tonight and we can contact your parents then put your hand up. but nothing should be taken away from the boys from outwood.
3 of the 7 crigg players were absent but outwood tbf never looked like they were in any danger of losing . and the main thing for me is Stephen although limping off after taking a wayward kick from someone who must of forgot it was not soccer refereed spot on today at Normy and should be fine for sunday.

outwood play a different tempo in their group and it showed.

better prep needed if Ketty want to be considered as a force in this group . no training for weeks since they beat Cathy high quite comfortably that's been it.

finally found a pitch colder that crigg

yep young spongy got it spot on , we did win the 2nd half and to say the 4 who volunteered were short of game time is understating it . outwood saw that and played to the strengths .
although both IMHO have a long way to go before the 2 cas schools need worry.

difference outwood are trained to win and it shows.

young mutts neck deffo on mend mate as he had plenty of attention applied to it , which piggy backed us many times.

That's good news - heard that he seemed to be the " marked man" - but at least he'll be full of confidence now that everything's ok with his neck