i dont know to be honest pal maybe some one will come on and clarify, but in my years of playing under northwest counties they seem to not be as fixed in with their original mindset once the league has been won / or the majority of the league games have been said, this being said maybe it was an issue with the teams facilities and good to see bothe teams reached an agreement early on in the week so i dont see the issue. Nothing pi55es me off more than seeing 18-0 nils and yesterday i think approx 35% of games were not fulfilled across all nwc divisions and cups, total shambles if you ask me and a tougher punishment should be brought in for next year.

On your hand mate good to see you have fielded a team and got a good result, you never know what crossfields team are gonna turn up especially when their first aint got a game like what always seems to happen to us at boars, i would just concentrate on keeping your number high hopefully on the back of that result you will start to see some off them knocks healing quicker than when your on the back of a drumming.

Wild Boars vs Chester 32-18
Not the best performance from the wild boars but lets say the result was never in doubt, with 6,7 and 9 all missing and other key men out we knew it would be a back to basics game, we got an early try and kept the pressure on to dominate the arm wrestle. We must have bombed about 6 or 7 tries and i put this down to the new blood in key positions. However credit to chester kept plodding along big side and got round the pitch very well and 2 consilation tries in the last couple of minutes made the game look closer than it was, with out being disrespectful on another day we would have put 50+ passed them but we came to get a win and left with a win and based on the circumstances we was happy with the day. I think we need friendlys now to stop the rust setting in before the semi's no game for 2 weeks was bad enough but 4 weeks will be awful so if any teams aint got a game maybe calling wildboars would be an option

Good results for our division with Wigan bulldogs and rylands making it through to the semi's to join us and hindley, shame hindley got given the game but this may work against them as rust may set in for them too

Crosfields 24 - 34 Newton Storm

good win with a lot of key men missing. 4 sin binned.

from which side? they had 2 sent off and one binned when we went there. one binned on our side.

2 each, they were playing good until they realised the game was beyond them then they wanted to scrap instead. both our sin bins were retaliation to cheap shot punches being thrown.

we didnt defend to our best today but our attack was superb.

the pitch was like concrete, injured after their winger ankle tapped me when through on there line.

summer rugby will not be for Dipper!!

Rylands Sharks A 22 - 42 Crosfields - big win at a normally very strong Rylands - though neither 1st team had a game, wonder what the line-ups were like!?
Westhoughton Lions 12 - 34 Newton Storm - good win away from home.

Just Wigan Bulldogs vs Newton left I think!

Westhoughton Lions 12 - 34 Newton Storm - good win away from home.

Game re-arranged, Westhoughton travelled to us. still a good win though.

travel to bulldogs next week to complete the league.

been a good year,