I agree that the league is a bit of a joke, there seems to be no consistency, and communication between clubs and the league is shocking.. We organised a team night out in newcastle a few weekends ago when we had a "free fixture", but we found out that we were to play orrel, we scrapped around for players, and non of the team went to newcastle, only to find out that they had cancelled just before we were due to set off.. yet even with persistent emailing to the Girvin's they have not given us the points AND more frustratingly not replied to our emails.

I personally dont think that the free weekend for the Wembley double header has anything to do with the league organisers, i think the RL lean on the league to not have a fixture just to pack out Wembley, and now they have got enough people interested the RL are assuming that the general public will be enough to fill Headingly, and dont need us RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS!!

But, I'm afraid I can't really sympathise with the clubs complaining about having to travel to Cumbria for 2.5 hours... Us and Hindpool have to do it every other weekend... Just get smashed on the bus, get the chants going and give the bus virgins a dirty half yard of, well, anything! You'll soon learn to love it!

Great result for you Saturday Fred, good luck in the final

Cheers Shawy - good luck in the summer league

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Cheers shawy....looks well when we get better coverage in cumbrian press than we do in the wigan press.

Having played in 4 times v Irlam in the two years and on numerous occasions v Woolston including one this year one thing is for sure, it won't be for the faint hearted. Should be a belter.

It did look shaky for us Fred u are right, we lost 3 games at home by no more than 2,3,4 points around October time swell as getting beat at langworthy....at the time I didn't want to undermine the opposition we have a small squad and during that period of the season we had lost a few to knocks and work, we went to HFH with 14 men, and dominated a good side on there own patch....for me turning our season around, I think winning 9 of the last 10.

We are a completely different side to last year, we lost our top try scorer, for the entire season, our captain, and a player who cleaned up in last years presentation for two thirds, plus half of our pack retiring in the summer.....for me this year is sweeter than last year and it a credit to everyone involved. Proud guy.

Woolston Rovers 30 - 14 Irlam Hornets

Some big lads on that pitch today! The scoreline flatters Woolston quite a bit, they scored a 2-3 runaway tries late on in what was a fairly even contest. Irlam were hit early by the loss of a key half-back and that showed with lack of organisation at times. Woolston then went into the lead something like 18-4 before Irlam pulled it back to within 6 points.

Woolston played the game well and spotted Irlam's right side defence was poor, they attacked several times and made yards every time, scoring down that side a few times. Was pretty even down the middle - Woolston's bigger lads took some putting down, and a couple of Irlam's showed good pace and feet, a great try from a young Irlam 2nd Rower being a highlight.

Irlam had their chances to win and were camped on Woolston's line for several sets on a few occasions, but bombed it and just kept trying to barge over from dummy half or first receiver - lack of communication and organisation really showed and despite having a couple of ball handlers they kept going for brute force. Woolston's No.7 was flying out the line on every tackle looking for the interception and eventually got one, going the length to score and kill Irlam off. Woolston ran in a couple more in the last few minutes as Irlam's heads dropped.

In all, Woolston probably the better side - more organised and showed better hands, with solid defence.