To be honest its a dig at everything, the league know all of these things when they set the leagues up, the fact there are 3 teams from the north north west I think doesn't help matters, especially in lower league ammy rugby lts allot of expense and commitment for clubs, not to mention that in the first two months of the league it co-insides with a SL play off series angd GF, aswell as the usual holidays/wedding issues that the end of summer naturally brings.....not a dig at langworthy mate another thing you have to contest with is them playing service area games in saturdays, I thought youth and adult rugby where played on sat/sun for a reason, just think on game week 2 to potentially have 2 18-0 w/o is abit of a joke for whatever reason.

OSJ 0-40 SV

Ulverston 50- 26 Halton farnworth

IRLAM 84 HIGGINSHAW 6

full credit to irlam they killed us with fitness,ball work,defence and team work. Everything they did was just came off for them. they earned every single point they got apart from your silly n/8 who spoils it everytime time for your team i think!

HIGGY, come on boys the game is over now so lets get everyone to training to sort things out

Not too sure how i spoilt it mate fair play i shouldnt of took your player out when he chipped the line and i took my 10 minutes even though the ref said after the game that had it been closer i wouldnt of been sin binned . You might want to look closer at your own lads giving needless penalties away in good positions but anyway fair play for turning up could see you have lost a good few players good luck for the rest of the season until we come to your place anyway.

well done to higgy ,they came to irlam and although they got battered they didn,t stop trying.our number 8 a good lad just a bit dim .this week just heard we play haresfinch,last year they gave us 2 hard games should be good on saturday.bet are backs won,t run the ball in as much. hope we don,t ourselves like we did at s.v.

Think we have got hindpool at home this Saturday, any news to whether u men will be travelling this week?

Of course, what makes you think we might not? We travelled to you the last 2 seasons last game of the year with nothing at stake when we could have stayed home and saved £400 each time.

How are OSJ looking this year?

I read an article in the WEP early on in the summer saying they were basically starting from scratch again. Is the same players or new faces?

TBH I was expecting them to start a division lower but fair do's to them for sticking at it.

Just thought ud been struggling wi numbers mate that's all, I fully expected you to be comin down, and were looking forward to it, always good games with you men.

OSJ are a very young inexperienced side by the looks if it, but its obvious that once there lose a few numbers they are really strugglin, they have a couple of decent players at 6/7, but they lack lack experience in the pack, to be fair to them I think thats only there 3rd game since they reformed/reinvented and they never gave up, just hope they stick together, I'm sure with 5/6 more experienced lads that they would massively improve, there obviously a good group down there as they ran HFH close last week. Good luck to them though I hope they kick on.

*I dunno if its the same side as last year but it was defo not the team that beat us in the lancs cup in 2009.

We struggled 1st week mainly due to a wedding and a virus. Will have 5 or 6 missing this week because of work and holidays but thats usual for an away game. Should still have 17 just means I might have to play again.

haha, will be a good game, will catch up with u after for a beer!

Was really good that higgys turned a side out despite the shortages and the result, fair dos to them!

talking of having pint after game had a good chat after hornets game with higgy they all came back,lets get all teams bringing there players back to clubs /pubs some don,t come back and it s a shame lets all make the effot

Whats everyones predictions this week?

Halton Vs Langworthy
Irlam Vs Haresfinch
OSJ Vs Ulverston
Spring View Vs Hindpool

Halton by 16
Irlam by 18
Ulverston by 32
Hindpool to sneak it 1-0

Halton Vs Langworthy = Halton by 2
Irlam Vs Haresfinch = irlam by 8
OSJ Vs Ulverston = ulv by 16
Spring View Vs Hindpool = sv by 12