Eccleston 28-8 Newton Storm

less said the better, didnt perform at all today, lost our two best players at 6 and 9 to injury early doors and never recovered.

sounds like problems at Bolton then, but at least they are fielding a side, unlike westhoughton.
think they need a new pitch!! their players must be pulling their hair out!

suprised at that result expected a closer game from newton.

widnes 20 - wildboars 34

not the best performance by far but a win is a win top defence from the boars down to 11 and held out. Referee was an absolute tool honestly dont know where NWC picked him from sure even widnes will agree

Get This
Drop out - how longs left ref - 8 mins
boars score on next set - ref says 13 to go
he even added on injury time sure he thought it was the premier league good job widnes tigers have floodlight because they needed to be turned on thought the sun was gonna come up. Asked for the score at full time 59-20 to boars he said dunno where he plucked that from

They are a big side widnes though im suprised there not a bit higher up in the league

At the start of season Westhoughton played all their games away so the pitch could be spiked properly & get sorted out. Hope they got their money back! To be fair that plot of land is a bit of a quagmire when there's heavy rain - doesn't seem to have any drainage at all. They've played 2 games at home all year.

Bolton - definitely issues there. From what I understand there are internal 'differences' and a couple of players have left, including a player/coach.

Changing rooms at Cricket Club Westhoughton use had burst pipe and were flooded,
Fixture was changed to Chorley, it was them that cancelled the game Saturday morning due to pitch conditions.

Chorleys pitch gets water logged very easily But plans are underway to have proper drainage installed. Waiting for the surveyors to come down and have a look at whats needed, so hopefully this will be resolved in the near future.

Just think that some of the players have got disheartened after losing the majority of the games, I'm not sure which way its going to go at the end of the season. Just hope we can still put out teams until then.

Referee was ridiculous. Give some howlers against both teams including the outrageous forward pass he let slide giving the boars a try when it was 20-24 . He wouldn't even tell me how long was left when I was asking him like it was some secret only he could know. Berk. His watch stopped halfway through the second half as he ran over and asked our touchline for a spare watch so I don't really think he had a clue how long was gone/left.

same ref as incurred a rant from Cronus on page 17 as this thread...

in fact Pazzer, same referree as Bury had v Culchuth. rememebr your comments then.

Not to mention Newtons prolific 2nd row/centre is out injured until next season haha

Saturdays predictions:

Sarge to finger Dipper again,
Dipper not to score again,
Dipper to cry to the ref and concede several pennies,
leagueorunion to out again,

But overall Newton will pull it out the bag =)

Mate you know i dont sh*t out! Unlike a certain Rowey