Bury Broncos you have destroyed my weekend by throwing the game, booooooooooooo

Sorry pal. Missing about 15 at the moment. From a healthy squad last week everyone who works Saturdays is back working, with several injuries (4 long-term) and quite a few going to the final making matters worse.

We had 14 this afternoon and then a few more pulled out after kopping injuries at training Thursday night. Spent all day looking for players. Gutted, was looking forward to it - most of our experienced team were missing and wanted to field the new lads, and they were raring to go.

Perhaps we should sort a friendly in the new year?

Anyway, apologies to your lads again. I now have to paint the living room tomorrow.

Riversiders 26 Burtonwood Bridge 24

Good game, Burtonwood had the lead for 78 minutes of the game after going into half time 18-6 ahead. We stuck to the task in hand, kept going until the final whistle which saw us snatch the win at the end.

Some lad called Hogan scored the match winning try

Latchford Albion 38 - 24 Hindley 'A' (Friendly)

Very late organised game for us, only found out we were playing friday night against a team in Interim Division 1 (and last year in NWC Div 2). We turned up without 4 players - who had to move up to first team - and replaced them with under 18s players, who were fantastic, and also finished the game with 13 fit players. Decent game played in the right spirit and quite impressed with us as a new team fighting back from 24-0 early in first half to 30-24 with ten minutes to go. Then fitness told and we let in 2 very soft tries right at the death.

Burtonwood next week, cant wait.

Riversiders 32-10 Bolton, decent game in foul conditions, roll on the return of summer rugby.

Folly Lane "A" (*cough*) 52 - 4 Bury

We travelled with 14 (about 13 lads missing!) and possibly the oldest pack we've ever fielded, and an hour before kick-off we were stood outside the locked gates of Folly's ground - seems they were hoping we wouldn't show!

Started well and took the lead, and for a while we were evenly matched but then Folly's quality started to show. Folly's 1sts had conceded the away game at Leigh East, but plenty of the 1sts played today - and the much bigger pack and higher level experience started to tell. Down the middle and one channel we were solid enough, but a few lads simply didn't perform and Folly took advantage of some poor decisions in defence. Enjoyed the game despite the score, played in good spirit.

And yours truly had a try chalked off. Reckon a video ref would've given it.

I'll miss RL this winter but glad of a rest after playing 3 years straight.

Accy 20-16 Chester

Good game, terrible weather. Accy led 16-0 but we fought back to 16-16 before they regathered a short kick-off with about 10 to play for the winning try.