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Post by newby on Feb 9, 2024 23:12:52 GMT
It seemed like they were playing with a bar of soap early on in the England v Wales game. I ended up mostly watching the Ireland v Italy game which got me hooked.
Gutted for Italy that they couldn't pull it off, I suppose drop goals aren't a thing in U20 rugby.
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Post by hawke on Feb 10, 2024 7:56:15 GMT
We so rarely quarrel Hawke but I have to disagree on this occasion. The third round with 32 teams is fine and I can bear the 4th round with 16 teams. It's the fifth round with only 8 teams taking part, and therefore only 4 teams going on with a chance of meeting Super League opposition that I don't like. It can't be fixed this season obviously because the numbers are all wrong, but I prefer the system where the bottom 4 in the Super league from the previous season were pitched in a round earlier to make it a 16 team round, with 8 going through to meet the top 8 Super league teams. ah you have the better of me there Newby I had not looked beyond the previous and current rounds…
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Post by karma on Feb 10, 2024 15:01:38 GMT
Once again this year I think the RL Challenge Cup leaves it too late before bringing in the Super league clubs. They aren't introduced until the 6th round when there are only 4 clubs from lower leagues left in the competition after round 5. Little chance of much glory or chance to play the big boys. I concede that real minnows playing against professionals could be dangerous, but I think by round 5 the standard should be high enough to cope, with mainly Championship sides and perhaps a couple from league 1 getting that far. I may be talking out of the back of my head but I think I just heard (on Radio York)that York Acorn , a purely amature club have just beaten Cornwall a professional club My late brother-in-law played for Acorn and the York (City knights) Mrs. Karma's late uncle did likewise 🏉
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Post by hawke on Feb 10, 2024 17:51:53 GMT
Well done York Acorn though a blow for the idea of expanding the game down there. Cornwall does seem an ambitious project
Ilkley v Driffield was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch, the third time this fixture has been called off. Glad I didn’t venture to Otley’s hammering by Wharfedale Just seen Siddal. 6 Wakefield T 70 Pleased they did not meet St Helens !
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Post by davemorton on Feb 10, 2024 19:31:03 GMT
Sedgley 'taken apart' at Taunton, 14-49, in the words of our man on the spot.
Huddersfield 19-57 Tynedale
Hull Ionians 38-38 Billingham
Hull 49-33 Preston G
Otley 0-41 Wharfedale (I would have enjoyed that one)
Sheffield RUFC 28-24 Lymm
Fylde 27-32 Rotherham (which keeps the season going)
Leeds Tykes 49-6 Sheffield Tigers
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Post by hawke on Feb 15, 2024 23:00:16 GMT
Oh dear oh dear. The start of the Super League season was not super at all for my favourite RL side, Hull FC. It can only get better….such a defeat to Rovers is a grim start.
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Post by davemorton on Feb 15, 2024 23:08:53 GMT
20,000 people watching that! Where does a team go from there? Two brain-dead red cards, too.
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Post by newby on Feb 16, 2024 8:48:09 GMT
I reckon Hull FC must have got Pele from the NRL discard bin.
Good start by the Robins who have a brilliant coach and I hope will do well this season.
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Post by hawke on Feb 16, 2024 9:32:09 GMT
oh dear, do I have to get behind the Red Red Robins to challenge the Saints/Wigan dominance? a dilemma, perhaps needs must........oh dear,
Come on Cas, Come on Leeds, Come on Fartown!
Come on You 'Ull !!!!
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Post by newby on Feb 17, 2024 9:56:12 GMT
Wins for the Rhinos, not convincing, and Huddersfield which I didn't see.
Castleford get underway today entertaining Wigan. No other Yorkshire interest alas with Wakefield missing out this season.
No top flight Rugby Union today, but a full programme in the National leagues.
Leeds Tykes v Preston Grasshoppers, Lymm v Otley, Rotherham v Sheffield RUFC and of course Sedgley Park v Bishop Stortford.
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Post by davemorton on Feb 17, 2024 11:56:04 GMT
I watched Leeds v Salford last night. Couldn't help supporting Salford, for old times' sake, having watched them for years until they made Alex Murphy coach - the ultimate betrayal. Akin to making Margaret Thatcher (or Tony Blair) leader of the Labour Party.
Good game, certainly compared with the abysmal Hull derby. Much to enjoy. At half-time I switched over to Llanelli v Munster, and the Irish province XV was a whole level higher again. I watched that until it became one-sided, then back to the exciting climax at Headingley.
This weekend sees the semi-finals of the Premiership Cup, which started during the World Cup, and featured the Prem clubs (minus International players) and the Championship. Three Prems + Ealing Trailfinders have made it through.
for the second week in succession, Sedgley are playing the bottom team in Nat One. Taunton beat us last week, leapfrogging over Bishop's Stortford, whom we play today. They pushed Rams close last week, and if we're not at our best, we will lose.
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Post by davemorton on Feb 17, 2024 13:03:16 GMT
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Post by hawke on Feb 17, 2024 20:52:59 GMT
Saw 2 new things today at the Ilkley v Blaydon match. Firstly the ref blew for the kick off 3 to 4 minutes before the official 2.15 start time. Secondly, a player threw the ball to himself at the line out. Interesting.
Ilkley won comfortably against fellow mid-table opponents with some excellent open rugby and seem assured of staying in NE Regional 1, the highest league a fully amateur club can reasonably aim for. Approx 250 attended.
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Post by davemorton on Feb 17, 2024 21:11:20 GMT
On a Point of Law, my Lord, there is a 'lineout', which comprises a minimum of two players from each side, and there is a 'quick throw-in', in which a player can throw it straight, or backwards (but not forwards) to any player, including himself, but it must be the same ball that went into touch, and must have been handled only by players.
Sedgley were taken apart, 0-22 at HT in perfect conditions, by an excellent Bishop's Stortford team. The rain arrived at half-time, and it poured down (as forecast, Met Office yellow warning). Sedge, who couldn't catch a dry ball, played much better, and pulled it back to 14-22. All the points were scored playing up the slope. Exciting game, final analysis, with BS desperately needing league points, and I'm pleased for them that they got them.
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Post by donnylad on Feb 18, 2024 17:12:52 GMT
This weekend sees the semi-finals of the Premiership Cup, which started during the World Cup, and featured the Prem clubs (minus International players) and the Championship. Three Prems + Ealing Trailfinders have made it through. Well the cherry and white nicked it against Exeter and Trailfinders lost by 8 points to Leicester sort of A/B XV who had a bit too much for them. OK so the stars are all on international duty but goof for Trailfinders. If only the sniffy 'keep out the riff-raff types at the RU and the Premiership could see the importance of having the sides pushing the top clubs. Of course if you just want to maintain the gravy train .......
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