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Post by hawke on Jun 1, 2024 19:06:04 GMT
Been following men’s and women’s county rugby union on my phone this afternoon whilst gardening. A double Roses header at Hull Ionians. Winners to the respective finals at Twickenham. Final Scores Women. Yorks 30 Lancs 19 Men. Yorks 26 Lancs 13. Well done !!!! Hooray !!!! The men’s final had been a long time coming. and 5 Sedgley Park players in the Lancs side if they were first team players then they are playing a division above everyone else so especially well done to Yorkshire
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Post by davemorton on Jun 2, 2024 17:28:00 GMT
Rob Burrow has died, at 41, which is terribly, terribly sad - and also a merciful release, if you are able to see it that way.
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Post by newby on Jun 2, 2024 17:35:18 GMT
RIP number 7.
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Post by hawke on Jun 2, 2024 18:27:47 GMT
Rob Burrow has died, at 41, which is terribly, terribly sad - and also a merciful release, if you are able to see it that way. Yes to both comments
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Post by donnylad on Jun 2, 2024 18:38:40 GMT
Agree with you M'Lud - great sadness but great achievements on and off the field.
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Post by newby on Jun 6, 2024 21:00:50 GMT
Big day for RL coming up on Saturday with the Challenge Cup final, Women's final and 1895 final all squeezed into one day at Wembley.
The Challenge Cup Final has been re-scheduled to start at 7 minutes after 3 as a tribute to Rob Burrow.
I hope the BBC and the RL hierarchy can manage to tread the fine line between marking Rob's life and his fundraising and awareness raising of MND, while allowing most of the day to be a celebration of the game for the teams and their fans playing in their respective finals.
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Post by hawke on Jun 8, 2024 11:02:29 GMT
I was wandering around Guiseley the other evening and went by Guiseley CC youngsters practising. All looked very good with adults giving up their time to coach/organise. I then came across Guiseley Rangers ARLFC and a youth match taking place. It was great to see local rugby league and well done again to volunteers/coaches/parents.
Local youth cricket seems to be thriving but I did wonder if summer RL has taken and is taking youngsters away from cricket. I recall the successful YCCC team under Gillespie had a lot of RL fans in its ranks.
The only negative about the RL was a high tackle which resulted in a player going off holding his head. The culprit was rightly given a yellow card but I was disappointed when he left the field that a coach high fived him. An arm round the shoulder and cautionary advice about player safety would have been the right action.
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Post by hawke on Jun 8, 2024 11:04:38 GMT
The idea of starting the RL Cup final at 3.07 is a fine one. Well done for that.
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Post by newby on Jun 9, 2024 8:21:37 GMT
Due to a family event in Leeds I didn't get to see any of finals day, I will catch up later.
Leeds Women were well beaten by St Helen's who seem to be moving into a period of domination in the sport leaving Leeds, York and Wigan in their wake.
Wigan won the main event pretty comprehensively, always difficult when a player gets sent off early and Warrington didn't get much of a look in. They are talking about introducing a 20 minute penalty for a red card rather than a complete sending off in RL. The Southern hemisphere are pushing the idea and it may well be voted in as early as next season. I think I'm generally in favour.
At least a Yorkshire win in the 1895 Cup final with Wakefield Trinity beating Sheffield Eagles 50 points to 6. Trinity of course are due back in Super league next season whatever happens so have managed to stay fully professional.
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Post by hawke on Jun 9, 2024 9:40:58 GMT
Saints and Wigan have a recent monopoly and it does not seem like ending soon. Great shame. But all credit to them. Yorkshire RL is strong at amateur and youth level looking at the BARLA site but our professional sides do not operate as well as Saints and Wigan nor are they challenging as well as Leigh, Salford and Warrington. Gloomy at present.
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Post by newby on Jun 9, 2024 10:41:07 GMT
Agree, Hull KR the only bright spot so far this season and although they are third they have also been brushed aside at times.
I'm sure they wouldn't get away with it, at least I hope they wouldn't, but watching the intensity of a couple of the St Helen's players it worries me what they are putting in their tea!
A bit of an upturn possibly and some good recruitment for next season for Hull FC and they are beginning to look less of a basket case.
Hull KR and Leeds I reckon will finish in the top 6 but then only to make up the numbers.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jun 10, 2024 11:13:33 GMT
Rugby (either code) is not really my sport of choice but circumstances on Saturday required me to sit with an old neighbour who has dementia so my wife could take his wife out for the day.
I know he used to like his sport so we watched the womens final, very one sided and a dominant St Helens, and then the mens final although the 15-a-side clode also had its final on at the same time on ITV whilst the BBC showed the 13-a-side games.
Great to see some quality sport on BBC/ITV but who on earth schedules the 2 mens finals for the same time on the same day? Probably the same idiots who schedule the T20 Roses match on the same evening as England v denmark in the Euros....
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Post by newby on Jun 10, 2024 19:10:52 GMT
I was at what is predominantly a Rugby Union club on Saturday, watching cricket.
They had both Rugby finals on in different rooms, it being in Leeds the majority were in the RL room, although it was a much smaller telly.
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Post by davemorton on Jun 10, 2024 20:51:21 GMT
I sat on the boundary edge at Bovey Tracey CC, watching their 2nd XI demolish someone or other whilst listening to the second half of the RU final (with updates from the RL) on the radio of another old codger and former Bovey bowler.
Previously, I had been listening to it on my car radio. I may have got this wrong, but I believe they paused the RU final at 3.07 for a round of applause for Rob Burrow. There's a healthy mutual respect between the two codes, from the professionals, if not from all the supporters.
On the cricket, it was good to see two very well turned out XIs, with two proper umpires, at 2nd team level. Bovey had a couple of bowlers who wouldn't be on many clubs' second teams. A pretty place, but not the prettiest ground. I also watched Exeter University v Durham at Sidmouth on Thursday, a 50-over match of very high standard, somewhere round County 2nd XI. Exeter won easily on a very fast, bouncy pitch. Superb setting, the ground at Sidmouth.
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Post by hawke on Jun 11, 2024 5:33:00 GMT
I sat on the boundary edge at Bovey Tracey CC, watching their 2nd XI demolish someone or other whilst listening to the second half of the RU final (with updates from the RL) on the radio of another old codger and former Bovey bowler. Previously, I had been listening to it on my car radio. I may have got this wrong, but I believe they paused the RU final at 3.07 for a round of applause for Rob Burrow. There's a healthy mutual respect between the two codes, from the professionals, if not from all the supporters. On the cricket, it was good to see two very well turned out XIs, with two proper umpires, at 2nd team level. Bovey had a couple of bowlers who wouldn't be on many clubs' second teams. A pretty place, but not the prettiest ground. I also watched Exeter University v Durham at Sidmouth on Thursday, a 50-over match of very high standard, somewhere round County 2nd XI. Exeter won easily on a very fast, bouncy pitch. Superb setting, the ground at Sidmouth. Sounds to be a great break. Yes I have heard the ground at Sidmouth has a terrific setting. The former Yorkshire, Leicestershire and England batsman Gerald Smithson's father was groundsman there and Gerald played his first cricket for Sidmouth as a teenager before WW2.. Yes a proper response from RU to Rob Burrow. Excellent.
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