the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 4:28 pm  

Widnes under 16's 60 quins 12

Widnes under 21's 48 barrow 12

Under 18's result to come


Well done lads

Re: the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 5:57 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

Widnes under 16's 60 quins 12

Widnes under 21's 48 barrow 12

Under 18's result to come


Well done lads

Widnes under 16's 64 quins 14

12 tries and 8 goals

Owens 2, Butterworth 2, Sheridan 2, Gilmore, Ball, Whitty, Fernyhough, Orme and Hughes.

Gilmore 8 goals

3 tries and a goal

McMeekin 3

Thomas 1 goal

Re: the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 9:34 pm  

Theres 20000 school kids playing the game in London

Re: the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 9:46 pm  

HARDMAN wrote:

Theres 20000 school kids playing the game in London

Im not sure which was to take this post.

In any case they seem to have found an excellent player in the centre McMeekin.

The 16's march on again. A great side to watch and its nice to notice that there seems to be a great spirit between everyone in the squad not just the majority from HFH.

Heres hoping we keep the vast majority of them when it swings round to signing on time.

Re: the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 9:47 pm  

How did the 18's get on today?

Re: the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 9:48 pm  

Sky always harp on about the amount of kids playing the game in London, there's a fraction of that many playing in Widnes and we still managed to batter them!!

Re: the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 9:53 pm  

HARDMAN wrote:

Sky always harp on about the amount of kids playing the game in London, there's a fraction of that many playing in Widnes and we still managed to batter them!!

We seem to forget that we get jack all for winning any games below first team level.

We do have the luxury of picking players up from outside the borough which we still do but have done on greater numbers when there havent been any Widnes sides in the Prem at 16's level.

Some of those today will play first team for Quins eventually which is all that matters really.

Re: the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 9:58 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

How did the 18's get on today?

They won.

No idea on the score as I went after the 16's having freezed my t!ts off watching them and the ressies.

Re: the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 10:06 pm  

widneslardboy wrote:

We seem to forget that we get jack all for winning any games below first team level.

We do have the luxury of picking players up from outside the borough which we still do but have done on greater numbers when there havent been any Widnes sides in the Prem at 16's level.

Some of those today will play first team for Quins eventually which is all that matters really.

Surely though it must at least show that Widnes are capable of bringing good youngsters through the ranks.

Are we saying then that none of the lads in the U16's will get to play in the 1st team but the Quins ones will eventually play in theirs??

Re: the yoof of widnes march on : Sat May 08, 2010 11:56 pm  

HARDMAN wrote:

Sky always harp on about the amount of kids playing the game in London, there's a fraction of that many playing in Widnes and we still managed to batter them!!

I couldn't say for definate, but I would have thought that of those 20,000 mentioned, not all of them play on a regular basis. I was under the impression that there is a lot RFL community and development work that goes on in London and part of that involves going into schools and giving taster lessons to kids. The point is that if the RFL go into say 20 schools and give lessons to a total of 2,000 kids can the RLF include those 2,000 as part of how many kids play RL in London?

If there really are 20,000 kids all playing RL regularly in London then fiar play to them, but I'm always a bit dubious about figures quoted about London and always wonder if the figures have had a bit of RFL added spin.


Well done to all of the Widnes teams who played today (well technically yesterday now). I know we're not exactly having it all our own way this year with the 1st team, but the set up now in place at Widnes it can only strenthen us over the coming years.