i've had other sides say that they were allowed free weekends for 'rugby reasons' but I know Westhoughton conceded the weekend of Millenium Magic because JP (involved in running them) had his stag doo at Millenium Magic while we had lots of lads at the stag doo for Cronus (for which i asked for a free well in advance also). we definately asked at start of year, and I tried again in January when it looked like the fixture list wasnt backlogged as badly as in previous years.

Believe it or not I arranged it as late as I could before the cost of the venue started to go up in April - even arranged it out of season by 3 weeks!! But the ridiculous 'no free weekends' rule is apparently inflexible even out of season. Apologies to Cuthbert's. But if it helps I'm planning a helluva party!!





Anyway...

Chorley Panthers v Rylands Sharks A - though this could be close, Chorley have improved and are tough at home.

Newton Storm v St Helens Wild Boars - a tasty rehearsal for the Bowl tie!

Widnes Tigers v Eccleston Lions - could be a tight game, going for the home side.

Wigan St Cuthbert’s A v Bury Broncos



Wigan Bulldogs v Westhoughton Lions - Wigan have been much improved since New Year.

have a good day cronus hope atleast 13 of your rugby lads turn up for a change





Hope the weather is like this tomorow cant remeber last time we played with a bit of sun. how the pitch looking down at newton??

Spot on mate

pitch at newton aint no wembley but it'll certainly not be called off.

heard its the live game on sky at 2.30pm, should be a cracker!!

Tigers 34 Lions 14

Chorley 24 - 34 Rylands

big game at the bottom this week as Newton travel to Chorley! played quite well v wildboar at weekend. should be a corker!

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Are Bury coming down for a game this weekend? If your not can you let me know early so I can think of another excuse not to have to go shopping with the wife.

Chorley vs Newton

Crosfields vs Wigan St Cuths

Westhoughton vs Eccleston

Widnes vs Bury

Wigan Bulldogs vs Rylands

Chorley vs Newton -

Crosfields vs Wigan St Cuths

Westhoughton vs Eccleston

Widnes vs Bury

Wigan Bulldogs vs Rylands

Quite a few good fixtures this week with Wigan v Rylands looking the pick of the games;



Chorley vs Newton

Crosfields vs Wigan St Cuthberts

Westhoughton vs Eccleston

Widnes vs Bury

Wigan Bulldogs vs Rylands



Shame the league is over for us now just hope we have a few good cup runs!! all training this sat and going watching a game so hopefully that will help not playing !!

Well it's nearly midnight and we still have a team, though even I might be strapping on my boots tomorrow!!



Fingers crossed we'll be there! I'm assuming you're No.10, I'll be sure to say hello! Probably at the most inconvenient moment.

Thats odd because I have just done a 50 mile round trip from my house in Manchester only to be told Bury called the game off just before 1pm. I will send my expences to your club!

I suggest you have a word closer to home then mate. mmp even rang your lot about 10.00ish to warn our numbers were starting to look a bit iffy (4 dropouts on the day again - 2 are medical, both concerning kids so can't complain about those but getting pretty naffed off with the state of our squad at the moment - 2 more season ending injuries this week). We were coming with 15/6 last night.



Myself and mmp made the decision at exactly 11.00am and I can guarantee he rang Widnes straight away.



Just a point of interest - how come you play for Widnes if you live in Manchester?

Played in widnes since I was 8. Only moved to Manchester 2 years ago to be closer to work all my mates in widnes. At my age i just want to play with friends for fun. Good luck drumming up interest in the closed season

Chorley 48 - 6 Newton.



This result as been coming for a while from a very young side.Blew the Storm off the park in the 1st half, 2nd half became very niggly and bad tempered at times.Newtons only try was a penalty try that was pretty soft.All in all it was a good afternoon down at Panther Park.

Had a few big players out for us and drafted a side together at last minute instead of throwing the game like other clubs might have, had players with injuries and still turned up - for that im quite proud. that wasnt a young side compared to ours though, also from the team you had when u came down to ours i saw 2 faces i recognised, so its not the same team as you had all year before you say it is. that being said big win for you, totally deserved it, and if u play like that for the rest of the yearthe only way is up the table. congrats we certainly wont get beat like that again this year.

At leats 10 of those from yesterday played at your place. We are now benefiting from our under 18s side coming through. Average age was about 22 compared to the start of the season when we relied on a few older heads to make the numbers up.Just shows that it only takes 1 or 2 players to change a sides fortunes.Its definately looking good for the future.We are also playing through summer so thats even more experience for the 18s as they step up to OA rugby.

heard that we are now playing Chester in the Bowl instead of newton due to them playing someone they shouldnt of against chester any truth in it??

Wigan Bulldogs 52-6 Rylands