League Table - Updated as of 5pm today 1st March

With respect to Blackheath, given the points gap between them and the top, I think their defeat today to those Mighty Tigers (incidentally who play us at the Lane in two weeks) makes it very difficult for them to overhaul the teams above them.

Plymouth are on fire. Nine straight wins including today’s fantastic win at Rams. 

Plymouth were very impressive at Rotherham earlier in the season where they lost to last minute penalty at Rotherham & had they kicked the points instead of going to touch on two or three occasions, they would surely have won that too. 

Since that day however, Albion have gone from strength to strength, and play Roth next week looking for their 10th win on the bounce. Roths form isn’t too shabby either though, as they will be looking for their 8th straight win. Interestingly though, Roths form is markedly better away from home, certainly comparing our last three home and away games. This has been achieved with an absolutely shocking injury list, ( a lot of other teams have these issues too so isn’t an excuse) but also every game has been fiercely competitive with no quarter given. This is a tribute to ALL teams in this league & what a league it is.

Conversely Rams are, it’s fair to say, have fallen away recently and have now lost 6 games since losing their first one at Rotherham just over 3 months ago. They are now tied with both Plymouth and Rosslyn Park on 71 points, nine points behind Rotherham and twelve behind leaders, Richmond.

Rosslyn Park are still in the mix , although like Roth had similar problems to us with Leicester Lions, who although second from bottom are fighting very strongly to avoid the drop. Well played to them.

And so to the leaders Richmond. A great win today, where they had to come back from 14-0 down to a secure a great win against a very dangerous Bishops Stortford team.

Irrespective of what happens going forward, the very best of luck to all teams, officials and supporters of this great league.

Trying to avoid the politics in the game, I think this league and the one above deserves a lot of credit. All teams have battled to be where they are and I for one oppose any attempt for any club to be parachuted into these leagues without earning it on the field of play.

I’m intrigued by the injury list - who have you got missing who would be in the first choice?