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Topic: North Premier Prediction League -Week 12 results

Posted By: Welshwonder
Subject: North Premier Prediction League -Week 12 results
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2019 at 20:16

Week 12 results and league points:-

Billingham 22-20 Blackburn 5-1 -10

Blaydon 8-12 Harrogate 1-4 -10

Ilkley 3-25 Sandal 0-4 +10

Lymm 50-32 Carlisle 5-1 +10

Morpeth 12-17 Kirkby Lonsdale 1-4 -10

Rossendale 22-20 Macclesfield 4-1 -10

Wirral 32-15 Alnwick 5-0 +10

Some cracking games played today, Billingham saw off a stiff challenge from Blackburn to record a 12th consecutive win with a last minute try and conversion which maintains their position at the top of the league. Harrogate came away from Blaydon with a narrow win and 4 league points with the winning score coming with the final move of the game.The divisions bottom club Ilkley again failed to record a league point, losing to Sandal .
Kirkby Lonsdale travelled to Morpeth and recorded an excellent win 17-12. Rossendale made it back to back wins by defeating Macclesfield, they had to rely on accurate goal kicking and came back from 20-6 behind to win with the last kick of the game.
Wirral produced a good performance to take maximum points against Alnwick.

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Welshwonder

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Posted By: billinghamoldgit
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2019 at 21:10

#wecontinuetobuild
Billingham welcomed Blackburn to Greenwood Road in front of a large Billingham crowd in what nearly sprung a surprise upset.

Billingham were quickly out of the blocks from the kick off when the ball was spun wide to Nathan Myers who barged his way over the white wash. Conversion missed. 5-0.

As the kick off restarted the game a fine Walton catch saw play on the 15 metre line. Sam Wilson making his second start of the season fed Jackson who ran behind his support player. The ref adjudged crossing. A kick to the corner, lineout followed another penalty to Blackburn which was kickable.
5-3

Billingham restarted and again showed their attacking threat after winning a penalty. A line out quickly found it self to Luke Wilson who barrelled himself up the middle. A switch of play found Elliot Husband on the wing who darted into the corner for a fine finish. Missed conversion.
10-3

Blackburn tightened the game up and made some early substitutions swapping their props to give them a break. It wasn't long before Blackburns robust pack were dominating the game. Phase after phase Blackburn drove into Billinghams half. The referee had enough of Billinghams infringements and penalised the green and white. Blackburn kicked the goal to make it 10-6 going into half time.

The second half kicked off and Blackburn were quickly dominating proceedings once again. They kept the ball tight and found gaps on weak Billingham shoulders which led to 14 unanswered points from the men in blue. 2 tries and 2 cons.

Blackburn had a clear plan and were making headway with their ball carriers. Things needed to change.

3 changes by Billingham saw Husband go to 9, Roxby to 15 Kirkbride into second row and Clark to prop (replaced S Wilson, Spoors and Whinn).

Immediately it was Kirkbride that got Billingham on the front foot with 3 monstrous carries. Clark was making yards and Husband offered something different at 9.

Burns, Foulds offered themselves more, Jackson was picking up the scraps. Myers was challenging their three quarters.

With the raucous Billingham crowd getting behind the boys you could see the lads lift their game. Powerful Luke Wilson ploughed through a big Blackburn pack brushing off tackles to score in the corner. Missed conversion. 15-20. Game on!!

Peter Evans started attacking the Blackburn team picking runners to hit gaps. Offload started to hit hands, Ross and Hopley were finding gaps. The ball quickly found substitute Jobe Roxby on the 15 metre, a check of his run, a side step and a grubber through had the large Billingham crowd holding their breath.
It was a foot race between Roxby and 2 Blackburn defenders but it was the fleet footed Roxby that won the race to catch and score to draw the sides level.
It was left to captain Peter to kick what was the winning kick from 5 metres in. The wind dropped. For what felt like an eternity Peter kicked the ball with precision to win the game 22-20.

Credit has to be given to Blackburn. It is easy to see why they are in this league. Big, powerful and athletic. We wish them a safe journey home.

We finish the year and decade with the last home win. Next week continues to be another challenge.

We continue to build.

#OSIOS

Posted By: tulip
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2019 at 11:13

When you look at those results there wasn't a lot between the top teams and bottom teams.Ilkley gave Sandal a very good game as did Blackburn against leaders Billingham. Makes predictions difficult to say the least.

Posted By: Willy Mclintosh
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2019 at 20:30

Bit late, sorry, but here is the updated league table.

Its all change at the top with new players in first and second as me and tulip had a cr4p week !

	WK8	WK9	WK10	WK11	WK11+		Total
Welshwonder	40	80	115	85	30	90	965
Coldwarwarrier	30	75	130	65	45	70	950
tulip	45	75	110	65	5	55	940
Willy Mclintosh	45	80	110	60	10	55	940
Count Ford	40	110	100	40	20	60	905
Richard Lowther	35	65	110	55	45	55	900
billinghamoldgit	65	95	100	65	10	55	885
Puli	60	85	105	70	10	50	880
Hopper	70	100	115	60	10	35	870
RAL 3020	50	80	125	55	25	45	870
oldbill10	65	80	80	65	15	55	860
Pristine Shorts	45	80	100	65	0	55	845
Whaa Hoo Wilkey	70	55	100	80	10	40	840
BuzzKillington	55	85	105	50	45	40	835
Know All	65	40	110	70	10	50	805
Round to oval	45	65	110	75	25	75	790
No Position	70	65	110	80	10	50	785
Seaside Prop	45	40	85	65	0	55	760
Silverfish	50	80	95	60	10	35	735
PiffPaff	70	80			10		660
office dweller		55	115	55	15	45	655
Muttley			120	50	10		595

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