Leicestershire 14 North Midlands 62.

Cheshire 21 Lancashire 54.

Cheshire soundly beaten. Went 5-0 down in the first minute, but then had some good pressure for the next 10-15 mins including three or four kicks to the corner, the net result was 0 points.

Lancashire came out of the traps in the second half and put the game to bed with a few quick tries. A red for each side - Gavin Woods (Lymm) and David Fairbrother (Fylde) - seemed to even things up a bit, but Lancashire had enough on the board to see out Cheshire's late fightback. 

A lot of counties are suffering from the loss of players at NCA cubs.

Even players at the lower XVs are now disqualified - even if that team plays at level 8.

Cornwall v Somerset was certainly littered with Nat 1 and Nat 2 players yesterday (Cinderford, Redruth, Exeter Uni, Hornets, TJs, Old Reds and Camborne now also of course).

I'm watching Yorkshire Women at Huddersfield. 

It may only be division 2, I know Easter Counties are not permitted National League players.

And as an internal rule, all EC players had to play in the inter county matches between Cambs, Norfolk and Suffolk.

65-0 full time score.

Good game, well played Yorkshire. 

Most haven't played for over a month. No wonder they got hammered.

And Camquin is right, in Eastern Counties our policy is that you have to play in our internal county championship to be eligible for selection for the BB Cup.

Looking at the final tables I think 11 County's got docked points and several walkovers.....

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There was an article in TRP a month or two ago saying at the CC are being re-organised. If I remember correctly out goes promotion and relegation and each season a county will be able to 'decide' which level it wants to play at based on the quality of the players available.  I think - although I may be wrong - that all players in the Community game would become eligable - regardless of the level they are playing in.

That was more or less the position this year, Richard. CBs were asked what level they believed they could sustain based on the clubs that were in their area. Some CBs rightly (for them) want to pursue the highest level they can and they are mostly in Division 1 where they can play anyone registered at National 1 downwards.

In Eastern Counties we have chosen to spread our net more widely: in Division 2 we are only able to select from Level 5 down (which is hard lines on players at Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds and North Walsham - who are excluded even if they are not in the first team squad) - but does mean that we have 15 different clubs represented in our squad this season. We are determined to rebuild the connection between the players across our patch and CB representative rugby.

And with Cambridge going up to the Championship and therefore not even eligible at Division 1, I doubt we will be changing our position for next season.

Of course we would like more players to put themselves forward, but the bottom line is that we are picking from players who want to play enough to make themselves available - we aren't twisting anybody arm to extend their season reluctantly.

Half time men's game Yorkshire lead 42-5.

East Midlands 23 North Midlands 21.

Full time Yorkshire won  87-19.

The Yorkshire ladies did very well against Leicester Tigers ladies. Although the Tigers fitness shone through in the later stages to allow them the win. Rumour has it that the Tigers will soon get a berth at the Premiership 15s table (potentially 24/25 season) so watch out the other counties this could be the team to beat.

All the best 

ST

I presume you will be at the game on Saturday? I am coming across to hopefully see you eat humble pie 😊

Joking aside should be a great game

All the best 

ST

My favourite type of pie Richard 😂😂😂😂😂

Lancashire 13 Yorkshire 23 39 Mins

Try of the season contender that one! 

All done without any Sedge boys who are on a stag do

Well played Yorkshire 

All the best 

ST 

Yorkshire gave away too many penalties and it wore us down and our backs failed to fire as in previous games. 

To be fair Richard I thought Lancashire were struggling coughing up loads of possession. In the second half Yorkshire looked the most likely to win the game but Lancashire did enough.

I hope you enjoyed your day and all from Yorks had a safe journey home across the hill.

Have a great summer 

All the best 

ST 

Though I have to say, that was the worst kicking performance I have ever seen, from the Lancashire 10.

Nearly as bad as the match commentary on Utube 

They've always been like that for community rugby. Never read the teamsheets properly, only have 1 little tidbit about certain players and talk crap about them and their graphical clock doesn't match with the referee's watch. What i'd say is also bad is that for community finals at HQ, they don't have video refs.