Round 8
Printed From: National League Rugby Discussion Forum
Category: League Rugby - www.leaguerugby.co.uk
Forum Name: The Championship
Forum Description: Discuss the 12 clubs forming the English Championship.
URL: http://www.leaguerugby.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=20090
Printed Date: 29 May 2024 at 06:02
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.04 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Round 8
Posted By: castleparknight
Subject: Round 8
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2023 at 08:53
|
23/12/2023 Ampthill vs Bedford Caldy vs Doncaster Cornish Pirates vs Hartpury London Scottish vs Cambridge 26/12/2023 Coventry vs Nottingham ------------- Onward and Upwards C'mon Donny! |
Replies:
Posted By: castleparknight
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2023 at 08:55
|
My Guesses: Ampthill 1 vs 5 Bedford Caldy 1 vs 5 Doncaster Cornish Pirates 4 vs 1 Hartpury London Scottish 5 vs Cambridge 0 Coventry 5 vs 1 Nottingham And a Merry Christmas to all ------------- Onward and Upwards C'mon Donny! |
Posted By: Paul10
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2023 at 14:20
|
Ampthill 2 vs 4 Bedford Caldy 5 vs 2 Doncaster Cornish Pirates 4 vs 1 Hartpury London Scottish 5 vs 0 Cambridge Coventry 5 vs 2 Nottingham |
Posted By: BigChief
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2023 at 14:41
|
Ampthill 1 - 5 Bedford Caldy 1 - 5 Doncaster Cornish Pirates 5 - 1 Hartpury London Scottish 5 - 1 Cambridge Coventry 2 - 5 Nottingham ------------- For the ordinary purposes of conversation, a superficial knowledge of many things goes further than an intimacy with one or two. |
Posted By: greenpower
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2023 at 21:40
|
apmthill 0 5 bedford caldy 1 5 doncaster pirates 5 0 hartpury scottish 5 0 cambridge coventry 5 1 nottingham
|
Posted By: Old Gold
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2023 at 09:14
|
Ampthill 1 - 5 Bedford Caldy 1 - 5 Doncaster Cornish Pirates 5 - 2 Hartpury Coventry 5 - 2 NottinghamLondon Scottish 5 - 0 Cambridge May your seasonal sprouts rest gently in your digestive system. ------------- One Club |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2023 at 10:20
Your devil's testes won't get anywhere near my innards! ------------- Our Club |
Old Gold wrote:Posted By: Cherub
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2023 at 17:14
|
Ampthill 2-5 Bedford Caldy 2-5 Doncaster Pirates 5-2 Hartpury L Scottish 5-1 Cambridge Coventry 5-2 Nottingham ------------- Always trying to stay bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. |
Posted By: gerg_861
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2023 at 21:47
|
Ampthill 4 vs 1 Bedford - Home win in the battle of Bedfordshire. Very glad that schedulers actually got this right for once. Caldy 1 vs 5 Doncaster - Also, I'll be damned if the schedulers didn't set up a northern match upcorrectly as well. Someone at the RFU must have been sick on scheduling day. Cornish Pirates 1 vs 4 Hartpury - Pirates didn't look very good vs. Ealing last weekend (and Ealing looked dreadful as well for most of the match). London Scottish 5 vs Cambridge 0 - Quins B to beat Cambridge Handily. Coventry 5 vs 2 Nottingham - I'm guessing a close, high scoring match. |
Posted By: FHLH
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 02:26
.... and this encapsulates all that is wrong with the game ------------- "My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts." |
Posted By: All the Way
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 08:16
|
Ampthill 1-5 Bedford
Caldy 1-5 Doncaster Pirates 5-2 Hartpury L Scottish 5-1 Cambridge Coventry 5-2 Nottingham
|
Posted By: Exiled_Scots
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 08:30
|
London Scottish 5 vs Cambridge 0 - Quins B to beat Cambridge Handily. [/QUOTE] I noticed that you failed to refer to mentioning the Quins B derogatory term when LS beat Ealing a few weeks back.
|
Posted By: Exiled_Scots
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 08:33
.... and this encapsulates all that is wrong with the game Amazing what a team with great team spirit can achieve at minimal cost. Merry Christmas all. ------------- Watch Out - The Scottish Phoenix Club is on the Up!! Seven down one to go |
Posted By: Bluesman11
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 12:36
|
Just looking at the Ampthill team, I didn’t realise how many Sarries players they have this season. I think it’s 7 in the starting lineup. Has this been the case all season? ------------- Championship Prediction League Winner 11/12 |
Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 13:21
Yes, hopefully they will get their first win on Saturday.
------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: BigChief
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 13:24
|
'Scottish Bashing' aside (boring and repetitive)... I was chatting to a senior committee member of the Pirates Staff that came to the RAG earlier in the season. Smashing old fellow. He discussed how he "wished he had his own players" as opposed to DRs/Loans etc, he never knew his starting XV (I recall him saying 14 in the squad that night ? - I have no clue where these players came from or how many were truly there - most from Chiefs one would imagine). The point being that plenty of clubs at this level have some type of arrangements in place - however some supporters try to deny and or disguise it (unless of course you are fortunate enough to have the wealth of the trailfinders brand behind you as an example). ------------- For the ordinary purposes of conversation, a superficial knowledge of many things goes further than an intimacy with one or two. |
Posted By: FHLH
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 14:43
You're right. It has become fashionable to knock London Scottish even though they are playing within the regulations. I'm thinking of the good old days when only club members played for a club. Happy Christmas 🎄🎄 ------------- "My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts." |
Posted By: Exiled_Scots
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:46
Yes, hopefully they will get their first win on Saturday. LS have already won this season and great team spirit & minimal cost of putting sides out in the Championship are not exclusive to sides such as Caldy and Cambridge. ------------- Watch Out - The Scottish Phoenix Club is on the Up!! Seven down one to go |
Posted By: Exiled_Scots
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:53
|
The days of teams playing in the Championship being membership playing sides only are long gone. Every team in the Championship pay their players through various hybrid payment methods to turn out their sides each match day. Let’s not try and kid ourselves otherwise. ------------- Watch Out - The Scottish Phoenix Club is on the Up!! Seven down one to go |
Posted By: gerg_861
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 12:33
I don't have anything against Scottish in particular, but I do thoroughly dislike sides that turn out with scads of dual registered players on a rotating basis. I decried Hartpury when they did it a few years ago to knock Richmond down and were essentially Gloucester A, and I will continue to state my distaste for Scottish fielding sides that are more Harlequins 2nd team. That is regardless of who they play. I'm not saying that they are doing anything that is against regulations, but I do believe that the regulations need to change. So long as we continue to see teams with less of their 'own' players than dual-reg or loanees turning out, the Bill Sweeney's of the world will have a stick to beat the Championship clubs with.
|
Posted By: FHLH
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 12:41
I'm told there's only 10 D/R in the Scottish squad to play Cambridge - just over 40% and less than a LS core XV If they were season long loans with salary costs I'd be less frustrated.
------------- "My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts." |
Posted By: Donnyknightfan
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 13:03
|
Predictions: Ampthill 2 v 5 Bedford Caldy 1 v 5 Doncaster Cornish Pirates 4 v 1 Hartpury London Scottish 5 v 0 Cambridge Coventry 5 v 0 Nottingham
------------- Donny Knights - best team in Yorkshire |
Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 14:21
|
HT Ampthill 12-12 Blues 2 tries each. The wind and good lifting by Ampthill is stopping Blues with about 8 lost lineouts and 2 won.
|
Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 14:55
| 60m Ampthill 15-24 (bp) Blues |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 15:00
| Caldy 14 Donny 5 ht |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 15:17
| Caldy 14 Donny 12 |
Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 15:18
|
FT Ampthill (0) 22 - 31 (5) Blues ATT 2837
|
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 15:37
| Caldy 17 Donny 12 |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 15:38
| Caldy 24 Donny 12 |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 15:43
|
Caldy 24 Donny 19 ft 4pts to 1
|
Posted By: FHLH
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 16:51
|
LS 26 Cambridge 28 (2-5)
------------- "My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts." |
Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 17:13
|
Well done Caldy and Cambridge! Blues weren’t at their best today, but keep marching on with 5 points. Blues dominated the scrum with a lot of penalties and a pushover and even pushed Ampthill off their ball a couple of times. However in the windy conditions the lineout was a disaster. On to Coventry.
|
Posted By: castleparknight
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 17:39
|
Well done Caldy - you played well and deserved the win. Doncaster need to go back t the drawing board and plan better - and learn to adjust as the game shifts. Chances blown by the knights ------------- Onward and Upwards C'mon Donny! |
Posted By: islander
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 17:41
| Pirates 14 Hartpury 7 in front of 2,466 |
Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 19:34
|
It was a bizarre last ten minutes, with Cambridge knocking on over the line, leading to a GLDO. Then Scottish gain the ball and should have scored, but they knocked on - but with advantage. Cambridge held them out and won a penalty, then went the length of the pitch, scoring with time in the red - leaving a tricky kick into the wind. Do not know the official numbers, but not that many - looked like just over a thousand. ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: Monkey Magic
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 21:01
914 inc all season ticket holders so prob just over 800 actually attended.
|
Posted By: Runitback
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 22:12
|
Well Done Cambridge, great result ------------- Run with it |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2023 at 00:15
|
Caldy steaming along nicely now, and a very satisfying result for Cambridge. Good to see the recent additions to the league making their mark. ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: islander
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2023 at 11:21
| Great clip of the winning Cambridge conversion (a tough one, with ‘placer’ standing by due to wind) & subsequent celebrations on Champ TwitteX - I remember Jersey celebrating a 1st Champ win after 6 straight losses in 2012, our 1st season. And against Scottish too - by 20-17 |
Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 15:09
According to the BBC Coventry have some interesting player positions!Coventry
|
Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 15:31
| Coventry 19-0 Nottingham |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 16:13
|
It was 22-7 at HT. 27-7 after 44 mins 4t-1t ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 16:20
|
27-14 4t-2t ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 16:28
|
34-14 ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 16:39
|
34-21 The familiar Cov second-half collapse is underway. Just need to hang on for five minutes... 5t-3t ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 16:43
|
37-21 79 mins ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 16:50
|
Ft Cov 37-21 Nottm 5-0 ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 17:44
|
Attendance 5047, a new BPA record. Probably should've been more, but CCFC were playing just up the road. ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: gerg_861
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 18:23
Very nice. What is a "sell out"? Also, wonder how many prem games this yer had worse attendance.
|
Posted By: Cherub
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 19:38
|
Big attendances at Ampthill, Caldy, and Pirates this week, and now Coventry smash their home attendance record. This league is alive and kicking. Long may it continue. ------------- Always trying to stay bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2023 at 20:47
Not sure what rated capacity is now, but I think around 5,300. (The other match in the city this afternoon attracted 29208, and I know a good few of those would have attended the BPA if there hadn't been a City match. Shame really). ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: WEvans
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2023 at 12:20
Absolutely right. Yes a team calling itself London Scottish beat Ealing a few weeks ago but that side had more Harlequins players in it than London Scottish so it would be more accurate to say Harlequins beat Ealing.
|
Posted By: Thatbloke
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2023 at 14:25
| The Championship clubs could also use this as a weapon to prevent the RFU's attempt to sabotage the current Level2 clubs by collectively refusing to take any "spare" players from Premiership clubs. That would really knacker them up and would require a collective stance taken across the whole league. Guess what - won't happen due to clubs own self-interests |
Posted By: John Butler42
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2023 at 15:18
|
Are you reading any of this Mr Sweeney. Well of course not to answer my own question. If he had deemed to visit the BPA yesterday two things would have occurred. He would have received a very chilly reception from the Championship faithful & secondly witnessed a true Championship contest that was a credit tO the game. But then we are talking Sweeney & the RFU . I for one would relish half an hour locked in a room with him. Call if leadership, what a disgrace & on top of it he is not even a person with a proper Rugby background. ------------- John Butler |