Blues look dominant but an intercept in the first 2 mins from Prowse and a missed penalty (1st missed kick of the season) has the score line closer. Although Pirates also missed one penalty too.

Doncaster 0 L Scottish 5

Coventry 12 - 0 Chinnor

Bedford having most of the ball and territory, but butchering opportunities in the 22. Pirates clinical

Pirates 19 - 21 Blues

Doncaster 0 - 12 Scottish

HT Coventry 14 - 7 Chinnor

I believe pirates have scored from every visit to the 22.

FT Pirates (2) 24 - 28 (5) Blues

FT Doncaster (0) 0 - 12 (4) Scottish

Coventry 21 - 7 Chinnor

Only thing was we would still have lost 3-2 points by taking the 3. We shouldn’t have gone for 3 in the first few mins of the 2nd half and kept the pressure on.

FT Pirates (2) 24 - 28 (5) Blues

FT Doncaster (0) 0 - 12 (4) Scottish

FT Coventry (5) 28 - 14 (0) Chinnor

There, I’ve fixed it for you. If this is the route that this league is going down then I don’t want anything to do with it. London Scottish are just a soulless, nothing club that don’t offer anything to this league. Teams like Caldy have had to fight their way through the divisions to get to this level and have stayed up by producing their own players. The RFU are a pathetic embarrassment for allowing this to happen. If it was my club that had 10 of their 15 players parachuted in from a Premiership Club I would refuse to go and watch them. If that’s the vision that the powers that be have for this league then Rugby below the Premiership is absolutely dead and we’d be better off in the lower leagues watching a team of players that actually have an affinity with the club that they play for rather than being used as an experiment by Premiership clubs. 

Not quite sure what they mean other than their ability to garner a team from Premiership clubs and call it London Scottish - or is that me being judgemental?

100% in agreement

Seems that the rumour of National One being the best is right. 

The comments on London Scottish being a soulless CLUB are disgraceful. Our 2 amateur sides both won well today and we are having a blast this evening. Do we offer anything to a league that has no purpose… well who cares the league is wrongly forgotten by the RFU.

Enjoy the fact that a Quins laden side nilled Donny at home, the result will show it was London Scottish playing within league rules. I used to enjoy trips to Donny, always thought the fans were evenhanded, perhaps I was high on Cow Pie.

Me, I'd rather grow our own and support them to the hilt whether that be at Level 2, Level5 or Level 10

Well if you think that having 10 loanees from a Premiership Club in a starting 15 is OK and you are happy to support that, then fair enough. However, don’t you come on here and start belittling fellow rugby supporters that have watched their teams for years and happen to have a different opinion to yourself. 

I don’t disagree that the league rules are a mess.

The team at the top of the Champ, unbeaten and on maximum points, uses no Prem players (apart from an emergency front-rower in week one), so it can be done.

That’s true - and I note that Coventry put Scottish to the sword in the first game when a lot of the “hired help” was playing. 

Never has a rumour been truer. Another day of quality rugby up and down the country, with free-flowing matches and tries galore, amongst some gritty close-fought battles. The undisputed pinnacle of club rugby in England.

There is no good reason to want to when the league above is a confused mess of pro and semi pro clubs, competing in a staccato season as part of a league lacking any core identity or sustainable plan for the future. No thanks.

There are plenty of clubs in ND1 who have DR's. 

Rams get Saints

Dings Crusaders get Bristol 

Sale FC and Sale

Leicester Lions and Leicester

Plymouth Albion and Exeter

There are probably more than that.

Just a suggestion *shrugs* 

I think it depends on which Doncaster turn up. Very 1970’s France either superb or awful and no in between. 

That’s a fair point. If you get a referee like yesterday who just lets a team lay all over the ball at the breakdown and kill it every time you get near their line it’s hard work. Donny were poor, Scottish were no better than mediocre and the ref was appalling. It was a terrible game. Donny lost the penalty count despite absolutely dominating territory for the last 50 minutes, work that one out as to who’s fault it was. Scottish were offside all game and should have had at least 2 yellow cards and Donny should have had a penalty try in the first half for a clear maul collapse when we were definitely going over the line. If the ref had actually done his job properly at that point it could have changed the game. Scottish played the referee and got away with it. 

I have to say I have wondered that from time to time but surely not?. Mind you nothing would surprise me when it comes to the RFU and Premiership Rugby. 

Although my point about DRs and loans duffles throughout ND1 as much as Championship stands.

Quins fans were very critical of the ref this week.

Apparently, he was ignoring people going off their feet - but penalised players who were on their feet and competing legally. They were even criticising when he penalised Ben Earl for what they saw as a legal turnover.  So I think they might have a point.

I would also say that the players that the Premiership loan to Nat 1 sides are not necessarily that good. They have a lot of potential, but need game time. Some are just fat slobs who can push a bit if they can be bothered.

Some of the academy rejects are significantly better, Ben Spencer and Jamal Ford-Robinson come to mind. 

It looks like it is going to be another classic season in National 1. 

Anyone who thinks they know who will win this far out has not been paying attention.

After all, Cambridge only led Nat 1 when we won the league.

And yes, I remember the Blood and Sand's Nat 1 winning year, a brilliant three horse race between yourselves, Sale and Rams (all of which beat each other twice during that season)!

You were equal on points at season's end but went up at Rams' expense that year by virtue of having drawn one more match (so less overall losses than Rams, rather than on for/against points difference which I haven't often seen). A hard pill for Rams to swallow as just one more try in a single match would have earnt them a TBP or LBP and sent them up! A classic Nat 1 season.

Surely Rams won't let history repeat itself and will keep banging away at those 5 point wins this season (although they dropped a point at BS on Sat).

Bit rude