2nd Week
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Topic: 2nd Week
Posted By: The Blues
Subject: 2nd Week
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2024 at 00:31
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Bit early but as I was looking who was playing whom next week We will find out a lot more about Chinnor against Ampthill, which is always a tricky place to play. Ealing have a tough test at Pirates. Whereas at the other end Caldy v Cambridge is a big one. Friday Pirates v Ealing Trailfinders Saturday Doncaster Knights v Nottingham Hartpury v Scottish Ampthill v Chinnor Caldy v Cambridge Coventry v Blues |
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Posted By: *Stalwart
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2024 at 10:45
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Friday Pirates 1 Ealing Trailfinders 5 Saturday Doncaster Knights 5 Nottingham 1 Hartpury 4 Scottish 1 Ampthill 4 Chinnor 1 Caldy 4 Cambridge 1 Coventry 4 Blues 1 ------------- *Stalwart |
Posted By: fatbear
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2024 at 10:59
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Friday Pirates 1-5 Ealing Trailfinders Saturday Doncaster Knights 5-0 Nottingham Hartpury5-0 Scottish Ampthill 1-5 Chinnor Caldy 5-1 Cambridge Coventry 5-1 Blues
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Posted By: FHLH
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2024 at 12:48
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Friday Pirates 1-5 Ealing Trailfinders Saturday Doncaster Knights 5-0 Nottingham Hartpury 5-1 Scottish Ampthill 1-5 Chinnor Caldy 5-0 Cambridge Coventry 5-1 Blues
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Posted By: Paul10
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2024 at 15:57
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Friday
Pirates 0-5 Ealing Trailfinders Saturday Doncaster Knights 5-0 Nottingham Hartpury 1-5 Scottish Ampthill 1-5 Chinnor Caldy 5-1 Cambridge Coventry 5-2 Blues With apologies to the teams I have just jinxed.
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Posted By: gerg_861
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2024 at 19:37
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http://leaguerugby.co.uk/new_reply_form.asp?PID=507950&PN=1&TR=5" rel="nofollow - Reply Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 07:15
I'm sure it happened recently where a team as got to home games at the start
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The Blues wrote:Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 07:46
It has but the matrix they use needs changing, there is no reason for it and I have never understood why you play the first game and last game of the season against the same team!
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Posted By: renbiv
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 11:32
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Friday Pirates 2-5 Ealing Trailfinders Saturday Doncaster Knights 5-1 Nottingham Hartpury 5-0 Scottish Ampthill 4-2 Chinnor Caldy 5-1 Cambridge Coventry 5-1 Blues |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 12:25
True enough. Time it was mixed up a bit. ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 13:08
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If every club had strict alternation of home and away games, the teams who were t home on the first week could never play one another. As in any week, the two teams both need to be at home, or both need to be away. As a result, every club has to have two home games and two away games at some point in the season. One club starts with two home games and one has to start with two away games. Similarly, one club has to end the season with two home games, and one ends with two away games. ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 18:05
I realise that, but the season really doesn't have to start and end like that. Biggest disappointment for Cov is the fact that there are no home games (three away) between 12/10 and 23/11. That's poor - and avoidable. ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: castleparknight
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 19:11
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My guesses Pirates 1 - 5 Ealing Trailfinders Doncaster Knights 5 - 0 Nottingham Hartpury 5 - 1 Scottish Ampthill 4 - 1 Chinnor Caldy 4 - 1 Cambridge Coventry 5 - 2 Blues ------------- Onward and Upwards C'mon Donny! |
Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 20:47
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Kimbo, at least you have games those weeks. Some of us don't. It is an artefact of there being two different competitions. But you are right, you do not need to start and finish against the same team. Indeed, the second half of the season could be in any order. In fact, you do not need to play every before playing a side twice, so if there was a good reason to have the derby matches close together, you could. ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: cheshire exile
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 21:13
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Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 21:45
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Chinnor and Cambridge are not in the Championship Cup. ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 22:05
Totally agree with you on the utter iniquity around the Prem Cup, but I will say that not all of the away games in that six week period are cup games. We play Caldy away in the league. Edited to add: ironically, you DO have a home game during the six week perio when Cov don't
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Posted By: Jezmar
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2024 at 12:49
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Pirates 1 v 5 Ealing Trailfinders Doncaster Knights 5 v 0 Nottingham Hartpury 4 v 0 Scottish Ampthill 1 v 5 Chinnor Caldy 4 v 1 Cambridge Coventry 5 v 1 Blues
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Posted By: fatbear
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2024 at 13:12
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Chinnor have just two home games from the start of the season until December 7th. Ealing Trailfinders have 6 !! |
Posted By: gerg_861
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2024 at 15:41
That's right. The RFU are notorious for their favoritism towards Ealing....or is is it that they are famous for their incompetence? One or the other.
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Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2024 at 16:05
Definitely correct on both counts sir
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Posted By: BigChief
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:57
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Friday Cornish Pirates 1 - 5 Ealing Trailfinders Saturday Doncaster Knights 5 - 0 Nottingham Hartpury 5 - 2 London Scottish Ampthill 5 - 1 Chinnor Caldy 5 - 0 Cambridge Coventry 5 - 1 Bedford Blues
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Posted By: Old Gold
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2024 at 11:03
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Pirates 2 - 5 Ealing Doncaster 5 - 0 Nottingham Hartpury 5 - 0 Scottish Ampthill 2 - 5 Chinnor Caldy 5 - 0 Cambridge Coventry 5 - 2 Bedford
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Posted By: gerg_861
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2024 at 15:31
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Posted By: greenpower
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2024 at 17:50
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pirates 1 5 ealing doncaster 5 0 nottingham hartpury 5 0 scottish ampthill 5 1 chinnor caldy 5 1 cambridge coventry 5 1 bedford
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Posted By: Geoff DC
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2024 at 18:51
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Pirates side for Ealing 15. Will Trewin 14 Robin Wedlake 13 Matt McNab 12 Joe Elderkin 11 Arthur Relton 10 Bruce Houston 9 Cameron Jones 1 Billy Young 2 Morgan Nelson 3 James French 4 Josh King 5 Eoin O’Connor 6 Alex Everett (captain) 7 Will Gibson 8 Hugh Bokenham Replacements: 16 Sol Moody 17 Billy Keast 18 Jay Tyack 19 Charlie Rice 20 Harry Hocking 21 Dan Hisc-cks 22 Iwan Jenkins 23 Charlie McCaig. |
Posted By: All the Way
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2024 at 19:02
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Pirates 1 - 5 Ealing
Doncaster 5 - 0 Nottingham Hartpury 5 - 0 Scottish Ampthill 1 - 5 Chinnor Caldy 5 - 0 Cambridge Coventry 5 - 1 Bedford
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Posted By: Nat1
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 09:26
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Pirates 1 - 5 Ealing Doncaster 5 - 0 Nottingham Hartpury 5 - 0 Scottish Ampthill 5 - 2 Chinnor Caldy 5 - 1 Cambridge Coventry 5 - 2 Bedford
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Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 15:00
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Bedford Blues starting XV: 15. Louis James, 14. Matt Worley, 13. Michael Le Bourgeois, 12. Joel Matavesi, 11. Alfie Garside, 10. Will Maisey, 9. Alex Day (C); 1. Joey Conway, 2. James Fish, 3. Oisin Heffernan, 4. George Smith, 5. Luke Frost, 6. Fyn Brown, 7. Jac Arthur, 8. Fred Tuilagi Bedford Blues Replacements: 16. Nathan Langdon, 17. Jamie Jack, 18. Bryan O’Connor, 19. Shay Kerry, 20. Archie Benson, 21. James Lennon, 22. Toby Cousins, 23. Lucas Titherington Unavailable for selection this week: Rory Ward, Alex Woolford, Joe Howard, Cameron King, Dean Adamson, Jamie Elliott, Pat Tapley |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 16:01
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I do like the recent team announcements from Bedford, openly stating how many loans they have in the matchday squad. I think other teams including my own team Donny, should do this. 5 in this week's squad for the blues Donny playing 2 Was it a fan led idea?
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Posted By: Jezmar
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 16:46
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Confusion reigns this evening in Oxfordshire. Are Chinnor away to Saracens in the Prem cup tomorrow or are they playing Ampthill in the Championship?
My understand was that a gentleman's agreement not to include anymore than 6 DRs in match day squads was reached between clubs, which seems to have gone straight out of the window down at Ampthill with their inclusion of 9 Saracens DRs in the starting line up and another 2 on the bench. Are things really that bad down at Ampthill already, so early in the season that the inclusion of all of these DRs is on an "absolutely necessary" basis. |
Posted By: Paul10
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 16:55
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I can't help thinking that Ampthill are slightly hamstrung by the Welsh SRC (Championship equivalent) being better organised than it's predecessors. This has removed a pool of players which Ampthill have done well out of in the past.
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Posted By: SoulStew
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 17:39
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Why does that mean you field 11 Dual Reg players? Is their DoR that bad he can’t sign players?
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Posted By: Donnyknightfan
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 19:01
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Cornish Pirates 1 - 5 Ealing Doncaster 5 - 0 Nottingham Hartpury 5 - 1 London Scottish Ampthill 5 - 1 Chinnor Caldy 4 - 1 Cambridge Coventry 5 - 0 Bedford ------------- Donny Knights - best team in Yorkshire |
Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 19:17
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Pirates 1 - 4 Ealing - attritional in the mud and rain Doncaster 5 - 1 Nottingham - think Nottingham will run 4 tries in Hartpury 5 - 0 Scottish - can't see Scottish getting anything here and Hartpury were running Ealing close for a while Ampthill 5 - 1 Chinnor - Try bonus for Chinnor Caldy 4 - 1 Cambridge - Caldy didn't look great last week, but should still win Coventry 5 - 2 Bedford - really wanted to say the other way but I think we are lacking a couple of players for the win. My edit was fixing spelling!
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Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 19:20
You are correct, I forgot to green them. Blues have done it for quite a while really.
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Posted By: Geoff DC
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 20:17
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Half time at the Mennaye: Pirates 10 Ealing 10 |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 20:42
| Pirates 17 Ealing 17 |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 20:57
| Pirates 17 Ealing 24 |
Posted By: Geoff DC
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 21:06
| Pirates 24 Ealing 24 |
Posted By: Geoff DC
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 21:17
| FT Pirates 24 Ealing 29 |
Posted By: gerg_861
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 21:20
What a finish. Pirates box kicked, and I think it would have been full-time if it had went off. Ealing then went through about five phases before the ball got spun wide to Rob Farrar, who ran the slowest final 20meters I have ever seen, and crashed over for the game winner.
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Posted By: Nat1
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2024 at 21:41
| Well done Ealing. Sign of a champion team managing to grind out the win and getting the 5 points even at the death. Toughest away day for them and will be glad to get it out the way early season. Long journey home, or will they stay over in Penzance tonight? |
Posted By: Nat1
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 09:06
It is frustrating, especially for a newly promoted side like Chinnor who didn't expect to be playing a Sarries 2nd XV in week 2. However, as you've seen a 'gentleman's agreement' doesn't really exist in the world of semi/fully pro rugby as there is too much at stake and so if the rules allow it, which in the case of DR numbers they do, then clubs will inevitably do whatever they need to do for a win. I don't agree with it but why wouldn't they I suppose. There is a real risk of losing any individual club identity by going down that path though. Richmond found this out a couple of seasons ago when Scottish stacked their side (all within the rules) with Quins players in a must win game to decide who got relegated to Nat 1. Needless to say, Scottish prevailed that day and Richmond went down. After last week's showing though, Chinnor will have enough to make it a decent close game today. Good luck to them.
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Posted By: Bluesman11
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 09:32
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For anyone who hasn’t seen Nick Easter’s tweet: “ Thanks @AmpthillRufc for your support in allowing @ChinnorRFCThame to realise what it would have been like to play in the prem cup by fielding a zombie @saracens squad. Earlier than expected but looking forward to it nonetheless. #champclubsupport #hugeappreciation” I counted 9 sarries in the ampthill starting lineup and another on the bench. ------------- Championship Prediction League Winner 11/12 |
Posted By: Jezmar
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 10:33
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Sarries have confirmed it themselves on their social media. 🅰️ Good luck to Ampthill for their home clash with @Champrugby new boys Chinnor. Pleased to see a strong sprinkling of @Saracens dual-reg talent with Hadfield, Beaton, Sylvester, Pearce-Paul, Sodeke, Eke, Jackson, Hallett, Hall, Isaacs & Murphy in the 23. #SarriesFamily More like a sprinkling of Ampthill players in a Saracens starting line up!
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Posted By: Moseley Mauler
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 12:41
Bloody ridiculous
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Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 14:41
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Knights 0 Notts 5 Knights 0 notts 8
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Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 14:44
It's the way it's going, at least 5 of the championship clubs have at least 5 prem players in the matchday squads on a regular basis.
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Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:14
| Knights 7 Notts 8 |
Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:21
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Apparently 5-3 at Caldy ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:24
| Cov 19 Bedford 0 |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:29
| Hartpury 24 LS 12 ht |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:31
| Cov 24 Bedford 0 |
Posted By: gerg_861
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:36
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Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:40
| Knights14 Notts 8 |
Posted By: Bluesman11
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:50
Bedford doing their usual trick of turning up to BPA and looking like a team that have never played rugby before. Penalty count must be something like 12-2. We’ve got out of our half once. Another key injury to add to our ever growing injury list. But other than that, it’s going to plan.
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Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:53
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I am told Caldy 11 (1T 2P) - 18 (2T- 2P) Cambridge ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:54
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Knight 14 Notts 13 |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 15:56
Plenty of Saints players to select
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Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 16:07
| Knights14 Notts 20 |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 16:09
| Knights14 Notts 23 |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 16:15
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Knights14 Notts 30 Try BP for Notts
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Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 16:44
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Knights14 Notts 30 ft Hartpury 34 LS 33 ft Cov 38 Bedford 7 Amptill 31 Chinnor 29 Caldy 14 Cambridge 26
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Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 16:46
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Knights14 Notts 30 ft
Hartpury 34 LS 33 ft Cov 45 Bedford 7 ft Amptill 31 Chinnor 29 ft Caldy 21 Cambridge 26 ft |
Posted By: FHLH
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 16:52
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Caldy 21 Cambridge 28 FT (Twitter score adjustment) ------------- "My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts." |
Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 16:54
Caldy still showing 21 - 26
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Posted By: Donnyknightfan
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 17:35
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Congratulations to Nottingham on a great performance today. They got stuck into us and really disrupted our rhythm. A massive improvement is needed from Donny before Ealing next week - we looked off the pace. Nottingham were faster and sharper all over the pitch. ------------- Donny Knights - best team in Yorkshire |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024 at 17:59
And the RFU is on the ball as usual. When I looked, just now, they had Donny as having won by 30-14. FFS.
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Posted By: kempstonblue
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2024 at 05:25
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Two weeks in Chinnor in 3rd place. A long way to go. However some at HQ might have to ponder…excluding teams from the cup…was it a sound idea? ------------- The older I get, the more the RFU leave me confused. |
Posted By: seagoon
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2024 at 10:58
6 blank weeks for Chinnor + Cambridge  Maybe the numpties at the RFU think that they should play 6 friendlies against each other ------------- Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana |
Posted By: Dalesman
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:08
And even The Rugby Paper league table shows Donny on 9 points, 2 wins!
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Posted By: Dalesman
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:09
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Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2024 at 14:14
Although they have the result correct. They evidently don't check. ------------- Our Club |
Posted By: fatbear
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2024 at 15:32
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Posted By: tigerburnie
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2024 at 11:22
| I see in the Nottingham match report, Charlie Myall was mentioned, so although listed as a DR with Leicester Lions, I doubt we will see him this year, a player on the rise with an England U 20's elite squad place recently earnt, wish him well. |
Posted By: Rabbie Burns
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2024 at 12:46
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The stupidity in the RFU trying to wipe out local players with their DR rules they can be registered at multiple clubs ------------- So many Christians not enough Lions |
Posted By: tigerburnie
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2024 at 13:37
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Leicester Tigers have formal arrangements with clubs within their RFU defined catchment area, this includes amongst others, Nottingham in the Championship and Leicester Lions who are the only Nat1 side in the area. This is I am told part of the player pathway to help players reach their full potential, eventually feeding into the National side for a few. This is nothing new, Leicester Tigers have in the past loaned players to both these clubs, some players have stayed at Nottingham. Some who were at the Lions did go onto higher things, George Martin and Jack van Poortvleit both had a season at Lions in National 2 as part of their introduction into adult rugby from the academy.
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Posted By: John Butler42
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2024 at 15:52
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Truly excellent performance & result for Cov; in honesty they made Bedford look very ordinary indeed. Mike Rayer & Co plenty to ponder. Great pity their offy web site was, well, just Bedford, apart from one point of congratulations to the victors. No mention of the 7 Cov tries !  ------------- John Butler |
Posted By: Dave the Dog
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2024 at 17:26
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No quite sure what you were expecting to see on the Bedford site John. The report concedes that Coventry were better in all areas and says they were exceptionally well drilled and barely put a foot wrong. Bedford do tend to show all tries in a match in their video highlights (when they manage to upload them)
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Posted By: Nat1
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2024 at 12:37
| I might have missed it but is a prediction league still being run for the Champ this season, week 3 fixtures commencing tomorrow evening? |
Posted By: Old Gold
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2024 at 14:05
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Error!
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