The posts at The Rec have been taken down after a safety check so the The Rhinos game v Rylands may not take place at Lord St.

To avoid any argument of bias from LGBT rugby fans, haven't you missed off Manchester Canalsiders?

If you want to go to the Manchester derby, East Manchester play at Belle View Leisure Centre.

As for Stockport: have the Stockport schools' RL teams stopped playing? You may get support from there. I remember periodic involvement in Oldham Schools RL in the 80's and 90's.

Canalsiders do not play in the formal league - they play in the Entry League which is a Merit Comp where clubs bi-laterally arrange their own fixtures with other clubs. Hence, they don't appear in the league fixture lists. When the season is up and running and lists of Merit Games go on the web-sites they can be added...there will be Bury A fixtures too (we fielded two sides at weekend and thats before the RU season has ended so we'll be hoping to have 2 teams out on a regular basis this year), and probably Eccles A and Folly Lane A.

You're right, should say NWML but not sure what you mean about 'the fix'.

"there is still a way of getting a rugby-fix this week as the amateur leagues kick-off!"

Nothing sinister!

So how did our local sides go on this week ?
I know East Manchester survived a late come back from the Mancunians to win 30-28 and Cadishead lost away to Ryland A anyone got any more results?

Folly won their first match in the premier league 44-16. Outstanding performance after some poor pre season results.

Saturday March 1:
NCL 1: Eccles v Ince Rose Bridge - Eccles WON 30 - 6
NWML PREMIER: Folly Lane v Haydock - Folly WON 42 -16 (so go straight to top of league and an improvement on pre-season results)
NWML DIV 1: Wigan Spring View v Irlam - Irlam LOST 24 - 16
NWML DIV 3: Fitton Hill (Oldham) v Langworthy - Worthy WON 10 - 28
NWML DIV 3: Bury Broncos v Bolton Mets (great game first up for us!) - Bury WON 22 - 14
NWML DIV 3: Wigan Bulldogs v Little Hulton - Little Hulton WON 12 - 32
NWML DIV 4: Cadishead v Rylands A - Cadishead LOST 14 - 32 (worth knowing that Rylands first team had no game yesterday)
NWML DIV 4: East Manchester v Mancunians (yes, a Manchester derby!) East Manchester won 30 - 28

And another:
Bury A beat Bolton A 64 - 16.

Bury's first team were flat yesterday (perhaps a come down from beating Folly last week!) and only scored a try to settle it in the last minute - Bolton massively better than in previous years. What was brilliant was getting the call from Bolton to say their numbers are up and they could bring an A side to make it a double header. We had 26 available for that game too!

Has the great doc done anything for the grass roots of Salford rugby? After all, grass roots is the future of rugby league.

The Rhinos played Rylands at home thanks to the new sticks being put up on Friday, entertaining and competitive game despite the result
As for Salford`s involvement with grass roots Rugby League .loads of work to be done, Devil In The Detail Episode 5 has an interview with Alan Hunte which outlines where the club are up to at the minute.
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Any scores / brief match reports from today?

Eccles travelled to Milford (Leeds) and were defeated 26-24 in the 78th minute. Eccles led the entire game until then, and played some outstanding rugby. At home next Saturday (Schofield Road playing fields) with a 2.30pm kick off against Myton Warriors (Hull). Come down to watch - you won't be disappointed. For uptodate news and match reports visit www.ecclesrugbyleague.co.uk

Eccles travelled to Milford (Leeds) and were defeated 26-24 in the 78th minute. Eccles led the entire game until then, and played some outstanding rugby. At home next Saturday (Schofield Road playing fields) with a 2.30pm kick off against Myton Warriors (Hull). Come down to watch - you won't be disappointed. For uptodate news and match reports visit www.ecclesrugbyleague.co.uk

Open Age Eccleston Lions 18 Rhinos 16




U18s Rhinos 21 Wrexham 22



U13s Leigh Miners Golds 32 Rhinos 8



U11s Rhinos 10 Golborne 40

NWML
Prem: Folly 16 : 32 West Bank
Div 1: Irlam 47 : 6 Heysham
Div 3: Langworthy Reds 8 : 20 Bury Broncos (game abandoned due to an injury on 60mins)
Div 3: Burtonwood 18 : 42 Little Hulton Reds
Div 4: Mancunians 12 : 32 Blackpool Scorpions
Div 4: Rylands A 32 : 10 East Manchester Rangers
Div 4: Eccleston 18 : 16 Cadishead

Wasn't at the open age game for Bury but Langworthy took an 8 - 0 lead before being pegged back to being down 10 - 8 at half-time. Bury scored a couple early in the 2nd half but an injury to the Worthy player led to the game being called off. Best wishes to the lad.

What happened to Manchester Storm? They had big plans at one time.

To my knowledge Storm ran a single junior side - started as U11s (maybe U12s?) and played through to being a U16 team before having issues last year. I know some lads are still playing - two came to Bury and trained with our U16s but signed for Folly I think and I know another lad who is still playing but up at Waterhead. If U16s last year some will qualify as open age now so there may be some playing at East Manchester...

The driving force behind Manchester Storm was their coach and his dad, who was chairman. When said coach retired due to other commitments, the U16s lasted only about 6 months.. Sad that nobody else could keep it going.

Why EVERY club needs a decent pool of volunteers! If anyone has ever thought about it, give I a go....get in touch with your local side and help the sport grow!

Post of the week that pal.

Was cup weekend in NW League...both Bury sides went through but I'm not sure about others?

Found results:

Ulverston 24 : 0 Irlam
Crosfields A 24 : 14 Cadishead
East Manchester 24 : 0 Burtonwood A
Folly A 52 : 6 Rylands A
Mancunians 24 : 0 Liverpool Lions
Bamber Bridge A 20 : 30 Bury Broncos A
Bury Broncos 26 : 14 Oldham St. Anne's
Langworthy Reds 22 : 24 Widnes Tigers

Eccles won in the NCL too.

Played my first game in well over 12 months and thoroughly enjoyed it, a large win always helps! Hopefully we can keep up the same numbers for the second team and have a decent little cup run. There’s no reason we can’t with the strength of the second team we had out on Saturday.

This weekend

Ulverston v Folly in Premier
Leigh East A v Irlam in Div 1
Langworthy v Pilkingtons A in Div 3
Bury Broncos v Westhoughton Lions in Div 3
Orrell St James v Little Hulton Reds in Div 3 ( should be interesting!)
East Manchester v Eccleston in Div 4
Cadishead v Widnes St. Marie's in Div 4
New Springs v Mancunians in Div 4

Bury A also playing Woolston B

Eccles home to Normanton also

for anyone interested, the NWML Cup Draw can be found here: www.pitchero.com/clubs/burybronc ... 82384.html

for anyone interested, the NWML Cup Draw can be found here: www.pitchero.com/clubs/burybronc ... 82384.html