the shaw cross jinx hit the under 10s again , was like watching a different team from nomall . even at 10s you must listen to the coach and if you dont you pays the price .....my lad is convinced we lost by 4

imagine my delight in trying to convince him the losing margin was more , to my reckoning it was at least 12 which I'm sure OV will either confirm or not later ....it just might take him a little while to simmer...Tuesday would be my guess after he gets to beast them





nothing away from Shaw cross it just seems that we dint put into practice what they do at training....chin up OV things can only get better

U10's
crigg - 56
whinmoor - 0
Not as bad a game as it would appear - but this isn't doing either team any good , just hope someone sees sense and moves us up after Christmas . Even if we're losing we'd learn more on a match day than we are at the mo.

leagues are made up of around 8 clubs and we have 4 leagues, it maybe worth looking at increasing the two highest so they can at least play more competitively like you say does neither side much good

fully understand where spongebob is coming from,we have two teams that have only mannaged 1 win each in dewsbury celtic and drighlington although to be fair to drig they have just won their first game beating one of the strongest sides stanningley, celtic havent won a game since the openng round back in september and they dont look to be getting any closer to winnng either.

im not sure what the answer is maybe a game between the two teams,its hard to judge what the difference in the two groups is, the only game recently between a group 1 team against a group 2 side finished 44-4 to lock lane against townville and lock lane are a team thats struggled to win games in group 1.

we yo yo between the first and second leagues, today we had a good chance of taking another step forward in the barla cup but the lads still glory hunt when near the line, not that its wrong to at least try but when you see the over laps we had today you would of pulled your hair out

to lose by two points was very hard but showed they are worthy of getting back in the first division

Absolutley gutted.............

after a dissapointing defeat at home to Shaw Cross last week (20-32 I think

) I was really looking forward to putting things right. Had two really good sessions with the boys and was expecting a big response from them against Dewsbury Celtic.............................until Kirklees council called the games off (on Weds apparently!!)

any good games to watch anywhere Saturday morning??

cas panthers entertain shaw cross u10s 10.30 start

other u10s games are


eastmoor v drighlington

stanningley v lock lane

down to once a week training for us until the new year but the kids trained well last night which usually meens they will be half a sleep on saturday morning.

you know how it is ov

I do mate. Just trying to sort out booking Scarborough after watching you on a certain video website



Be nice to have a few beers after the game



Might pop over to watch in morn.

yes we are going to the scarborough festival again,it will be nice to have someone else from this side of the pennines to soften up them from over the hill.will definately have one or two beers believe me after the rugby you need it.

really looking forward to it, you and your kids will get so much out of playing in such a demanding festival and i personally feel it has been one of the main reasons we have progressed well over the past few years because it brings everybody together been on tour.

if you come over in the morning pop over and have a word.

Well you will be glad to know i am now going and you can buy me a pint.

stanley rangers under 12s are playing dudley hill tomorrow in the league ko 10-30 expecting a good even game

Crigg away at wibsey in the morning if anyone fancies a drive over there ??!!
No not me either really - but hey ho here we go - think we'll be low on numbers tomorrow but we'll see what happens .

keep your chins up over their at crigg,hopefully after the winter break you will be put up a group.id certainly be in touch with aidy if i was you and same if i was paul at heworth.



does young gadget and jowett still play with you,both outstanding players last year.

Young gadge is still here and playing back to his best at the moment - young jowitts gone to dews moor u9's unfortunately (a few reasons of which I could write a book about ! - the club though not his family I best point out ). Played one game for them and swept the awards however so good look to him.

close game it was for Stanley Rangers under 12s as they finished 20 - 4 victorious, Dudley Hill put a spirited effort and if they could of made use of the their close positional play the score line would of been closer

ft score u10s

cas panthers 24 shaw cross sharks 10

both teams played very well in difficult conditions with some good rugby on show,shaw cross are an improving team who play some good stuff.the panthers lead 18-0 at ht and it gave us a chance to give a few players a bit more game time than normal and give a few others a bit of a break which didnt help but it the long run we will be better for it.

Crigg u10's won away at wibsey 42-28 .
Bog of a pitch and played in thick fog . Had an official ref appointed and I have to say rarely do you hear both sets of parents complaining - he was that bad ! V. Proud of my lad today , got a bad nosebleed before halftime but we "did a jon wilkin" on him and he played the second half with a bandage taped round his face - townville at home next week

Stanley Rangers travel to Normanton Knights in the under 12s Wakefield semi final kick off is at 10-00, there is also the Stanley Wildcats under 13s v Normanton after that one so its a double local derby

u10s full time result

castleford panthers 50 dewsbury celtic 10

an awful day to play rugby but credit to both teams for getting through the morning,a massive gulf in class in the two teams with the panthers scoring almost at will with 11 tries in total "only 3 conversions" while dewsbury scored a try in each half.games like this do nobody any good.

Crigg u10's won again this morning , this time at home to Townville, 36-12.
Didn't deserve to win by so many tbh but crigg were without 3 ill players again this week . Townville seem to be v. reliant on a couple of players , and one of them is leaving soon , so I don't know what the future holds for them.
HOW COLD ??!!!!!

Stanley got back on track with a win over stanningley although i think i will leave the full report to the gaffer , all i will say is that OV and phil (whoever he is on the board

) must still have headache from trying to single out players for praise .

well done to all

and well done to the 12s over normy

some you win and some....

Stanley Rangers under 12s proved to be the strongest of the two sides in a hard fought derby battle winning 20 -2,
it was a another outstanding defensive display kept the Normanton knights to a try less game have taken an early lead with a penalty, a break away 90 meter try from our winger was the highlight of the match and was the decisive break to the game taking us to a 12 points gap,
we saw areas that needed to be addressed in our attack and hope that we can get the lads to sort this out but over all this was another close game,

the two teams now meeting in the under 12s final are Crigglestone All Blacks v Stanley Rangers

congrats to the stanley 13s as well who had an impressive win as well

well done to stanley on a good win against a very good side.

i hope we dont get the backlash next week.

what was the final score ?

think it was 22-10