Spartans U13's went down to Stanley Rangers yesterday, sealing the league title for Stanley - congrat's to them.

Our last game of the season is next week, away at Brighouse Rangers.

fine performance today by Stanley Rangers u14s beating East Leeds at home 58-0, at 44-0 at half time they took their foot off the pedal but still managed to keep a clean sheet

well done lads







we now look to moving up to the u15s in the next few weeks in the Yorkshire cup

also a special mention to our groundsman at Stanley Rangers John Holroyd who this weekend was awarded grounds person of the year www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/26 ... -get-their well done chappie

also a special mention to our groundsman at Stanley Rangers John Holroyd who this weekend was awarded grounds person of the year www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/26 ... -get-their well done chappie

Eastmoor Dragons have had some interest in setting up an Under 16’s (school year 11) for the 2013 junior summer Season. We already have several teams at the club and therefore this would add to our junior development. If anybody is interested in joining a new team as either a player or coach please contact the junior secretary on 07979381819. All welcome

Crigg A B Under 12s are almost there
. This weekend they went to Leeds to stanningley and although missing around 5 players stlll came through pretty unscaved .

My lad rounding off great week playing 13 and 6 at school being told by the head best player on the park to getting man of steel this weekend . It's amazing how the crigg lads stand up when needed, thanks for the text.

If crigg beat lock lane they have won all 4 trophies unbeaten

Thanks and welldone to the best backroom and coaching team in junior rugby, never send a kid away

Sandal Spartans are now recruiting for next season's U14's, 13's & 12's - if anyone is interested and wants to find out more about us, DM on here or contact through our website.

We're also looking for coaches and volunteers as well as sponsors for new age groups - get in touch in the same way if you'd like to find out more.

It's going to be a busy off-season!

Stanley Rangers 7's came up with in my opinion their best performance of the season on Saturday morning away at Kippax, winning 8 tries to 1. Its a joy to watch these kids develop.

Massive credit to Emma King on how these lads have come along.

eastmoor u8s drew with cas lock lane side that had won 28 on trott on sunday and had it not been for the barmy new rules brought in by the rl eastmoor would of won.nether the less it was a cracking gam,e with some big hits all players on both teams should be proud of them selves


on the new rules dont know if anybody on here are involved up yo u 10s (i believe )but what happens now is the team will have the ball for 6 tackles regardless of weather they drop the ball run into touch or anything they just carry.i think its wrong and not teaching kids importance of keeping the ball

The new rules for the kids are a joke and cause them real confusion, it also rewards negative play, very strange idea by the RFL to introduce these.

I can actually see the benefit being that the kids are not afraid to make mistakes and the opposite could well happen with the play more positive because of this.

after dissagree i watch it every week kids are just running into touch to save been tackled and are just happy to let the ball go when it comes to them having to play by the propper rules they will be confused

the rules will take us back years , the refs get it hard enough as it is .
its all so little timmy twinkle doesnt cry when he drops the ball forgetting that tommy tarazan may of just belted a rockon tackle.

from 1 junior ref and 1 junior coach (you know

) and a SL ref they all hate it .

sorry seth , can not agree on this one and a mare to referee pal

Kids afraid to make mistakes have a poor coach in my opinion.

It is not about wining or losing it is about the kids developing the core skills which in my opinion these new rules do not.

There are many of them about. Playing devils advocate thats the only reason i can come up with. Id be interested to see if there were any long term benefits to playing these rules (im not saying there definately are), i wouldnt imagine they were made without LTAD in mind and a great deal of thought.

A number of kids from Stanley and other clubs are currently involved in a pilot scheme by the RFL.

It is held at Wakefield by RLF coaches.

I was excited when this was first introduced the concept of the 4 week program.

Sadly 3 weeks in the kids have done virtually identical sessions each week.

1 session t and p, 1 session traditional, and 1 "game" activity.

Very little variation and the feedback from the parents who have attended and watched has been identical on each occasion.

Really poorly done in my opinion and an opportunity to really get into junior development missed.

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I'm happy to say that Spartans Head Coach Richard Kelly (The Clan) has been nominated for the English Schools Rugby League Board 'Outstanding Contribution to Schools Rugby' award for 2012; the nomination was made by our club link school Ossett Academy, in recognition for Rich's work at the Academy in helping them towards their best ever season of RL.

The ceremony takes place on 11th November at the City of Salford stadium - good luck Rich!

Well deserved, he has a knowledge and a love of the game that makes him stand out IMO and i hope the youngsters at Spartans realise how lucky they are.

It doesn't always show, but I think they do - they'd all run through a brick wall for him though.

Our first season has been a bit of a whirlwind - hard work starts now though, recruiting for 2 new age groups and turning ourselves into a 'proper' club, rather than just a team; still looking for coaches, volunteers and players for U14's, 13's & 12's, as well as sponsors.

Fancy dusting off your boots Al?

I have been through the stages of setting up a club from scratch just like the Spartans.
1 team first season and then onto other ages, sadly it got too much and in all honesty a bloke called Andrew Wood did most of the setting up/paperwork and it got too big for him so the parents ended it by voting to merge with another club who had no juniors at the time and wanted a youth set up (we both knew) they wanted grant money/funding and suprise suprise they folded shortly after and the players went off to other clubs.
You guys have had it easy

we started with a school changing room and car headlights for training/flasks of soup on really cold nights. We did step up to a leaky roofed portacabin after much fund raising and a fair bit of begging.

Would i do it all again, well not a chance in hell but i treasure those memories and always will.

If i could get involved at any level i would be down at the Spartans like a flash but i can't promise to give 100% and i'm afraid anything less than 100% is not good enough for me.

So thanks but no thanks

We've definitely done the car headlights thing! I reckon every amateur club must have done that at some point. We were very lucky with sponsors for our first season - not sure it will be so straightforward next year, things being as they are with in the business world; we haven't had any grant funding at all thus far - just starting that process now - it's painful.

I take your point though - once is perhaps enough for anyone; if you ever fancy a bit of coaching though, you know where we are.

We got turned over by Brighouse this morning - our lads just didn't turn up and they did; good honest game though, with no niggly stuff or abuse from the sidelines. Fantastic facilities up there by the way, very impressive - exactly what we'd like to end up with!

Just the BARLA Cup games to play now, then we're done for the season; Shaw Cross at home next Sunday - feel free to come down to WYSS and show your support for the amateur game!

Panthers 12s ground out a good win at dewsbury Celtic 10-24 despite having a depleted squad,plenty of effort from both sides but again the game was spoilt by another referee that seemed intimidated by bigger and more mature players,I'm all for young lads reffing but they should stick to reffing the 9s 10s not teenagers who are full of it.

Another result from the 12s saw stanningley beat lock lane 46-0!!

Panthers 12s were again given the task of playing oulton Vikings and ran out 38-10 winners. Credit oulton who were better than the scoreline suggests and they were well in the game at ht.

Our boys played well in patches but know they will after improve in the coming weeks in the barla cup if they are to threaten the big guns.

Message to the fixture secs sort it out has much has there are some good teams in group 1 it would be nice not to after play the same teams 4/5 times a year.