Thought if its good for the other leagues then why not this one!!

Sat 18 Sep 10 02:30 PM

Ashton Bears A v Folly Lane A
Blackpool Scorpions A v Fitton Hill
Chester v Blackbrook A
Culcheth v Accrington Panthers
Halton Simms Cross A v Irlam Hornets A
Leigh East A v Widnes West Bank A
Little Hulton v Rochdale Cobras A

Some close games I think for next week can't call our game against Blackbrook I obviously think Chester will win but it will be a true test for us!

Id go with most of these....

Think alot of clubs have been strugling with the numbers!!!! Hope it all calms down and becomes a good league.


Ashton Bears A v Folly Lane A - either way I feel
Blackpool Scorpions A v Fitton Hill
Chester v Blackbrook A
Culcheth v Accrington Panthers
Halton Simms Cross A v Irlam Hornets A
Leigh East A v Widnes West Bank A
Little Hulton v Rochdale Cobras A

Cobras have a few out of 1sts this saturday n they have a huge game so 1 or 2 lads may have to up n play for em again, but im sure we will have the numbers to do ok!!!

Ashton Bears A v Folly Lane A - going off last weeks results very close to call, so I'll sit on the fence on this one


Blackpool Scorpions A v Fitton Hill - probably win more at home and think they'll pick up some points this week.
Chester v Blackbrook A - along with West Bank 'A' and Cobras 'A' my pick for contesting the top 3.
Culcheth v Accrington Panthers - two good results so far so going with form.
Halton Simms Cross A v Irlam Hornets A - home advantage a big factor
Leigh East A v Widnes West Bank A - had a very good summer and can see them contesting the top 3
Little Hulton v Rochdale Cobras A - although LH are a great set of lads I think they're going to have to wait a bit longer for their 1st win especially against another of the teams I think will be up there come the end of the season.

Ashton Bears A v Folly Lane A
Blackpool Scorpions A v Fitton Hill
Chester v Blackbrook A.
Culcheth v Accrington Panthers
Halton Simms Cross A v Irlam Hornets A
Leigh East A v Widnes West Bank A
Little Hulton v Rochdale Cobras A

I'm Predicting this year that the league will be: Blackbrook (Champions) had two massive wins and scored over 100 points and only conceding 7. Rochdale (Runners up) two good results as well as Blackbrook, But I think Blackbrook are going to be far to strong. A tricky 1 but i think its a two horse race for third between Widnes West Bank and Leigh East. I Would like to see the conclusion at the end of the season.

As this is my first post I will keep it simple, I follow boith Simmies 1st team and 2nd team, as this is the Div 6 forum I will stick to the 2nds.

Last year they were up there competing with the Cuthberts, Leigh East and Crosfields....whereas this year a few players have left the club and players have moved up to the 1sts, I do however still believe that they can be a major force in this division, last week they had a number of second team lads unavailable due to work commitments which is why they had to give the points, but apparently from now on they will have a full compliment each week leading up to xmas........Dont right off Simmies just yet ha ha ha

Ashton Bears A 16 - 16 Folly Lane A

Constant rain but having said that both teams contributed to a close encounter. Ashton went into an early 10 nil lead but Folly regrouped and pulled it back to draw level at the interval. The knock-on-athon continued into the second half and Ashton went ahead with 10 minutes to go. Folly once again hit back with a well worked score. A draw was probably a fair result with both teams giving the referee little to do except signal for head and feed!

Knock-on-athon, You can say that again!!

We (Folly) played some really dumb rugby and neither team played the conditions well so overall your probably right and a draw was a fair result.

Some good results today as i see good win for widnes .. turns out there gonna be a side to be recon with this year leigh east are a very good team and im sure they will bounce back. but for me the biggest shock of today was the short margin between blackbrook and chester . what iv bin told is the pitch was far to narrow for brook to put on there free flowing moves they are use to. its also a dissapointment rochdale had to give up there 100% record .. not really any clashes this weekend but i am looking forward to week after were brook go to simmises thats when the league starts to get shape. good luck to both teams !!

Chester 6 - 22 Blackbrook A

A great game of rugby league on a perfect dimensioned Chester University Rugby League pitch!

A very hard contest that was a battle of defence and some good rugby league. Blackbrook took the early league following a grubber kick that deflected kindly to a blackbrook player and he ran on to score under the sticks.

Chester hit back with a bizarre kick and follow through that was pounced on by the Chester Stand off following a shocking pass from the dummy half!

Blackbrook then scored after a wide play that caught the Chester defence napping, the kick was missed making the score 6-10 which it stayed for quite some time.

Blackbrook then ran away in the last 15 following a sin-binning for Blackbroo that Chester failed to capitalise on then the Chester Scrum half got 10 minutes and blackbrook scored 2 quick tries to make the score 6-22

Disappointed with some of our (East) defence on Saturday. We let in some really soft tries. That could be down to the fact that we're still finding our feet again after not playing since Feb and with some of our players graduating to the 1st and 2nd team squads, we're back in a "getting to know you" phase with some of our newer players. But fair play to West Bank - they are a well drilled side who kept on coming. The score could have been a lot closer if not for a couple of good tackles from WB to hold up over the line on two occasions and a penalty try.

As for Blackbrook, when they are at home, they are a different animal all together (especially when their 1st team are away in Barrow!) and that pitch is an absolute monster.

Some very tight games this week, who would have thought that we would have 2 draws in a week!!

Ashton Bears A 16 - 16 Folly Lane A
Blackpool Scorpions A 38 - 10 Fitton Hill
Chester 06 - 22 Blackbrook A
Culcheth 24 - 24 Accrington Panthers
Leigh East A 18 - 32 Widnes West Bank A
Little Hulton 18 - 0 Rochdale Cobras A

Gutted for Rochdale not able to raise a side hope that doesn't happen to often from now on in....West Bank looking like the side to beat and Blackbrook very strong in defence!

Surprise of the week for me is Culceth v Accy Panthers, will the Lancashire side struggle on their travels this season?

Didnt surprise me the culcheth score, they were a good side when we played em and we were not 20 points better than em like the result states and considering they had been thrown together that week they showed spirit.

As for us not getting a team together....we did get a side together but they played Hindley insted of our 1sts!!!!!!!!!!! god knows were our 1sts were!!?!?!?? But it was a good run out and some of the boys will of got alot out of it!!!!!

Spring View are looking for any teams with a free fixture(points given etc)who would like to play our 2nds in friendlies.Hopefully we can get numbers every week but as we are trying to get them started we cant make any promises week in week out.If anyone fancies this please feel free to PM me or go through our Sec..

even if your games called off short notice,we will try to accomodate.

BooBoo I didn't mean to offend I know how hard it can be to try and get 2 teams out week in and week out and I hope this is a one off for the Rochdale team!

Accrington Panthers v Halton Simms Cross A
Blackbrook A v Culcheth
Fitton Hill v Leigh East A
Folly Lane A v Blackpool Scorpions A
Irlam Hornets A v Little Hulton
Rochdale Cobras A v Ashton Bears A
Widnes West Bank A v Chester

Two games I can't call

I have to disagree with the Accrington V Simms Cross A result.......I am going for Simmies by 20

If any teams get their games cancelled at short notice we Spring View A would be willing to play contact Anita 07743414894, we should have been playing Hindley A tomorrow but they just rang and cancelled.

would have to be away as 1st team are at home v Langworthy.

i think east where lucky to score and where never really in the game we (WBB) have started well as have 1st both with 3 wins from 3 but think tomorrow will be tough our 2nds are missing a few through u18's service area and 1st have a few missing so will take some from 2nds.

Cant see simmies 2nds raising a side again tomorrow either as there 1st are really struggling at the min with injuries and bans

I'm just hoping Blackpool seconds show up. I'm just off to bed now so beware scorpions

Didnt realise you were on the committe or coaching staff at Simmies shim!!!



The 2nd team will get a side and will win today along with the first team

just with the 1st havin r milly, j durbin, c duggan all banned and following tge tragic news of chris percival didn't think dave or neil would be playing then with the likes of d magee and g conroy signing for the maries surely it must leave the 2nds short!! But if thats not the case then good luck pal!!

Duggan and Jamie aint banned yet mate, and Neil and Dave aint played all year.

Rochdale Cobras A 0 - 18 Ashton Bears A.

Following the phone call saying Rochdale couldnt raise a side a hastily arranged friendly took place against Spring View A. After a very close affair Ashton managed to post a 24-22 win in the dying minutes after clawing their way back from 22-10 down. Thanks go to Spring View to getting their side down to Ashton with an hours notice and credit to both sets of players for a hard fought game and for appreciating they had a stand-in referee and making his job a lot easier.

Any scores from today?

Widnes West Bank A 34 - 32 Chester ARLFC

Really good close game of Rugby League with Widnes snatching it from Chester in the final 5 minutes despite Chester getting a couple of penalties that they could have gone for a kick at goal but we wanted the win.......Really pleased with the effort of the Chester team.

Sat 25 Sep 10
Accrington Panthers 28 - 12 Halton Simms Cross A
Blackbrook A 58 - 0 Culcheth
Fitton Hill 7 - 28 Leigh East A
Folly Lane A 32 - 16 Blackpool Scorpions A
Irlam Hornets A 34 - 16 Little Hulton
Rochdale Cobras A 0 - 18 Ashton Bears A
Widnes West Bank A 34 - 32 Chester

Think I got most of my predictions correct for this week!!