Month: January 2019

Score line Eccles 0 – 85 Sedgley Park Where do you start with this? Well I’ll start with midweek I spoke with Eccles who stated they had a full team and wanted to play us! We arrived and they only had 10 children, I duly offered our services and said I would give them two lads to make it 12 a side but there coach said no thanks let’s play 10 a side so we did. We as ever started slowly? We really need to address this with a run of 3 very tough games around the corner. However once we found our feet and started to click we ran in a lot of tries, it’s hard to tell you every try but I now know the scorers as I asked the boys afterwards in the club house. What I do want to say is Eccles didn’t give up they […]

Rochdale 5 – 40 Sedgley Park Well what can we say about this fixture, it’s always a tough place to travel to and Rochdale always seem to be a well drilled hard side. The game started at a furious pace and both sides exchanged phases of play, Sedges ill-discipline saw us pegged back on our line time after time and eventually Rochdale went over in the corner for a well-earned try 5-0. This seemed to wake our boys up but we were still letting ourselves down back chatting to the man in the middle (in my opinion he got some things very wrong) but you have to respect him and we didn’t in phases and it cost us valuable yards. Towards the end of the 1st quarter we managed to crash over for a well worked try scored by the Italian stallion VAL. The whistle went for end of the […]