Marauder

"Mag to grid get rid, Grid to mag add"

Thinking whats for tea is long term and then they'd deliver something totally different on the plate.

Excellent game last night saw Farnley snatching the winner with minutes to go 18 v 20, I'm really enjoying how a bunch of kids came together last season with only a couple knowing anything about rugby league, I can not praise them enough on how they have developed into a decent rugby league team, praise also has to go to their coaching team and backroom staff.

Toddled along to watch the Hull scholarship derby last night, an healthy crowd of two to two and half thousands turned up to watch an excellent and entertaining game from start to finish, FC looked the sharper of the two side especially in the first half and Rovers always looked slightly the physically stronger side, HT 6 – 10 to FC, FT 22 – 20 to KR to give the Robins the bragging rights. Taking in Moorends-Thorne Marauders U15s v Farnley U15s tonight, 7pm kick off on the Moorends recreation ground DN8 4NA, should be a stiff test for the Marauders against a team from the division above, this is a return fixture from pre-season friendly that saw Farnley comfortable winners.

The Dewsbury area produces players as well.

I agree but I'm still not convinced it's the correct method to retain players who get their nose pushed out, it's like going back to the days of being the last one picked in the play ground, the last one pick is normally the player you can rely on every week to turn up whilst the golden boys will let you down a couple of times in the season, once the last person picked stops turning up and the golden boy goes to play golf instead of turning up your in a downwards spiral. I see it as another RFL exercise of building from the top downwards.

I suspect because Chile are West friendly

Is junior dual reg just an exercise in making sure junior amateur teams don't collapse and a big reason why the NCL have opened their doors?

That's 40 amateurs not getting a game

When dual registration was mentioned in the past didn't you say it wouldn't happen.

What happens when a dual registration player is not available and the amateur player who got dropped says no thanks I'm going elsewhere for a game.

Going to be refurbished, completion date given is November, temporary shower block, changing rooms and toilets are going to be supplied and located in Thorne Colliery FC ground, when we don't know.

Expansion as in distance to travel?

I enjoyed the mid-week games, gave you the chance to go and watch other teams.

Moorends/Thorne is only 15 to 20 minutes from Scunny and probably their closest neighbours, I'm assuming the college you speak of is the John Leggett, many kids from Moorends and Thorne attended there. The most successful venture into rugby league will be when Joe Walsh ran the team from his Talbat pub in the town, great set of lads back then.

An arson attack that has left Moorends-Thorne Marauders Rugby League Football Club and Club Thorne Colliery without changing facilities leaving officials of the Marauders facing a race against time to be able to take part in home fixtures for the newly started 2024 summer season, Thorne Colliery are slightly luckier having just finished their seasons. The result of this deliberate act will be felt across the whole community, with the loss of the changing rooms, both clubs have been left without essential facilities including changing rooms, showers, and toilets when the pavilion was severely burnt in the arson attack around 3pm on Friday 10th/May/2024. The long-standing Rugby League club have had an emergency meeting to set plans in motion to keep operating after the arson attack, This week’s first team game is hopefully going to be reversed which will mean the Marauders having to travel to Bradford, the Under 15s are away at this moment we don’t know the plans of our Masters (Over 35s) team who also had an home fixture this weekend. It is not just match days that will be disrupted, in the warm weather an awful lot of water is consumed during training and the ability to supply water on draft has now gone, we now have; open-age, Masters, Under 15s, Under 13s, Under 9s and a Mini Marauders section (4- to 6-year-olds) training But despite our problems chairperson Terry Gent describing Friday’s fire a ‘nightmare’ situation, he said we have been bowled over by the support that has flooded in from the public and the local rugby community, across the whole district and codes. The sad thing about all this is the massive steps the Marauders have taken in the last 18 months, going from zero to all the above teams mentioned and then we get such a massive set back when the future was looking bright, however with the fighting spirit of the Marauders and the community we are sure we will get around this mishap and the best way for the community to show their support would be to bring your kids and grandkids along and join in the training. We are hoping that the local council, district council and South Yorkshire council will be able to collaborate with the club to set up temporary facilities while permanent plans to rebuild the pavilion are put into place and executed. The Marauders have been working tirelessly with the local council over the last 6 or 7 years to make their patch on the Moorends Recreation ground the envy of most amateur clubs in Yorkshire, initially identifying areas which would make the area child friendly the clubs first addition was a six foot perimeter security fence before adding a pitch side canteen, 75 seater grandstand and training lights, this all coincided with the council having the pavilion fully refurbished. Determination and spirit at the club is in abundance, coupled that with a crop of excellent young coaches, good families and with the community behind us the future will still be shinning bright, “1,2,3, Marauders”

I would like to take this opportunity from both Moorends-Thorne Marauders A.R.L.F.C. and Dearne Valley Bulldogs A.R.L.F.C. to thank 16-year-old Megan Mills of the Hull referee’s society for taking control of her first open-age men’s game (Friday 3/May/2024.) Megan should and no doubt will go far in the middle with the whistle, she was pitch perfect and controlled every aspect of the game with authority and vision, as the saying goes, you know when the referee has had a good game, you don’t notice them, this was the case with Megan throughout the game. Well, done Megan from all at the Marauders and Bulldogs.

Talking to the number 22s dad and asked how he had got on, he said that the audio of his lad talking wasn't clear but never sounded anything like "Spastic" but the panel said "It sounds like" not "You said spastic" so he was advised to take the minimum penalty, 6 games and £500. I suppose this is another reason why a union is required, to fight such findings, legally the cost is far to much individually for a player to fight a case, having a union rep there could see him/her/none binary make a decision to fight a case.

The player was a very good amateur boxer

It was not my narrative, I was told by the lad himself Saturday morning at a under 15s game, at the time he was waiting for what the club wanted to do about it, maybe the club advised him to plead guilty.

Bulldogs are a cracking little club, I think our juniors have cracked up a really strong bond with them last year, good luck in all they do.

I think sanction is the grade of the offence.

Fingers crossed, the lad said if he's found guilty he'd have got less for punching the guy

It's taken longer than what I expected for this to happen,

You would think so but I do not have much faith in the system, it seems to fail in it’s consistency in handing out punishments, in every day life it would have been thrown out before it got to the CPS.