redditchbulldog

Here we go into week 24 last of the regular season before we go into the qualifiers as the mighty Dogs travel down to the smoke to take on the Broncos. So get your votes in after the game , remember need your 1, 2,3 , as usual voting open for a week for those at the game home and away supporters , DVD watchers . Its getting quite close at the top as Tom Lillycrop has a narrow lead with Patch and Scotty breathing down his neck for the crown of the forums player of the season.

Results from Bulls at home 1) Patch Walker 3 pts 2) Dane Manning 2 pts 3) Dave Scott 1 pt Rolling total after week 23 1) Tom Lillycrop 21pts 2) Joel Farrell 19pts 2) Pat Walker 19pts 4) Dave Scott 17 pts 5) Brad Day 13pts 6) James Brown 9 pts 7) Wayne Reittie 8 pts Sam Smeaton 7pts 8 ) Dane Manning 7 pts 10) Dom Brambrani 6 pts 11) Macauley Hallett 5pts 11) James Harrison 5pts 13 Shaun Ainscough 4pts 14 ) James Davey 3pts 14) Cain Southernwood 3pts 16) Alistair Leake 2ptd 16) Jy Hitchcock 2pt 18) Tom Holmes 1 pt 18) Danny Cowling 1pt

voting is now closed 1) Patch Walker 30 pts 2) Dane Manning 21 pts 3) Dave Scott 18 pts 4) Shaun Ainscough 11 pts 5) James Brown 9 pts 6) Alex Bretherton 8pts 7) Dom Brambrani 7 pts Brad Day 5 pts 9) Wayne Reittie 4 pts so onto player of the season points 1) Patch Walker 3 pts 2) Dane Manning 2 pts 3) Dave Scott 1 pt

Its not just RL, its other sports that are suffering as well, most of RU clubs down here ran 4 or 5 teams and a vets team, most are now lucky to run 2 teams and a vets team and vets team is normally a mixture of old heads and 2nd teamers if their fixture is off so looking at a loss of 3 teams at clubs about 50 - 60 players and its the same with local amateur football clubs and cricket... so its not just amateur RL in demise.. its what can be done to turn round this trend

http://www.batleybulldogs.co.uk/2017/07/20/walker-stays/ signed on for 2018 great news

Think you are a bit harsh with Gareth Moore, would have liked him to stop with us as could open up defences and a great kicking game from hand as well as from ground, agree about the other two though.

https://shop.londonbroncosrl.com/collections/ticketing/products/11-london-broncos-v-batley-bulldogs £17.50 for adults and £12.50 for concessions if got online, think last season you saved £2.50 so enough for a pre game 1/2 pint of beer as its that there darn Landon prices

You can have my armchair in the 9'oyl its reet comfy, BUT all joking aside get well soon and back up to see the Bulldogs Billy

its not been a great season at all in the midlands as quite a few clubs have struggled for players including my club when we have only on 2 occasions had the luxury of subs but still completed the season , hopefully next season will look better as a few of the u-16's will step up and with a ramped up off season recruitment campaign also give us a bigger player base to work on, which when you looked back 6 - 7 years ago there was a healthy junior competition in the midlands but with the loss of community coaches , it was allowed to die off as only a few of the clubs had enough volunteers in place to keep junior rugby going . With juniors Ravens are back to where we were 6 years ago due to hard work of Jason Spafford and also getting 6 level 2 coaches in the club which is seeing 50 plus juniors on a sunday over all age ranges and with not having to rely on community coaches

Here we go into week 23 as the mighty Dogs take on the Bulls at home looking for their first win over the Bulls since the 70's. So get your votes in after the game , remember need your 1, 2,3 , as usual voting open for a week for those at the game home and away supporters , DVD watchers

1) James Brown 3pts 2) Patch Walker 2 pts 3) Wayne Reittie 1 pt Rolling total after week 22 1) Tom Lillycrop 21pts 2) Joel Farrell 19pts 3) Dave Scott 16pts 3) Pat Walker 16pts 5) Brad Day 13pts 6) James Brown 9 pts 7) Wayne Reittie 8 pts Sam Smeaton 7pts 9) Dom Brambrani 6 pts 10) Macauley Hallett 5pts 10) James Harrison 5pts 10 ) Dane Manning 5pts 13 Shaun Ainscough 4pts 14 ) James Davey 3pts 14) Cain Southernwood 3pts 16) Alistair Leake 2ptd 16) Jy Hitchcock 2pt 18) Tom Holmes 1 pt 18) Danny Cowling 1pt

voting now closed , quite lively this week giving me some work to do totting up 1) James Brown 45 pts 2) Patch Walker 37pts 3) Wayne Reittie 25 pts 4) Dane Manning 12 pts 5) Brad Day 8pts 6) Tom Lillycrop 4 pts 7) Joel Farrell 3 pt Sam Smeaton 2pts Alex Bretherton 2 pts 10) Cain Southernwood 1 pt so onto player of the season 1) James Brown 3pts 2) Patch Walker 2 pts 3) Wayne Reittie 1 pt

i'm sure i saw something the other week about the womens team taking on the army team in a challenge cup semi final , think it was on FB i saw it

My Deliberate mistake thanks for pointing it out ,now amended

Batley did one last season where it was 7 games for £70 which i got as a shift worker and also 130 mile away, was pointless getting a full season ticket as can't make every game, but for some reason didn't do one this season