Marauder

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.

To know the full story and to get a feel of this case. · Firstly, go onto you tube and watch the highlights of the game, take note that during the highlights the player (number 22) never once gets involved verbally or physically around the play the ball throughout the game · The incident happens in the last 5 minutes or so, when the number 22 takes the ball up just in front of Thatto Heaths goals, whilst doing so number 22 takes another tackle around the head (He is 6 foot 4) · Number 22 gets to his feet, never gets involved physically and is awarded a penalty, while on his feet he says to his attacker “Fukcing Cabbage” · The referee then red cards the number 22 for insinuating his attacker was a Spastic. · Firstly, in the text “Fukcing Cabbage” was said is in line with the urban dictionary translation “Fukcing Idiot” · Secondly it was the referee and only the referee who has interpreted “Fukcing Cabbage” into “Fukcing Spastic” this was pointed out to the referee by the Featherstone captain when asked the reason the number 22 was sent off. · The referee has previous in such actions, he was part and parcel in a player getting a 6-match ban whilst being the 4th official, on that occasion two players had been sin binned and the guilty player called the other player “A Welsh see u next Tuesday” The number number 22 is not a trialist he has signed for Featherstone even after being offered a far better deal in a brown envelop from a local union side.

Hi Do you know the full story of this case, if not I will tell you. · Firstly, go onto you tube and watch the highlights of the game, take note that during the highlights the player (number 22) never once gets involved verbally or physically around the play the ball. · The incident happens in the last 5 minutes or so, when the number 22 takes the ball up just in front of Thatto Heaths goals, whilst doing so number 22 takes another tackle around the head (He is 6 foot 4) · Number 22 gets to his feet, never gets involved physically but is awarded a penalty, while on his feet he says to his attacker “Fukcing Cabbage” · The referee then red cards the number 22 for insinuating his attacker was a Spastic. · Firstly, in the text “Fukcing Cabbage” was said was in line with the urban dictionary, translated “Fukcing Idiot” · Secondly it was the referee and only the referee who has interpreted “Fukcing Cabbage” into “Fukcing Spastic” this was pointed out to the referee by the Featherstone captain when asked the reason the number 22 was sent off. · The referee has previous in getting a player a 6-match ban whilst being the 4th official, on that occasion two players had been sin binned and the guilty player called the other player “A Welsh see u next Tuesday” Not sure about your feelings but this is probably going to be the second occasion that food will be taken off the kitchen table because an official has thin skin. By the way, number the number 22 is not a trialist he has signed for Featherstone even after being offered a far better deal in a brown envelop from a local union side.

Not a Welsh regiment there either.

Beg to differ according to everything I've read, he was a loss to rugby league at the time, would he cut it back in league, probably yes but has he been left behind to much to become a major star, who knows and I can't see you finding out.

IMO it would spoil it, the attractions of wheelchair rugby league from what I've been reading is it's pace and brutality, get a video ref involved and you kill both, leave it as it is and live and die by the person with the whistle.