Sun 1 Mar: The Betfred League 1 Match Thread

[John Drake]

Discuss all this weekend's Betfred League 1 games here.

SUN 1 MARCH
Coventry Bears v Newcastle Thunder KO 3pm
Doncaster v Barrow Raiders KO 3pm
London Skolars v North Wales Crusaders KO 3pm
West Wales Raiders v Hunslet KO 3pm
Workington Town v Keighley Cougars KO 3pm

[Yorks Tim]

Coventry Bears 16 v 14 Newcastle Thunder (you would have laughed last year anorl) 
Doncaster 22 v 26 Barrow Raiders 
London Skolars 14 v 26 North Wales Crusaders 
West Wales Raiders 6 v 46 Hunslet 
Workington Town 26 v 24 Keighley Cougars

 

[newbe]

All away wins

 

[clwydianrange]

Some tasty games there. I’ll go all away wins

[Quinskolar]

It's Skolars year! For once we may start the season with a home win!

[FearNothing]

12 hours ago, Quinskolar said:

It's Skolars year! For once we may start the season with a home win!

it's still Panto season....so

 

Oh No You Won't!!!! 

[Moscow01]

Coventry Bears 6-40 Newcastle Thunder 
Doncaster 14-24 Barrow Raiders 
London Skolars 16-23 North Wales Crusaders 
West Wales Raiders 0-56 Hunslet 
Workington Town 20-21 Keighley Cougars 

[Jasper]

Coventry Bears 10-40 Newcastle Thunder 
Doncaster 18-24 Barrow Raiders 
London Skolars 22-16 North Wales Crusaders 
West Wales Raiders 6-46 Hunslet 
Workington Town 22-18 Keighley Cougars 

 

[Eddie]

Newcastle

Donny

Skolars

Hunslet

Workington

[Callum Linford 98]

Coventry Bears 10-40 Newcastle Thunder 
Doncaster 18-24 Barrow Raiders 
London Skolars 22-16 North Wales Crusaders 
West Wales Raiders 6-46 Hunslet 
Workington Town 30-18 Keighley Cougars

[EssexRL]

Very important we win Sunday but I think it’ll be close. Otherwise wins for-

Newcastle 

Doncaster

Hunslet

Town

 

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Newcastle, Barrow, Crusaders, Hunslet, Keighley.

[fearnowt]

What a shame that Saracens pulled the rug from under what promised to be a great occasion this weekend.

We had a 50 seat bus fully booked as far back as Christmas Eve for the double header on Saturday, but thanks to Saracens attitude towards Toronto and Skolars we have been reduced to 14 on a minibus, with another 3 of us travelling down by train. Hopefully a few more can make their own way down.

Expecting the usual warm welcome at the New River Stadium and a close game.

[EssexRL]

1 hour ago, fearnowt said:

What a shame that Saracens pulled the rug from under what promised to be a great occasion this weekend.

We had a 50 seat bus fully booked as far back as Christmas Eve for the double header on Saturday, but thanks to Saracens attitude towards Toronto and Skolars we have been reduced to 14 on a minibus, with another 3 of us travelling down by train. Hopefully a few more can make their own way down.

Expecting the usual warm welcome at the New River Stadium and a close game.

Totally agree. It also means we are playing at the same time at Broncos which we try to avoid as we share a fair few fans (plus Spurs are playing) so not sure what the crowd will be but as ever be good to see you and hope it'll be another cracking match!

[PhilCarrington]

10 hours ago, fearnowt said:

What a shame that Saracens pulled the rug from under what promised to be a great occasion this weekend.

We had a 50 seat bus fully booked as far back as Christmas Eve for the double header on Saturday, but thanks to Saracens attitude towards Toronto and Skolars we have been reduced to 14 on a minibus, with another 3 of us travelling down by train. Hopefully a few more can make their own way down.

Expecting the usual warm welcome at the New River Stadium and a close game.

Toronto pulled the plug on the double header not Saracens. 

[Thunder fan]

going to coventry tomorrow, stopping over 1 night, then back home after the game, looking forward to it, come on thunder!

[Charlie RL]

Kick off at last.

Good luck Cov.

[bar red]

11 hours ago, PhilCarrington said:

Toronto pulled the plug on the double header not Saracens. 

Only after Saracens raised the ground rental fee 5  fold. Allegedly.

[paulwalker71]

I don't know anything about the ins and outs of what happened between Saracens and Toronto, but I certainly wouldn't think that Saracens are in any position to take a moral high ground on anything right now...

[PhilCarrington]

54 minutes ago, paulwalker71 said:

I don't know anything about the ins and outs of what happened between Saracens and Toronto, but I certainly wouldn't think that Saracens are in any position to take a moral high ground on anything right now...

is there any suggestion that they have ?

Back on topic, Skolars taking a leaf out of Toronto's books by not naming a full squad of 21 for tomorrow.

[EssexRL]

25 minutes ago, PhilCarrington said:

is there any suggestion that they have ?

Back on topic, Skolars taking a leaf out of Toronto's books by not naming a full squad of 21 for tomorrow.

They’ve named a squad of 20 plus JC

[Rob Nash]

This has become a joke. Teams are naming 21 when they are struggling to pick 17. What does this achieve?

[EssexRL]

17 hours ago, Rob Nash said:

This has become a joke. Teams are naming 21 when they are struggling to pick 17. What does this achieve?

In Skolars case it’s the squad we’ve got. Not sure what else the coach would do. We didn’t do that against Barrow AFAIK because we didn’t have the numbers for that. 

[EssexRL]

16-18 Cru. Close game. 

[JonM]

West Wales 10 Hunslet 24 at half-time, good bit closer than a lot of their games last season.