Crosfields V Wigan St Judes Saturday 22Nd June 2019 Crosfields ARLFC - Club Officials
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Kingstone Press National Conference League Division Two Crosfields V Wigan St Judes Saturday 22nd June 2019 Crosfields ARLFC - Club Officials Life President Colin Webb Vice Presidents Pat Gibbons, Annette Parker, Tony Parker, Neil Stephenson Chair Mike Donnison Secretary Tony Parker Committee Dominic Caswell, Chris Hull, Matt Mahoney, Annette Parker, Steve Pickersgill Head Coach Ian Boden Assistants Chris Hull, Matt Wilson Alliance Coach Andrew “Franco” Campbell Assistant Lou Walsh Junior Section Chair Lewis Worthington Secretary Kate Hall Treasurer Jeanette Buller Subs Secretary Jackie Thomason Welfare Officer Tammy Smith Crosfields ARLFC – Chair’s Welcome Good afternoon and a warm welcome to Crosfields ARLFC at the Webb Security Recreation Ground. Today, we welcome the players, supporters and officials from Wigan St Jude’s, for today’s Kingstone Press NCL Division Two Round Fifteen game. St Jude’s have beaten us twice already this season. In the Coral Challenge Cup First Round, we went down 15-14 back in January, then in the reverse league fixture in May, we lost 41-30. Their recent form has seen them rise to second in the table. Gavin Rodden is the stand-out player, with 6 man of the match awards and 16 tries, whilst Dan Fallon’s 44 goals and 1 try makes him top points scorer. Crosfields have dropped to 8th in the league, having won 6 and lost 7. Last time out, though, it was a tremendous victory at leaders Ince Rose Bridge, 6-25, with two brilliantly taken tries by Nathan Taylor. John Whittaker and Jack Reid also crossed the whitewash, with Jack adding 4 conversions and a drop goal, for a man of the match performance. For the season, Jack Reid is the stats man. Leading the try scoring with 9, the goal scoring with 43 and therefore the points scoring with 123 (1 dg). He has also picked up 6 man of the match awards. Crosfields are hosting a fund-raiser for Dan Worrall on Friday 19th July 2019. Dan had a serious accident earlier this year, whilst Jimmy has been diagnosed with brain cancer. Please see details further on for how you can help with these events. Today we are holding a special re-union to mark the 30th Anniversary of Crosfields winning the BNFL BARLA National Cup and welcome are past players and supporters to the rec’. Throughout the season, we have been taking trips down memory lane to celebrate the achievement, thanks to the archives saved by Tom Rourke. Today, it’s the Semi-Final, Crosfields v Askam. Our Sponsor Focus today is on Impact Grafix & Signs, who have supported the club over a number of years, supplying the barrier boards for other sponsors and provide a fantastic service to their customers. I thank Howard and Craig and all our sponsors, for their continued support. Good luck to everyone involved today. Yours in Sport, Crosfields ARLFC – Next at the Webb Security Recreation Ground Sunday 23rd June 2019 10:00am - U7s Cobras v Bank Quay 11:00am - U8s Adders v Clockface 10:00am - U7s Vipers v TBC 11:00am - U10s Cobras v West Bank 10:30am - U14s v Orrell St Jame 11:45am - U11s Cobras v Rylands 10:30am - U15s v Latchford 11:45am - U18s v Orrell St James Wednesday 26th June 2019 Stuart Middleton Foundation Warrington Cup 7:00pm Crosfields v Latchford Albion Saturday 6th July 2019 NWML Division Three 2:30pm Alliance v Wigan Spring View Saturday 13th July 2019 NWML Division Three 2:30pm Alliance v Eccleston Lions Saturday 20th July 2019 Kingston Press NCL Division Two 2:30pm Crosfields v East Leeds Crosfields ARLFC – Coach’s Corner Good afternoon and a warm welcome to everyone today to the Webb Security Recreation Ground. I hope the players and supporters of Wigan St Judes had a good journey. After a superb win away at Ince, where our defence and belief showed through, We need to be backing that up with another great performance to beat second in the league, Wigan St Jude’s. It’s been a difficult few weeks for us, where a little bit of self reflection both from the players and coaching staff was needed. The loss against West Bowling hard to take; a cancelled game vs Askam and then our worst performance for a good few season vs Hull Dockers, it’s been hard for us, but every credit to the lads, although we couldn’t train last week because of the weather, we were superb from the start and we need the same start this coming week to face a good Jude’s outfit. This will be the 3rd time we’ve played each other this season with Jude’s coming out on top in both occasions, so we need to be on top of our game once again to get another win. Best of luck and see you after the game. Thanks, Ian. Crosfields ARLFC – NCL Sponsors Crosfields ARLFC – Round Eleven – First Half Saturday 18th May 2019 - Crosfields 24 West Bowling 28 Crosfields suffered another close defeat against a team fighting for automatic promotion. Soap started well with Alex Clutterbuck’s kick-return taking Crosfields into the opposition half. Clutterbuck linked with Luke Walker, but the sudden attack was halted. Another kick-return from Clutterbuck set up Crosfields again. This time they built the momentum with solid drives from the pack, followed by scoots from John Whittaker and Haden James. Keeping the ball alive on the last tackle, Joe Clarke spotted half a gap and twisted in the tackle to score. Jack Reid converted for a 6-0 lead. West Bowling looked very controlled and structured, but Crosfields caused danger from broken play. Following a kick downfield by the visitors, Dan Reid picked up the ball in his own in-goal area. His run skirted the defenders to the 30m line. Walker took the ball on to the opposition 30m with weaving run, then Reid’s long pass found Scott Turton unmarked and he waltzed in for a brilliant team try in the corner. 10-0. Crosfields’ first mistake of the game gave West Bowling the advantage, close to the line. The defence held, until a scruffy grubber bounced kindly for Harry Williams to touch down and reduce the arrears at 10-4. Soap hit back immediately, forcing a scrum from the re-start. The attack and defence worked hard, but Crosfields caught out the defence on the last tackle, with Reid’s long ball finding Walker, who put Aaron Holliday over in the corner. Reid converted brilliantly for a 16-4 lead. West Bowling were put onto the attack following a penalty. Crosfields defence again held firm and looked to have the kick into the in-goal on the last tackle covered, but the ball was mis-fielded and Jack Milburn was quickest to react and touched down. Williams converted for 16-10. Crosfields again found touch from the re-start and the scrum set up another attack. Reid was targeted, as a defender sprinted out of the line, but not quickly enough. Reid stepped and dummied to force his way over for an excellent individual try. His conversion made the half time score 22-10. Jack Reid Crosfields ARLFC – Round Eleven – Second Half Saturday 18th May 2019 - Crosfields 24 West Bowling 28 Crosfields applied the pressure at the start of the second half, forcing a drop out. This went out on the full, gifting two points and a three-score lead, as Reid slotted his 4th goal of the day. 24-10. West Bowling kept their nerve and began to dominate possession. They were rewarded on 51 minutes, when Williams sent Milburn over. Williams converted for 24-16. Crosfields didn’t seem to get the rub-of-the-green, with a couple of decisions causing frustrations. A penalty for holding down, gave West Bowling another opportunity, which they duly took, with Nat Light crossing and Williams adding the conversion. 24-22. Joe Clarke Crosfields re-focused and a set play put Clutterbuck through, but he was stopped by last ditch defence. The ball was moved quickly to the right, where Turton went close, but couldn’t quite reach the line. West Bowling again dominated possession. Crosfields’ defence worked hard, but were finally broken with six minutes to go. Richard Lumb crashed over and Williams converted for 24-28. Crosfields finally got some ball on the back of a penalty and looked dangerous, with Holliday stopped 20 metres out, but the whistle went for full time. Crosfields will look at this match as another one that should have been won, against a very good West Bowling outfit. A couple of bombed tries and a couple of bad bounces eventually cost the victory. Jack Reid was terrific on his return and Hayden James caused the opposition problems, with his running Luke Walker from acting half. Luke Walker earned the man of the match award for some outstanding attacking play. Man of the Match Crosfields ARLFC – Round Thirteen Saturday 8th June 2019 - Hull Dockers 40 Crosfields 10 Crosfields slumped to another defeat, as Hull Dockers avenged their loss at the Webb Security Recreation Ground back in March. From the opening exchanges the home side were on the front foot and centre Steve Milne was first to cross the line. Dylan Rawlings converted for a 6-0 lead. Crosfields settled and went close on occasion, but could not make the necessary breakthrough and they were made to pay, when a Dockers’ purple patch saw them score three tries in a six-minute period. First Rawlings crossed, then Milne got his second and, not to be outdone, Rawlings picked up his second, which he converted.