Recent Posts Tagged With '5 - sport'

• England 20 – 12 New Zealand

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 14:31 in sport, australia, England, rugby, four nations, sam tomkins, 5 - sport, sam burgess, eorl crabtree, kyle eastmond, gareth ellis, kevin sinfield

  To go to the Four Nations final England needed a win against the World Champions New Zealand in Huddersfield tonight, I was watching the game on TV and hoping beyond hope that England could pull of a frankly unexpected win against the Kiwi’s. Engl...

• England 16 – 26 Australia

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 07:16 in sport, australia, England, international, rugby, wigan, lee smith, four nations, sam tomkins, dw stadium, 5 - sport, sam burgess

  Yesterday I was at the DW Stadium in Wigan for the rugby league 4 Nations international clash between England and Australia, it was my first big international rugby league match and I was really looking forward to it, I was hoping for a great game o...

• Off to see England V Australia

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 04:13 in australia, England, international, rugby, wigan, four nations, 5 - sport, 3 - general diary

  Today is a fairly big day for me, many years ago I watched Russia play against Fiji in a minor World Cup international rugby league game here in Barrow, today I go to my first international since and a biggie to boot, England against Australia. Of c...

• Grand Final Weekend 2009

  Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 15:33 in sport, australia, England, manchester, rugby, old trafford, leeds rhinos, imperial war museum, grand final, salford quays, four nations, saint helens

  Hi all, well its 8:30 pm on Sunday evening, my lads have gone home to Carole’s and I’m relaxing and getting round to blogging about my weekend, the last time I wrote was Friday (Big Weekend Coming Up), which was a post looking forward to the wee...

• Barrow Raiders 26 – 18 Halifax – Championship Grand Final

  Posted on Sunday October 4th, 2009 at 13:42 in sport, rugby, halifax, championship, chris young, grand final, dave allen, liam harrison, barrow raiders, 5 - sport, andreas bauer, andy ballard

  So this is it, the biggest game of the season for the Barrow Raiders, my hometown rugby league side, this is the Co-operative Championship Grand Final at the Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington where the Raiders, in their second final of the year,...

• Saint Helens 14 – 10 Wigan Warriors

  Posted on Saturday October 3rd, 2009 at 14:10 in sport, league, rugby, warriors, wigan, leeds rhinos, play offs, grand final, semi final, george carmont, pat richards, saint helens

  Last night Leeds got the win I expected against Catalan in the first Grand Final semi final, it was a good game, possibly the best of the play offs thus far, well I think it certainly was, the final score was Leeds Rhinos 27 – 20 Catalans Dragons,...

• Hull KR 16 – 30 Wigan Warriors

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 13:32 in sport, rugby, warriors, wigan, play offs, super league, hull kr, 5 - sport

  Following Catalan Dragons win yesterday against a disappointing Huddersfield Giants in their Super League play off tie its now the turn of the Wigan Warriors to visit Hull KR in the second tie of this round. Both clubs are fielding the best teams the...

• Wigan Warriors 18 – 12 Castleford Tigers

  Posted on Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 15:05 in sport, rugby, warriors, wigan, play offs, castleford, sean o'loughlin, pat richards, cameron phelps, 5 - sport, amos roberts

  This game between the Wigan Warriors and Castleford Tigers was the fourth and last game in the first round of the Super League play offs, this one was of course a straight knock out game as these two teams weren’t in the top four in Super league, ...

• Barrow Raiders 35 – 12 Halifax

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 15:17 in sport, rugby, halifax, play offs, grand final, semi final, barrow raiders, 5 - sport

  In the Championship play off semi final top of the table Barrow Raiders met Halifax here in Barrow at the Mark Coward stadium, Craven Park, the winner of this game goes right through to the Grand Final.   On the night that they were awarded the Leag...

• Last Home Game of the Season

  Posted on Saturday September 5th, 2009 at 07:53 in sport, warriors, wigan, play offs, hull fc, george carmont, 5 - sport

  Wigan Warriors 34 – 22 Hull FC Yesterday (Friday) Gareth and I went to Wigan (the home of great rugby) to watch Wigan Warriors play Hull FC in the last home game of the regular season, we have one away game at Huddersfield and then its the play off...