Group B opening match.

  Group B opening match was between Glapthorn and Warmington. Glapthorn Gladiators are in the yellow strip, and Warmington Greenmen are not surprisingly in the green!

    The match seemed to be a very nervous affair with neither team willing to commit too much, the picture shows the start of the match with Warmington kicking off.
     The game continued to be very tight, both teams were awarded penalties, but only Warmington managed to score. The scond half was a similarly slow affair until a great tactical kick forward by Warmington which was brilliantly  chased and resulted in a try in the far left corner, the conversion attempt just brushed wide of the left hand post.

                      Final score:   Warmington 8  Glapthorn 0.

      Warmington will now play Tansor in the second round.

Group A opening match.

                 The teams will be competing for the Nene valley cup, representatives of the two teams of the opener are pictured here with the cup.

The match got under way with a dynamic start by Cotterstock, who scored a try in the first three minutes, this was also converted.

  Shortly after this a penalty was awarded to Cotterstock, which they neatly slotted over.

Fotheringhay made some very spirited runs with the ball, but were unable to capitalise on them and the half time score was Cotterstock 10 Fotheringhay 0.

                The second half was a far more tight game with each team not giving an inch, eventually Fotheringhay were awarded a penalty, which was successful.

a scrum deep in Cotterstock's territory in the last minutes of the game looked very dangerous, but again Fothringhay's finishing was poor and no further score was made.

                                            Final result:  Cotterstock 10  Fotheringhay  3.

                           Cotterstock will now play Oundle in a weeks time.

Local Knockout.

As the world cup has come and gone I thought I would have a local knockout with the teams that I have!

Group A:  Fotheringhay, Cotterstock and Oundle.

Group B: Glapthorn, Warmington and Tansor.

First match will be Fotheringhay versus Cotterstock.

                                                                Fotheringhay Deacons.

                                                               Cotterstock Crusaders.

Cricket match

Game in progress without any deliberate no balls!!!!

Sight screens and scoreboard in use, much more fun than that electronic jiggery pokery!

Happy New Year.

No I've not flipped, but 31st October is new year's eve on the celtic calender, so a happy new year to all interested in things Subbuteo, or even those who are completely baffled!!!!

Kicking screen.

When doing conversion kicks, penalties or drop goals, unless one has an assistant to hold a cloth behind the uprights, the ball invariably gets temporarily lost. The Subbuteo rugby ball is quite small, so I have made a simple screen to allow play to continue without the search the ball scenario!

It is a panel of 6mm MDF with a 2x1 batten screwed on the bottom and a piece of 10mm thick black foam 430mm x 340mm double sided taped to the board.

I have used this screen to good effect many times and have not had to go searching for the ball once, therefore meaning no more hold ups for the match.

Scrum!

Well now the world cup is over, I guess I can stop setting my alarm clock for unearthly hours of the day!!!
It would seem from watching all the matches that the scrum wastes a lot of time, so what they need is a Subbuteo scrummer and five playing pieces of each teams colours set up as per my revised rules. Then when the ball comes out the real ball is given to that pack and the game continues from there. No risk of injury or dodgy penalties being awarded, and the game flows much better, no problem!!!