Official West Hartlepool RFC

Cheers ;-)

Our pitch is not the widest but its not that bad.

Dont thonk you backs would do much on a wider pitch. They kept dropping the ball or passing to our players!

Some of your forwards were pretty useful apart from the stamper!

fair point we threw loads of interceptions....

people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones....did you see the late shoulder charge on our 12???

Old Croc,

Who do you mean by The Stamper? Would anyone like to take a bet on who he means?

Westgirl, I am arranging for us to take some portable changing facilities to Old Crocs.

From the sounds of it my ambition of a drop goal from half way may not be out of the question.

I'd take a tent! :oD:oD:oD

Whats that about people in glass houses, small pitch? poor facilities?

What about the Gouger as well? Is that in the true spirit of the game?Not only a person who does not play by the laws of the game but doesn't have the guts to own up to it as well. I think William Webb Ellis would turn in his grave after those efforts. Is the tent for yourself or some of your more rotund rugby support staff.
Even if you did play on a bigger field did you think it would've done you any better. You couldn't even catch the number 10 who is over 16 stone, balding and can't even run. Your bigger forwards would've not been able to get around the field as well on a bigger pitch.
You did have a good scrum though. Except it went in the opposite direction

There was no gouging - your prop came of with a mark near his eye - when asked if it had been done by a finger he said it must have been - he never saw it!

One of our players said after the game that he had caught him with his boot - not a stamp or a rake - just an accident that occured during the game.

i don't think anyone has said "west lost because old crocs have a narrow pitch"

a lot of comments have mentioned the fact that Crocs played well

What do you mean the gouger. I dont supose you seen your kiwi No.8 try to drop jonny because he couldnt get the ball off him in a 1-on-1 tackle, so he sucker punched him in the ribs. And the 6 was doing it all day punching anth carr causing him to be treated for a gash under the left eye!

blah blah blah...
crocs - don't see what you have to be moaning about....you won...and that's that
this board is all about opinions but in the end all that counts is the result and that goes in your favour this time....

looking forward to the re-match....

time to forget about this game and move on...

"Oh well he done this to such and such"
"Yeah but he done this to him"
"Yeah that was only because that fella done that"

Bla bla bla bla bla, this, that and the other. Shut up whinging. You sound like a couple of children in a headteachers office after a fight :-|

Down on paper Westies, Old Crocs 24 West 17


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Post Edited (19-09-06 17:11)

Thanks to El Pedro for an excellent match report (more than Crocs site can offer at moment!).
Sounded like a cracking game and looking forward to re match..
Was working away so missed it.

16 stone is nowhere near big enough for a Crocs number 10 ( we used to number the "proper" way round with 8,9,10 being the front row). Used to work a treat on visiting fly halves before a game to see me or Thomo senior run out, slowly in my case.

As a prop I always appreciated the modest but beautifully manicured acreage of Broomfield.

All the best for the season guys and looking forward to visting your place.
Will be nice to have some good stoppers- we might even start singing after the game and by your opposite number a few beers.
Ahh! The good old days........

Yours in Sport,
THE BUDMEISTER.

umpa lumpa....is there an echo in here...?

Bud if your planning a stop let us know before hand.

uncle chufty - "its fairly clear that the west hartlepool backs are on a pie diet if they cant catch a 16 stoner forward on a narrow field - they wouldnt have had a chance if the field was wider - they would have had further to go to get to him on a wider field!!!"

general rule for cracking jokes... if you have to explain it, its not funny.

Ok I'll take the negatives.

Take the positives too:-

1) Coming back from 24-3 down - not long ago we'd have given up.
2) Forwards were superb - definately the better on the day.
3) Discipline - there we're some cheap shots but we mainly kept our heads.
4) Depth of squad - Wallis for Moss, Tones for Myers, Norris for Carr - it's
not worrying anymore.