Category Archives: Mini Junior match reports

Hoppers U13   39   Kirby Lonsdale U13s  5 After the disappointment of yet another match being called off last week at Fylde, and a lot of school fixtures off as well, everyone hoped that this match would be on. This was tempered by the cold and the heavy rain that greeted us, and the […]

Hoppers U13s   26    Lymm U13s   0. With the snow and ice on Friday night, followed by the prediction of significant rain overnight on Saturday, it was somewhat of a minor miracle that the pitch was fit to play. In fact there was some sun shining as everyone gathered, though it was still […]

Eccles U13s  10    Hoppers U13s  40* Blacksticks Blue (Lancashire) Cup, match day 6, 6 January 2013. The first match of the New Year was away vs Eccles RFC who are also our closest rivals in Pool A. The day was very mild for the time of year, but quite misty and ‘dank’. The pitch […]

Hoppers U13s  32   Widnes U13s  0 Blacksticks Blue Challange Cup – Round 5. 16th December 2012. In round five, Hoppers finally had a game ‘on’ in the Lancashire Cup. After the first two rounds where the opposition teams forfeited, then the match against Aspull frozen off, we had an ideal day for a rugby […]

Ormskirk U13s   5    Hoppers U13s   82 That the match was still on, was somewhat of a miracle as the current weather seems to either be wet and unplayable or frozen and unplayable! The day was also improving and, after a wet start to the morning, the conditions were actually quite good, with […]

Hoppers U13s  48  Huddersfield U13s  5 That the match was still on was a miracle in itself, with rain solidly falling for the previous 12 hours on an already sodden pitch. Just as the teams kicked off the heavens opened again, making conditions even worse. Hoppers kicked off and, in a sign of things to […]

Hoppers U13s  40   Fylde U13s  5 A bright but cold morning for the match against local rivals Fylde. Games had gone with Hoppers in recent history, but we always know it’s going to be competitive and a hard fought game. A strong squad had turned out for Hoppers with around 25 players with Fylde […]

Hoppers U13s   31     Southport U13s   7 After the minute’s silence for remembrance day, Hoppers kicked off and the early exchanges between the sides were balanced, but there was a dangerous run from Jake down the right hand side and the backs were defending well. Owen put in some storming runs and […]

Hoppers U13s  41  vs Warrington  5 Sunday 21 October. After two frustrating weeks of teams crying off,  it looked as though Hoppers would have another missed week when Bolton forfeited the points in the Blacksticks Blue Cup. Many thanks to Warrington who stepped in at the last moment to provide the first fixture of the […]

Sunday 22nd April – Hoppers Festival Following the success in the Lancs Minis Festival final the previous week, Hoppers needed to pick themselves up again to perform to their potential in their own festival. The omens were not great at 9.30am when it was hailing! However, by the time of the kick off of the […]