Re: Under 23's Fixtures : Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:10 pm  

bulldogtrev wrote:

The current standard of the Under 23 Championship is probably on a par with Conference Rugby.

From Fevs point of view I would disagree with this as so far this year we have performed well against the S/L reserve sides. I would go as far as to say that if we were allowed, we could probably put a second team out that would compete in NL1.

Re: Under 23's Fixtures : Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:14 pm  

What's wrong with a Reserve team? Fax used to get crowds up at Thrum Hall that were close to many Championship teams now. Forget the age, it should just be a second league for all those teams that want to play (including players coming back from injury). 2 leagues if there's enough interest. Simple....

Re: Under 23's Fixtures : Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:21 am  

HXSparky wrote:

What's wrong with a Reserve team? Fax used to get crowds up at Thrum Hall that were close to many Championship teams now. Forget the age, it should just be a second league for all those teams that want to play (including players coming back from injury). 2 leagues if there's enough interest. Simple....

can remember friday nights up at thrum hall used to be a 1000 pluss for second team games,used to see some great games there as each player playing used to know they had chance of making the bench on the sunday so there for they were playing out of there skin to get that spot, those were the days

Re: Under 23's Fixtures : Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:51 am  

seanfax wrote:

can remember friday nights up at thrum hall used to be a 1000 pluss for second team games,used to see some great games there as each player playing used to know they had chance of making the bench on the sunday so there for they were playing out of there skin to get that spot, those were the days

Sure were used to love Friday nights up Thrum Hall. The game then Stans post match analysis in the cricket club