NURL 1sts – 18
Liverpool John Moores – 12
The conquering NURL machine marches on despite rigorous testing at the hands of a burly and aggressive Liverpool John Moores team.
This was Newcastle’s first home match of the season and the team was desperate to impress the baying mob assembled at Fortress Cochrane Park.
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NURL 1sts – 18
UcLan – 8
By Ed Ainscoe
NURL’s revival continued on a grim day in Preston with a convincing win over a talented and gritty UCLan outfit that tightens their grip on third position in the Premier North league.
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NURL 2nds – 28
Hull University 2nds – 12
By Edward Ainscoe
On a beautiful day for rugby league football, NURL ventured into the nation’s fattest city to face a determined and experienced Hull outfit. Depleted from the outset with several notable absentees, such as Belgian international Archambeaux, the Royals had spoken of playing with pride and limiting the oppositions chances. From the kick off it was clear they would do more than this.
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NURL 2nds – 28
Hull 2nds – 12
By Ed Ainscoe
On a beautiful day for rugby league football, NURL ventured into the nation’s fattest city to face a determined and experienced Hull outfit. Depleted from the outset with several notable absentees, such as Belgian international Archambeaux, the Royals had spoken of playing with pride and limiting the oppositions chances. From the kick off it was clear they would do more than this.
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NURL 1sts – 26
Napier University– 12
For the season opener NURL headed to Scotland with an injury and graduation ravaged side including 7 debutants out of Seventeen. Napier had been undefeated in Edinburgh for 3 years and boast a squad containing numerous Scottish Student Internationals. The Royals were keen to stamp their authority on the re-structured Premier North division and eager to welcome the newly promoted side with a crushing defeat.
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NURL 1sts – 18
Trinity All Saints Titans – 14
Wednesdays match was the third in a week for Ed Ainscoe’s lethargic troops and the expedition to league home-country left the team feeling a long way from the big eared boys on Leazes field. TASC’s hundred or so supporters were gathered on the field in a scene reminiscent of The Wicker Man and the Ill intent was thinly veiled behind the crowd’s shifty eyes and toothless grins. Continue reading »
NURL 1sts – 32
Leeds 1sts – 0
A dominating victory at Leeds exemplified NURL�s impressive turnaround under the stewardship of pizza hut dwelling trench-coat loiterer Ed Ainscoe.
NURL 1sts – 12
Leeds Met 1sts – 20
‘This was the hardest game we have had in my three years including Grand Finals’ was Leeds Met and GB students coach Paul Fletcher’s sentiments after a bruising encounter at Cochrane park. Indeed with Leeds coming off the back of an 80 point victory in their previous match and demoralising memories of last seasons drubbing by a similar score line still lingering, it was not surprising that even NURLS most enthusiastic of players, Dave Furniss (not Furnish), rated their chances of somewhere between slim and C.J. Smullen. Talk prior to the game was to ‘keep the score down’ and ‘play with pride’ and Newcastle ended up doing a lot more than that.
Rick Davison with some neat passing
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Newcastle 1sts – 20
Northumbria 1sts – 4
By Ed Ainscoe and Kevin Davey
Coach Rob Jones’ devotion to the rebuilding of NURL is similar in scope and awe –inspiring genius to Gaudi’s Sagrada Família. Yet whilst the Catalan’s work remains unfinished, few can doubt that NURL’s Lazarus-esque resurrection is complete following the atonement for last year’s loss in the fixture.
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NURL 1sts -30
Leeds 1sts – 10
A morbid sky greeted the Leeds team and pathetic fallacy was ready to dance its cruel jig over the corpse of the lacklustre Yorkshire team. Continue reading »