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| Tickets now on sale for presentation dinner |
Tickets are now online for the end of season presentation dinner. The evening will cap the end of the 2008 debut season for the Wigan Riversiders RLC, a season which saw the side break several records and reach the play-off grand final in the first ever league season.
The presentation evening will be on Saturday 11th October, at the Crown Hotel in Worthington Nr Standish.
Tickets are priced at £10 for 2 course dinner and £14 for 3 course dinner.
See Craig for your tickets.
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| End of season presentation dinner confirmed |
| We have thought about how to host our presentation at the end of our first season and feel that a 'grown up' dinner will be a great way to end a great season. (but of course in true Riversiders fashion, it wont be too grown up!) READ MORE for details. |
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| RL Merit League Awards & Dream Team |
Congratulations are in order to the Wigan Riversiders who have been awarded joint Team of the Year for the 2008 RL Merit League. The award has been shared with the Moorends side in what the league admin say "they could not split the two".
Also Riversiders winger and goal kicking Greg Brown, Second Rower John Baybutt & Prop Forward Craig Hogan have been named in the RL Merit 2008 Dream Team. Congratulations to all these players who can take this as some reward for the efforts over the season. |
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| Riversiders fall short in Grand Final |
The Wigan Riversiders didnt have enough in the tank to take the spoils in the RL Merit League Grand Final. After a great start the Riversiders found themselves 12-0 up after only 15 minutes, but the Mauraders hit back to made the scores 12-12 at half time. The Riversiders scored first in the second half after some good pressure on the Mauraders line. With 15 to go the score was 18-16 to the Riversiders. But the Mauraders had more in the tank and scored to quick fire tries to take the game 28-18.
Congratulations to the Mauraders who deserved the win on the day. And thank you to the ML for a great season of rugby league. We shall get a full match report together over the next few days. |
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| An unopposed session will be held on Saturday morning at 1130, usual place. Players are urged to make it ahead of sundays game. Thanks. |
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| Merit League end of season awards |
The Riversiders have been nominated for 3 awards as this years merit leagues comes to a close after the grand final this coming sunday. The nominations for the awards are as follows:
Team of the Year: Wigan Riversiders or Moorends Marauders
Club of the Year: Chester Gladiators, Wolverhampton Warlords, Nottingham Outlaws, South Humber Rabbitohs
Coach of the Year: Gaz Munroe (Marauders), Craig Hogan (Riversiders), Joe Shepherd (Nottingham), Dave Hooper (Forgers)
The Impact Player of the Year: Rhys Bailey (Marauders), Oliver Dale (Outlaws), John Baybutt (Riversiders), Mark Bray (Forgers), Jimmy Keinhorst (Exiles)
Young Player: Kieron Curtis (Outlaws), Marty Dennis (Marauders), Amir Munaf (Forgers), Reece Burley (Steamers), Keiron Harris (Warlords)
The awards will be chosen and awarded after the grand final. |
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The RL Merit League has been confirmed with a Kick Off of 1500 on Sunday the 17th August. This will take place after the Shield final which kicks off at 1230. Supporters of the Riversiders can take advantage of cheap coach travel to the final at 6 pounds per person, children free.
The Final will take place at The Sycamores, Leeds which the home of Leeds Akkies ARLC. Supporters are reminded that there will be a 1.50 ground admission fee for the finals.
The coach will be departing outside Wigan Tech/Big Wheel at 1215 on the Sunday lunch time.
RL Merit League Shield Final Kick Off 1230
Sheffield Forgers 'A' v Nottingham Outlaws 'A'
RL Merit League Grand Final Kick Off 1500
Moorends Mauraders 'A' v Wigan Riversiders |
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| Riversiders make Grand Final !! |
The Wigan Riversiders overcame Nottingham Outlaws with an emphatic victory of 48-4 to reach the RL merit league grand final. The Riversiders were focussed from the off and took a 12-0 early in the game, although some solid defence from Nottingham kept the scoreline to 16-0 at half time. Nottingham started the second half well and were firs to score, this seemed to kick start the Riversiders who ran in several second half tries to take the game 48-4. A full match report will be online soon.
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| Riversiders name semi final side |
The biggest game in the Riversiders short history is this week when they make the trip to face the Nottingham Outlaws Acadamy in the Semi Final of the RL Merit League play-offs. Training has gone well, the extra session last night was a great help going into this weekends game. The squad is as strong as we can get. Read More for the squad news.
Players are reminded that you are required to meet at 10:15 at the F.O.D |
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We shall be holding an additional training session this week, leading up to our Semi Final. Training on Wednesday will be usual place usual time.
Extra Training Session: Thursday 7pm to 8pm. |
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| Riversiders Break Merit League Record |
The Wigan Riversiders have set a new 'points forward' record in the RL Merit League, the Riversiders have scored 542 points in the 12 games they have played in the 2008 season. This beats the previous record of 532 set by the Sheffield Forgers.
This alone had shown that this season have been a success for the Riversiders who finish the regular season with the following Stats:
Points Forward: 542 Points Against: 210 Points Difference: +332 |
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RLML Grand Final Result |
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Riversiders 18
 
Moorends Thorne ML 28 |
Sunday 17th August
Venue: Leeds Akkies RLC
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