Burtonwood delivered a sound team performance to collect the league points from the Croxteth based outfit. Both wingers Euan Bowden and Cameron Woodward went over for tries along with other 4 pointers coming from right centre Tom Welsh (2) hooker Connor Bennett who showed good support ability to score his try,  second row Callum Shaw and full back Jake Boardman.  Ross Young scored the only conversion of the day. Burtonwood forward Almer Tagayuna scored the only try for Liverpool. Man of the match, was scrum half Kurt Whiteley other strong performances from Cal Shaw and Prop forward Shawn Leigh.

Arguably this was the best performance of the season sadly just falling short against a very big physical Leigh Side.THe energy and commitment from the lads was excellent today.

The defence held firm for much of the game and a little more polish in attack could have resulted in a real upset.What impressed today more than anything was that the lads showed great team spirit and they all worked together.

Tries came from OGrady and Speakman ,with conversion and penalty by Pringle and one conversion from Rafferty.

A much improved performance by the Bulldogs this morning, who were again playing a team from the division above. It didn't show, however and our team can take a great deal of encouragement from this game.

The Bulldogs started superbly with the best defence we've seen from them this season, the work done on line shape and speed seems to be paying dividends. Good aggressive tackling put Golborne under pressure and resulted in a tight first half. Golborne got on the scoreboard first with a try from their number 11, who was a constant threat. The bulldogs responded quickly with a try from Josh Whitham and the teams turned around at 4-4.

In the second period defence was king again and both teams stood firm until Golborne broke through with a dive over from dummy half to make the score 8-4. It stayed that way until about 7 mins from time when, with the Bulldogs beginning to tire and with no subs today, Golbornes number 11 ran in 3 tries in quick succession to give the home side a flattering 26-4 win.

There are areas to be worked on in attack but with we tried several players in new positions today so can't be too critical and overall it was extremely encouraging for the rest of our season.

There were numerous lads who could have picked up awards today particularly Jamie Preston and Alex Legge who both had good games. Man-of-the-Match went to Toby Shankster with his best game in a Bulldogs shirt so far. Parents/Spectators award was picked up by Jonny Maddison, who gets better every week and put in an immense amount of work and was singled out for praise by the Golborne coach, as was Louie Morrissey who scooped the Top Trainer award for his commitment and application (not his moaning though!) Finally, Coaches Award went to Tom Rowlinson as the most-improved player of the week, doing a sterling job in an unfamiliar position. Well done lads!

u11s are away to wigan st judes on sun 7th ko 11.30 could everyone meet on the fiddle in,th bag pub car park at 10.30 anyone making their own way, keats avenue ,wigan, wn3 5ub

Our ko time is 10.30am at Atherton Dragons, at the same location as last year, which is Jubilee Park off Leigh Road just before Hansom Drive.

Please could we leave the Comunity Centre at 9.30am.

See you then !!

Please note kick off at 10.30

Fixtures for the remainder of this season have now been added.

Our next match is this Sunday (7th Feb), away at Atherton Dragons.  We will know ko time this Thursday evening.  We will update the website when we get the ko time through.  Please text Clare if you are unavailable.

Please also text Clare if you would like to walk around the outside of Warrington Wolves pitch this Sunday at half time with other Bulldogs.  We are unsure of numbers so cannot guarantee places, and you would need to be with a paying adult.

Many thanks, David..

The U14's game against Leyland 31st January has been cancelled.

the u11s game at halton has been cancelled sun 31st

The u- 16s came up against probably one of the favourites to win this National cup competition.

Due to injuries and unavailability Burtonwood travelled with just a minimum 13 players, and they gave everything in a fast open game.The first half saw Portico set a fast frantic pace with wave after wave of attacking play.Credit to a scrambling and very hard working defence the score was close going into half time, with Portico leading three tries to one.

The second half started badly with the home team scoring three quick tries to kill off the game . Burtonwood battled back in the closing stages to score a late try . Well done to the 13 lads who played today, it was  a good game of rugby, played in the right spirit and we wish Protico success in the rest of the competition. 

Loooking ahead ,next up is Chorley Panthers in the league at HOME.