Rugby Chat

Storty wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2026 4:45 pm Is there a tougher fixture in sport than Roth away? They're pretty much unbeatable up there! I hope the prem let them in next season so they can humble the best up there!

Congrats to my friends at Roth. Taken to the Champ like a duck to water! Albeit a labrador jumped in the pond last week to unsettle things!

We may miss you in Nat 1 but glad you're thriving up there.

A general question to my Champ friends, what did you do to Scottish and Cambridge?! One win between them in 10 and Cambridge lost 100-0 today! Brutal.

Don’t know about that. Think we might have a government health warning if the first three games are anything to go by.

A superb comeback win against Cov, by the way Cov didn’t throw it away Cov fans our pack blew you away in the second half going down the slope.
Today we were 28-14 up and were kicking down the slope 2nd half, but we had already lost Alfie early doors and lost a couple more through injury but Bedford really brought it to us in the second half and I still can’t believe they didn’t convert that at the end but it was a hell of a charge down though. Pirates fans might remember they did a similar thing at Clifton Lane about 10 years ago. They got a penalty try right at the end . This was in the days you had to convert even a penalty try. They missed the conversion to win the game and we won 28-27 or something like that.

The big difference, certainly in the Roth games is the speed and precision of the teams we played. Mistakes are punished. We are still getting used to the pace and got blown away by Worcester.

If you could ask every Titans fan I think they would be gobsmacked having played three games that we have 8 points, when you consider that two of the three are fully pro and Bedford are the best semi pro team around but then again they are a great club have a great DOR and brilliant supporters.


Please correct me if I am wrong about Bedford being part time as I am happy to be corrected if I got that wrong.

Our seasons in Nat 2 and Nat 1 were great years give me the possibility of conversing in our great games with like minded supporters like yourself Storty.

I had a call about an hour ago from a Plymouth Albion fan and was talking about our great clubs for nearly half an hour. He was rightly elated but in saying that I hope our Cambridge supporting friends are ok. It’s no joke. Great thing as we proved last week at Worcester, there’s always next week.

I will continue to look in on your league this season but it is impossible to cope with all the big scores so I won’t be continuing to post score updates as I don’t like making mistakes and I made a few again today.

Keep in touch my friend. Yes you lost today but that doesn’t take away from the solid start you have made.

Rothman2 wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2026 4:12 pm Worcester came back well to gain a 45-26 win at Bedford

So that's how Roth beat Bedford, the 1st team were playing Wuss

Rothman2 wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2026 6:13 pm

Bluesman wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2026 4:41 pm

Rothman2 wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2026 4:12 pm Worcester came back well to gain a 45-26 win at Bedford

Great, we’ve managed to lose twice today!

Oops sorry about that. Made a bit of hash of things today. Ended up posting some scores on the Nat 1 board. Should know my place I suppose.

RM2 you do a great service to all us Rugby fans on this board and others so a massive thank you for all you do. You are there week in and week out providing information, updates and commentary and you always have a balanced and positive outlook.

Thank you for your passion and thanks to all fans on here giving us a great place to chat as proper Rugby supporters.

Storty wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2026 4:45 pm Is there a tougher fixture in sport than Roth away?

Bayern Munich away?

Can't say I am a big fan of this new three-score ahead try bonus point scheme. Favours the winner of a mismatch over a team who play really well and get three or four tries but tire and fall out of range. Richmond led the Champions for all but the last play of the first half and again in the second half, scored four tries against a fully professional team, but then tired and ended up with nothing. I think the new system favours the pros against the ams. Maybe that is the point. It should be tweaked so if you get 4 tries you get a point as a losing team regardless. Why punish weaker teams?

I'd go one further and scrap the one point reward for being the losing team.

Pulsating game at The Mennaye and absolute bedlam at the end when Pirates scored in injury time, converted by Robson to snatch the victory.
What a bounce back after the hiding at Cov last week.

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On the Cambridge front I see that there have been a couple of interesting factors, which is Frstly from championship to National one and we lost a lot of our higher paid players and national one of course was a brand new squad with maybe three retained original squad members also today I think we have 11 first team injuries from a small squad and Plymouth Albion - I don't know how full or part time they are, suffice to say it is a Kick in the teeth and I'm sure we will recover.

Won’t get much easier for Cambridge with a visit from an in-form Camborne next week.

Blackheath 17 Donny 19 at HT. Donny not being helped by an awful line-out and a pretty poor refereeing performance.