2010 - 11 Season

Yorkshire County Players

Harry Collett was selected to play for Yorkshire Under 17's.
Harry has played in all four county games with the Yorkshire squad still undefeated.

West Yorkshire District Players

The following players were selected to play for West Yorkshire Under 17's.
Jack Ledgard and Harry Collett.

Under 7's
Driffield Festival Winners
The under 7's played in a league of 6 teams winning 4 and drawing 1 to top the league and in the festival.

Brodleians Festival Bowl Winners
The under 7's played in a league of 5 teams winning 2 and losing 2 to go into the bowl competition. They beat Brodleians 3-0 in the final to claim the bowl trophy.

Sandal Festival Plate Winners
The under 7's played in a league of 5 teams winning 2, drawing 1 and losing 1 to finish runners up. They beat Sandal Saxons runners up from the other pool to claim the plate trophy.

Morley Floodlit Festival Winners
The under 7's played under Morley's floodlights to beat Morley 7 - 5 in the final.

Under 8's
Brodleians Festival Bowl Winners
The under 8's played in a league of 4 teams winning 1, drawing 1and losing 1 to go into the bowl competition. They beat West Park Leeds 5-4 in the final to claim the bowl trophy.

Keighley Festival Winners
The under 8's played in a league of 6 teams winning all 5 games to top the league and claim the Keighley Festival Under 8's trophy.

Under 9's
Driffield Festival Cup Winners
The under 9's played in a league of 4 teams winning 2 games and drawing 1 to top their league and go into the Cup competition. They drew with Pocklington 0-0 in the final to share the Cup trophy. They only coneded one try in the festival.

Brodleians Festival Cup Winners
The under 9's played in a league of 5 teams winning all four of their pool games to top their league and go into the Cup competition. They drew with West Park Leeds 10-10 in the final to share the Cup trophy.

Keighley Festival Runners up
The under 9's won their 3 pool games and faced Huddesfield in the semi final which ended a 5-5 draw. The under 9's went through to the final with the better results in the pool games. In the final they faced a big Lymm team but sadly lost 5-10 and take the runners up trophy.

West District Festival Winners
The under 9's won 2 pool games and drew one to go into the final against Skipton. They won the final 5 - 0 to take the winners trophy.

Sandal Festival 4th place

Under 10's
Driffield Festival Plate Winners
The under 10's played in a league of 4 teams winning one game and losing 2 to go into the Plate competition. They beat the East Yorkshire Baa Baas in the plate final 20-0 to lift the plate.

Brodleians Festival Cup Finalists
The under 10's played in a league of 4 teams winning all four of their pool games to top their league and go into the Cup competition. They narrowly lost in cup final 5-10 to Hull Ionians.

West District Festival Shield Winners
The under 10's finished second in the pool stage and met Keighley in the cup semi-final.They lost 0 - 10 but far from being disheartened Rishworthians then took on Huddersfield YMCA in the Shield final to win 10-5 and win the shield competition.

Under 11's
Southport Festival Runners up
The squad went on tour to Southport to play in their festival. They won 3 pool games and lost 2 to meet Altrincham Kersal in the final. The big Altrincham pack were too good for the Raiders but they put up a good fight before going down 0 - 20.

Brodleians Festival Bowl Winners
The under 11's played in a league of 4 teams winning 2, and losing 2 to go into the bowl competition. They drew 5-5 with Driffield in the final to share the bowl trophy.

West District Festival 3rd Place
The under 11's drew their opening pool game and won the two remaining games. Having been pipped to top spot in the group stage on points difference by Old Brod's, The Rishworthian Raiders were then drawn against home side Skipton in the 3rd place play off. They beat Skipton 12 - 0 to claim 3rd place and to go through to the Yorkshire Cup stages.

Under 12's

Driffield Festival Salver Winners
The under 12's played in a league of 5 teams winning 1 drawing 1, and losing 2 to go onto win the Salver competition.

Alnwick Festival Winners
The under 12's played in a league of 2 teams wining both their games to progress to the knock out stages. In the quarter final they beat Carlisle to set up a semi final with the strongly fancied hosts Alnwick. They beat the hosts to into the final against Sunderland. A close game saw the under 12's win 10 - 0 to lift the trophy winning all their games without cnceding a try.

Brodleians Festival Plate Winners
The under 12's played in a league of 5 teams winning 2, and losing 2 to go into the plate competition. They beat Driffield 10-5 to win the plate trophy.

West District Festival Joint winners
The under 12's won all their pool games without conceding a try to go through to the Yorkshire Cup stages. Brodleians also won all their pool ganes to be joint winners with ourselves.

Sandal Festival joint 3rd place
Click here for District Festival report
Click here for Keighley Festival report
Click here for Sandal Festival report
Click here for Brodleians Festival report

2009 - 10 Season

Under 8's
Sandal Festival Runners Up
The under 8's won 2 and drew 2 pool games and went through to the Runers up competition where they beat West Park Leeds to lift the Runners Up trophy.
Click here for Sandal Festival report

Brodleians Festival Runners Up
The under 8's came second in the festival
Click here for Brodleians Festival report

Under 9's
West District Festival Runners Up
The under 9's won 2 pool games and drew one to go into the final against high flying festival favourites Wharfedale. They lost the final 0 - 20 to take the runners up spot.
Click here for District Festival report

Brodleians Festival Bowl Finalists
The under 9's came third in their pool and entered the bowl competition but lost to Moortown in the final.
Click here for Brodleians Festival report

Under 10's
West District Festival Shield Winners
The Raiders drew both pool matches to go into the Shield Competition. They won the semi final and final to take the shield trophy.
Click here for District Festival report

Brodleians Festival Plate Winners
The under 10's won the Plate Competition
Click here for Brodleians Festival report

Under 11's
West District Festival Runners Up
The under 11's won all their pool games to go through to the Yorkshire Cup stages. They beat Skipton but lost to Brods to take the Festival Runners Up spot.
Click here for District Festival report

Brodleians Festival Plate Winners
The under 11's won the Plate Competition
Click here for Brodleians Festival report

Driffield Festival Salver losing finalists
The under 11's came second in their pool and entered the Salver knock out competition. They won the semi final but lost to Melbourne in the final.
Click here for Driffield Festival report

Telford Festival Winners
The under 11's on tour to Shropshire enter the Telford Festival and won the under 11's trophy.
Click here for Telford Festival report

Under 16's
Yorkshire Bowl Winners
West Yorkshire District Players

The following players were selected to play for West Yorkshire.
Jack Ledgard and Harry Collett.

2008 - 09 Season

Under 7's
Harrogate Festival Winners
A stunning display to win the Harrogate Festival
Click here for Harrogate Festival report

Under 10's
Scarborough Festival Winners
The under 10's won the Scarborough Festival
Click here for Scarborough Festival report

Doncaster Festival Winners
The under 10's won the Doncaster Festival Trophy.
Click here for Festival report

Under 16's
West Yorkshire District Players

The following players were selected to play for West Yorkshire against North, South and East Yorkshire.
Reuban Pollard, Matthew Hunt- Brown and Paul Henry Jackson
The West Yorkshire squad recorded a clean sweep against North, South and East Yorkshire.

2007 - 08 Season

Under 7's
Huddersfield Festival
The under 7's were losing finalists in the Huddersfield Festival Shield

Under 8's
Huddersfield Festival Shield Winners
The under 8's won the Huddersfield Festival Shield

Under 9's
Huddersfield Festival Winners
The under 9's won the Huddersfield Festival Cup
Click here for Huddersfield Festival report

Moortown Festival Winners
The under 9's won the Moortown Festival Trophy.
Click here for Festival report

Under 17's
Yorkshire County Players
Fifty two players from across Yorkshire met in Wakefield on Sunday to enable the Yorkshire selectors to finalise a 30 man squad to represent the County at Under 17's level this season. After an initial warm up and coaching session, three periods of 25 minutes were played to give all the trialists the opportunity to impress and gave spectators and selectors some rugby of a very high standard to enjoy.

Seven of the players came from the West Yorkshire district development squad including Luke Brocklehurst (Hipperholme Grammar School) and Danny Chappell (Hipperholme and Lightcliffe High School) who both play club rugby at Old Rishworthians. Luke gave a good account of himself plying his trade at prop forward scoring a try and Danny showed his skills at inside centre.

When the matches were over a nailbiting 30 minutes were spent waiting for the selectors decision and all present were aware that 22 young talents would leave in disappointment. As the final squad was named the tension was over and the selected squad were left to the formalities and introductions as the unlucky ones left for home. Brocklehurst and Chappell were both included in the squad and will represent the County against North Wales, Lancashire and Cheshire in the coming months. Congratulations to both Calderdale boys in their selection and a big thank you to their coaches past and present within schools and clubs in Halifax. Danny and Luke join under 17 squad members Edward Cockroft, Chris Dyson, Christus Ferneyhough and Gilbert Gregory who have also represented Yorkshire.

2006 - 07 Season

Under 7's
Harrogate Festival runners up
The under 7's won all their pool games to top the group but lost by one try in the final to finish runners up to Sandal.
This was an excellent performance considering some of the older and more experienced players were unavailable and 2 players from the under 6 group made up the squad with no substitutes.

Under 8's
Harrogate Festival winners
The under 8's retained the Harrogate Festival Trophy as joint winners with Sandal.
They won all their group games to meet the all conquering Sandal Sharks in the final.
Click here for the Harrogate Festival report.

Under 16's
Harrogate Festival winners
The Under 16's made it third time lucky to win the Harrogate Festival. They were runners up 2 years ago at under 14's level they lost in the Final to the all conquering National Champions Sandal. Last year at under 15's level they missed reaching the finals. Hull Ionians went through as group winners with both sides having equal points Ionians had scored one more try. This was to be their last attempt at this competition.

They won all their group games to meet Percy Park in the final.
Click here for the Harrogate Festival report.

West Yorkshire District Players
The following players were selected for the West Yorkshire District team to play in the games against Central and East District.
Edward Cockroft, Chris Dyson, Luke Brocklehurst, Sam Hoyland, Cameron Ramsden, Ben Porritt, Hedley Stirk, Gilbert Gregory, Bradley Gorman and Christus Ferneyhough. Also Rishworth boys Elliot Hodgeson and Andrew Curwell.

Yorkshire Development Squad
As a result of the district games the following have been asked to join the Yorkshire U16 development squad:
Ed Cockroft, Christus Ferneyhough, Gilbert Gregory, Chris Dyson,Imad Nasir. Also Rishworth lads, Andrew Curwell and Elliot Hodgeson

Yorkshire County Players
The following players were selected for the full Yorkshire County side for matches against Lancashire, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland and Cheshire:
Edward Cockroft, Gilbert Gregory, Chris Dyson. Also Rishworth boys Elliot Hodgeson and Andrew Curwell.

North of England Development Squad
As a result of the County matches, Edward Cockroft was selected to attend the North of England Under 16 development squad training session. However he was unable to attend having sustained a broken collar bone.

2005 - 06 Season

Under 7's
Harrogate Festival winners
The under 7's won their age group at the Harrogate Festival.
Harrogate played Ripon first and won, then Rishworthians played Ripon and won 8-5. In the final game Rishworthians beat Harrogate 8-5 to win the age group.
Click here for Photos and Match report

Under 15's
West Yorkshire District Players
The following players were selected to play for West Yorkshire against County Durham.
Edward Cockroft, Luke Brocklehurst, Gilbert Gregory, Alex Redfern, Christus Ferneyhough, Imad Nasir and Chris Dyson
The following players were selected to play for West Yorkshire against South Yorkshire and East Yorkshire.
Edward Cockroft, Luke Brocklehurst, Gilbert Gregory, Ben Porritt, Christus Ferneyhough and Chris Dyson.

Yorkshire County Players
The following players were selected for the full Yorkshire County side against Lancashire.
Edward Cockroft, Gilbert Gregory, Christus Ferneyhough and Andrew Curwell.

Christus Ferneyhough, Gilbert Gregory,                                       Christus Ferneyhough, Andrew Curwell, Gilbert Gregory, Edward Cockroft
Edward Cockroft