Rugby League

Yorkshire League Cup Semi Final

Saturday 25th May 2024

Kick Off 14.30 Actual 15.01

Doncaster Toll Bar 44 Ossett Trinity Tigers 12, attendance 136

@ Prospect Road

Toll Bar

DN5 0QP

No Admission or Programme.

With no unvisited football grounds within reach this afternoon, I had opted for a rugby league match and was parked up about fifteen minutes before the scheduled kick off. There was no rush though, as the Ossett team didn’t arrive until about ten minutes later, having been held up in traffic and the kick off had been put back half an hour. There is a car park here, if you wanted to risk getting blocked in, but no problem parking on the road outside. The clubhouse/changing room building are at the near goal end, with the pitch is through a gate, running lengthways away from here. Fully railed with one dugout on each side at the halfway line.

The match pitted top of the Premier Division versus 5th in Division 1, in what was the league’s cup competition and was the first game I’d seen in this league. It was no worse than lower level National Conference games I’ve seen and was competitive throughout, although the scoreline does look rather one sided, which suggests otherwise. Ossett led 0-6 and 6-12 in a very good first half, both times pegged back, before an unconverted try saw Doncaster go into the break with a narrow 16-12 lead. An early second half try put the result beyond doubt, as the higher level team ran in 28 unanswered points to take their place in the final with a resounding 44-12 win.