Rugby League

National Conference League

Premier Division

Friday 14th June 2024

Kick Off 19.30 Actual 19.34

York Acorn 24 West Bowling 18, attendance 186

@ ARL Sports & Social Club

Thanet Road

Foxwood

York

YO24 2NW

£3 Admission

No Programme.

When I left home at 11 o’clock this morning, I wasn’t expecting it to be seven hours later when I arrived in York, following yet another horrendous journey north, via M25, M11 and A1, which was going okay until just south of Newark, where it was total gridlock due to the police having closed the A1 in both directions, following an ‘incident’, causing absolute chaos. Still plenty of time to check in at my overnight hotel, before heading back out to the south west of the city, where 5th were hosting 11th (out of 12) in the league table.

I expected a home win, but thought it may have been by a far higher margin, based on the league positions coming into this. It only took Acorn three minutes to score their first try and by halftime they’d increased their lead to 18-0, which could have been more had they not missed two of the conversions. Thankfully, West Bowling got the first try of the second half, which was what the game needed, at least from a neutral point of view. Acorn scored a penalty to increase their lead to 20-6, with West Bowling quickly back in it when they made it 20-12 within minutes, but late on Acorn added another try to make it 24-12 and the game looked safe. A minute from time West Bowling converted another try to pull it back to 24-18 and set up an exciting finish, but they only managed a couple of sets into their final attack before the final whistle went.

Home to York Acorn is the ARL Sports & Social Club.There are three pitches here, with the main one being to the left when looking from the clubhouse/car park. It is railed off and has a dugout on opposite sides of the pitch to each other, with raised grass banking running along one side.