Old Salts 3-20 Moseley Oak (Mids 2 WN Champions)

[Communications Team]

Midlands 2 West (North) – Saturday 2nd April
Old Salts v Moseley Oak, 3pm kick off at Watton Lane


Directions: www.oldsaltleians.com/contact/   
Watton Lane, Water Orton, Birmingham B46 1PH

A big game for Oak tomorrow and support will be very welcome.

Going into the game Oak require a single point to be confirmed as League Winners and earn promotion to Midlands 1 West.
Whilst Salts cannot now catch Oak they have plenty of incentive since the runners up earn a play-off against the runners up in Midlands 2 West (South) for promotion.


1. Moseley Oak P 18 – 87 points
2. Camp Hill P19-72 pts
3. Old Salts 19-70
4. Wolverhampton 19-68

It is also Old Salts’ President’s Day so there will be a large and vociferous crowd getting behind the home team. If you can make it tomorrow the team would welcome some noisy away support!

The Clubhouse opens at 12:30 with the kick off at 15:00.

Remaining Moseley Oak Fixtures

02.04.2016 Old Saltleians Away 3pm kick off
09.04.2016 Old Yardleians Home 3pm
13.04.2016 Stourbridge Lions Away 7:45pm
16.04.2016 Shrewsbury Away 3pm

[Phil]

Oak won 20-3 and are promoted

[observer]

Old Salts 3-20 Moseley Oak

[martinwatson aka Camera Shake]

A few minutes from the game....

[Communications Team]

Midlands 2 West (North)

Moseley Oak confirmed as league winners and will play in Midlands 1 (West) in 2016-17 season.

Results 2/4/16

Harborne 38-28 Shrewsbury

Old Saltleians 3-20 Moseley Oak

Old Yardleians 30-10 Kidderminster

Stafford 36-13 Handsworth

Stourbridge Lions 8-48 Camp Hill

Veseyans 7-50 Wolverhampton


Table 3/4/16



1. Moseley Oak P19 W19 D0 L0 For 825 Ag 186 Tbonus 15 Points 91

2. Camp Hill P20 W15 L5 Pts 77

3. Wolverhampton P20 W14 L6 Pts 73

4. Old Saltleians P20 W15 L5 Pts 70

5. Kidderminster P 20 W10 D1 L9 Pts 54


Winners (Oak) promoted to level 6 (Midlands 1).
Runner up in play off with runner up in Midlands 2 West (South) for promotion to Midlands 1 West.

[Communications Team]

Moseley Oak will play in Midlands 1 (West) in the 2016-17 season.

This league of 14 clubs sees the winner promoted to National League 3 (Midlands). The runner up enters a play off with Midlands 1 East runners up for a second promotion spot. This season Bridgnorth look favourites for the automatic promotion as do Bournville for the play off spot.

3 clubs are relegated each season and Moseley Oak will be exchanging places with Silhillians, Leek and Walsall.

The core of Midlands One next season will be

Stratford-upon-Avon (unless they can chase down the promotion play-off spot),
Hereford,
Whitchurch,
Burton,
Worcester Wanderers,
Stoke-on-Trent,
Dudley Kingswinford,
Kenilworth
Crewe & Nantwich.

They will be joined by

Sutton Coldfield  (down from National League 3 Midlands)
Newport (Salop) (down from National League 3 Midlands)
Banbury (up from Midlands 2 West South).
Moseley Oak (up from Midlands 2 West North)

Oak will also be joined by the winners of Earlsdon (runners up Midlands 2 WS) v Camp Hill/O Salts/Wolverhampton.

As always, there may be level transfers of some clubs to balance numbers.
For instance (depending on promotions/relegations elsewhere) Sutton may find themselves in Midlands 1 East.

All the above are subject to confirmation by the RFU/NMRFU.

[wes]

Congratulations to all the squad at Moseley Oak 19 wins out of 19, league winners secured, promotion secured 3 games to go and targets still to be achieved. We have use something like 28 players this season and everyone has played their part in this achievement so well done.

A massive thank you to all the supporters who attended yesterday and gave the team a fantastic round of applause after the final whistle, 2 objectives achieved 2 more to go, win our remaining games and hit the 100 points mark,

[jackr]

Report from Oak website

Old Saltleians 3 Moseley Oak 20

Moseley Oak won their 19th match in succession to confirm their position as champions of Midlands 2 West (North).

In a very competitive match at Old Saltleians Moseley emerged winners scoring 3 tries in the process.

Early Moseley pressure was quickly turned around and after some errors and the concession of penalties the hosts went ahead with a penalty.

Moseley continued to attack and despite resolute Salts tackling forced 2 penalties. A strong run from Paul Cox was held up and with quick ball Neil Mason crashed over. James Hussey converted.

Saltleians ran the ball with conviction however a mistake led to a Moseley counter attack and after the ball was held in the ruck James Hussey converted the penalty.

The second half was strongly contested and from a strong drive from replacement prop James Burgoyne good hands saw Will Crane touch down.

Seven minutes later good ball retention saw the midfield put Jack Richards into space and he scored to the left of the posts.

Five minutes to go and sound defence saw the game out.

A fine result from a fine and well coached team.

Special thanks to Head Coach John White, Player-Coaches Neil Mason, Ollie Thomas and Paul Cox, and Jack Richards & Ben Gerry who played all 19 games.

3 games to go and an unbeaten goal to be achieved. We wish them well-they have done the club proud.