http://www.sportnetwork.net/rss.php Sportnetwork - all RSS feed en Copyright: (C) SportNetwork.net http://backend.userland.com/rss Dave Picken <dave@sportnetwork.net> Jon Steer <jon@sportnetwork.net> Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:20:50 +0100 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:20:50 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st209035.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st209035.htm In a three nation tournament there can be only one side that has two wins and today, in the third game the two undfeated sides meet in Muscat to dcide who the 'one' is.&nbsp; Both these international sides have beaten Canadaover the weekend and meet today to get the upper hand for the second part of the contest.&nbsp; Nepal have won the toss and will bat first Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:13:32 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/59/157486_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s745/st209033.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s745/st209033.htm Blues finally got their season started with a convincing win against Pirates. Nottingham have also won 1 and lost 3, but going to play them on a Friday night is never an easy task. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:11:03 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/745/185514_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s104/st209032.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s104/st209032.htm And so the Champions Cup 26-27 returns in yet another different format to the last, this time around with fixtures beginning in October. Not sure how to feel about this, it makes the whole competition very disjointed in my opinion and further disjoints the domestic league/s. Anyway, there seems to be a strong travelling contingent heading over to Galway to watch this one. I have never been to the Dexcom, so this will be another stadium ticked off the list (fun fact &ndash; it&rsquo;s also used as a greyhound racing stadium). Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:57 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s105/st209031.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s105/st209031.htm &ldquo;Bath Rugby a des comptes &agrave; r&eacute;gler en Europe.&rdquo; After the disappointment of last year&rsquo;s semi final defeat at the hands of eventual winners UBB, with all its attendant controversy, there is a definite sense of having a score to settle or at least having unfinished business in the Champions Cup. The road to closing out that unfinished business begins at the Rec on Saturday evening with the visit of Montpellier H&eacute;rault who convincingly defeated Ulster in the final in Bilbao to win the Challenge Cup last season. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:15:26 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s98/st209030.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s98/st209030.htm Well it was a lot better. Marcus Smith's two tries looked like they might make the difference until a 74th minute penalty try denied Quns their first victory of the new Prem season.&nbsp; Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:23:59 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s104/st209025.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s104/st209025.htm What a great day out at StoneX to make up for last weekend's shambolic display. Bristol are one of those teams who will either play like prime 1999 Australia or 2011&nbsp;New Zealand one week, the the following week like a pub team still drunk from their antics the night before. Luckily for us (the bears bogey team) they played like the latter and we could secure a 5 point win and reassurance that last weekend was a blip, not a deeper lying issue. Once I'd caught up with some mates, purchased my chicken george (mango rubicon this week, very tasty too)&nbsp;+ pint of guinness, I could sit down and contemplate the teams warming up on a chilly Saturday eve. For Bristol, it was a severely weakened team - no Benhard Janse V-R, no AJ McGinty amongst others whereas we hd gone through a big rotation compared to the side that started agsainst Sale a week ago. No Alfie Barbeary, no Hugh Tizard, no Nick Tompkins etc. They did both seem fired up though and ready to go out and give it their all. As always in our little corner of the west stand we cheered loud as the players ran out and Max celebrated his 100th appearance in red/black. I did notice A LOT of players who appeared either unavailable or injured. Theo Dan in a boot, ditto James Hadfield, Olly H with a sling the list goes on. We need to pay mind to our injury concerns as that's already 2/3 matchday 23 players gone less than a month into the season. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:02:11 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/104/185957_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s383/st209024.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s383/st209024.htm Lots of people say you can&rsquo;t judge a team until after 10 games. I&rsquo;m unconvinced by that but here&rsquo;s what I would say we have learnt so far. Everybody agrees that our football is better. Going to Prenton Park is no longer done out of a sense of loyalty, it&rsquo;s actually starting to be something I look forward to again. Been a few seasons since I felt that way. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:35:31 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/383/153430_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st209023.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st209023.htm The second of the 6 games in Oman to move sides closer to 2027 ODI WC qualification.&nbsp; The Canadians need to bounce back after losing to Oman on Friday and it will be interesting to see if Nepal are still the force they were this time last year in this kind of tournament.&nbsp; The crowds might be bigger as well though in Oman this is a working day but the Nepalese tend to turn up for their side's games.&nbsp; Canada have won the toss and will take the field first to test the Nepalese batting. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:56:43 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st209020.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st209020.htm Saturday at the Marina Bay Circuit would see the&nbsp;Atlassian Williams F1 Team have to contend with both the Sprint and Qualifying for the 2026 Singapore GP. The Sprint would see Carlos Sainz finish in 12th but for Alex Albon he would retire after suffering damage after being involved in a collision with another car. Then qualifying would be a far more positive session for the team with Carlos making it into Q2 and would finish in 14th. Alex would only manage 18th having to contend with a car that was not at its best after the crash in the Sprint. It was overall a far better result than what the team had achieved after Sprint Qualifying. Sunday's race will be a difficult one given the difficulties in passing but both Carlos and Alex will give it their best. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:10:29 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/107/187071_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s581/st209017.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s581/st209017.htm Cherry and White supporters now know they are in for the best season in years. Gloucs may have been beaten 38-31 by Tigers to inflict the first defeat of the season but the way our team played in the last few minutes promises so much. Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:35:09 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st209015.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st209015.htm In what could only be described as frustrating and disappointing the&nbsp;Atlassian Williams F1 Team would see both their drivers fail to make it past SQ1 in the Sprint Qualifying for the 2026 Singapore GP. Alex would finish in 19th and Carlos 22nd. Across the FP session prior to the qualifying session the team would have various issues to contend with which would add to their difficulties in Sprint Qualifying. But then reports would come from both Carlos and Alex about a loss of engine power during their runs in SQ1 which added on top of their own car issues made their final sprint qualfying runs that much more difficult. It was later confirmed that the FIA had disabled Overtake mode as a result of a Red Flag during SQ1 but had failed to turn it back on and only saw their mistake with a small amount of time remaining. This would impact both Williams cars.&nbsp;The FIA acknowledged that their mistake but they did not establish whether this mistake would have changed which drivers progressed to SQ2. Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:11:53 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/107/187054_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s637/st209013.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s637/st209013.htm Barnsley have signed Daniel Johnson on a free transfer until the end of the season. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:40:02 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/637/102654_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st209009.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st209009.htm The Associates are in that treadmill that they have to go through to actually qualify for World Cups that the Test sides don't seem to have to do.This time it is the ODI World Cup in Southern Africa in 2027.&nbsp; The League 2 sides are fighting through a number of tournaments to get for the final qualifying tournament in Namibia in Feb March next year.&nbsp; that means they play about 28 games against each other to get to the top of the League 2.&nbsp; Presently that means a tri tounament in Muscat between 3 major contenders in Canada, Nepal and Oman.&nbsp; Oman are presently 4th in the table (but with singnificant games in hand) while Canada are 6th and Nepal are trailing at 9th.&nbsp; They will play 6 games ("Home" and "Away") here to see if they can change the situationandmove closer to that final event and a berth in the real thing next year.&nbsp; Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:24:54 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s637/st209005.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s637/st209005.htm Barnsley will return to league action after a three-week international break when they travel to Edgeley Park to face Stockport County this weekend. Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:55:34 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/637/102654_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st209000.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st209000.htm In what is the third race of F1's triple header the&nbsp;Atlassian Williams F1 Team moves to the&nbsp;Marina Bay circuit for the 2026 Singapore GP. This race also marks the final Sprint event of the season so it will pose its own challenges with both Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon only having one practice session to continue their development work on the upgraded FW48 chassis. It is hoped that the nature of the Singapore circuit may suit the FW48 better than what we saw in the last race at Sepang. It is also hoped that both Carlos and Alex can have event free races given the frustrations they had in the last race with Carlos being spun by another car and for Alex a retirement with a gearbox failure. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:53:21 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/107/187047_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s637/st208996.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s637/st208996.htm Barnsley will return to competitive action for the first time in two weeks, when they travel to Fleetwood Town for an EFL Trophy fixture on Tuesday night. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:40:18 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/637/102654_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s378/st208994.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s378/st208994.htm ArtetaBall is, in many ways, Old Man Football reborn. A skeuomorph is a modern invention deliberately designed to resemble what came before it. Arteta's football reflects that idea perfectly. It combines elements of Giovanni Trapattoni's Juventus, Arrigo Sacchi's Milan, aspects of catenaccio and the libero role, and even traces of Dutch totaalvoetbal. What it lacks is the relentless intensity of J&uuml;rgen Klopp's gegenpressing. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:57:05 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/378/183598_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st208990.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st208990.htm The 2026 Bahrain GP was a race that would see the&nbsp;Atlassian Williams F1 Team come away with Carlos Sainz managing only 17th and Alex Albon would retire with a gearbox failure. It was a race that would see the team suffer quite a few issues which would impact their race. The race would be delayed after confusion during the first formation lap with a wet track and at the restart both Carlos and Alex would make the right tyre choice seeing them running inside the top ten. But as the race progressed the first of the issues would see Carlos spun round after being hit by another car. This saw him drop well down the order seeing any chance of a good result disappear. Add on to this there were issues with having to double stack during a pit stop, Alex have issues with his car including his brakes and then the gearbox failure. But the biggest issue still was the overall lack of performance from the upgraded FW48 that would hamper both drivers pace. Overall Sepang was a race that started well but faded away quickly for the&nbsp;Atlassian Williams F1 Team. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:44:02 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/107/187027_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st208983.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st208983.htm Qualifying for the 2026 Bahrain GP at the Sepang circuit would see the&nbsp;Atlassian Williams F1 Team come away with a very mixed set of results. After several practice sessions that saw both Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon well down the times qualifying was not looking very promising but in an encouraging result Carlos would make it into Q2 and was able to finish 13th. For Alex his session was very different with Alex only managing 20th and failed to get out of Q1. So a very mixed session for the team and drivers but from the perspective of Carlos a good session where he was able to get a good result from the FW48 given his limitations.&nbsp; Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:38:01 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/107/187015_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st208979.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st208979.htm The Friday practice sessions for thew 2026 Bahrain GP would prove to be very difficult for the&nbsp;Atlassian Williams F1 Team. Coming into the weekend with their newly upgraded FW48 it was still uncertain as to whether the Sepang track would suit the car. As the sessions progressed both Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon would struggle for pace finishing the day well down the times with Carlos 17th and Alex 20th. Hopefully the team will be able to find solutions going into qualifying and the race but it is going to be diffcult. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:41:46 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/107/186994_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s383/st208973.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s383/st208973.htm The second Saturday on the trot when you can watch Rovers on the box.&nbsp;&nbsp;This must be how it would feel if we ever made it to the Premier League. Yet the guilt, watching on TV instead of going, remains. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:16:24 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/383/153430_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st208931.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st208931.htm The last game of the season, the only thing in our hands is whether we win the gsame or not.&nbsp; The points combinations after that are wide and varied.&nbsp; Us Warks or Notts take yer pick.&nbsp; All we can do is wortk with what we have and see how the chips fall.&nbsp; Surrey have won the toss and TKC comes in for Jake Ball and other than that it is the Leeds line-up.&nbsp; Off we go on the rollercoaster of the CC1!! Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:28:20 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st208909.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st208909.htm And so we move into the end of the Championship.&nbsp; If we are to win this thing then this game will tell us what to do in the last home game next week.&nbsp; 3 games will effect the situation, we have control over only one as we meet Yorkshire at Headingley.&nbsp; Lewis Goldsworthy misses out to Archie Vaughan and Jake Ball is chosen instead of Josh Shaw.&nbsp; The rest of the side is the one that took Leicestershire down in 2 and a half days.&nbsp; Yorkshire won the toss and will take to the crease first. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:33:57 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st208892.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s59/st208892.htm The path to silverware comes like this.&nbsp; Beat Surrey today at the Oval.&nbsp; The beat Hampshire at Southamptonin the 'Eliminator' next Wednesday.&nbsp; Then beat Notts at the same place in the Final.&nbsp; Simples.&nbsp; The path starts today with a game in London.&nbsp; Win and we go on, lose and an excellent season ends at that point.&nbsp; Hope Springs eternal.&nbsp; Liv Barnes returns in stead of Jazz Westley today. Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:17:08 +0100 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st187310.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st187310.htm At last it begins - Go Europe Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:59:17 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/731/152645_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st184825.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st184825.htm The five-star La Manga Club has been named as the best golf resort in Spain for the third successive year. Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:35:34 +0000 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/731/149680_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st183127.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st183127.htm The European Ryder Cup Captain, from the 2016 contest onwards, will be decided by a select five-man panel; it has been announced today by Ryder Cup Europe. Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:57:48 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/731/143952_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st181820.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st181820.htm In 2013, Scotland, the Home of Golf is delighted to be welcoming The Open Championship back to Muirfield, East Lothian on 'Scotland's Golf Coast' and we're offering you the chance to win a once in a lifetime experience! Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:48:39 +0100 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/731/146153_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st180967.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st180967.htm The 2013 European Tour Kicks Off with the Omega Dubai Desert Classic at Emirates Golf Club in United Arab Emirates Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:37:29 +0000 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/731/145470_209_185 http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st180074.htm http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s731/st180074.htm A recent interview with Roger Duthie Head of sponsorship for Emirates Airlines.&nbsp; Emirates is the world's second most profitable and among the 20 largest international airlines. It is based in Dubai. Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:42:47 +0000 http://imagescdn.sportnetwork.net/images/731/143963_209_185