SAD AND USELESS FACTS

SHEFFIELD EAGLES RESULTS AGAINST DONCASTER SINCE FOUNDATION 1984

Summary : Played 27 Eagles Won 12 Lost 15 For 543 Against 573

Eagles have not won at Doncaster since14 April 1995

Since Eagles reformed in December 1999 Eagles and Doncaster have played 6 cup matches and Doncaster have won all 6.

On this day...... 18th February

SHEFFIELD EAGLES have the following record

18-Feb-90 D1 Away Lost 2 - 44 v LEEDS

18-Feb-96 CC(5) Away Lost 20 - 24 HALIFAX

18-Feb-01 NFP Away Lost 12 - 15 WORKINGTON

All Eagles matches "on this day" have been away.

1990 the match against Leeds generated 10,023 spectators

1996 -Super League 1:- 5511 spectators - Eagles finished 7th(Halifax 6th!)

2001 the crowd at Workington was 990 !

There are only 9 of the team who played against Doncaster, at Doncaster, last year, still with the Eagles. North, Brown C, Mills, Turnbull, Breakingbury, de Chenu, Howieson, Hurst and Tillyer. There were 18 penalties awarded by Ref Steve Nicholson. 10 to Eagles 8 to Dragons.

MILESTONES Last week at Don Valley in Rnd 1 of the NRC against Dewsbury Adrian Veamatahau scored a try on his home Eagles debut. John Crawford scored a try, a goal and a penalty goal on his home Eagles debut.

BATLEY BULLDOGS v SHEFFIELD EAGLES - 27th February 2005

MILESTONES: Adrian Veamatahau scored a try against Doncaster on 19th February so along with Gav Brown has scored in each match this season.!

On 27-Feb-91 in D1 playing at Bradford, Eagles beat �Northern� 10 points to 6

On 27-Feb-92 in D2 playing at DVS, Eagles beat LONDON CRUSADERS 36 - 12.

On 27-Feb-00 now in the NFP on a very wet and windy day at what is now called the Halton Stadium (Autoquest Stadium) Eagles lost a titanic battle to Widnes 3 points to nil. A rare game with no tries.

Sheffield Eagles and Batley have met 22 times since Eagles were born in 1984. Batley have won 9 and Sheffield have won 13. & of these, 7 wins have been at Batley. Since Sheffield were re-formed in November 1999, Batley and Sheffield have met 9 times, with Sheffield winning 5 of these matches.
Eagles biggest defeat at the hands of Batley was on 16th March 2003 in the Arriva Trains Cup. The result was 62 - 12 to Batley and Guy Adams was rushed to hospital with a broken arm shortly after the start of the match. Average score over these 9 games is Sheffield 19 Batley 22

The last time these two sides met was back in 2003 when Eagles had just lost in the NL2 Grand Final to Keighley,, and it was billed as the NL 1 Qualifying Final and in the words of Mark Aston, "It was a game too far" Score Batley 36 Eagles 14
Members of that team still with Eagles are : Morton, Brown C, Brown G, Howieson, Hurst, Tillyer, Turnbull. Hurst scored one Eagles try and Gavin Brown converted it. [Adam Carroll and Jordan James scored Eagles other tries.}
Eagles and Bulldogs have not met in League Competition since 2002 Season when Eagles were victorious in both matches.
Gavin Brown played his 130th game for Eagles against Doncaster Dragons last week. And only needs 20 points to reach 800 for the club
Jack Howieson returns today for his 89th "cap", along with Simon Tillyer for his 79th and Nick Turnbull his 59th.
Adrian Veamatahua (AJ) has scored a try in each match this season.

11 players have started both NRC games, 14 players have played in both, 3 have started just one, 1 has started both games on the subs bench and only one has started in the1st 13 and on the subs bench.

SHEFFIELD EAGLES v BATLEY BULLDOGS - 4th March 2005

On the 16th January 2000 Batley were the first team to play the reformed Eagles at Don Valley.
The Eagles Supporters walked from Sheffield Town Hall to The Don Valley Stadium carrying the match ball and presented the ball to Mark Aston pitchside prior to the kick--off. [See photo above]
Gavin Brown experienced the first of his injuries in this match, managing to sustain a broken jaw and was out of action for 6 weeks. Gavin is the only player still at Eagles who played in that match, although Mark (Aston) is still around, as is Chris Robinson (now on the coaching staff).
Scorers in this match were Micky Johnson, Steve Walker, and 2 goals by Chris Robinson.

Note:Although Richard Goddard is still associated with The Eagles he did not play his 1st Eagles game until the following week (25th January) so in total 4 of the 1999-2000 squad still at Eagles, but only 3 of the "originals"

On this day.......4th March

Eagles have played two games previously and won them both and they were both "at home".!
4th March 1990 Div 1 Home(played at Doncaster) Won 46 points to 4 v Leigh
4th March 2001 NFP Home (DVS) Won 40 points to 16 v Barrow Raiders

Tonight�s match will be the 80th for Simon Tillyer, 60th for Nick Turnbull, and if he is fit 90th for Captain Jack Howieson. Has he had the curse of captaincy thrust upon him? All players made captain have suffered serious injuries........ Gavin Brown, Jon Bruce, Richard Goddard, Guy Adams and now Jack.

Against Batley on Sunday 27th February, Jaymes Chapman and Peter Moore made their debuts. Craig Brown is only 7 games away from joining Eagles illustrious 100 club. He has played in 93 games so far scoring 19 tries and 1 goal.

MITCHELL STRINGER rejoined the Eagles on Thursday 3rd March.
He scored his first try for the 1st team on 16th March 2003 against Batley Bulldogs
He made his 1st team debut as a sub against Hunslet on 7th July 2002
He made his 1st team debut (in the starting 13) against Swinton Lions wearing number 10 on 25th August 2002 and scored 2 goals.

He scored his first "HOME" try against Featherstone Rovers on 21st March 2003

Powergen Challenge Cup - Rnd 3 - CLICK HERE FOR EAGLES CC RECORD
WATERHEAD ARLFC v SHEFFIELD EAGLES
13th March 2005

Home Draw in first 5 rounds - Won 9 Lost 11: Biggest defeat v Hull FC in 2003 : 88 - 0 at the KC Stadium
Biggest win - 84 - 6 v Egremont Rangers @ DVS on 1st March 1998
Away draw in first 5 rounds - Won 11 Lost 8 : Biggest loss - 11 - 62 v Warrington on 9th Feb 1986
Biggest win 66 - 11 v Leigh @ Hilton Park on 15th Feb 1998.

41 matches played in the Challenge Cup (Points For = 943 Points Against 816) and 11 have been against teams beginning with W !
Wakefield : Played 3 Lost 2 Won 1; Warrington: Played 3 Lost 3 ; Widnes : Played 3 Lost 3 ; Wigan : Played 1 Won 1; Whitehaven : Played 1 Won 1.: - 6 matches played against Amateur Teams [East Leeds, Egremont Rangers, Leigh East , Leigh Miners Rangers, Oulton Raiders, Thornhill Trojans] : Won 5
On this day : 13th March have played only once before. Way back in 1988 v Featherstone. Score Featherstone 40 Sheffield 10

This will be the 171st match since the reforming of The Eagles (including 5 preseason matches). The results so far are:
P (inc Friendlies) 170 WON 83 DR 1 LOST 86 FOR 4024 AG 3729 Pts Diff +295
Today the match v Waterhead ARLFC will be the 42nd Challenge Cup match for the Sheffield Eagles to take part in.
Out of 682 1st team matches played in so far the results stand as follows:
PLAYED 682 WON 322 DRAWN 14 LOST346 FOR 14608 AG 14705 DIFFERENCE -97

LHF HEALTHPLAN NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION 2 RND 1
LONDON SKOLARS v SHEFFIELD EAGLES
New River Stadium, White Hart Lane, London

MILESTONES��

�	Adrian Veamatahau scored a try on his home Eagles debut against Dewsbury on 11/02/05

�	John Crawford scored a try, a goal and a penalty on his home Eagles debut v Dewsbury

�	Damian Lynch made his Club CC debut against Waterhead ARLFC on 13th March 2005

�	Gavin Brown only needs 4 points for 800 Eagles points [ 30 tries 331 goals 14 dg�.so far]

�	Joseph Pitt made his club debut against Dewsbury on 20th March 2005 and scored on his "home" debut on 25th March 2005 against Doncaster.

�	Craig Brown has made 95 club appearances.

�	John Crawford is averaging 100% in kicking in NRC matches

�	Gareth Stanley's debut was against Featherstone in the ATC on 19 Jan 2003. He scored 1 try on 22nd June 2003 in the 33 - 6 win against Keighley. In 2004 he made 13 consecutive appearances. The last one was on 2/05/04 against York CK.

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Lynton Stott is 8th= top try scorer with 54. 13th in Eagles 100 Club and 11th highest points scorer and first signed on 19:12:1992 from Woolston ARLFC. He scored his one and only hat trick for Eagles against Paris SG on 15th June 1996 (SLI) in the 52 - 18 victory at Don Valley Stadium. He has scored 114 tries in his pro-career, and 818 points in 290 games. And click here for his stats

�	Simon Tillyer captain v Doncaster (25/03/05). [G Brown & J Howieson - club captains were not playing}

In 2004 Sheffield played Skolars on 4 occasions and the scorers for each were:
MILLS(2t), TURNBULL(2t), BREAKINGBURY(t), de CHENU(3t), ASTON(g), ATC, 22-Feb-04 @ DVS
GODDARD(3g), BROWN G , REILLY(2t), ATC, 14-Mar-04 @ NRS
POYNTER(2t), TURNBULL(t), BREAKINGBURY(t), GODDARD(4g), LHF-NL2, 09-Apr-04 @ NRS
POYNTER(2t), COLLINS K (t), BREAKINGBURY(2t), de CHENU(t), DOHERTY(2t), BROWN G (g), JAMES J (2t), LHF-NL2, 12-Sep-04 @ DVS

Team members from the last visit to London who are still with Eagles are:
de CHENU, TURNBULL, BREAKINGBURY, MILLS, BROWN G, HOWIESON, STANLEY, BROWN C.

FULHAM were the first team to defeat Sheffield Eagles. Eagles had played their 1st ever game on 2nd September 1984 (apart from a friendly), against Rochdale Hornets, and won. Fulham came to Owlerton the following week and spoilt the party by beating Sheffield 14 points to 18.

Almost 20 years ago, 21st April 1985, Fulham beat Sheffield at Craven Park, 40 - 30.

On this day��. 28th March

Sheffield Eagles have played four times previously
28-Mar-93 - D1 - Home - W - 26 -- 19 Crowd=3245 against WAKEFIELD TRINITY
28-Mar-97 - SL II - Home - W - 32 -- 18 Crowd=4112 against WARRINGTON WOLVES
28-Mar-98 - CC(SF) @ Headingly - WON - 22 -- 18 Crowd=6961 against SALFORD REDS
28-Mar-04 - ATC - Away - W - 28 -- 22 in front of 499 @ DEWSBURY

Powergen Challenge Cup - Rnd 4 - CLICK HERE FOR EAGLES CC RECORD
BARROW RAIDERS v SHEFFIELD EAGLES - 3RD APRIL 2005 - Craven Park, Barrow
On this day................ 3rd April

Sheffield Eagles have never played before:

They have played on the 2nd and 4th April 6 times, winning 4 times:

02-Apr-89 - D2 - Home - Won - 26:8 v CHORLEY BOROUGH
04-Apr-93 - D1 - Away - Lost - 8:50 v. BRADFORD NORTHERN
04-Apr-94 - D1 - Away - Won - 30 : 23 v HULL KR
02-Apr-95 - SBC - Home - Won - 29 : 16 v SALFORD
02-Apr-99 - SL IV - Home - Won - 32 : 28 v HUDDERSFIELD
02-Apr-00 - NFP - Home - Lost - 62: 8 v OLDHAM

Milestones��..

�	Gavin Brown has become only the second person to ever score more than 800 points for the Eagles. He calmly popped over 8 more goals at London to take his points tally to 812, made up of . 30 tries 339 goals and 14 drop goals.

�	Craig Brown has made 96 club appearances.

�	Gareth Stanley's 2nd debut was against Doncaster Dragons at Clifton Lane, Rotherham on 25th March 2005

�	Lynton Stott's 2nd debut was against London Skolars on 28th March 2005

�	Clifton Lane, Rotherham has become the 14th ground used by Sheffield to play a t least one home game on.

LHF HEALTHPLAN NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION 2 RND 2
SHEFFIELD EAGLES v BLACKPOOL PANTHERS - 8th April 2005 - DVS KO 8PM

BLACKPOOL PANTHERS
The team which is either a phoenix or a chameleon!
The current Blackpool team started life in the 1989-90 season as Chorley. It became Chorley Borough in the 1991-92 season.(Not to be confused with the Chorley Borough who succeeded Springfield Borough and Blackpool Borough) Chorley were demoted to the National conference League for the 1993-94 season and regained their status in 1995-96 when they became Chorley Chieftains. In 1996 they dropped the name Chieftains and became Lancashire Lynx at the start of 1997 after a short non playing spell as Central Lancashire. At the end of the 1999-2000 season they changed again from Lancahire Lynx to Chorley Lynx until the end of the 2004 season when they left Victory Park again and set up shop in Blackpool for the 2005 season as Blackpool Panthers.

On this day��8th April

08-Apr-90 - D1 - Lost - 26 : 42 at ST.HELENS
08-Apr-96 - SL I - Won - 54 : 22 at WORKINGTON
Milestones��..

�	Gavin Brown has now taken his points tally to 816, made up of 30 tries 341 goals and 14 drop goals.

�	Gavin needs 3 points to reach 50 for this season.

�	If Jack Howieson plays tonight it will be his 90th game for the Eagles

�	Lynton Stott's next start will be his 140th for the Eagles

�	Nick Turnbull only needs 4 points to reach 100 for the Eagles

�	Aled James needs 4 points for 50 for the Eagles