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GKIPA Championship wrap, week 23

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Richard Grainger

Ealing, the division’s whipping boys for so long this season, finally crashed out of the GKIPA Championship despite a valiant fightback that took them to within an inch of survival. Trailfinders take the road back to League 1 Ealing 29, … Continue reading →

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Greene King IPA Championship wrap, week 22

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Richard Grainger

There’s an old saying that there are two certainties in life: death and taxes, but now there appears to be a third: that Bristol will implode, come the final quarter of a game they’ve totally dominated. Bristol brilliance marred by … Continue reading →

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GREENE KING IPA CHAMPIONSHIP WRAP, week 21

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Richard Grainger

With comfortable wins for the top four clubs cementing their play-off slots, attention turns to the titanic struggle for survival at the foot of the Greene King IPA Championship table. Ealing earn chance of reprieve Ealing Trailfinders 37, Nottingham 35 … Continue reading →

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GKIPA Championship wrap, week 20

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Richard Grainger

With three rounds remaining in Stage 1 of the Greene King IPA Championship, Bristol and London Welsh have already booked their place in the play-offs. Welsh win battle of Exiles London Scottish 21, London Welsh 32 To the men in … Continue reading →

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GKIPA Championship Wrap week 18

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Richard Grainger

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With five rounds left in stage one of the Greene King IPA Championship, this weekend the top four sides virtually rubber-stamped their tickets to the play-offs, scoring 22 tries between them. Long away-day leaves Leeds with lower energy levels Jersey … Continue reading →

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GKIPA Championship Wrap, week 17

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Richard Grainger

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Action from round 17 of the GKIPA Championship leaves the play-off slots looking likely to be berthed by the clubs currently occupying the top four positions. Bristol back on top Rotherham Titans 26, Bristol 34 Having dispatched Plymouth 43-12 in … Continue reading →

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Greene King IPA Championship Wrap, week 16

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Richard Grainger

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Only three matches in the Greene King IPA Championship went ahead this weekend, as Rugby became another casualty of waterlogged Britain. But despite the atrocious weather, if the route to one of the venues deemed playable wasn’t flooded, a feast … Continue reading →

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GKIPA Championship Wrap, week 15

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Richard Grainger

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Two points separate the top four sides with eight rounds remaining in the first stage of the Greene King IPA Championship. And with London Scottish trailing the pack by just five points, it looks like a five horse race for … Continue reading →

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GKIPA Championship Wrap, round 14

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Richard Grainger

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It’s all change at the top and tight at the bottom of the GKIPA Championship with London Welsh slipping to a third defeat and bottom placed Ealing closing the gap with Jersey to two points. Plymouth punish erratic Exiles Plymouth … Continue reading →

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GKIPA Championship Wrap, round 13

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Richard Grainger

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At the risk of reading like the front page of the Express, the weather was the pivotal story in the GKIPA Championship this weekend. Yet despite apocryphal conditions that in some cases delayed the start or resumption of play, and … Continue reading →

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