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Albion scored 4 unanswered tries in last 20 to win 38-26.

Good weekend for all Plymouth teams, hope they all can keep it together

Another 5 try 5pt haul for Albion.

Crap start to season with completely new squad means too far off pace to get promotion but looking goog for next season.

green_genie wrote:

Another 5 try 5pt haul for Albion.

Crap start to season with completely new squad means too far off pace to get promotion but looking goog for next season.

If Dawe can keep the core of that squad together for next season while adding a few i think promotion will be a strong possibility.

Albion won 30-15 against Esher

Plymouth Albion

In a tremendous reverse of the fixture at Brickfields, which Albion lost 38-12 to the Surrey side, Plymouth were able to secure a crucial victory. as they beat Esher 30-15.

Tgwu wrote:

Plymouth Albion

In a tremendous reverse of the fixture at Brickfields, which Albion lost 38-12 to the Surrey side, Plymouth were able to secure a crucial victory. as they beat Esher 30-15.

Anyone got a link to a current league table for Albion?

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this isnt up to date to include todays results but it will be very soon.

4th in the league. 10 points behind 3rd and 14 points behind 1st which carries the promotion spot.

still looking promising for next season if they can keep the forum up

Only one goes up? No playoffs?

Czarcasm wrote:

Only one goes up? No playoffs?

It's the private school thing, breeding far outweighs ability.

Plymouth Raiders 75 Leeds Force 62: Match stats

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SCORERS: Raiders: Corletto 21 points (8/20 field-goals), Vigor 13 (5/11), Williams 12 (4/, Wilcher 12 (4/, Dixon 11 (5/12), Costelloe 2 (1/2), Sturt 2..

Good away win for Albion today 22 -34

Surrey Scorchers 64 Plymouth Raiders 73

PLYMOUTH University Raiders put Friday's unfortunate defeat to BBL leaders Newcastle Eagles to one side as they triumphed against Surrey Scorchers on Sunday.

Despite trailing by seven points at half-time Corletto's men went into the fourth and final quarter seven points up after a strong third quarter, which ultimately won them the game.

Against Newcastle on Friday, Raiders were equal to their opponents until the final period and they proved against Surrey they were not going to make the same mistake twice in three days.

Albion win again today 28-7 against Henley Hawks. securing the bonus point too.

worth mentioning they played 60minutes with 14 men after Marc Koteczky was shown a red card

Good win, followed it on their twitter page,

Plymouth Raiders 100 Cheshire Phoenix 89

a good win, even with all the on going shenanigans

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Raiders Statement on Josh Wilcher

Dave Briggs wrote:

The Plymouth University Raiders are pleased to release a statement regarding the situation with Josh Wilcher.

Initial discussions with Josh Wilcher on a contract for next season were held several weeks ago, between Josh and Raiders Player Coach Daryl Corletto. At this time, Wilcher said he would be looking for a pay rise from this season’s salary.

Josh's total salary with the club is one of the highest salaries we have ever paid a player. If we are to strengthen next year and deepen our bench with a budget of around the same size, then we can’t afford to give the top paid players a salary increase. Unfortunately, Josh’s reaction to being told that in all likelihood there would be no salary increase, apart from a cost of living increase, was that he would start looking for another team for the rest of this season. This, despite being under contract for the remainder of the season with the Raiders.

Josh, as all players in the Raiders do, has a clause in his contract where if another team wants to sign him, that we agree to his release, if they pay a transfer fee. The transfer fee is peanuts, but it goes some way to compensate us for the loss of one of our players, and the massive investment Raiders have made in taking him from a lower division into the BBL Premier League. It’s exactly the same to the situation in football.

Josh’s behaviour around games since the initial salary discussion has been poor, often swearing at coaches for substituting him, and being generally disruptive on the team bench. Josh then asked to meet with Raiders Chief Executive Dave Briggs and Player Coach Daryl Corletto last Tuesday as he had an issue that he wanted to discuss. He has alleged that he was “abused” by a team follower sitting on the team bench, and requested that he be released from his contract. At no time has anyone from the Raiders organisation agreed to his release. Since that meeting, Josh has refused to attend training or games or any other team functions, including undertaking community coaching.

Josh now thinks that because he has asked to be released from his contract, and because he wants to be allowed to join another team in the BBL, that we should forget that we have a contract in place, and that in that contract is a clause stating the transfer fee is still in place. This situation is no different to one in football – a player falls out with a club, but the only way that he can leave the club is if someone pays a transfer fee. Why should that be any different in basketball, than it is in football? It’s the exact same situation.

We have written to Josh, explaining that if another BBL team, or indeed any other team in Europe really wants him, then we will gladly agree to his transfer once the fee has been paid. Are we prepared to negotiate on the sum of the transfer fee? Yes, we are, but we will not be held to ransom by a player that a) is refusing to attend training, games, coaching or team functions, and b) is currently under contract with the team. Have we done anything as a club to invalidate his contract? Absolutely not. Over the last week, Josh has made some very unreasonable demands of the club, and at this stage, we are not prepared to release him from his contract, although technically he is in serious breach of several clauses in his contract which will be discussed at next week’s management meeting.

what a little shit this Josh fella is. Two sides to everystory of course but this doesnt paint him in a good light if he reacts like that after being told he isnt getting a pay rise next season.

Washing the dirty laundry in public isn't going to help.

Plymouth University Raiders 82 77 Sheffield Sharks

big win that is.

good to see the people of darlington are putting that stupid stadium that bankrupted the football team to good use.

What a great run.

Is it to late for promotion? with Richmond beating Blackheath yesterday, have Albion enough games to catch them?

No, fraid not.