Nice to see us play rugby where we string more than two passes together.  Playing on a dry track on a proper sized field seems to suit us far more than playing on a postage stamp sized mud heap against a team prepared to slow down the ruck and rile up our dafter players.  Can I swap my season ticket for one that just covers away games?


For once we didn't miss Scurr.  Fev lacked any punch up the middle so we controlled things there and there was no niggle so we didn't get sucked into the usual rubbish.  The ref was decent - he'll be in SL before long - (miles better than Mikolauskas). As said above we could've had more with a bit of composure.  Pele and Michael should have held on after making breaks instead of throwing the ball away.    Fev's right edge defence was woeful and Gill and Armitage had a field day.    Thought Meadows had a great game for us apart from the sin bin - not sure what he was complaining about after his kick ended up as a Fev try.  Lilley diving out of dummy half was impressive.    Okunbor defended well on our right side.    Fev got a few tries but at least one was a bit fortuitous with the bounce of the ball but both teams had that.  


Overall much better.  We just need to use this as a benchmark and work out how to be effective at Odsal.  

Forum is very hard to use after revamp.

Yeah I'm not a fan of micks commentary. I think he forgets that those listening on the radio can't see whats going on. He's usually rambling on about something that happened in 1994, before deciding to tell the person listening thay we're 5 tackles in the set and made 40 metres. 


Or let's say we've gone for a try, knocked on and the opposition have a 20 metres restart, instead of quickly explaining whats happened we get "gillls gone for the trrrryyyyyyy (crowd groans so we know it's probably not a try) . He's over the linnnnnnneeee. Has he got the ball dooooowwnnnnn. The referee has a loooookkkk. Ooooohhhh. He's saying he's knocked on. 


By the time he's told us whats happening the opposition are nearly at the end of their set. 

Bullmania posted this morning apparently.  Can't see it.  Have tried emailing Paul Coward (Southstander.com) to see what's going on with this site as they'll lose what few users they have if this keeps up.  If anyone manages to read this I'll try and provide an update if I hear anything.

Mick's commentary is enthusiastic and he clearly cares about the club. But yes that thing he does when we haven't scored i.e. '" can he get the ball down?......"long pause, "no" does tend to wind me up a bit.... But it's all the more reason for me to get down to the match in person. Re the forum, I'm glad its not just me with issues. It's just gone really clunky, hopefully just teething problems.

Yesterday I couldn’t see any posts, but today I can. Whether that stays as it is, I’ll keep my fingers crossed