Hopefully we will take a few hundred there even with our current form.
the team should have had a good rest and hopefully learnt the basics in training this week.

i know that myself and my mate will be travelling up from london on monday hoping for a win.
if not another huge waist of money but as most of you will still support them through these patchy days.
we are not as bad as when we played under ian lucas.

I,m going in the car taking my daughter & her mate always a pleasure
to go to Batley great club and friendly fans

We should win at Batley - they are in an awful run at the moment. Yet, if we ever had a jinx team, Batley are it!

yes batley are crap but they showed us a thing or two at LSV.

I agree lovely little rubbish stadium if that makes sense.

good opportunity to get some confidence in a very fragile team.

Wouldn't normally bother - especially on a BH, but there is something about the Batley club and its it's ground (inc. the slope) that I really like. If I wanted any other club than ours to succeed at this level it would be them - don't know why.

And whats the odds despite there current state they give us a good snotting

four of us having a nice weekend there, going on sunday, booked an hotel, game on monday, lots and lots of beer to be drunk

A holiday in Batley






that must be a first

Hull KR 0 Leigh 24

I'm going



Great club - probably spent more improving their ground than many SL clubs and where else would you see a Chairman manning the outside beer pumps to satisfy us Leythers

hull kr 0 leyth 24

now that was a game with all our fans.

another great away game was the lancashire cup v salford away.we lost but mickey round went the full length of the field to a raptuous leigh sound.the one and only time ive seen the away end at the willows totally packed with leythers.

then theres warrington away in the challenge cup,once again we got beat but over 4000 leythers packed into away end at wilderspool.

GREAT DAYS WHERE AVE THEY GONE

I couldn't agree more. It's an away fixture I always enjoy going to. Along with the other posters on here, there are 7 of us lot going so hopefully it will be a good day. I think we will win too.

Have to miss this year , will be at the willows watching the ' battle of Leyth ' give my regards to Kevin [ chairman at the bar

A few years ago I drove over to Batley a day or two before a match to pick up some tickets for a hospitality meal for the match against my club.When we arrived around 1-00pm a wonderful elderly gent sorted us out with our tickets and told us which gate to come in at on the Sunday.He chated for a while then looked at his watch and said "well must be off" So I said oh do you only work part time ? He looked a bit taken back then said ,well I do come in at 6-00am but as I retired 4yrs since my wife likes a bit of company in the afternoon, he looked after the office on his own too.
I felt ashamed of myself as my own club had always been in Super League till we at that time had recently been demoted but continued to retain several paid office staff and I presumed everyone else did.On visiting the ground there were more volunteer stalwarts selling raffle tickets serving tea and home made buns in the hopitality all elderly people that had given their life to the club.I felt very humble and that club epitimises to me what the "family of rugby league" is about. I too will always have a soft spot for it except when they are playing us.They will never get into Super League they are probably content to just enjoy what they have but you get a wonderful sense of the `50s about the place which is the time I first started to watch my own club and nostalgia is very powerful thing.

Lynda

looking froward to it, may well be going to leeds for a night out with my mate on the sunday, then making my way to the excellent pub outside batley train station to meet my dad for some more lovely beer on the monday. do i think we'll win, well i really thought we'd beat rovers, got that one wrong, but yes i do reckon we'll win, and wait for this, i think we'll take widnes at our place, now hows that for comfidence, or downright stupidity, you decide.

I will be there although I shall drop in first for half of bitter at the excellent real ale bar at Dewsbury station.

kevin is a legend!!




if only there were more like him in the game

Best away trip of the season, I'll be there. For reasons unbeknown to man, I've volunteered to drive....this might get [ivery[/i painful (and that's just trying to find the ground!)icon_surprised.gifops:

Stop off at Dewsbury railway station Matt I,ll buy you half a shandy then you can follow me

What time you getting to dewsbury frank, may well join you for a beer instead of going to the pub in batley, if that's ok sir.

We have to win!!! end of!!

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yes I will be in attendance on monday along with my son-in-law, my mate, one of the grandkids and his mate, as said before always a pleasure to go there a lovely little seating area at the bar a lot cheaper than you know where and as the grandson says best chips in the championship. looking forward to it

come in from dewsbury , off at j28, its a lot easier