Great result today, well done lads

Charlie thought it was a good win today , without being Spectacular ,still 3 goods points ,PR said after the game he felt Havens tactics were to slow the game down , I have special praise for todays MOM Steve Maden , ive been a critic of his recently but today he made very good yards and scored 2 good tries , well played Steve

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Charlie was proud of Charlie Jnr and his Girlfriend Sarah , whose company ISC Joinery sponsored the Match Ball ,thank you for the Day out

, both myself and Steve had a very good day , thanks to Alan +Mrs Platt ,and Andy Mazey , and Rob Parker for making the day very good

it is an experience well worth the money , and I can fully recommend the experience .

Comfortably moved through the gears second half and definitely hasn't done any harm to our points difference. Played some cracking stuff at times with some top drawer finishing from Maden.

What was the crowd today, haven't seen it mentioned yet.

I had a couple too many pops last nigth and didnt get out of bed until 5.

1523 I think

1,500ish, not great at all. You were in a fine mess when we saw you up Leigh last night!

About 1500.

Remember that match well -damp and foggy winter evening under the floodlights (day before my birthday!!)....and I seem to remember we put a decent Rochdale side to the sword - 49-0 - in our next match!!....and wasn't the Salford cup win around that time as well??
Think we only lost twice in the league campaign that year - a brutal war of attrition away against a 'Singe' coached Donny (which ended our unbeaten start to the season), and a reversal (30odd-4) at Spotland.....but we'd already pi[iss[/ied the Minor premiership by then!!



That was a helluva team we had in 2001!!

.....pity it all fell apart in the play-offs!!

Take my word for it, I got worse haha.

Payday weekend + Start of the football season proper = A horrible hungover nightshift.

I actually found it a poor on the eye game for 50 or so minutes as it seemed very stop start with technical penalties.
Maybe being unfair on Haven but as a spectacle it needed a lift.
Felt Penky gave it a lift and Aspinwalls arrival along with a few positional moves gave us the options that ensured from that we played some good RL.
In fairness I think our first 50 mins of toil probably took a lot out of Haven as I never felt we would lose this game and in the end we ran out comfortable winners.
Brierley with ice pack on at the end wasn't a good sign and he seemed a bit quieter than usual today although in fairness I think that was Haven doing a good job on him - still didn't stop him getting very much involved later on in a cracking team try.

A strange day all round as the atmosphere in the ground was flat and even the announcer sounded like he was fed up to be at the place (for me we really need to get the answers to how to improve the whole match day experience if we want to get people in , I know its probably known by the BOM/D that we need to improve and we are really trying but we are a fair way off being the 'place to be' at 3pm on a Sunday so lots of work I'm sure will be done in the off season to get this better).
In fairness to our club I'm hoping the RFL's restructuring will ignite interest as games with little at stake will hopefully then become the minority.

Having said all that it was good to see some good RL played in the final stages and the determination of the lads to keep going and add points on was a credit to them and the coaching team.

Tough midweek fixture to Batley next up but we are now back on winning ways.
Lets hope Sheffield have given us our last defeat of the 2013 season and we now go on a winning run right to the end of the season.

I'm sure Joe Wood who was called upon at the last minute to take the PA microphone due to Clive having to have a throat operation, will be interested in your critic of his performance.

Note to BOM without wishing to insult the pre-match and HT entertainment, we look a tad on the amateurish side. We had a cracking dance troop at HP about 8 or 9 years ago which included a local Billy Elliot.

It were that long ago Bartie he#s probably playing prop for East or Miners these days

Probably is a very fleet footed prop, but they were very good and entertaining.

when was the last time all our backs scored the tries,and every back scoring (i think)wasnt there as we are in devon but we kept a track off the game.well done lads and the big part of the season just around the corner.just need to keep them fit now and if the dewsbury game as no reel posistional meaning at the end maybe rest a few.

Whilst the attendance might not be as good as we would like, looking up at the corporate boxes at the end of the match, the uptake looked as good as I have seen for a while.

So good progress being made there as we need to have a strong corporate side to offset the low attendances at the moment.

youm are right Michael all our back line scored on Sunday, a great feat of team work methinks.

I thought AJ s tackling was very very good and we will benefit from that come the playoffs he''s not played all season , so he's fresh compared to some of the players who have been carrying knocks .(

Hopkins and Parker were breakdancing in the Liberal club so we may be at full tilt again soon

Anndo was also putting Hoppy and Batey through a rigorous up and down every set of terrace steps in the LSV prior to last Sundays game I was knackered just watching them and had to have a lie down when I got home - any excuse for that though

Jasper , I was in one of the Corporate Boxes for the Haven game , and can fully recommend them to anybody , once again Andy Mazey , Alan Platt , and Rob Parker , were on hand to make sure we had a good Experience , I think this side of the Business is doing very well , I know the Carolis are ready to discuss terms for next season , with the club .

Well you have done something in a couple of years that I failed to do since we were 11 and that's get young (well six months younger than me anyway) Woody to go to a game

Fred all I can say is Steve is now a Confirmed Leyther , he loves coming to games , though I must admit he was worse for wear at the end of the game Sarah said he drank nearly 3 bottles of Red Wine



, i don't think Ste Maden liked it when he slapped him on the head either





, still as you say he is attending ames now .So he must be OK

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