Hey Frank? I hope you've not been mauling about near the Black Chicken & sexy Anna's.

Certainly not.



Just had a phone call from Charlie Caroli's son' his dad collapsed at the match yesterday and was taken to hospital.

Get well soon Ian.

Hi everyone
Sorry for anyone who was party to all the trouble on the coaches yesterday
It won't happen again
I will be trying out a new method what will be :-
Bookings will be as normal from me and Kath after home games in the bar
Or via Gillian on the market stall
No internet text booking s etc
Everyone will get a ticket like before and their name and contact details taken as before
However the changes will be boarding big games only will be from the LSV only
We will swop your ticket as you board for a wristband that will be colour coded to match the coach you get on is that coach will have a same red card in the window everyone on that coach gets a red wristband
Coming back you show the driver your wristband
They get given back as you get off to use next time
For back up we also have the list of people names etc
This should stop most if not all of the problems

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Nice one Linda....can't believe you, your hubby and my mates had to get taxis's !!! Thanks for sorting it out...(my mates don't come on here...bizarrely) !!

Dave Bradburn

Best wishes to Ian, please keep us informed of his progress, a PM if you wish.
John

Mr Caroli has had some tests this morning but should hopefully be released from hospital later today.

Get well soon Ian.

Sorry to hear of your problem yesterday, Ian - get well soon.

Well, the dust is settling on yesterday's game, and I have to admit to a sense of disappointment and frustration. I know the lads played their hearts out and I'm proud of all of them. Yet, we weren't firing on all cylinders, for my money.

Granted, if every player in a team is on top form, all the time, you probably have the impossible! However, for me, a number of small points seemed to make a big difference to our 'usual' form.

Was Gregg McNally fully fit after his battering, the week before? His tackling was virtually non-existent yesterday, and how many of their high balls were allowed to bounce? That's not like Gregg, who is usually as safe as houses in that situation. That said, the guy was as exciting and creative as ever, on attack.

How many howlers occurred between our wingers and full back? I reckon each of them had at least one, and they were costly. Again, those mistakes apart, they both had excellent games.

How often is Riddy's goal kicking success rate down to 40%? Very rarely, if ever. Again, the lad was superb, in attack and defence, so it's harsh to criticise - yet it made a difference to the scoreline, especially as O'Brien was on fire, with his goal-kicking.

As our 'troll' from Halifax keeps pointing out, our pack, on yesterday's showing, were found a little wanting. Of course, a Penky, or Higham, or Barlow, or Acton, could have made a big difference but, Beswick and Hock apart, we seemed to lack the fire-power up front.

Anyway, I guess it's all a case of 'what if' and, in the final analysis, one (or two

) more cup games would probably have caused a major distraction to the ultimate aim for the season. However, it's food for thought that we may be playing the Wolves, or certainly teams of their calibre, before this season is over, and we have to find ways of eradicating the costly errors, and fronting up to some big packs.

So sorry to hear this news.Get well soon Ian.

Well was very pleased with that performance yesterday, played some good rugby, scored some fantastic trys. We did a lot of hard work in defence but Wire were so much quicker and more skilful than what we're used to. Agree with Rowley "The best team won but only just." Been saying for a while we'd be pushing for the top 8 of SL, finishing 8th or 9th, we've just narrowly lost to the team in 7th so would say that's right. We'd definitely not look out of place in Super League.

What a fantastic cup run though, played all full time teams and knocked 2 Super League teams out! When was the last time a Championship team knocked out 2 Super League teams.

You played well yesterday and your support during the game was the best I have seen at the HJ this season. You will be ok in SL and you play decent rugby. as per earlier posts a few "fans" were OTT is the town centre but most of them didn't have any colours on and I am guessing they were bandwagon fans with to much ale and missing a punch up while football is out of the frame

Good luck in the 8s (Wire fan)

Starbug here

We suspected that there were a group of " fans " who had purchased tickets quite late in the day who had spoken of going early to town and then jumping on a coach , it looks increasingly likely that is what happened

I hope it was worth it from their point of view , they saved themselves £ 5.50 each , but ruined a great day for dozens if not hundreds of genuine fans including young kids

Probably nearly everyone at the game went equipped with an iPhone yesterday, can we expect some mug shots to make sure they don't repeat the nonsense?

If I'd have gone upstairs I would have took photos when they punched Steve

Like the Wire lad says. It's funny how these idiots always crawl out for big games and when the football season is over.

Don't tell me, I know!
He had a brain scan and nothing was found?
Get well soon Ian, yours in Rugby League.
John

Let's have you back asap, Ian/Charlie.

Just spoke 2 Ian. He's ok but won't lend me any money' tight beggar.

That's great news Frank.

No, not that he's ok. That he won't lend you any money.



Only Joking. Nice one Ian , I'm really glad you're well.

Sorry to hear about Charlie Caroli.
Hope he's back up and to his best soon

The drivers will not police the ticket / wristband check - they are not paid to do that.
Are the wristbands gonna be disinfected before being used again?


Seems a lot of messing about to me :-{

Get well soon Ian I was gutted when Henry told me what had happened when I got in the ground, hope to see you at the next home game mate I am working for the Workington game.

Get well soon Ian

Your fans in the main were great. The ones in the Rodney before the game were very vocal, all having a good time. However, my brother in law doesn't think so after being set on my one tanked up tool and punched in the mouth in front of his 3 kids after the match, donning a Leigh shirt unfortunately. Police dealing with it.

All teams have their nobheads, especially when a big game comes along, we've got them, as was shown pre-match when 2 of ours wanted to be Johnny Concrete and take a load of you lot on outside the Rodney, credit to your fans, they just laughed at them.

Good luck for the rest of the year!!

That was hilarious. To be fair, one seemed very embarrassed for the other.