It's Sunday morning and no one is yet to discuss the game.

Squad announced

Kear
Williams
Hellewell
Wes
Macani
Thomas
Barthau
Wallace
Cunningham
Thackray
Lovegrove
Walton
Garside

Davis
Everett
Riley
Walker

Keyes and Nasso missing out?

Why discuss the game? when knocking Hughes and IF we may play at a different ground? no wonder so many people visit these days the site and Never post, there is a lot more discussion on twitter between fans and in much bigger numbers than here.

The team has slowly got more bigger, faster and more regulars (less loans /DRs). All good signs for the end of the season comp, whichever one we are in.

Walton and Cunningham look like good signings and could play straight away.

James Cunningham must have felt he had done something very bad in a previous life being loaned to us last year and Donny this year. Welcome to a winning team!

Surely Nasso has to be in the 17??

Instead of Everett for me

Is it just too late though?
Hope for a good result today, not seen the haven side do they have any dual reg players that we should be worrying about.
If we are not gonna make top 4 which is looking highly unlikely we need to finish with as many points in the bank so at least we can finish on a high, at least we know we can't go down another league

Nasso for me, Everett is a big unit but loses focus too often

Not seen barthue play yet so looking forward to seeing how he goes

Very close, but Nasso starts with Cunningham on the bench instead of Everett. Good to see Davis in again.

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Great start from new boy Walton, 6-0

Good start for Walton.

Commentary accompanied by an Aussie of ours. Daniel Harrison?

EDIT: Wrong - it's Nick Slyney.

HT. leading 24-10.

Shocking first 20 in the 2nd half!!

FT 40-24. Plenty of weak defence from Broncos by the sound of it. Missing Hendo holding the side together on the pitch, twice established substantial lead and then lost it: 12-0, 12-10, 24-10, 24-24, 40-24.

A win is a win I suppose!

4th is still very much on

Sheffield look to be ones at risk, their last three games are Bradford, Fev & ourselves.

Couldn't make it today. How did Walton/Cunningham look?

Realistically, our points difference means that we'd have to win all our remaining games while Fev and Halifax lose two out of their last three, and I don't see that happening.

Why not just say it? Apologists like you are the reason that fewer and fewer fans attend games.....and that's more important than traffic on this site or twitter...and the discussion about the clubs home for 2016 is on a thread specifically about that topic......and Hughes is fair game especially when it comes to us moving again

Jim thank you for that very insightful input to a thread about a game against Haven.

My view of the game basically 2 good 20 minute halves balanced out by 2 very poor 20 minute halves, luckily haven could not exploit the poor 20 mins as well as they could.
We tried extremely hard to lose this. Negatives first, we missed a leader out there again, not sure how to finish a set especially close to the line. Haven targeted Oscar in defence and for good reason. Again to many Penalties and dropped ball, we seem to be unable to play basic rugby.
Positives, when we did click for the 20 mins each half it looked good, ptb was quick and we dominated the ruck in defence. Individually I thought ray nasso actually had a really good game, Barthue looks good, OT was inventive going forward.
The pack looked pretty good overall making good mtrs in the tackle especially thackers.
Not pretty and a bit frustrating but in the end a win.

drone

You're welcome........I think you'll find that I didn't "drift" the thread, it was the whiny Hughes apologist who was crying to the moderators in a totally unrelated thread, because Hughes Tenure and his abilities as an owner were being questioned in another thread about us being homeless AGAIN.....I suggest you take up the drift with him. Maybe you could contact him on Twitter where there was apparently an avalanche of activity surrounding the Broncos. They do have nearly 14,000 followers on Twitter now......something that the whiner thinks is more important than the 657 who paid the landlord to watch the game!



Thanks for that. Woke up expecting us to have cruised to the 2 points and was shocked that we'd shipped over 20 points to Haven. Still, games like this will keep us honest going into the Releg8's in a few weeks.
Is there any silverware on offer for winning the third 8? Not that I've totally given up on 4th, but realistically that's where we'll be.

I hope there is no silverware. "Congratulations, here is a trophy for being 5th best team in the league!!

Regarding us missing a leader, its a fair point and one that I think Hendo will address (he knows this as it was a reason he started playing). Looking back to the beginning of the year, Grima had his leadership group. I stand to be corrected but I think it included, Slyney, Mathers, Wes, Cordoba, Farrar and Adamson. (not sure about Foran??). Due to injuries and others sloping off we have Wes left!! Players like Thackray will help but we are still a young side and some of these guys have had to "grow up" fast but that will serve them well in time. Provided we hold onto to the nucleus of this squad I am happy playing staff wise next season but would like one or two more "old heads" on board. Lets not forget this is all new to Hendo aswell.

Oh dear definite drift in this thread. Post this in the new home thread and okay but this is the Haven game.

any clues on the new home???

No trophy for fifth, but trophy when play in the eights. So win that and err effectively fifth!

We looked a little lost at times today and without clear direction. Cunningham and Walton may take some time to bed in. Walker I thought had his best game for us, started to look more comfortable in our style of play. His efforts opened up the space for Thomas to dance through. Walton looked to be on the fringes watching how others played before getting engaged. Can't believe that wasn't deliberate. Thackray was again key to everything, really has been an excellent signing. Number of other players like Garside and Hellewell are playing well, while Kear and Barthau are improving.