Sadly very accurate. Every time I go on the BBC website and see it pushing Women’s football, I think how sad it is that RL haven’t managed to get any real exposure. Not the only decent sport either being rapidly crowded out.

Apologies, ours thankfully!

You're not wrong BT, Cricket has reinvented itself with T20 franchise comps & now the hundred to bring in sponsors, tv coverage & crowds although you could argue the shorter version of the game has been over 50 years in the coming having watched 40ov games on BBC2 Cavaliers v County teams in the mid 60s.

RL needs to reinvent itself too but I'm not holding my breath as too many owners just live & breath self interest.

It's The Nomads Derby - may the best nomads win!

In seriousness, a win today could really see your season take off. Merde (as we say in theatre).

I’m assuming the club’s on restricted SM again. Hope that gets itself sorted soon. Hoping for a good on field performance today. Off field? Hope springs eternal.

Error strewn performance but held on for the win- just about!
COYB!

Apart from last poster.
Anyone in here that were at the game, and want to comment on the rugby.
Any positives to come from it, where were the problems?

The poster prior to you commented that it was error strewn but we hung on for a win. That's enough for most of us until we get the weekly "cake" interview telling us that we're on a roll, making progress, still searching for the "right" players blah blah blah...
Meanwhile, I'd be keen to see the progress being made off the park as we head towards the brave new dawn.
Will league express have an accurate Gaye figure? Was the fanzine up to much? How did gold lounge sales go?
Remember, good commercials are the future and whilst it seems the penny has dropped for the Hughes clan, it may well be 15 years too late.
Swinton? Really? If only just defeating cellar dwellers from the 3rd tier is to be celebrated then we're still in free fall.

Might be enough for you, that's fine! I am interested in what happened on the pitch and a measured view of the match.

But thank you very much for your insightful reply to my post.

I thought we were the better side but gifted them a try within first minute, failed to convert really decent chances to score about 5 times to their one and hung on at the end as they had their best 10-15 spell. They missed a routine penalty in 1st half that was ultimately the difference. We worked hard in defence with Natoli our best player. Walker had a lot of the ball and did well although he appears to lack the confidence to take the man on the outside. Didn’t see any poor performances and thought the new players were decent. However we do need to take chances when presented and leave out the gifting of early tries. Not sure Horsman was used. Crowd lively - small but decent contingent from Swinton. Crowd circa 600 ish I’d guess.

Forget the errors and the fact it was only Swinton.That was a great match.The opposition were no mugs.Attendance wise I’d guess about 750.The weather was vile and the clocks had gone forward so could have been worse.
Definitely a wise decision to swop stands.Even with a smaller crowd the atmosphere is much better.Plough Lane is a belter of a ground.Wimbledon should be very proud.
With the way the league’s going this season,winning two on the trot has been vital.

Entertaining enough match but two pretty poor sides. Fortunately Swinton missed an easy penalty attempt in the first half.

What happened on the pitch was we made a lot of handling errors that almost cost us the game. If we’d cut out the first half errors we could have been at least a couple of tries to the good, not going in 2 points down at the break. I’m thinking especially of the error playing the ball on the tackle following Oli Leyland’s 80m run.
And we seemed to get pulled up a number of times for not playing the ball correctly. Think Swinton got some too.
Best moment for me was scoring on the set of tackles following the 40:20 early in the 2nd half- bit like what Swinton did to us in the first couple of minutes.
Not much on show in the way of silky skills, mostly a bit of a battle with a fair bit of spirit on show . Credit to Williams for some of his tackling, particularly the one in the last minute to stop a likely Swinton try.

That enough for you NB?

Cheers all. Difficult to get a feel from what went on when highlights come out.
Back to same old London then not respecting possession.

Strange old game, both sides guilty of making plenty of errors as has been mentioned.Thought our defence was pretty strong for the majority of the game and despite their opening score we generally restricted Swinton in the early stages. Good scramble after Wellington was binned and staying alert right until the end is a good sign too.
Passed up some golden chances to make the scoreline more comfortable. The kind of situations I really wanted to see Raiwalui take control of, but I'm sure more cohesion will come. Another important two points in the bag and I'm not sure I'd be making too many changes for Donny.

Well done anyway. Pocket the two points and move on.

Insightful it was, considering the posts that followed underlined that we were error strewn, sloppy and lucky to get the points in a game when we were the better team.
Meanwhile, between 600 and 750 fans....wow, I bet the gold lounge was banging.....the move to Wimbledon failed last year and by the sounds of it, its only better this because they swapped stands. I remember when they swapped stands at the stoop, then names, then grounds and the divisions.....thanks again Dave!

Most important is the two points...

Strange old season this, outside of Fev everybody seems one the day to be able to beat anybody else. Key for London is keeping fit considering how small our squad is...

I see neither Cake nor Parata were that impressed with the referee. That will have NB frothing at the mouth no doubt.

Been impressed with Williams so far this season. He always carries strongly and direct and consistently finds his front. Not seen many errors from him either. Feels like he and to a certain extent Stock go under the radar each week.

The ref was .

Anyone else spot Danny Ward in the crowd yesterday?

Often see him at games.

Yup. Also, bizarrely, a look alike was knocking around as well in the style of Putin. All very confusing.