According to the bulldogs website KO on sunday is 14.00, gates open at 12

Has been confirmed by Batley ko is 14.00

Just to remind all those travelling on the big red fun bus to Batley 18th March. Meet at Spoons (Keighley) 11.30am to depart 12 noon on the dot.

It's rumoured they had to change because 4:15pm is peak call time and those fans under the telephone masts started to get rather warm and looked like Frankenstein's Monster when their fillings an ear rings began arcing.



The final straw was when a bloke had a bag of chicken feed on his back seat and returned after the match to find his car chocker with popcorn.



True story.

I heard that it's because at around 4pm they're expecting the wind to change direction coupled with Fox's biscuit factory knocking out a batch of their finest crunch creams. Coach John Kear thought the wafting aroma of quality baked goods maybe too much for their prop forwards and that they might charge to the bench and act all needy like real Bulldogs.

During the first Glen Tomlinson era this actually happened in a game against Bramley. The game had to be abandoned after 52 minutes after Batley's number 8 cocked his leg up and had a slash against Bramley's dugout.

Don't mention Glen Bl**dy Tomlinson, he masterminded our demise on far too many occasions.

I used to find it ironic that a feisty old git like Jeff Grayshon (MBE) use to have the words [i"Gallant Youth"[/i on his back

. I distinctly remember him sitting on the chest of a prone Ian Gately punching him in the face, and the gentleman that Gately was just shrugged it off and did not retaliate. That is, until the next tackle, where he legally knocked Grayshon into the middle of next week

. It was amusing to hear the Batley fan next to me say [i"what a rough dirty bu**er"[/i Gately was.

Ah...the good old days....not like this namby pamby stuff nowadays

Gallant Youth was a miles better nickname than the Bulldogs moniker.

I'm pretty sure that Ian Gately was born with a magnet in his head that attracted swinging arms of various types. He used to cop half a dozen every game.

I seem to remember a particularly bad one in a game against Swinton at Gigg Lane.

Feeling confident about today.
Came close to them last meeting and held Fev for a spell

Batley 22 Kly 30

Get in 8-10

First off, it has to be said both teams defences were fantastic.

I think we were the better side and deserved to win the game. In the first half, helped by some poor Batley kicking we controlled field position really well whilst battling up the legendary Mount Pleasent slope. We crossed their line 5 times, 2 were held up, 2 were chalked off for infringements and Jy-mel crossed for a good try in the corner and Danny Jones superbly converted.

In the second half Batley improved and it became a titanic arm wrestle between both packs with some big hits going in. We did just enough to win the game with James H going over for the winning try with about 10 minutes or so left.

Even with so few points scored it would have been a great game for the neutral to watch.

There were a lot of good perfomances but Craig Moss, Jode Sheriffe and Sam Obst stood out for me.

Typical!

Couldn't get to the game today and we win.

Congrats to JD and the lads, I listened to the radio and it sounds like we could have scored more. March & JD had tries dis-allowed and we got over twice but could not ground the ball.

My mate texted me with 10 mins to go and said that the phone masts must be very busy cos John Kear had a purple face and smoke coming out of his ears.



At full time he was just sat in his chair rocking back and forth muttering "Manchester City, Manchester City" under his breath.