I don't understand how brad didn't get mom! By far his best game he never stopped working. Impressed with Jordan can't wait to see what more he can offer.
No excuse for what Connor did and I'm sure he's kicking himself about it now a lot
Of that team were on the recieving end of some dirty tactics from barrow but didn't retaliate no need for it.
Hoping for a speedy recovery from Mason he was quickly becoming one of our most consistent players.

Aziue, Castle and Braham all take some stopping thats 3 we've got.

Plus the new forward we've just signed, agree team spirit seemed alot way better without D/R and our own lads on the park

TBH I'm normally one of the ones who doesn't really rate him but loved his work in both attack and defence. I also agree it was a great game from him, although my motm would have been Tom Carr, he's just so crucial to everything we do well in both attack and defence.

Also it was nice to see a bunch of players of their all capable of putting in good kicks. Which was one of the things I was excited about at the start of the season. From memory Carr, Sheriff, Howden, Delaney and Kesick all put good kicks in throughout the game which helped put us on the front foot and maintain pressure.

It was a bright start from Howden as well who looked inventive.

Would just like to mention Jason Tali though as much as I love his tryscoring exploits we need to get him to not sprint out of the line like that as it cost us badly. In fact when he did that was really the only times barrow looked like scoring in the second half for mine.

That being said other than Barrow's first set it was easily our best defensive effort of the season, much improved



Also how nice was it to see us catch kick offs?

(mostly, we did miss one short one, but still it was much, much better).

Tali is jumping out of the line.
But ain't that what coaches are for ON THE DAY? ... to stop it? ... I can't believe Tali isn't being told, or alternatively the others are too slow and they should be told to move up with him.
Dunno, but it needs fixing.

I still think Hunslet will look to steamroller us and try to work it to Barnett.

We need to be able to steamroller back ... not sure we are capable at the SLS of that. It has been embarrassing of late at Hunslet.
The last time of any note Waller and Cas took them on up the middle and got three tries in fifteen minutes, we were 16-0 up.
Guess what happened next ... they thrashed us, because we couldn't keep it going and had no playmakers that day.

Last time out was a DISGRACE ... thrashed again.
There needs to be some considerable effort to lay this hoodoo to rest, because for me half of it is mental and they are losing before they even start.
We have a bit more creativity this time, but have we got the muscle?
I have begun to hate that cold, miserable place and I should imagine it will be like a fridge again on Sunday and will bring more disappointment unless we really get the message across, because when we start to fold there we bloody surrender.
Don't think I will go, which sod's law permitting means they may win.
What is it about that bloody place?
We used to play them in friendlies and beat them!

As for DR ... Feka has been great for us ... we could do with him again.

Sorry to disappoint Paul....I've been busy with an Ofsted inspection this week.......

A good result in the face of adversity, and all without the help of DR.