...and Gleeson!

Royston
White
Patterson
Nash
Worrincy
Branighan
Black
Ostick
Penkywicz
Azuie
Larder
Bannister
Wrench

Subs
Watene
Holroyd
Bowman
Maloney

Small changes but bring on Holroyd to mix things up with Blacky moving to hooker to rest Penky.

I hope it's as good and just as close as the season opnener where Sheffield went out to an early lead before Halifax came back and won it at the death.

Worrincy's 80m intercept was a joy to watch.

1 - Shad
2 - Patterson
3 - Bannister
4 - Nash
5 - Worrincy
6 - Branno
7 - Black
8 - Ostick
9 - Penky
10 - Maloney
11 - Tamghart/Larder
12 - Wrench
13 - Larder/Bowman

14 - Holroyd
15 - Watene
16 - Aizue
17 - Bowman/Tamghart

Do exactly what we did last time against Sheff, bring Holroyd on just after half time. He did some damage when he came on so why change it? Not putting White in because we need big bodies to stop Yere and Ropati.

I shouldnt worry too much about that expect 5/6 k from Fev

It's a rugby match we're talking about, not the dole queue.

Now, now. No need for that. I'm sure the queue is just as long in Halifax.

do we know who will be playing in the first game of the day? think last year it was bramley V a team from huddersfield?

Whoever wins the NL3 play off's will contest the NL3 grand final prior to the CH1 and CH grandfinal.

Sheffield will be tough and Physical. Aston will have them fired up. I think we need to cut our error rate down and try and control the game more by doing the basics right and build the pressure and try and frustrate them. Concentrate for the full 80 Minutes. We need to have our kicking game spot on and force the pressure in their half. They have some strong runners and we have to stop them playing the ball so fast and getting a roll on. This game could go either way. Its just who wants it most and who can control the game the best.

Id put money on it, the capacity of 14k will not be reached so tickets wont be a problem, we have already got a batch of 3k with more to follow the interest is phenomenal and dont forget Rovers pull in great support from Pontefract and Knottingley, we are a bigger club than many think.

We took 5k to Headingly in 07!
It was always the case when we were in the 1st div. In the 70's 3k crowds were fairly well the norm until a cup run or a sustained effort in the league then 9k or so. This happened on a fairly regular basis! Fev fans had/have a small but growing core support but have always been able to attract the fans for the "big one"!

yeh, I'd say rovers was about right, 5-6k is a reasonable forecast given the tickets sold by fev in 07!

dream on, post office road couldn't hold that, safely!