After such a good win at Sheffield the week before we were all looking forward to another open game. We should know by now though with our close connections with Keighley they are always close games but Friday nights could not have been closer. When was the last time that only 1 point was scored in one half? It leaves us though top of the league with our next league game on Thursday week against Leigh, a game not to miss. Next however on Saturday is just the matter of the Challenge cup against South Wales.
The second draw for Club 1873 took place with our old friend Dave Wrench pulling out the numbers.
1st with a £20 voucher was number 51, Alan Bray and 2nd for the £15 voucher was 122 Tony Drummond. Vouchers are in the post.
Shay Lounge Player of the season saw Ryan Fieldhouse getting 1st place with 3 points, 2nd was Wayne Reittie with 2 points and 3rd was Anthony Thackeray with 1 point. Anthony also picked up the sponsors Man of the Match. Ryan now takes a early lead with 9 points with Anthony 2nd with 5 points followed by Craig Ashall on 4 points.
The Hitman award sponsored by Halifax RLFC Players Association went to Dave Manning for his overall game both in attack and defence. There was a clutch of ex players in attendance, including John Freeman, Ken Dean, Ken Roberts and Paul Moses who is now on the Keighley Players Association committee.
It was also good to see Sean Hesketh, Iain Morrison and Mark Goodman in the Shay Lounge after the match to give us their match analysis. Iain is targetting the Featherstone game at the beginning of May for his return from the latest injury.
The half time draw winning number was 3499 picking up £223.
Neil

Good to hear Morro's on the comback trail, he was really playing well prior to his injury.

Nice to see Wrenchy again, although I missed the first ten minutes of the match yapping with him !

How did Wayne Reittie get 2 points, bombed a try in the second half by not being up with play and did make many yards with ball in hand

Blue & White what game did you watch...Rettie was excellent the whole match, driving the ball in hard getting us away from our line at regular intervals..Also why was it Retties fault the try was missed, cant remember who passed it, but if the player had gone to ground it would of been a try as they were on the line when they passed, not retties fault. You may find it is good to try and watch the hard workers as well as the fancy dans then you will really appreciate the game

Barnette was about to tackle tyrer and he got a quick pass away and wrettie wasnt up with the play the pass was on and you should always be flat on a blindside for that reason other than that he had a strong game

Correct, at the time I thought Tyrer could have made it even with the tackle coming in. Not seen the video so don't really know whether he could.