Quote: The Eagle "Shame to go out of the playoffs, but went according to league placing. Losing cuthberson and Holroyd since Wembley meant we were always going to struggle in the arm wrestle, losing Ava and mik in the game made it harder, and I guess that lead to some of the more unstructured rugby we saw. After the opening 10 minutes, to draw the remaining 70 mins was an achievement in itself.
The pre agar team would have folded like a deckchair
Onwards to next season, a couple of decent middles and we'll be cooking on gas.'"
According to the Sky preview we were "pretty much at full strength with just Newman missing." That annoyed me as well with 2020 club captain Stevie Ward all but forgotten as well as Cuthbertson and Holroyd.