The slope, the little supporters bar, the kids running round at the back, the lopsided ground, the 100 yard long queue for cheesy chips (no I didnt ), the little wooden scoreboard, changing ends at half time.......its what makes RL great and is long forgotten by those in SL who spout about all seater stadium, baby changing facilities, and corporate sponsors.

Give me Mount Pleasant over Murrayfield any day of the week.

Good job none of the officials what happened as we took Mennel out late again which started it all. I counted it at least 3 times happening and after Smith's Binning you could see Mennel brac himself after kicking expecting to be taken out

I got there at 1-30pm and there seemed to be quite a few Batley folk knockin about.. They must lock them int coal cellar at kickoff

i think you're forgetting gateshead are in OUR league now

I counted 12-3 for Batley. Actually we got 2 in the second half! I'm doing a feature on penalty counts, in the programme v Widnes. I know mere numbers can be misleading, but the results are intruiging!

We are bottom of the fair play league....until we sort that out, we can't have any complaints about being treated unfairly when a brawl breaks out.

I like manydont mind being on the wrong end of a penalty count in which the rules are applied evenly, in many games I have watched they are not being applied evenly.
Rowley factor?

What concerns me is how many points we scored in the second half? Can't we even manage a drop goal?

2 probs there.

a, thats a fair owd hill to conquer [ not an excuse really but cant be good ]

b, drop goal did you not notice that even our kick offs were goin knowhere due to the bloomin wind against us.

thus attacking uphill whilst facing gusts is not ideal??

suprised that batley did not try 40/20 in the second half

That's as big an indicator as any to their confidence (or lack of it). Glad we learned from our mistake with kicking for touch anyroad, opting to take a tap in the second half after the previous attempt didn't make touch because of the wind.

Thought there were one or two occasions where we might have taken the option of a drop goal, but they were literally just those couple of occasions where we managed to get within their 20m line.

Batley could'nt even manage to score going uphill so it must have been hard going and when they kicked the ball up field it was'nt going anywhere so was ready for a come back in second half,if they can struggled going uphill on there own ground its obvious we were going to find it just as difficult dont you thnk.