As i see it the next two games will be crucial. Win both then Bradford at home, we will be on our way and looking good. Cant afford any slip ups and weather and ground conditions may not work in our favour. slightly worried i must confess despite excellent performance against HKR - we also play Fev 3x and they seem to have strengthened, only good news in Week 2 was Tolouse losing which may mean they wont be so great on the road........

We need four points from these two games, no excuses. The pitches will probably be heavy but we are a full time team and should be able to compete for the whole eighty minutes.

The weather forecast for the weekend at Stalybridge means we can expect a heavy pitch, Heavy rain Friday PM and all day Saturday. Sunday though should be fine.
If you remember last season, the football game on the Saturday was called off yet we played on Sunday.

We are honoured this weekend when we play Oldham, Mr Ben Thaler is our referee.
Let us hope the team learn from last weekend and cut out the stupid penalties.

Well not lost the silly penalties.

Got the 2 points though!

A wee bit close for comfort that scoreline!

We seem to be specialising in those sort of scorelines on the road this season!

If it's working for the England Union boys then it's good enough for me.

Jossy who are these union boys you talk about?

Sounds like we were lucky to get 2 points, they hit the posts after a penalty at the end. Sounds like we gave away too many free Mtrs again,n that's going to have to be sorted

We seem to be specialising in those sort of scorelines on the road this season!

But what you need to remember is we are the only team which travels so far and plays the game on the same day. As we get into the season and the team get more used to this ritual things will become easier for them.

For me the game was summed up in the first minute – we kicked off, deep into Oldham territory, ball bounces and we regather. 2 drives, ball spun out wide, intercepted and we are 6-0 down. Ok, we won, but we were second best for long periods of the game.

In the first half it certainly felt like over 80% of play was in our half, a mixture of Oldham’s forward endeavour and kicking game and our lack of forward impetus and mistakes, kicking out on the full, dropped passes, etc.

We outscored the opposition 4 tries to 2, so that would suggest decent attack but frankly that would be wrong, here again ponderous, ragged, unorganised, and but for a late late length of the feild effort from Rhys we would have lost this one. Even then we gave Oldham numerous chances to draw level with penalties (one attempt hit the upright), dropping the ball and lack of completion – I dread to think what our completion rate was.

On a positive note, I thought Evans looked strong, Gee and Pitts certainly have a toughness about them, Ackers another 80mins stint, Ioane lively. On the other hand Dixon was awful (give KPP a go), Sammut random, Offendahl a carthorse, Roqica a penalty machine. The rest ? Well, they were on the field ...

Worrying....................................... but we won

Dixon was awful, he could not do a thing right. I was concerned every time he was even near the ball. I am pretty sure he will play at Dewsbury though.
Hendo will hope he will put in a good performance against what look to be relegation favourites and boost If he fails there, it may be a few games for him at the Skolars