He was one of our excellent signings, was it 12/12 he kicked at griffin park one game?
Shame he left, if I remember right he left on the back of not really being able to afford the cost of living in london, his request for a pay increase was turned down so he went back home.

12/12 v Wakefield in 2005....they were great days with a great team!!

Great to see a few back from injury but we are decidedly light in the halves/hooker area. Wonder how many will have to play with injuries?

The 19 Man Squad to face Dewsbury Rams on 28th April 3pm :-
19 – Sadiq Abebiyi
15 – Eddie Battye
23 – Rob Butler
17 – Michael Channing
25 – Matty Davies
13 – Matt Davis
05 – Kieran Dixon
18 – Ben Evans
16 – Matt Gee
11 – Daniel Harrison
01 – Elliot Kear
21 – Will Lovell
27 – James Meadows
24 – Jacob Ogden
12 – Jay Pitts
07 – Jarrod Sammut
08 – Tom Spencer
14 – Alex Walker
02 – Rhys Williams

1. Walker
2. Dixon
3. Channing
4. Kear
5. Williams
6. Meadows
7. Sammut
8. Battye
9. M. Davis
10.Spencer
11.Harrison
12.Pitts
13.Gee

14.Evans
15.Adebiyi/Butler
16.Lovell
17.M. Davies

I'd go with something like that!
Plus
With 7 players out, the squad seems to be at breaking point.

Interested to see how we perform without Api, he has not done it for me playing in the halves. A bit more experience in the pack bodes well.

Believe Hellewell is out for a couple of months.

Coped without api pretty well at the start of the season, meadows was doing a decent job. In fact we seem to have played just as well with him as without.

Wonder if we are looking at bringing in any cover??

Think it’s going to be needed

Missed the game, hadn't realised it was a Saturday game! Too busy with work and completely gutted, still we seem to be winning, would welcome any feedback on how we played

Me too, working today. Pretty decent result, feedback would be good, any standouts, any worries

Have to be happy with that.. Especially with 8 first teamers out.

Hoping for revenge now next weekend.

A big win. Bit disappointed in Dewsbury as overall they did not offer as much as expected. We played some nice stuff, defended well for a long period. But we did look a little disjointed on a number of occasions. Some of the passing was poor, Meadows is not that tall, and in completing some of the sets we were not quite sure. Play selection needs to improve and understanding of positioning. That said with a side that had around 8 players who have come through our academy and at least half of that in thier first year of first team there are a number of positives. And we did benefit from a couple of older heads in the forwards reappearing as sets the platform for the halves.

We were only 6 up after 30. The game was 50;50 at that stage. We didn't look very structured with the ball in hand until the game got away from Dewsbury. On several occasions we messed up the final play. Still plenty to work on for the big one next week,
If we beat Leigh they will struggle to chase us down for the top 4. Big game next week.

I think we struggled early on as our confidence must have taken a hit recently

A win like this is what was needed for the confidence. We had a real fluency at the start of the season, was it because we were trying to force the play all the time instead of playing percentage game. Interested in the comment that meadows is not that tall, not sure how that effects his game! How did he get on?

At the beginning of the season Meadow was pushing long wide balls out, yesterday he seems very constrained playing short balls

Hes not big in stature but he is tall.

What were they like with possession and giving away penalties? Any better?

If your having to reach above your head to catch the pass it’s hardly great opportunity to build the move. One pass to Meadows stood out but there were a number of very poor passes.

Ah so you were not having a dig at meadows for not being tall enough, but passing technique, that’s fair enough that’s all I was asking.
Back to the other question, any obvious reason why the timing and fluency seems to have gone? Trying to push things to much? Panic?

What was the attendance like?

Attendance seemed very small. Passing wasn't slick. Penalities given away OK

Well a win is a win....and it'll give the lads confidence heading into the 2nd half of the season. 4 MASSIVE games in May now....we need a minimum of 6 points from the 8 on offer......it would be great to stop Leigh's resurgence dead in their tracks and I reckon that game is key to where we end up at the end of the season.
We also really need to boost our +/- in the back to back Sheffield games....we have a game in Hand and are well ahead of Halifax but only 50 or so against Leigh and +/- could be key.

To be honest I thought the attendance was seriously worrying. Not least because pre-match I spotted a large pile of leaflets offering free admission to two adults on Saturday in a shop on the Broadway. I'm not on Facebook but I'm told the club posted something about putting them through a lot of local letter boxes too.

It seems we can even get people to watch us for free which is a pretty terrible place to be and not exactly likely to encourage David to believe it's worth continually hurling money at us.

I watched Prescot and Oxford, please not again

Cold, miserable, unappealing day. Stay in doors and watch TV or go and watch a new sport, albeit for free.

I suspect if it had have been summer, as advertised, we would have got a few interested parties through the gates.

Oh, and the opposition was Dewsbury - where ? I hear them say.

I spoke with a couple who are Ealing Trailfinders fans. They had come on an offer. They were impressed with the numbers on Saturday, saying their attendances are not good. It has to be said that a lot of faces were missing and Dewsbury did not bring that many down. Weather was not all that either which did not help.