So, next up a trip to Dewsbury. Predictions?
Last season up there we struggled massively with the conditions, bitterly cold and a gale blowing straight down the pitch off the hills, with the wind at our backs passes were going to ground and fwd. from what I saw on Sunday respecting possession is much better, we need to keep that up, maybe not throw it around as much as we did last week. On a grass pitch and heavier ground it’s going to be a very different game but with Lovell and dragon having there size and strength, on the fringes and a decent Fwds platform we should take it.
Am hoping we will win this by 2 scores at least.

I am hoping the pitch at Dewsbury is in a decent condition. Normally early season it is like a ploughed field. As they train on it as well as play it got a lot of use.
However, I think they have put in some 3G pitches on the car park at the side of the ground , I would expect the bulk of the training to be done on them. So it may not be too bad. Let us hope so.

Can see us losing this if we are not 100% focused on the task in hand. It will be very cold, snow possibly and a side who will spoil as much as possible. Completing sets and avoiding penalites is what will win us this game not fancy plays...

Discipline will be the key here. Keep it we win, lose it we lose.

Be good to see if we have a different sort of game up our sleeve for places like Dewsbury.
I'll be happy enough if we get a win with a last minute one-pointer from Sammut.

Yellow warning for snow in Dewsbury on Sunday morning. Those of us planning to go, need to keep an eye on that.

Oh no, not yellow snow again.

Top tip never eat the yellow snow

I bow to your superior knowledge on eating snow NB.

Are our away games still on the radio?

www.hwdhospitalradio.com/player.shtml It’s on here but the player keeps breaking down- did it just as London scored!

www.hwdhospitalradio.com/player.shtml It’s on here but the player keeps breaking down- did it just as London scored!

Thanks, getting bits and pieces on Radioo Leeds!

Whey hey I got a prediction right. Good away win at a difficult venue in what I imagine were challenging conditions, pleased with that result, they obviously stayed off the yellow snow. Icing on the cake is the result up in cumbria as well, cracking result for barrow.

Be interested to hear the feedback from those that were there

Toronto :0

I suspect any over confidence in that side is now well and truly gone......now all we need is to get them under the cap and playing home and away on alternate weeks and we'd have a level playing field!!

Just got back from Dewsbury where it was really cold and snowed on and off.
We played into a strong wind in the first half. The pitch was really heavy and got progressively worse. Our first try was rather dubious. We were at the other end of the pitch so did not have a good view, but it looked wrong to us.
The wind fell away in the second half so this made it easier for Dewsbury in attack. They pressed but we were magnificent in defense the players putting their bodies on the line. To have nilled them shows how hard they worked.
Our second try came from us putting pressure on them and Jarrod charging down a ball, it stuck in the boggy pitch but he managed to kick it, collect it and score in the corner. He missed the conversion. Just on full-time we lost the ball then Dewsbury messed up and we awarded a penalty which Jarrod scored and made it 12-0.
Positives were our defense and never say die attitude.
Negatives, our loan hooker was awful, could not catch the ball, passed to nobody several times. We may have a few injuries. Cunningham for one.

Let's hope they aren't too bad.....we need all hands to the pump on Sunday!

Our loan hooker was picked out for praise on club website for "His darting runs and defence"....You say his passing was not up to scratch but are the club right in their estimation of events??

He failed to impress any of our small band at yesterdays game.
Okay due to the conditions there were a lot of errors from both sides, It was a game with few daring runs, certainly through the middle.
It was a bit of a slog really, just a game of playing out your sets. However, defence wise the whole team to a man were excellent.
What the club are saying is probably for Widnes benefit.

Sounds similar to our last visit there, lots of passes went to ground mainly due to guys not taking strength of the wind into account. Good to hear the boys manned up in defence.
The write up I saw picked out Walker for his defensive efforts as well, believe Rams were held up over the line several times, mainly down to walkers effort, is that what you saw?

Spot on about Alex Walker, he was my man of the match. He really never put a foot wrong.
I am sure we held them up over the line at least half a dozen times, possibly more. The game was on the edge right up until Jarrod scored. Prior to that try I had in the back of my mind that they would get a try and then be given a penalty and we would leave with nothing. It was that type of game. Once Jarrod scored though you could not see them scoring twice.

just watched it on facebook, a very good try - he did well to keep his cool, and the ball popped up nicely into his hands!