Keighley finaly get one over Toulose

16 - 10 to cougars


Tom Burton, Danny Lawton, Chris Baines, With tries

All results

Swinton 44 - 4 East Hull
Fev 86 - 0 army
Leigh Miners 26 - 56 Barrow
Millford 16 38 Gateshead
Donny 34 - 22 Thatto Heath
London S 60 - 24 Egremont
Keighley 16 - 10 Toulouse

Whitehaven & Lezignan ??????

One hell of an effort tonight.

Defence and discipline in the second half was absolutely immense.

Can't praise the players enough.

Full respect to the lads tonight , Laughton was a disgrace and gave us no protection. So many positives to come out of tonight. STILL NOT HAPPY about our half backs . Still lacking that off the mark line splitter from stand off or scrum half who will take on defences and create havoc.

Who scored the first try then 'All Time Low' and who injured himself in so doing?

OK, his kicking wasn't too hot but we won.

What were the problems with our 'half backs'? They were up against two excellent half backs and Helliwell performed really well, especially as he has only played a handfull of first team games. He reovered extremely well after the first crunching tackle that he made. Would you have done the same?

Our worst enemy (again) was Laughton who ignored constant 'off-side', 'not standing square' at play-the-ball, 'laying-on' in virtually every tackle to slow us down and almost gifted Toulouse a first half lead at half-time but the penalties that he gave.

Positives:

1. Tackling and palying as a team.
2. Someone who I met yesterday for the first time in 10 years, and told him that the game was on this evening (HE WAS COMPLETELY UNAWARE), came down with his son-in-law (his first RL game) and couldn't believe the transformation and will come again. COUGARS MARKETING; PLEASE WAKE-UP AND START SPREADING THE NEWS.
3. A chap from Shipley, who stopped to let us cross the Shell station exit, asked about the result and 'if we'd been two of the 478' (what a disgrace) and said that he'd never been before but was thinking about comint to the next game.
4. After what seems to be many years of simply driving the ball down the middle we finally have a coach in JD who actually knows what he wants his team to do and, even more essential, can get them to perform to his 'game plan'!

NEGATIVES:
I can't find any really when you get such a result for the first time in many years.

Am I the only one in thinking that Ronnie Laughton didn't actually have that bad a game?

He missed a few things, which all refs do. I don't think he favoured either side and impressively our guys didn't give him many excuses to blow his whistle.

Yes - You must have drunk too much.

It was a good win.
Just what this team needed, to build some confidence for the up coming league campaign.
More importantly, it will give the club chance to get some money in.
Playing the French must cost the club a fortune. 478 is a really poor crowd.

There seemed to be more understanding within the team, except on the last tackle. Really poor options, were picked at least 3 times resulting in wasted plays.

Helliwell was outstanding last night. He would have been my man of the match.

Wigan at home next would be great

I would like York at home next, and then a Super League Club in the 5th round.

when is the draw for the next round?

I agree, not a perfect performance, but he penalised them in some critical positions - if he really did have it "in for us" he wouldn't have done that would he

I thought he allowed laying on for a fraction too long, but he was consistent although he should have policed "not square" more.

The important thing was we put in a great performance and did not give the ref any reason to penalise us - didn't see too much backchatting either (except from their No7).

We simply looked like a different side today, full of enthusiasm and doing things at pace. Some of our passing was a little "telegraphed" and if other sides watch the video I am sure they will be looking for interceptions.

A very solid performance that can be built on, a few tweaks here and there and we will be in for a good season.

You must be a mind reader, we were saying the same in the bar last night.

Now that was an exciting game.

Defence was outstanding but think we lack a bit of pace in attack.

No complaints about Ronny from me

Poor crowd but we were all up for it.Noisey as hell where i was stood

All in all a great performance from the lads.

Definitely don't want Br*dford either home or away given all the season ticket holders they have.

I'd take Gateshead at home.