sounds like the boys had a better 2nd half only beat us by 4
welldone boys!!!
donnyk

My two penneth on the game:

In the first half, we looked like we were expecting to get beat (playing against a much bigger side from the divisions above will do that) and probsbly give them a bit too much respect. They pretty much scored on their first set, and there was no looking back. Grant Edwards (who ran the show for us) tried a lot of stuff but a few others weren't quite on the same page.

After a bit of a half time rollocking, they came out a lot better drilled in defence and were moving up into the tackle (where before they'd been waiting for Haven to get to them). This then gave us better field position by the time we got the ball and we were able to start putting some moves together. Resulting in a couple of nice tries.

Overall, I think we need to keep our fingers crossed for a long dry summer, as we are a team with a lot of pace off the mark, and a lot of side steps. But we can't do that on mud like yesterday (rarely a problem at the Keepmoat). They also need to start the game confidentally, hopefully the the second hald will show them they can compete

One thing I forgot to mention, twice the ref didn't play advantage when he should have following Whitehaven knock ons. One we would have arguably scored, the other were practicaly over the line and would have definately scored.

Not that it would have made a difference in the greater scheme of things, but would have made the final score look a lot better

I think it was on the cards after their defeat away at keighley and then in midweek Batley going up there and winning wont have done you any favours either

Penalty count 6 0 .Faultless display then no offside,Not standing square,high tackle ............Big improvement on previous games when they were penalised 13 and 12 times.