Fev were soundly beaten at Fax last week so will be looking to make amends against us.    POR is not a happy hunting ground for us.  Hopefully we'll get back to what were doing in pre season and the in the first half versus Cas and Hunslet.    We need to get some momentum back up after the poor performances in Toulouse the debacle last Friday.


As things stand our gameplan is very simple with "Kear-ball" tactics of 5 drives and a kick to the wing.   If we don't get any go-forward then we turn the ball over too easily with an ineffective kick.  I'd like us to try and play a bit more rugby and ask a few more questions.    After the Hunslet game I can't remember his exact words but in effect he said we don't play very much football and he's right.    Take our Scurr and to a lesser effect Pele and our middles aren't anywhere near as effective - we can also see how much we relied on Doro now.    

Yeah I'm not a fan of micks commentary. I think he forgets that those listening on the radio can't see whats going on. He's usually rambling on about something that happened in 1994, before deciding to tell the person listening thay we're 5 tackles in the set and made 40 metres. 


Or let's say we've gone for a try, knocked on and the opposition have a 20 metres restart, instead of quickly explaining whats happened we get "gillls gone for the trrrryyyyyyy (crowd groans so we know it's probably not a try) . He's over the linnnnnnneeee. Has he got the ball dooooowwnnnnn. The referee has a loooookkkk. Ooooohhhh. He's saying he's knocked on. 


By the time he's told us whats happening the opposition are nearly at the end of their set. 

Bullmania posted this morning apparently.  Can't see it.  Have tried emailing Paul Coward (Southstander.com) to see what's going on with this site as they'll lose what few users they have if this keeps up.  If anyone manages to read this I'll try and provide an update if I hear anything.

Mick's commentary is enthusiastic and he clearly cares about the club. But yes that thing he does when we haven't scored i.e. '" can he get the ball down?......"long pause, "no" does tend to wind me up a bit.... But it's all the more reason for me to get down to the match in person. Re the forum, I'm glad its not just me with issues. It's just gone really clunky, hopefully just teething problems.

Yesterday I couldn’t see any posts, but today I can. Whether that stays as it is, I’ll keep my fingers crossed 

The rlfans admins are working through the issues so hopefully things will be all good soon.