Good grief spelly, if you win that one you have beaten the whole of wales
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@spelly As an exiled Widnes and an adopted Crusaders fan. We are coming for you Boyo 🙂
@spelly As an exiled Widnes and an adopted Crusaders fan. We are coming for you Boyo 🙂
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Hard luck Spelly, although one of my friends went and said that the better side won. He also thought there were less than 500 others watching the game, is this your normal attendance?
Better side won? No arguments there mate! 8-0 down, battled back to lead 14-8, and should've kicked on from there, but it inspired them instead, and it's the Crusaders who'll (deservedly) host Hunslet in the next round.
Back to the bad old days discipline wise, with a 10-3 hammering on the penalty count,
Attendance? 516. So the "house full" signs didn't go up!
Unless we can sort out a friendly meantime, there's no game now till the league kicks off at the end of March.
I've had better days, but congrats on your win!
Spelly.
@spelly looked shocking conditions and had I not already a ticket to saints Catalans would have gone to the crusaders game. They are a good team and the fact that most re signed for less money shows what they have going on. The new venture at Colwyn Bay works so well as the funding of the place is from the RFU for the ground. It is amazing the selection of shirts you get on game day and a good venue, Stadiwn Zipworld. It will be a good bench mark first and last game of the season hey Spelly
@spelly looked shocking conditions and had I not already a ticket to saints Catalans would have gone to the crusaders game. They are a good team and the fact that most re signed for less money shows what they have going on. The new venture at Colwyn Bay works so well as the funding of the place is from the RFU for the ground. It is amazing the selection of shirts you get on game day and a good venue, Stadiwn Zipworld. It will be a good bench mark first and last game of the season hey Spelly
The pitch wasn't all that bad, despite the amount of water that had fallen on it in the days leading up to the game.
I was talking to some of their fans, and the move to Colwyn Bay, has gone down very well with 'em,
If we needed a wake up call, the Crusaders certainly gave us one, and the last match of the campaign, could be highly interesting!
Spelly.
Fifty years ago to this very day, saw the lowest I've ever felt as a Lion, and it was the RL Cup third round at Halifax.
In the previous tie, we went to (holders) Leigh, came away 4-3 winners, and my thought was "Who we gonna play at Wembley?"
The quarter final saw us head to Thrum Hall, with losing never even entering my head. We were winning 8-7, with not long left, when the hosts were awarded a dubious (I called it a lot worse than that at the time) penalty, and Bruce Burton sent the ball between the sticks.
'Fax held on until the hooter, and the dream of the Lions playing beneath those iconic Twin Towers, was shattered! It was a lonnnnnnnnnng journey home!
Half a century ago, and I still remember it as if it were yesterday!
Spelly.
Yes! Those events do stick in the memory and the craw!!!!
Darren Wright versus Leeds at ours, Darren dummied as acting half on our 25 and was penalised for using the ball-player as a foil! Leeds goal and goodbye Cup!
Salford and their scrum half (Walker?) ran into Jim Mills and fell prostrate for a penalty, not a finger laid on him! Goal - exit Cup!!
(Mills comment after 'If he bumps into me again he won't jump up!!!!)
Happy days!!!!
We're at Keighley in a friendly on Sunday, so at least we'll have a bit of action before the League 1 campaign kicks off at the end of the month.
We've not played the Cougars since we met (and beat 'em) five times in the promotion season, culminating in that one point triumph at your gaff in the play-off final, that sent us up into the middle tier.
They've not had the best of starts, losing at home to Hunslet in the Cup, and to the 'Yeds in a friendly last weekend, so no doubt they'll be fired up against my mob.
There's a top sit-in chippy at the other end of Lawkholme Lane from the ground, and we'll lunch there, prior to the game.
Spelly.
We've signed ex-Chemic Jayden Hatton, and he's straight into the team for the friendly tomorrow.
Have we got a good 'un?
Spelly.
We've signed ex-Chemic Jayden Hatton, and he's straight into the team for the friendly tomorrow.
Have we got a good 'un?
Spelly.
Should still be at Widnes.
Arguably better than all 3 of our current wingers.
Yes Spelley won’t let you down
Yes - you have got a potentially really gud 'un, spelly.
He's big, strong, fast and decent under a high ball. Raw and inexperienced as yet, most of the Widnes fans I know would have him back in a flash.
Cougars 22-42 Lions this aft, and a comfortable win for us.
Their eight side looked weak, and we exposed it more than once.
Far from perfect from us though, with two of their tries coning straight from the scrum through alarmingly large gaps.
Jayden Hatton came on from the bench, and almost scored soon afterwards, but was tackled into touch as he approached the line.
They are (supposedly) one of the faves for promotion, but from what I saw today, Lovegrove has far more to worry about than Coleman.
Nowt next week for us. and then the league kicks off in a fortnight, when we host West Wales.
Spelly.