Just chilling out today, after yesterday's superb win!
Nowhere near as hot as last year, but still pleasant enough to wear shorts.
Question - Has any team won twice in Toulouse as we've just done?
I don't know the answer, but there can't be many.
Fev perhaps? They won a play-off game there a season or so back, but have they won in the league?
One thing again last night infuriated me, just as it did at Newcastle last term. Twice we had a guy on the floor receiving treatment for an injury, and the PA guy saw fit to play music over the stadium airwaves! At best, it's thoughtless, but I'd call it sick!
Spelly.
Been back in Monton about half an hour after a perfect weekend!
Weather great, we won, flights on time, Warriors won in the NRL, and the Pinks came second at Cas!
Flew from Brum, direct to Toulouse on Ryanair, and booked the "Meet and Greet" parking. It's the tops! You give 'en a ring when you're about fifteen mins away, and they're awaiting you. Hand the keys over, and it's about two mins to the terminal. On the return journey, bell 'em again as you clear customs, and your car's there forr you. It's a bit dearer, but I would highly recommend it!
Unbeaten (so far) Sheff are next up for us on Sunday, so hopefully, we can kick on from that superb performance across la Manche, and give Aston and Co a bloody nose!
Spelly.
Can't see it being a full house on Sunday!
Their fans don't travel in great numbers to start with, but..............
The game co-incides with the Manchester Marathon, and the route goes straight across the top of Heywood Road, so getting there by car will be difficult to say the least!
My former boss lives about a mile from the ground, so I'm parking up at his gaff, and walking from there.
Can we kick on from that superb show in Toulouse? They're on P3, L3, so it'll be far from easy!
Spelly.
Lions 4-22 Sheff, and the score-line tells no lies!
Aston's Army are a well drilled side, and their defence today was exo!
We (yet again) conceded right on the half-time hooter, and...............
To rub it in big style, former Lion Jack Hansen, scored their last try from an interception just before the end!
P4, W1 now, so it's not looking good at present!
Sheff, like Wakey, and you mob, are P4, W4.
Spelly.
Dews at home on Sunday, and it's a must win game for us, but I'm sure, they'll be thinking exactly the same.
We're both on P4, W1. L3, and not good enough to retain middle tier status.
The win in Toulouse was a bonus, but we threw it away at the Rec, and also led early on at your gaff, where not for the first time, our discipline was awful.
Roby and Bennion are out injured for around 6/8 weeks, which is not good news, as they'd both be in the seventeen every week if fit.
COME ON YOU LIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spelly.
Lions 50-22 Dews, and a great win for us, taking us to a nose-bleed seventh on the ladder!
Dec Patton was superb, and showed what a quality footballer he is throughout the contest, in particular with his pin-point kick for (DR) Ritson's second, and our final try, before adding the extras to it from the touchline to bring up the half-century as he hooter sounded.
Apparently, today was the first time we've hit the fifty mark in Championship football.
We're at the Shay next week, and it'll be interesting how they bonce back after their stuffing by Sheff today.
Spelly.
J
Question - Has any team won twice in Toulouse as we've just done?
I don't know the answer, but there can't be many.
Fev perhaps? They won a play-off game there a season or so back, but have they won in the league?
Fev won in Toulouse in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019 and 2023, which isn't to detract from a stunning win for Swinton!
J
Question - Has any team won twice in Toulouse as we've just done?
I don't know the answer, but there can't be many.
Fev perhaps? They won a play-off game there a season or so back, but have they won in the league?
Fev won in Toulouse in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019 and 2023, which isn't to detract from a stunning win for Swinton!
Thanks mate!
Spelly.
We have Vaughan and Ritson in our squad again tomorrow at 'Fax, under the DR agreement with Saints.
Both had good games last week against Dewsbury, so hopefully they can make a similar impact over at the Shay.
It'll be far from easy for us, as 1) They'll have been bollocked up and down after that stuffing off Sheff, and.......
2) They'll still think that they "owe us one" after the final game of '23, when not only did we secure our middle tier status, we kyboshed their top six aspirations at the same time.
COME ON YOU LIONS!!!!!!!
Spelly
Just back from the Shay, where it finished...........
'Fax 12-28 Lions, and we're up to a nose-bleed fifth on the ladder!
After their dicking off Sheff last week, I thought "They're gonna push us big style today!" But.............
Five tries to two tells its own story, with the middle one of the five, being an outrageous flick back from Gibson, for Abram to touch down between the sticks, and.................
For once, we scored on the interval, rather than conceding!
We taunted the hosts with.................
"How crunchie must you be? We're winning away!" and.........
"You're even worse than Dewsbury!" and.......
"You're getting sacked in the morning!" and.......
"Going down, going down, going down!"
Proud to be a Lion, and...........
The Bulls are our visitors next week.
Spelly.
That was a bloody good win, but there is definitely something wrong at Halifax, they have strong squad but its just not happening on the pitch.