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[GETEMONSIDE]

Town 42 - 8 Gateshead
Sheffield 42 - 8 Jam eating neighbours

[town88]

Town 36-12
Sheffield 58- 10

[scott]

20-18
20-0

[Frank C]

Disappointed I cant make it across today (I am recovering from a recent spell in hospital), I have always enjoyed my trips to Worky if very rarely the result - Town are one of the sides in this division Thunder fans have developed an affinity with.

I am hoping we have improved, but we always seem to struggle with the big hairy arsed west cumbrian packs you turn out. I think the 36-12 prediction to Town might not be far away.

Not going to predict the Haven score, but I bet every Sheffield point comes from forward passes and Sheffield are never more than 5m away at the Haven play the ball - at least that is how John Cox sees it.

Hoping to get across for the league game.

Gan canny

Gary (formerly Thunder Muskateer)

[Bearintown]

Town won 82-0 so you were all a mile out!

[OttO]

Disappointed I cant make it across today (I am recovering from a recent spell in hospital), I have always enjoyed my trips to Worky if very rarely the result - Town are one of the sides in this division Thunder fans have developed an affinity with.

I am hoping we have improved, but we always seem to struggle with the big hairy arsed west cumbrian packs you turn out. I think the 36-12 prediction to Town might not be far away.

Not going to predict the Haven score, but I bet every Sheffield point comes from forward passes and Sheffield are never more than 5m away at the Haven play the ball - at least that is how John Cox sees it.

Hoping to get across for the league game.

Gan canny

Gary (formerly Thunder Muskateer)

Sad to hear you couldn't make it Gary......

Get well soon mate..... and hopefully I'll see you when we play you over there!!!

[wonky]

well i never seen that coming.awesome from town.stack,kaighan,shacks,patrick were all outstanding.but ginge and coward were superb,both playing there best games for town.and if theres a better player in this league than matty then i would love to see him.because he is excellant,creates so much and everything he does is top drawer,and weve finally found luntys replacement.theres a saying that speed kills and town have that in abundance.excellant from 1-17.

[LA HORNET]

well i never seen that coming.awesome from town.stack,kaighan,shacks,patrick were all outstanding.but ginge and coward were superb,both playing there best games for town.and if theres a better player in this league than matty then i would love to see him.because he is excellant,creates so much and everything he does is top drawer,and weve finally found luntys replacement.theres a saying that speed kills and town have that in abundance.excellant from 1-17.

What was the Town team ?

[dkw]

Nice to see today after several years of being on the end of some drubbings and being pretty poor (other than last year). Some outstanding rugby played today, and great to see props and 2nd rowers with some belting passing skills, and kicking skills from Shacks. Incredibly we still had 2 old blokes stood next to us moaning and whinging, and then they left early as they hated seeing us win like that. Some people arent happy unless they are miserable.

[Keith T]

Town team was :-

1. Carter
2. Dawes
3. Patrick
4. Mossop
5. Miller
6. Bainbridge
7. Kaighan
8. Jackson
9. Mattinson
10. Coward
11. McKenna
12. Stack
13. Olstrum

14. Pedley
15. Shackley
16. MacDonald
17. Robinson

[Derwent]

You have to laugh at those bitter Haven lot.

Town beat Gateshead 82-0 and according to them it was only because Gateshead are the worst side in RL. They are hailing their result at Sheffield as being wonderful, while conveniently forgetting that Sheffield only beat this "worst side in RL" by 12 points last week.

That lunatic Boxer even thinks that they can beat Halifax next week !

Anyway, well done Town we're certainly going in the right direction. Lets have a big effort at Hunslet next week, that'll be a true measure of our improvement.

[dkw]

You have to laugh at those bitter Haven lot.

Town beat Gateshead 82-0 and according to them it was only because Gateshead are the worst side in RL. They are hailing their result at Sheffield as being wonderful, while conveniently forgetting that Sheffield only beat this "worst side in RL" by 12 points last week.

That lunatic Boxer even thinks that they can beat Halifax next week !

Anyway, well done Town we're certainly going in the right direction. Lets have a big effort at Hunslet next week, that'll be a true measure of our improvement.

We were saying the same thing on the way home, our next 2 matches will give us more of a handle on where we are at the moment. The derby matches can never be taken as an indicator of form and Gateshead were pretty poor (though not taking anything away from our ruthlesness). Cant wait till next sunday to see where were currently stand.

[anok4u]

AWESOME that display was the best ive seen in years,we have come up against worse gateshead teams than that and struggled a win..1 to 17 played well (even our rubbish backs haven fans even them)

[LA HORNET]

Town team was :-

1. Carter
2. Dawes
3. Patrick
4. Mossop
5. Miller
6. Bainbridge
7. Kaighan
8. Jackson
9. Mattinson
10. Coward
11. McKenna
12. Stack
13. Olstrum

14. Pedley
15. Shackley
16. MacDonald
17. Robinson

Good strong bench, how did Karl Olstrum go today

[Keith T]

Good strong bench, how did Karl Olstrum go today

Karl Olstrum had a good game and is coming on in leaps and bounds. If I had to give marks out of 10 for all the Town team they would all have got "9's" today. To score 82 points against any opposition is good going but to also keep them to nil shows that the defence was 100% as well. Another thing that I noticed was that there was much more smiling and togetherness amongst the lads, a very good sign for some hard matches ahead. We even had the choir singing "Happy Birthday" to Jarrad Stack, 22 today, what a prospect he is.

[Keith T]

You have to laugh at those bitter Haven lot.

Town beat Gateshead 82-0 and according to them it was only because Gateshead are the worst side in RL. They are hailing their result at Sheffield as being wonderful, while conveniently forgetting that Sheffield only beat this "worst side in RL" by 12 points last week.

That lunatic Boxer even thinks that they can beat Halifax next week !

Anyway, well done Town we're certainly going in the right direction. Lets have a big effort at Hunslet next week, that'll be a true measure of our improvement.

I wouldn't worry too much about what Boxer says. One day he might even go and watch Haven actually play a game!!!

[LA HORNET]

Karl Olstrum had a good game and is coming on in leaps and bounds. If I had to give marks out of 10 for all the Town team they would all have got "9's" today. To score 82 points against any opposition is good going but to also keep them to nil shows that the defence was 100% as well. Another thing that I noticed was that there was much more smiling and togetherness amongst the lads, a very good sign for some hard matches ahead. We even had the choir singing "Happy Birthday" to Jarrad Stack, 22 today, what a prospect he is.

Thanks for that Keith, i spoke to Karl last week and he said he was enjoying himself at town and the team were bonding well together and looking forward to the season

[dkw]

Thanks for that Keith, i spoke to Karl last week and he said he was enjoying himself at town and the team were bonding well together and looking forward to the season

Great news for us. Karl looks a great prospect, runs above his weight at times and has some lovely touches. Doesnt shirk the tackling either, looking forward to seeing how he progresses and hopefully he will have a good impact for us this season.

[griffin4]

I was more pleased with the rugby town played today than the final result if you know what i mean. It was good to watch. Well done all concerned! Also looking at what some of the haven fans are writing about their game today i am convinced some of them have lost the plot.

[anok4u]

boxer is the chief twonk isnt he,he must have taken over from chocy while he is on his hollidays..the thing i liked most about today was for once we used our heads,we scored some very well worked tries,also it showed we have strength in depth the players that were brought in did very well didnt they,ive been told by my jam friends that john patrick isnt that good how wrong they are,he had a great game and looked solid well done him....