Rambo

Nor was Mr Sawyer

Strange how our ground is now deemed suitable for SL rugby when it wasn’t in 2000?

Even though we were well beaten today. It was good to have the option of standing in the South Stand. Thanks to the volunteers involved in making it happen.

Just finished watching our play off games against Featherstone and Keighley in the run upto the Northern Ford Grand Final win. Was great hearing Ned doing the team talk before, during and after the games. What a great motivator. Fantastic to see the ground so full and a real buzz around the stadium too.

I wouldn’t disagree either. We (Dewsbury) have managed to put a side on the park for the last 2 decades, kept the lights on and little else. The amateur clubs mentioned have all run junior, open age and ladies sides and been a force for good in their communities. Hopefully we can forge better links with these teams for the benefit of RL in the town going forward.

Thanks for posting. Great memories. Would be great to see the game from 1996 when we beat Hull FC 12-10 at home. Also the game when we played Swinton circa 1994 when there were multiple sins bins and red cards for fighting. Think there was a floodlight failure too.

Isn’t our capacity around 5500? A bit of development behind the other set of sticks wouldn’t leave us too far short of 8k and would be a lot easier than building a stadium from scratch. I’m sure Ken could find some loose change down the back of the sofa to fund it. A ground share with a football team could be good - Ossett United or maybe Emley (if they climbed the football pyramid) might make some sense. I think Ossett was in the pipeline some years ago but their members turned it down when Tesco wanted to buy their ground.

Were we denied promotion by the RFL then and if so what was the reason they gave? Or did the club turn down the opportunity of promotion? I remember talk of taking games to Sheffield or temporary stands been erected but that maybe just my memory playing tricks on me.

Took a look at the squad page on the club website tonight and it appears shirt numbers have now been allocated.... https://dewsburyrams.co.uk/squad/ Coates and Hookem been given the 6&7 jerseys.

Both are excellent. No complaints. The traditional one is done well and the white strip a nice nod to the Northern Ford winning team of 2000 some 25 years on.

It got rejected unsurprisingly as SL clubs self interest won the day. 14 clubs were for and 16 against with 10 clubs abstaining from the vote. I’d like to see a list of which way individual clubs voted.

Playing sport after 2pm on a Saturday or Sunday near housing - absolutely disgraceful !!! I’m sure councillor Firth uses his Dewsbury tie during press engagements surely he is fighting our corner on this one???

Wakefield & Cas both grade A clubs apparently.

Thoroughly deserved. Should score a lot of tries at Fev. If he goes well it wouldn’t surprise me if he gets a go at a lower end SL team as he’s only young. Not sure where Callum Turner will fit in though. I wouldn’t of thought he’d be good enough for Fev.

Only getting winning pay once in 26 games?