Tyrone Shoelaces

I remember going to the Shay to watch a football match ( 17,000 plus on that night so no prizes for guessing the opposition.) The corner flag areas were turf sat on boards sat on bricks that went out into the speedway track. To take a corner you needed players with one leg shorter than the other ! The boards were removed for the speedway apparently !

For Hornets - Another vote for Frank Myler, both as a coach and a player. When he handed you off you stayed handed off. Overseas signing - Apesi Toga, a colossus, he played teams on his own. Best opponent - Alex Murphy, he was that good he could both play and referee at the same time.

I played football with Peter as a young bloke. He played in front of me on the right wing. He was seriously rapid and very direct but when it came to shooting at goal if he was further out than 20 yards the ball invariably went over the bar. Force of habit I suppose. It was Rugby Leagues gain when he packed in the football. I remember him scoring a try on TV when he picked a loose ball out in the right wing, swerved inside towards the posts and just kept going, beating player after player, until he dived over in the left wing corner. A brilliant try. Thanks for the memories Pete.

Not the greatest final I’ve ever seen. Defences were on top for 90% of the game. If you like to watch an arm wrestle that game was for you. If you were hoping to see some running, attacking rugby yesterday wasn’t it. Were the conditions to blame ? It’s hard to know from the comfort of my sofa. Sneyd was obviously the pick of the playmakers but that was more for his kicking game. Nobody shone in regards to making a line break. Regarding the “ try “ - the lad tried to drop on the ball but he never really had control of what he was trying to do. So “ try “ for me. However I think the rules need clarifying.

Best team lost. That doesn’t happen often in Rugby League.

That’s a really good signing. We just need a couple of big and nasty forwards now.

Yeah, she was poor on Sunday.

Yeah Dan hardly made a mistake. . They must have thought he was a weak link because they kicked to his wing nearly every time. They won’t do that again. His fielding of the high ball was exemplary.

We need more “ go forward “ in the pack. We’ve got some really good backs but they hardly ever had any running chances today.

Did we actually play out a six in the first half ?

Way too many mistakes.

Yeah, way too many unforced errors from the ‘Nets today. Let’s hope we learn from it.

Not at the races today. It was a bit like the Workington game, we got enmeshed in a forward battle when we needed to get the ball to our back division. It was a battle we were never going to win. To be honest we were second best for a lot of the game. Midland pinned us in our own half for most of the match. When we got near their line we looked dangerous but we didn’t get there anything like often enough. Credit to Midland who are well organised hard working team. We were out enthused, out ran and out tackled by a good team. They’re not bad at refereeing the game either, they appeal for anything and everything. An aspect of the game that is creeping in and needs to be stamped out before our game gets like football.

Doug, the story I got was - the football club had asked us to move the game to the Saturday because they were expecting to be playing at home on the Sunday. That went #### up when they lost an earlier game so they weren’t playing on the Sunday after all. We then contacted Midland Hurricanes in an attempt to move the game back to Sunday. By that time they and their players had made alternative arrangements, so they politely declined. Maybe Salvadoro Daley can fill us in as to what game was lost that meant the football club no longer needed to play at home next Sunday ?

A rude awakening for the Vikings. They never stopped trying but Hornets won without really having to reach top form for most of the game.