bromleybulldog

OK, was in the long stand and difficult to see and I can never understand a word that John Miller announces on the tannoy !

Moore Walshaw White

Was Liu, I think, not Gill who scored the last try

At 0-14 really feared the worst, too many silly mistakes , obvious lack of confidence but the two quick tries before HT were a major turning point. The second half was completely different . Total control , brilliant tackling stifled Sheffield out of the game. JK already working his magic. Great win

Great. At 11'00 there were only 19 names on the RFL site. Atkinson and Manu since added. Hope Manu is fit, he's key to our team.

Looks like JK playing both the Wakefield and Bradford cards. Three Bradford and one Trinity players in the squad. Only 19 players named and no Manu (injured???)

A smart appointment. We probably won't be playing champagne football but that's not what's needed at the moment. Hard work, commitment, teamwork are I think the things he values most- and exactly what we need at the moment.Welcome and good luck John.

Get well soon, Rog!

Great to see Lucas Walshaw named in the squad for Sunday . Even better to see Brandon Moore's name there.

Signed for Hunslet

The silence is deafening

Well, what can we say? I don't really think asking the chairman and board to resign is a realistic option at the moment but as I posted on 12 December 2024 the current situation could and should have been foreseen. We entered this season with a ridiculously small squad and and a worryingly ageing group of players. As I said then, the plan looked to be to rely on DR from Wakefield if we needed to. Well, we have had injuries (far too many unfortunately), some of our older players are beginning to suffer and, surprise, surprise, our DR partners have had injuries as well. The fact that we only have six points so far is not a surprise, this is a very competitive league but what should be worrying the club is not the results but the performances. We have looked completely off the pace in far too many recent matches. I'm sure the coach is a nice guy and giving 100% but something is wrong at the moment. Team spirit seems to have evaporated, our defence, usually our strong point, is a disaster. Is this down to coaching or the players? I believe that our players are much better than they have been demonstrating recently but on the basis of recent games it's difficult to keep on defending them. At the moment we look to be certain to be involved in the bottom 4 play off group at the end of the season and with Hunslet showing signs of life recently it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that we could end up bottom of the pile. It's only going to need one of the Division one teams to show some form and we could easily find ourselves joining our neighbours next year in the lower division. This is not somewhere we want to be, Dewsbury haven't had a single home game in the whole of May, goodness knows what their finances are like.The worst case scenario is the club do nothing, we reach the end of season playoffs and as in the previous seasons we have a broken squad carrying injuries, DR can't help and as last year we can't even name 18 players for what might be our most important games of the year. I know the club doesn't have much money but clearly some action needs to be taken now while the season still has time to run to try and turn our fortunes round. Either we need a new coaching team or we need new players. If the board do nothing it looks increasingly certain that the only good thing about next season will be that we have the local derbies back.

and no Jack Render either. Does anyone have any update on Lucas Walshaw's injury? Was hoping to have seen him back by now.

Still no Walshaw in squad

Came away from that game very happy, not disappointed at all After 25 minutes it looked like we were in for another hammering, no organisation, looked beaten already then Wardy came on and with one run the whole feeling of the game changed Thought Kear was immense, he did a mountain of work, as stated above, all the DR players put in a real shift and in the end we could and maybe should have won but after the recent performances this was a massive improvement and something that really cheered me up.Well done to all 17 players (once they got over the first 25 minutes slow start)