STEVE P

.....and there the similarity ends.

Ignoramus nothing. He must be as thick as the proverbial pig poo. (polite word used on purpose). I could tell you the true Dewsbury colours as soon as I could talk, long before I was 2 years old. It's not rocket science, in fact there wasn't a great deal of rocket science at that time anyway.

Journalists are like psychiatrists. If nobody had ever come up with the phrase '' How does it feel.....'' then neither of them would have anything to say.

Granted, remember how badly the first pitch that was laid there ponged. BTW, thanks for your sympathetic response to my earlier post.

I seem to remember a similar covenant when Mrs MacLaren bequeathed the land at the side of Barley Mow which then became Bramley's home. What's there now? As for the houses on the top of a coal mine it used to be said that the closer to the pit head you got the less likely you were to have subsidence. Don't know how true that was but it is certain that some of the buildings at the pit had been there a very long time when it closed.

I think that I'm on the verge of deciding that this is the end for me already. I certainly won't be there next Wednesday. If nobody can be arsed to tell us what is happening, specifically addressing the Dewsbury fans, then I can't be arsed to turn up and hand over £20 to gamble on whether the team have been instructed in a game plan that gives them a chance or even makes the slightest bit of sense. Then again, I'm just one of the people who pay their money season by season to stand and watch the game. In the greater scheme of things the power of our pound is nothing compared to that of the telly people. We matter not a jot. The game is being changed on the field to suit the cameras. The skill factor of genius individuals has been removed from the game, and everything from youngsters of promise, through a decent share of the rewards of the game to any hope of improvement has been sucked out of the lower leagues Rugby League as I knew and loved as a youngster has gone forever. Good luck to those who run it with what is left

Don't blame you mate. How is the community effort to get a team back on the pitch over there going? Good luck with it all.

Brearley Bailey sold a house belonging to the club and used the proceeds to buy Alvin Newall around whom a team was built which evolved into the side that won the championship. The old ground was eventually sold, then sold on at a profit barely before a sod was turned. What money did come to the club bought a good workable ground and helped put together a side that eventually became the one that in theory qualified for Super League, but the club decided not to go for it. Do you think that some of the money from this new sale will be used to generate a new era of excitement and relative success? Short lived as such things tend to be it would nice for a change, but I'm not holding my breath.

Can we really believe that somebody is going to spend 10million pounds on our ground, use it for 4 years and then go away and leave us to it??? We are being shagg ed, and I'm sorry to say that the perpetrators are not only based further west on the A62.

This whole thing keeps going backwards and forwards with all of us catching snippets of gossip and seemingly no corroboration for any of it. I'll be glad when the announcement finally comes. If the future of the Dewsbury club is linked to the announcement in any way we have to hope that it is all for the good of the club. No doubt it will be spun that way, and you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. There is however no harm in having a quick squint underneath it to make sure there are no trap doors there, out of which will pour the Greeks when it drops dark.

Yes, you do have to say that all round Hunslet were the better side, and losing Addy early on was never going to help. Someone else said they noticed him being assessed on the field just before kick off. That was right in front of where we were standing and it did indeed look like a last minute fitness test. Hope he will be OK for next week.

You sort of miss my point. Whether or not you subscribe to the idea that professional sportsmen shouldn't be asked to perform more than once a week the fact remains that we had to. That was where we were. Presumably the coaching team remembered that was what had happened, yet they sent the team out with a game plan that played directly on our own perceived weakness. If the team is young and still learning, as we keep being told. then perhaps a bit more and better direction from their mentors would help them to learn a bit quicker.

As I said, we'll just have to wait and see.

I just so hope for you that, before the end of the season, you see Delaney or Graham score from somebody's kick. I feel that there is much that you will be able to forgive if and when that happens.

The three matches in eight days excuse doesn't really cut it. If we were tired why try to make the game into a muscle contest. We have the smallest pack in the professional game, yet we continually revert to trying to win games down the middle. Our pack is too small, our half backs aren't particularly effective, but our three quarters are our most potent weapon. We are at our most effective as an attacking force when we move the ball about to bring the three quarters into play. You can't blame the coach for not twigging this yet. This is only his third year in the job.