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50 minutes ago, SUPERSTUD said:
I attended so I will try my best to give my honest opinion. Neither team will win any awards for defending. The referee did not influence the game either way. 50 points flattered Swinton although they were worthy winners. Quite a few try’s conceded came from our own mistakes and failure to retain the ball. Now to the deciding factors. Swinton had more heart
than most of our players. They ran harder and believed in themselves more. Some of our players are simply not fit enough and they are not Championship standard players. We possess an odd few who are and my lord Reverend do I feel sorry for them. We have players who are taking a wage and doing hardly any minutes whilst others are slogging their guts out for the full eighty. For any observer who possesses an ounce of knowledge it is quickly becoming a shino show. We need reinforcements and we need them quick.
I think that’s a good summary and I can’t really add to that. Listening to DF’s report he suggested that we went away from what the team practised. I think I’ve heard that before, so like not playing the ball properly and allowing set restarts for the opposition, we don’t learn.
Does it help if I say we won the penalty count? I thought not.
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Returning to the topic, if we play for ALL of the game instead of half of it, I would say victory would be ours. Unfortunately I don’t think we can manage full throttle for 80 minutes and coupled with Swinton’s good performances so far, once again we will come away pointless.
Swinton 28-16 Dewsbury
FTS: Dixon
MoM: Dawson
Att: 676
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If Lewis Carr’s touchdown was ruled out for a forward pass, shouldn’t their second try also been have disallowed?
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This match turned out to be the proverbial game of two halves cliché. Barrow’s tactic for playing into the wind was excellent, winning the ball from both the kick off and the repeat after our early try following your brilliant start, coupled with our deplorable defence, in what I suggested on our forum, was a dross first half for Dewsbury.
I thought that the long half time break would make things worse for us, but for some reason we seemed inspired, very similar to your first half. We ended the first half with a try being disallowed, which I thought might have been okay. Shaw was denied for you at the start of the second period, but I was unable to see why from my viewing position. From that point we were off. Did we play well, or did Barrow not play so good?
A really good game to watch with very few penalties (3-2 to Barrow), fair refereeing and some enjoyable chats with some of your supporters afterwards and handshakes offered and accepted, before the long journey home.
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It was certainly that old cliché today -a game of two halves!
We were absolutely dross in the first period. We had to drop out in the first minute after Barrow collected from the kick off, then knocked on in the first tackle of our first set and they scored after 5 minutes We struck immediately with some good work by Sykes and Dawson almost put Greensmith over and then Hookem passed to Dawson who did score.
That was our moment of glory, except for Carr going over, but a forward pass ruled out the score. The home side then went mad through good play, coupled with our shocking defence. Four tries in ten minutes smashed us, making it 26-4 at the break.
An extended (45 minutes) HT break due to the club doctor having to deal with an off-field emergency made me wonder if that would go against us, but it was completely the opposite. After the Barrow winger had a try disallowed this got us on the front foot with Hookem scoring, followed by Restall going over near the corner and Sykes converting both. Suddenly it was 26-16 and we wondered if we could do it. Ten minutes elapsed before some quick passing put Greensmith in a gap to touchdown, but Sykes failed with the conversion.
That was it for us and a drop goal at the end made the gap 7 points, but I do believe that if we’d had a little more time we could have got the points.
I thought Harry Copley, on at full back, gave us an idea of his talent on his debut, with Davies and Hookem playing well, as did Billington.
Came away quite pleased in the end, but we have to learn to play for 80 minutes, not forty.
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Based on last week’s BIG disappointment, I reckon we shall see the Raiders gain their second win of the season.
Barrow 30-10 Dewsbury
FTS: Davies
MoM: Copley (on his debut!)
Att; 1553
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On 10/04/2024 at 17:17, ghost of uncle fester said:
Think barrow will win reasonably comfortable tbut they do have some very dangerous players particularly on the edges in the likes of greensmith and whitely and Carr out the back ,saw there game against Batley and at times looked pretty impressive ,I'm going 26-8 ISH
If we play like we did against Batley, then you’ve no chance!
If we play like we did against Widnes, it’ll be all yours!
I think it will be the latter unfortunately.
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On 10/04/2024 at 13:58, RedAndGoldArmy said:
Jordan Weir and David Seeds, the guys who cover Haven for BBC Cumbria, are two of the best local commentators out there.
Call it as they see it, knowledgable and not afraid to give praise to the non-Cumbrian team.
Didn’t David Seeds play for ‘Haven?
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On 07/04/2024 at 18:10, Keep The Faith said:
Our halves again couldn’t open a tin of beans… we gave 100% effort but no creativity or execution…
Same for us st Dewsbury.
We didn’t have the rain you had at Halifax though.
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We might offer grit and determination, but without creativity we will not get far. I don’t think Widnes were that brilliant, but their attacking speed and passing was quick whereas we were once again slow and the lack of someone (or two) backing up ought to be a worry. Get that sorted and we might do something.
Three player changes today and that made a big difference, but why should it? The only positive thing about today was that we scored.
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I don’t think we will win this one. Look at it this way:
we lost to Halifax
Bradford were too good for Halifax last week
Widnes won easily in the CC at Bradford
Widnes come to us winning two from two.
On the other hand:
Batley overcame Widnes in the CC
we were too good for Batley on Good Friday!
My prediction:
Dewsbury 12-24 Widnes
FTS: Restall
MoM: Dawson
Att: 1223
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5 hours ago, thehullram said:
Good to get a win under our belts last week, think we have a chance against Widnes this week.
What changes (if any) would you make from the team v Batley? Anyone know how long Graham is out for? Hopefully we get the 3 Huddersfield lads again, as think that makes a big difference to the strength we are able to have on the bench (where I think we have struggled this season already without them).
Hopefully, with them being top, and our result last week, we should get a decent crowd.
According to League Express, Fergie suggested Brad will be out “for a month or two”!
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Some may disagree, but I maintain that defence wins games and I believe it was proved so this evening. We soaked up all that the Batley attacking line threw at us and against the run of play, O’Connor burst through a gap to surge downfield. Here. I hoped for back up and was pleased to see Davies was there, not alongside, but near enough to take the pass and finish off the move.
We hadn’t been nilled!
I do like to see an interception and one scored against our old enemy was sweet to see, with Whiteley haring down the wing to touchdown.
The other two tries from Billington were from some good hard work by the team.
I reckon we won the penalty count 9-4, but those set restarts against us are becoming all too regular.
See my score prediction-totally wrong and I couldn’t be more pleased.
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I’m not sure that we are settled enough to win today, but we with Ronan Dixon back, he might give us a bit more impetus.
My idea of Ferguson’s selection:
Restal; Carr, O’Connor, Greensmith, Whiteley; Rush, Turner; Beckett, Hookem, Ronan Dixon; Garside, Dawson; Collinson.
Subs: Billington, Bibby, Davies, Marcus Walker.
18th man: Morris.
Dewsbury 12-20 Batley
FTS: Turner
MoM: O’Connor
Att; 1220
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3 hours ago, NickD said:
Interesting KO time....Is one to have tea (Dinner if tha is Southern) afore the match or after? At my age such routines matter...
I shall dine awfterwards, allowing my dinner jacket an airing after being pressed and giving me time to tie my dicky bow.
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I thought that Halifax were little better than us. They probably caught us out with their quicker passing along the line and running onto the ball. Our style appears to be to pass at a slower pace, sometimes passing for the sake of it. We have individuals keen to force their way through, but nobody to back up that individual to force an error by our opponents.
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Dewsbury 6-36 Halifax
Try scorer: Beckett
MoM: Davies
Att: 949
Unless March in these early stages with us, has managed to gel the team into some attacking ideas, I can’t see us scoring many tries until our players have had some time with him, hence my score prediction. It might take a bit of time, it’s a long season, so not too bothered at the moment.
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For what it’s worth, her is my prediction:
1 Wakefield
2 Toulouse
3 Sheffield
4 Featherstone
5 Bradford
6 York
7 Halifax
8 Batley
9 Swinton
10 Widnes
11 Doncaster
12 Barrow
13 Dewsbury
14 Whitehaven
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1 hour ago, NickD said:
half decent was 100% tongue in cheek. My dad reckons he was best at centre...
Centre was the position in which I mostly recall him playing; he was just as good at full back and stand off, but playing on the wing was probably his most notable playing spot.
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23 hours ago, Blind side johnny said:
We will get plenty of enthusiasm and old-fashioned motivation from him, that's for sure.
Do you mean motivation like Tony Fisher’s motivation?
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I remember him as a player for Leeds, perhaps mostly for his knack of avoiding being tackled and as coach with us.
His bald head (hair around the sides and back) made him look old before his time, like Cliff Broadhead, who was a loose forward for Dewsbury.-
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Pity we are not allowed in. I’d have liked to watch it.
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Better defence today, but, as stated above, we still lack ideas on attack. For four successive games we have failed to score in the second half, Huddersfield, Keighley, Bradford and today, that should be worrying as it looks like we run out of ideas and steam too. The winning try came from a second half build of York pressure and our tiring defence, which was more of a set of individuals trying to defend rather than a defending team with a strategy. Earlier in the second half, from a lengthy attacking stint with the help of a set restart, we should have made an attempt at a drop goal. That might just have sealed it at that point (no pun intended).
We should also note that York left out a number of their top players.
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On current form (or lack of it) I think another defeat is on the cards.
Dewsbury 6-32 York
Try scorer: Carr.
MoM: O’Connor
Att: 673
South stand renaming - Saturday 4th May - Dewsbury v Toulouse
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I very much doubt that the South Stand will be open; we shall have to sit and view his name from across (assuming his name is already in situ).