Phil

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Keighley Cougars were just edged 32-34 by Batley in a friendly at Cougar Park. The Cougars will be playing friendlies with a view to entering the league in 2026 They’re also still looking for players, contact me on here if you’re interested

Beat them with 12 men after Halafihi was red carded

They played as well as Fax let ‘em

Fair enough, all I’ll say is I haven’t a dog in this particular fight

Recorded the game and just watched it, our commentary teams are so poor compared with the aussies, no pretence of neutrality just a massive Saints love in.

They experimented with that back when I was on the list, it didn’t work, the players “number off” against the attacking line and look to the play the ball to move up out of defence, they can’t do that and look at the tj. We discussed how it was going at half time and abandoned it, we reported our experience to the RFL who accepted our decision

Yeah absolutely

Chin not attached to the head then?

I certainly think a few 10 metres back for dissent would go a long way to sorting this out

I think it was

Don’t be so soft

You’re not allowed to grab hold of or restrain an opponent who isn’t in possession of the ball As I’ve said I didn’t have a dog in this fight but that was scandalous I don’t think the game is bent, but I can understand why some would after seeing that

I haven’t got a dog in this fight but by heck Cas have been badly done to tonight

Chris Anderson at Halifax, transformed us from a club split between an Aussie and an English faction into a team who won a championship and a challenge cup and were challenge cup runners up in successive seasons