glemiln

“There's only one Roughyeds.” Actually, quite a lot from my recollection of some Friday nights ‘wandering’ from Rochdale!

I try to remember when he could turn the world around. (For the oldies!)

26-25 loss. Guess it was rather tense in the last minutes, after our potential 78min winning drop goal and the ref in line for a Keighley bouquet for their 80min penalty-at the hooter! Unfortunately, we conceded 5 tries.

It’s not often I get to watch Hornets live these days, but I was disappointed in our total performance, in particular the lack of integrated attack. Ormskirknet’s final paragraph says it all.

Hornets 26 -0 down at half-time… now 32 -6

Beat this rendition!

Any considerations for the two games to be played at the Crown? Great weather and a top crowd.

Our excellent 18 - 32 victory today augurs well for our season. Hopefully we shall meet t’other side of Royton somewhere!

Welcome and good luck to the Aussie lads. Perhaps they will be announced to the ‘crowd’ for Friday’s game with Swinton. Typical, the weather is expected to be wet!

“They have cited financial issues and a failure to secure overseas investment as the reason for their departure from the professional game”…… Matt Newsum, BBC Sport rugby league reporter Cornwall's withdrawal from rugby league's professional ranks brings a premature end to an experiment which was always going to be a challenge from the start. The smallest division in the professional game has the smallest trickle down of incomes and yet with Cornwall at one extreme and Whitehaven and Newcastle at the other, arguably the widest geographical spread within UK-based teams and was always going to bite at the finances in terms of travel and costs. For the Rugby Football League, it marks another club lost from the league, after London Skolars withdrew for 2024, but will bring the division back to an even number. It will be interesting to see whether rugby league's foray into the Duchy has a left a footprint in terms of the community game, and whether it will dissuade other ambitious clubs away from the heartlands such as Anglian Vipers from attempting their own push for the professional game.

I would think that both league and union should be very ready for this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/articles/cg5d9546zzeo

Any details….for an exile?

Ht. Oldham 16 Hornets 6…..2 late first half tries. Ft. Oldham 58 Hornets 6 !!! A long half for our spectators. Hopefully saving our best for the league! Hope Ben Will is ok

For sure! Good luck and keep watching for missiles as you get closer to Oldham.

927 for Hornets v Keighley -considering the lousy weather, a good start for the campaign to get up to 1500. Next week’s “1895” cup match visit to Oldham (1300 yesterday) should be noisy, with a sunny weather forecast too. Any news on Else’s injury?