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York up 10-4 at HT

York up 10-4 at HT

Boothroyd and Hatton both missing, I guess these will be the injuries. Gale at centre and Hardy in SR.

Wynne O'Connor Vuniyayawa

Not really sure where all this 'Lord of the forum' has come from. In all honesty my guess is the mods on our forum have a lot less to do than on other forums. A forum is a media for having your input, and exchange points of view with like minded individuals, we don't always agree and some will post more than others. It doesn't make their point of view more valid, just more often than not they will share information that we might not all be aware of. Fully agree with the need to get more people back to the stadium on match days, personally I have just missed the friendly with Huddersfield and the Bradford game when I was out of the country. We need to get more bums on seats. I also think the players seemed to appreciate the vocal encouragement in the second half, we need to get behind the team, it does make a difference.

Hampshire Vuniwayaya Aekins

Aekins Hardcastle Hatton

Wynne Aekins Williams

If destination 'Super league' is decided by performance on the field, I am quite happy to be mocked on failure. We at Fev lost 2 MPG's then bottled it against London, quite happy for anyone to take the <<oops I tried to get around the swear filter and failed>> at our misfortune, and many did, including many 'Northern' fans. As long as your team play on a postage stamp, rely on your inflated attendance figures and your 'bonus' for being a 'city' to boost your IMG score don't expect that people will not mock you. Your team are living on past glories, something that you will not achieve if you continue to inhabit the dump that is Odsal. As I said, I can't believe that 38 people thought that Bradford would win, even if there are 20 Bradford fans who frequent this forum, and all 20 voted for Bradford to win, that means there are 18 forum members who, after watching Bradford get mullered by Toulouse, thought that Bradford would win. Totally unbelievable.

Soon to be followed by bankruptcy and a RFL bailout.... dream on.

Most Fev fans have very little expectations with the current injuries, but hopefully we will pick up when we actually get some HB's. Fortunately we are not giving it the big 'uns on being the next big thing.. at least not for the last year and this. I just can't understand how 38 people thought Northern would win

Well... it looks like 'Postage stamp pitch dwellers' Northern, could beat a ram shackled, dis-illusioned, red devils. Who would have though... There can't be much in salary cap between the 2 teams yet still Bradford come up short yet again... happy days.

Hardcastle Beckett Aekins

Aekins Olpherts Beckett

Got those with just 6 incorrect attempts.

Webb Hatton Olpherts

Ageed, Fevnut is really good. We also have another really good stats guy in marklaspalmas. There is a vey good site for looking at everything Fev (just in case you are interested), just follow the link. Fev Archive

Welcome Lucy, As I am sure you will find we are a strange lot on here. All very passionate, and I gather a fair mix of young to middle aged optimists and older traditionalists. I'm sure you will be able to pick out who fits in which category. It doesn't matter which side we sit on, we are all passionate about the game of rugby league, but like politics and peoples opinions on how to run the country, we all have different opinions on what is best for RL. I am a traditionalist, live in Wakefield, but support Featherstone (where I was born), and I am retired. As such I believe in P&R, if you win your league you should go up, but with caveats on minimum standards. One of my relatives has a single number heritage number for Wakefield (played in their first side). Saying that, we are all very tribal, with not a lot of love for our near neighbours (well not on game day anyway) even across families. I have many friends and in-laws who are Wakefield fans. Like many on here, I played the game. I played at various levels of the open age amateur game for 27 years and enjoyed every minute and never criticise anyone who has the guts to cross the whitewash and play, but it's definitely not mandatory. So I hope you enjoy you time on here, never take things personally as it does get heated sometimes, and enjoy yourself. I can see that you have nearly made 25% of the posts I have made, and I have been on here forever (well 15 years ish). Enjoy.

I enjoyed listening to that, even though I am not a York supporter. Played under Paul Mac 20 odd years ago, a good bloke and you can tell he still has a passion for the game. I am sure that they will do really well this season, just hope not against Fev

It will be interesting as to whether Tuimavave is fit. He played half a game against Dewsbury and half a game against Waterhead. At the back end of the first half against Waterhead he seemed to be holding his hamstring, and then didn't come out for the second half. He hasn't been seen since, injured or the bug? If he is injured then Hatton and O'Connor both play, otherwise it is a difficult decision as neither has done anything wrong all through pre-season / CC. Really looking forward to the start of the league campaign.

I believe the number was 99989, so no you haven't.

Lacans Beckett Williams

Hardcastle O'Connor Herring

46-6

New contract for darts coverage. Guessing that this will add to the conversation on how much darts is valued. To quote the article Darts is now Sky’s biggest sport outside of football by viewing figures. The previous PDC World Darts Championship final between. Luke Littler and Luke Humphries saw a 150% increase in the TV audience, compared to the final before (between Michael Smith and Michael van Gerwen).