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It was a great night, got to speak to the players - some of whom don't look much different than they did quarter of a century ago. Well done to all those who organised and turned up.

The only competition for which loop fixtures might actually be a decent idea.

I really like the 1895, great chance for lower league clubs to get to Wembley - it just needs the final to be before the main match. I can't understand the current apathy towards cup competitions. I'd rather Dewsbury win the 1895 Cup and have a day out at Wembo to remember for the ages, rather than another pointless promotion to the Championship followed by immediate relegation. York fans seemed to be loving it last week and were partying with the players in the city's riverside pubs the next day. We should all be making 1895 Cups out of tin foil to hold up at matches as we throng on the terraces. Viva las 1895 Cup.

I watched it again (from behind the sofa). It really was a nailbiter at the end. The games against the star-studded Wigan teams from the 1980s and 90s are also on YouTube. We gave them some good battles. There were moments when they struggled to stop the likes of Dennis Bailey, Nathan Graham, Mark Haigh, Darren Rogers etc.

And here it is again to watch in all its glory. Don't recall a gale though.

Dews 22 Goolies 18 MoM Hookem Att 600 I fear our discipline and concentration will wobble and our new signing will do his knee in but we'll scrape home. Interesting watching the post-match interviews after the Wembley finals. The first thing the winning players mentioned was "togetherness". Do Dewsbury have that?

Think the wet conditions had a lot to do with it but I'd much rather watch close, attritional games like that than high-scoring point fests. Best low scoring Dewsbury game.I remember was the 3-2 win over Hull KR in 1990.

Good game, well done York

A committed second half performance saw us home with better discipline and ball retention. Jamie Gill from Bradford seemed to do the most damage for us, and Hookem and Craig McShane had good games too. A lot of evenly matched teams in League One, just needs more fixtures.

And need to improve our woeful discipline - chelping af the ref, cheap high shots, pointless niggling at the PTBs. We just seem to gift possession to our opponents. Remember Hookem shouting "no penalties" throughout the Goole match and it seemed to work. Then things dropped off from Midlands away. I'm quite confident in us winning if we can complete our sets.

It's awful, I don't know why anyone would want to listen to that and yet it's been going on for years now. The only reason I can think it's played is due to some malign influence, like that of rugby union, to make people switch off. Please stop miking up referees, it sounds bad.

We may have stagnated on the pitch but at least we're (apparently) in the black, have our own ground (which is bloody nice compared to many others) and are giving local players a chance to shine. We're not calling in the receivers or blowing cash we don't have on NRL has-beens, only to get the begging bowl out at the end of the season when it all goes pear-shaped.

Hope to go to this match and have met a few other non-Dewsbury/Hudds fans who also plan to get tickets. Interesting to note on the main board how Huddersfield fans are looking forward to a "better game day experience" at our ground. I'd agree. It can't be much fun rattling around a big soulless soccer stadium and the same can be said of a lot of grounds we travel to see Dewsbury play at. We're very lucky in a lot of ways.

Is this game the reason why the Goole match is being played the night before? Maybe this has been in the pipeline for a while.

I'll pop along to this, if I can get a ticket, and I'm sure a few other Dewsbury fans will too. Hopefully there'll be a deal for Rams fans for what will surely be the only time we get to see a Super League game on our "postage stamp" pitch, as some people like to call it.

I don't get why they've never been given a Magic Weekend match at St James' Park for all these years. I can't think of a better way to promote the club and the sport in the city. For me it should be a central part of the event and it would raise the status of the club massively.

Rumour going round that the Huddersfield v Wigan Super League match is being played at Dewsbury (the ground once deemed below Super League standards).

If we'd gone there to play rugby rather than put in cheap shots and chelp at the referee we would have won that game very easily. What exactly do we do in training?

Nice post Steve, sadly I wasn't born in time to see our 1973 heyday but I have fond memories of the Bamford era, then Mount Pleasant and early new stadium days. 2000 was good but not being allowed in Super League took the edge off it for me. Since then it's been thin gruel but I still enjoy going to matches whatever the outcome. Some memorable 'little victories' in the last decade include beating Bradford something like 30-28 in the Challenge Cup around 2016 on a Friday night after their fans were poking fun at our ground (which they later squatted at) and beating B*tley in the Cup with an extra time drop goal under Ned Kelly in 2017. Turning Halifax over at their place on a Monday night in 2020 when we kept kicking penalties (we had the mighty Connor Scott and Luke Nelmes in our pack then - wish we'd kept them) was brilliant, as was knocking Widnes out of the Cup in 2023 and drubbing Sheffield in the last game of last season when we were rubbish. Heck, any victory is precious now. Can't see us getting one at Haven on Sunday but will still be going.

I remember the first few games under Andy Fisher, they were brilliant. We'd had some off-field turmoil but there was a great team spirit and we just bullied teams into submission. I think we had a fullback called Nathan Batty who would zip through the knackered opposition and score. Of course, it didn't last very long and we were soon getting paggered every week.

I would have predicted us to win this before the last two games but we appear to have regressed. We seem to have lost our competitive edge. Dewsbury 16 Rochdale 18 Att. 668 MoM Hookem

Good luck and enjoyed your write-up (and the parkrun piece), always like seeing the none-M62 clubs doing well, against what seems like increasing apathy (if that's possible) from the so-called heartlands clubs. Hope the Thunder are on the rise soon and look forward to visiting Newcastle in July.

Cheerleaders (who work very hard), a half-time draw that I have never won in almost 40 years, and deafening music pumped through the speakers that is so loud it almost causes involuntary bowel movements.

Watching on SL+. I wish someone would turn off the ref's mic, I really don't know why anyone would want to listen to such an annoying noise. Why do they persist with it? Ooh, Hull have scored. Get in.

Little victories, that's what bang average rugby league is about. If not life itself.