Nearenough

a grand days sport yesterday. york easily outclassed the opposition in both events. Brown had an excellent game and if he keeps playing like that he should be 1st pick FB every week even with a full squad to pick from. nice to see antrobus back on the field, sadly only briefly and he looked sore when he came off which was sad to see. martin looked very handy and is a sound addition to the squad, as is law who has plenty of pace. overall a very positive day topped off by the jimmy show. if you wrote that ending it would get binned for being too unlikely. well done jim lad it was a fitting end to a fine career.

sheffield have a good full back, i wonder if hes available?

oh yeah, sorry i forgot that hed crocked his foot, very hard to keep track of all the goings on. maybe the yrlfc website could have a weekly guide for thick people like me of whos not available and why. the squad 'news' bit on there for the match has ta'ai returning from injury, but he didnt play, why so? i dont spend hours trawling soshal meejah to keep on top of it all.

a strange sorta match that one, at times we looked clueless at other times unplayable. defensively we were way off where we've been but we were playing a smarter team than weve seen of late. by main question is why was Michael given so little game time? he made the difference to our creativity which was lacking till he came on. we missed hingarno big time and williams at FB was a failed experiment. id have had pembo there, he wasnt too bad as a stand in previously, but then hes probably at newcastle for no apparent reason. Cookie was yorks POM for me with Santi a v close 2nd, cook is growing in confidence and hopefully he can play a big role in the back end of the season. effort was top class and ref did an OK job if you overlook the multiple forward passes

we dont really need to spend too much time bothering what australians call things, they call the sport footy anyway, as it happens i met an aussie yesterday who said he was "sorry to see that the UK had lost in the soccer last night".

'clinical' was the word i came away with, our defence was rock solid which hasnt been the case in recent times prior to the new gaffer. we gave donny absolutely nothing to play with and ground em into the floor. the really good thing was that despite all the organisation there was still plenty of room for off the cuff play and flowing rugby. just the sorta stuff we want to be seeing. well done lads, up the kneets, crack on.

“We’re hindered, we can’t have other events, York is such a great city and I don’t think there is really a venue like this stadium where you could do events in the Summer or concerts." you could even have rugby matches in the summer.... ?

if they were playin in t'road outside our house id draw my curtains.

thats one of the many positives the new gaffer has brought to the kneets. under previous regimes we have let the likes of thackery n patton boss games and done nowt about it. on sunday we shut patton out n profited as a result. add to that sound discipline, gd line speed, winning the ruck and a positive yards after contact ratio n we have every chance of seeing this york RL side fulfil its potential

a very solid showing from us. cant say much about how weve changed under the new gaffer from that as dews were very very poor, and look certain to finish bottom. sadly they also seem to have next to no supporters which is a real sad state of affairs, the place was dead yesterday, which is hardly surprising with the daft stewarding throwing the lad with the drum out of the stand for being noisy. "is this a library?" "yes it surely is". if the management at dews want to make sure all their games have no atmosphere theres little wonder the place was mostly deserted of home support. our yards after contact was excellent yesterday and we won the ruck in a style fordy would have approved of, which was good to see. i liked what i saw of cook he looked sharp and bright and its a grand hairdo he as n all. in mash we trust!

in applegarth we trust! great to hear we are having an academy. with the community clubs doing so well at present its a terrific time for RL in the city. if we can make a clear pathway to the pro game for the literally hundreds of kids playing RL each week in the city that would be the best outcome for NYRL

losing ata was the turning point, i thought up to that moment it was his best game in a knights shirt by some way. his effort was terrific, once he was missing we lost our cohesion. pembo at full back was ok, took some good catches in the first half, the ones he shipped late on were horrible kicks to deal with despite the mix n match set up i thought we played better than the bradford game today so fair play to widnes they look a decent outfit this year oh and i thought the ref had a good game, id have him every week.

jeez, yeah, basically change ever right for left n vice versa in what i said. good job it aint my job to put up the signs

the ticket office isnt very easy to find. head to the opposite end of the ground from the park n ride bus stop and go into the foyer bit near the swimming pool. in the far left corner is a coffee counter with the club shop to its right, to the right of the club shop is an office type place with a glass wall. i dont think it has any signage to indicate its the ticket office, in there is a desk with a bloke behind who will take card or cash to let you in.

somehow these days feels more doldum than the doldum days, back then we had nowt but you always felt the team on the pitch was battling together for the club. now we have loads of opportunities and we are just butchering them all

bobbins, no positives to take from that afternoon out at all. we send our good players to other gaffs n then replace em with players of half the ability and none of the bottle. no chance of getting out of this mess without big changes. i could list about 10 players in york shirts today who didnt seem to give a monkeys about playing for york. yet we have players desperate to play for york running out for newcastle...wtf????

the RFL spend plenty of time looking at stuff players have done on video referral how much time do they spend assessing refs and touch judges on video referral. its ridiculous. it costs a fair few bob in entry and travel each week n having the game officiated by idiots with whistles n flags each week just makes the whole thing a joke

agree 100%, the RFL needs to get a grip of some of these incompetent refs, its the same ones over n over again. i go to watch games as a neutral as well not just knights games with my knights bias and the same jokers turn up at other gaffs n ruin matches week in week out.

2 brilliant wins, as far as the mens team goes; harrison was awesome, unflappable under pressure. and harris kicked really well all day long. pemberton brings so much energy to the team he seems an absolutely grand lad and has to start every week for me. and no daft music cutting up the match!! happy days

away in a corner with a spare £10 in my pocket

ya dont need to be that innovative, just win the ruck and run at the inside shoulder, shud do the trick even without waiting for us to switch off n drift away to planet ####-up

at one point in the game there was a longish break while a wakey player left the field and we had a blast of the stupid music they insist on playing these days. next up we have a tap penalty 15 yards in front of our posts, the kneets seemed to have drifted off to sleep in the musical interlude, and teanby over runs the play by about 5 yards and we give a stupid sloppy forward pass. to me that just sums up the club at present more bothered about playing daft music to fill 'dead time' than actually focussing on playing rugby. nobody pays to go and be blasted by snippets of overloud music. they pay to see rugby. lets start playing some.

another day spent watching ex york players out play current york players. very frustrating. we seem to be regressing rapidly at present. we offered nothing much going forward and our missed/broken tackle stats must have been horrendous.

the 'incident' was right in front of me. it wasnt in front of the ref or the touchie. dagger should not have reacted to the wind up then he wouldnt have been in the situation, but he did not head butt or attempt to head butt anyone that was pure fabrication by the touchie. 'handbags' that was all it was.