Match thread: Championship Round 12 Summer Bash: York v Featherstone. Saturday 27th May 2023.

[Wolfey Rovers]

Lacans defensively is miles ahead of Dean. For a little lad he doesn't half know how to throw himself into a tackle.

I prefer lacans and ford. Lacans under longy will be something special 

[POR]

6,741 people turned up over the two days with 3,793 flocking to North Yorkshire on the first day and 2,948 on the second day.

[J Phil Loxton]

14 hours ago, marklaspalmas said:

Ford & Lacans is our 7th different halfback combo in 13 matches in 2023:

Ford-Dean 4
Lacans-Dean 4
Lacans-Wildie 1
Dean-Taylor 1

Dean-Hall 1
Dean-Wildie 1
Ford-Lacans 1

 

I felt that the Ford and Lacans combo was a lot more successful. Think Dean will mature into the style of Ford therefore they are too much alike together. Lacans is a good defender and more nifty putting the opposition defence on alert though I thought early doors that York coped well defensively. As the game wore on the two half backs began to understand what each other was about to do and Lacans was seen a lot more in the game. Given game time together these two will get the attack working more fluently. Ford showed signs of bringing his A game to proceedings.

[Monkeymagic22]

One slight issue we have is goal kicking, if Hanks is now unable to do it. Clearly Bussey isn’t really the answer, and with Lacans and Ford in the half’s, we haven’t got the option of Riley Dean kicking. Craig Hall, a stand out kicker, but he doesn’t seem to be first choice in the centres. It’s a puzzle, but which could be an issue in tight matches.

[The Phantom Horseman]

11 minutes ago, Monkeymagic22 said:

One slight issue we have is goal kicking, if Hanks is now unable to do it. Clearly Bussey isn’t really the answer, and with Lacans and Ford in the half’s, we haven’t got the option of Riley Dean kicking. Craig Hall, a stand out kicker, but he doesn’t seem to be first choice in the centres. It’s a puzzle, but which could be an issue in tight matches.

Hankinson did produce an up-and-under at one stage, and I suspect it was just an abundance of caution that led to the decision not to have him kicking goals against York.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about the goalkicking was that when Bussey was off the field for his HIA Dan Smith, not John Davies, was asked to attempt the touchline conversion. Maybe JD is eager to preserve that 100% career goalkicking record!

[POR]

Out of interest from the 3,793 flocking to North Yorkshire on the first day how many  do people reckon were FEV fans

[elppaxr2i]

Hankinson back kicking in two weeks time - wont kick Sunday but will be back kicking fir the Toulouse game

[Monkeymagic22]

11 minutes ago, elppaxr2i said:

Hankinson back kicking in two weeks time - wont kick Sunday but will be back kicking fir the Toulouse game

Great stuff, no issues with kicking once Hanks is back.

[POR]

Anyway Viaplay attracted their biggest peak audience figure of the season for the Betfred Championship for the York Knights versus Featherstone Rovers fixture 

[The Phantom Horseman]

No further action against Briscoe for the incident involving Fitzsimons. "Player is freeing arm to get up after a tackle. No striking action."

Grade B charge and a £125 fine for Fitzsimons."Kicking out – makes light contact but not with head of opponent".

Think that's about right, didn't think either incident merited a ban.

https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/docs/MRP Minutes 01 June 2023.pdf

[POR]

1 hour ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

No further action against Briscoe for the incident involving Fitzsimons. "Player is freeing arm to get up after a tackle. No striking action."

Grade B charge and a £125 fine for Fitzsimons."Kicking out – makes light contact but not with head of opponent".

Think that's about right, didn't think either incident merited a ban.

https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/docs/MRP Minutes 01 June 2023.pdf

 Cunningham also got £125 fine for wiping out Jack but the much vaunted MRP missed teanby's trip on caleb