Match thread: Championship Round 26. Toulouse v Featherstone Rovers. Saturday 16th September 2023.

[bigbaldnmad]

On Rovers TV from 5

[Fevrob]

35 degrees in Toulouse at the moment, gonna need a big forwards bench

[The Phantom Horseman]

Would certainly be nice to win today, but I think it might be wrong to read too much into the result. Their best 3 players from when we played them at Fev won't be playing today (Ralph, Peyroux, Jussaume) and by all accounts at least 2 of those are ready to play. Sounds like Ashall-Bott is also back in training but he might have a job on unseating recent signing Santo who has looked electric with ball in hand.

I doubt we'll be fielding our likely play-off team either, so whilst this will be an interesting game it probably won't be one to draw firm conclusions from.

[bigbaldnmad]

[bigbaldnmad]

Good to see Bussey back on the bench.

[The Phantom Horseman]

No Koppy, Springer, Aekins, Chisholm, Yei, Briscoe for us today, no Hansen, Ralph, Jussaume, Peyroux or Richards (plus a couple more) for Toulouse.

Interesting that Hau is only 18th man, perhaps suggests Ford is going to stick with the experience of Day.

[POR]

6 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Interesting that Hau is only 18th man, perhaps suggests Ford is going to stick with the experience of Day.

Got to honest PH I too have Brad in my backrow for the playoffs but Arama's on the bench not 18th man

[sentoffagain2]

7 minutes ago, POR said:

Got to honest PH I too have Brad in my backrow for the playoffs but Arama's on the bench not 18th man

   Who is 18th man then?.

[bigbaldnmad]

Hau

[jamescolin]

Great win. UTR

[haskey]

I have just seem the result from TO . That must have been some performance. Well done boys. Hope we have come through injury free.

[Gooleboy]

Excellent win, especially to nil them in the second half.

[jamescolin]

Excellent second half come back. We named 4 very good names on the bench. I bet they made a good contribution.

[sentoffagain2]

   Thought we would win this one although my mystic Meg prediction was out.I predicted a win by 14 points.One thing i didn't understand was at half time  the bookies had us odds on to win at 8/11 Toulouse could be backed at 11/10.

[lingaro]

No injuries and Tolouse really wanted that one! 

[bigbaldnmad]

Hence Pecetto moaning about the ref...

[bigbaldnmad]

Just 3 more wins required 

[Phil Briscoe]

Great win in their back yard just hope it hasn’t taken too much out of us. We need to rest as many as we can next week. This is the best chance we’ve had in years and are likely to have to get promoted. I’m daring to dream!!!!

[elppaxr2i]

53 minutes ago, sentoffagain2 said:

   Thought we would win this one although my mystic Meg prediction was out.I predicted a win by 14 points.One thing i didn't understand was at half time  the bookies had us odds on to win at 8/11 Toulouse could be backed at 11/10.

Thats because toulouse really only had a 10 min period at the end of the first half where they were on par with us for me - aside from that I thought we outplayed them and its a richly deserved victory

To nil them in the second half and go over there and win, the only team to go over there & win all season is a big statement considering the play offs are round the corner, massive psychological boost for us

 

[Monkeymagic22]

Good win that, Viva Fev Rovers

[lingaro]

Dare to dream.... 

[lingaro]

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Edited September 16, 2023 by lingaro

[bigbaldnmad]

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[Robin Evans]

Cracking atmos in the clubhouse for this game.

I dislike MOM nomination. We win or lose as a team. However....

Best performance in a fev shirt from lacans.... though I suspect playing along side fordy helped that along.

Some sublime handling from Ford.

Locky, Day, we're excellent and Smithy had his best spell yet in that second half.

Hally had his best game this year imo.

A great Effort from Hanks and though Gaz had a nightmare first half he regained his composure for the second half.

I could work my way through every player. They did their jobs well.

The first game this season I've been wholly happy with the performance. Cut out the first half mistakes and totally controlled that second half.

Fordy now has some selection headaches

Edited September 17, 2023 by Robin Evans

[haskey]

A cracking post Robin