Eagles up next.

[Dog forever]

Not going to be much in this, both clubs not having the best of seasons so far. Depends on who wants it more. I'm sure Craig will want to get one over us. 

Eagles16 

Dogs 22

Fts butterworth

Mom  parsons  att  664

[RogerT]

If Brad Martins in the team that might make the difference for them.

[phildog]

Useful but no world beater Rog.

[RogerT]

Maybe not but I would rather he was with us not against us.

[phildog]

I suppose! Under normal circumstances these are usually close affairs (apart from that wet Friday night we spent on that banking about 3 years ago!).  Let's see how we arrange the squad and how we get into the game. I'll guess at a 6 point margin either way.

[RogerT]

Nice to see Cooper mentioned in the 21 squad.

Mr Cox the referee.

Edited April 23 by RogerT

[redditchbulldog]

On 21/04/2025 at 20:58, RogerT said:

If Brad Martins in the team that might make the difference for them.

IRO said on Friday afternoon he had gone to York for 30 grand

[phildog]

Well he's in Eagles' squad....

[Batley Bob]

 

[phildog]

Bayliss-Brow was on the RFL Match Centre squad of 21.

[Batley Bob]

 

[Batley Bob]

[Dog forever]

Well, never saw that coming. 2 teams below us have shipped the best part of 80 pts between them past us. I know folks say you don't become a poor team overnight, we'll we have. No excuses at all about we have players to come back in ,cos we are in the same boat as other teams we play. Is it time for moxon to go because if we font change things very quickly we will be in league 1 next season. Craig had us sussed with 5 drives down the middle then a desperate kick.

[phildog]

It's hardly solely Moxon's fault, ( though it must appear as a set up for a fail). We (those in collective charge) chose the the path to be taken ie small squad, yes, we're getting the DR'S but not any who are actually making a difference, different names every week, loanees who also come and go, get named in squads but don't darken the gates on matchday. We can't sign enough players because we have no money to tempt any, or have to spend it on floodlights which we're unlikely to need because now there's no coverage on TV which necessitates lights. Then on top of not being able to afford, we have a year on year on year ageing squad, a number who might have or be about to call a halt but no chance of replacing them. We sign youngsters, they get ignored and walk away so we struggle at both ends of the ages. The whole state of rugby outside SL is an absolute shambles and we are at the backside end of it, less and less funding and no money to start with or to replace funding loss with. With the greatest of respect, we need to attract someone with money, nigh on impossible I know, Kev may have been looking, may not,  but the Campbells, Beaumont, Koukash's, Lonergans, Davys don't appear on every street corner. However, 2 50 point tonkings is  unacceptable, something has to be done before the Barrow game to restore confidence in the squad on the field and to regain the support and respect of the number of followers who have expressed their opinions so far tonight.

[Keep The Faith]

12 minutes ago, phildog said:

It's hardly solely Moxon's fault, ( though it must appear as a set up for a fail). We (those in collective charge) chose the the path to be taken ie small squad, yes, we're getting the DR'S but not any who are actually making a difference, different names every week, loanees who also come and go, get named in squads but don't darken the gates on matchday. We can't sign enough players because we have no money to tempt any, or have to spend it on floodlights which we're unlikely to need because now there's no coverage on TV which necessitates lights. Then on top of not being able to afford, we have a year on year on year ageing squad, a number who might have or be about to call a halt but no chance of replacing them. We sign youngsters, they get ignored and walk away so we struggle at both ends of the ages. The whole state of rugby outside SL is an absolute shambles and we are at the backside end of it, less and less funding and no money to start with or to replace funding loss with. With the greatest of respect, we need to attract someone with money, nigh on impossible I know, Kev may have been looking, may not,  but the Campbells, Beaumont, Koukash's, Lonergans, Davys don't appear on every street corner. However, 2 50 point tonkings is  unacceptable, something has to be done before the Barrow game to restore confidence in the squad on the field and to regain the support and respect of the number of followers who have expressed their opinions so far tonight.

No offence to the dual reg agreement but it’s working it’s actually consistent for once… if we don’t have them we are even worse 

we don’t let our younger backs play with the ball because it’s too basic and slow 

a mate of mine summed it up tonight worst he’d seen us since the Diskin days and that’s 6/7 years ago now 

who’s the youngster walking away? 28/29 isn’t young 

[seen it before]

Blame Mocco as  much as you want  the starting pack tonight gave the worst opening 30 mins I have ever seen from a batley side .

 

[SUPERSTUD]

Good club who have generally punched above their weight. Ageing squad which should have been foreseen. No real investment within the playing roster. A very soft under belly and no dog within the current squad. Recent fifty point pastings would support that fact. No approach and strategy required if things are going to improve. Hate saying it as always had a soft spot for the club. But they are currently way off.

[Keep The Faith]

26 minutes ago, SUPERSTUD said:

Good club who have generally punched above their weight. Ageing squad which should have been foreseen. No real investment within the playing roster. A very soft under belly and no dog within the current squad. Recent fifty point pastings would support that fact. No approach and strategy required if things are going to improve. Hate saying it as always had a soft spot for the club. But they are currently way off.

Both games we’ve conceded 50 a certain captain hasn’t played… keep browny fit and it doesn’t concede the 50 

[phildog]

He's certainly a massive driving force KTF.

[SUPERSTUD]

Regarding Browny yes I agree massive respect to the man. I first saw him during his amateur days at Queens. Solid model pro IMHO. His on field presence would certainly help no doubt about that. But there are a few things to fix up. Some big cold hearted talking amongst the playing group is required. Starting with an honest performance against Barrow this week.

[BullyXL]

On 28/04/2025 at 22:08, Keep The Faith said:

Both games we’ve conceded 50 a certain captain hasn’t played… keep browny fit and it doesn’t concede the 50 

But still lose. It's the defence we need to sort out. This time last year we were blaming our ability to score. This season it's our ability to defend. Put that bit of our game right and we'll match it with most sides.