Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:23 am  

Duckzilla wrote:

Great performance today Nozza was MOM for me, Owen looks a class above. We kept the ball much much better today and it looks like we're up and running

Well done to all the lads

Agree with that - Knoza (that's how he spells it) is a very smart rugby player. That try from the chargedown looked easy but he had to be there to score it.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:32 am  

Can I just dispel a couple of myths on the club's behalf as well!

Dewsbury, in a strange bid to make some kind of point, got changed in Dewsbury before the game then got straight back on the bus post match in their kit.

I've seen people suggesting we don't have showers for away players, which is utter nonsense. The club spent £10k installing them, yes it is the minimum required amount of shower heads, but they are there and have been used in the other games so far this season.

The changing rooms aren't massive, they're pretty basic, but they are there and are readily available for away teams to use to get changed. Pretty poor show from Dewsbury, I'd hazard a guess it stems back to the Mount St. Mary's episode. But thoroughly unprofessional from their hierarchy to let the players get back on the bus in muddy, wet kit, and without any food post match which was, as always, laid on in the Panorama Suite.

Each to their own, like. Just want to put a couple of things straight after the shiiiiiite I've read on their forum and on social media!

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:02 pm  

Mate - every club has periods of difficulty, whether that be some kind of disaster or a planned upgrade. I try not to criticise at these points because you never know when you might want a favour yourself.

In the recent past, we've had a portakabin at Halifax. It was just temporary. Now their East Stand's open, the facilities are pretty good.

I well recall the limited facilities at Crown Flatt after the fire 25 years ago. A portakabin the size of a lorry container - much smaller than the facilities on offer on Sunday. Maybe folk from Dewsbury should bear that in mind.

Anyway - who knows ? Getting changed at Dewsbury may well have improved the outcome. We'll never know, will we ?

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:34 am  

E.S.O wrote:

Dewsbury, in a strange bid to make some kind of point, got changed in Dewsbury before the game then got straight back on the bus post match in their kit.

This is so disrespectful on so many levels. to their players and supporters, to our players and supporters, to the best traditions of the game etc etc. Dewsbury Rams RLFC really should feel ashamed at this sort of petty behaviour.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:44 am  

Just watched the highlights on facebook and on the Dewsbury Fans Forum - That first try was a bit iffy no wonder their coach mentioned it afterwards - but it was the only one - can you imagine if we had got that against Fax.....I wish

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:31 am  

Referees make decisions at random. They're bound to get 50% wrong.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:34 am  

greybeard1 wrote:

This is so disrespectful on so many levels. to their players and supporters, to our players and supporters, to the best traditions of the game etc etc. Dewsbury Rams RLFC really should feel ashamed at this sort of petty behaviour.

We've turned up changed before, to be fair.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:36 am  

griff1998 wrote:

Referees make decisions at random. They're bound to get 50% wrong.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:06 pm  

As I thought we did manage to get ONE player in team of the week. Obviously harder for a team like Rochdale (3 players) to beat Batley who have only won two games this season than for Eagles to beat a team so far unbeaten - or that could be just sour grapes!

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles vs Dewsbury : Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:41 pm  

westridingeagle wrote:

Just watched the highlights on facebook and on the Dewsbury Fans Forum - That first try was a bit iffy .....

Looking at the video, it looks like the touch judge was signalling a Sheffield scrum when the winger (Morton, was it?) first gets the ball. Did he knock on or summat ?