Re: Barrow match. : Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:55 pm  

Looks like another club where decent people have not understood the financial dynamics of running a club and have had to be “saved” by other decent people.

Sadly so many clubs have been there and thank goodness there are people around still willing to help with time and cash.

Good luck Barrow, you many not have one anything at the top level for over 60 years, but clubs like this are vital for the future of rugby league.

Having said that I think we will win by twenty plus points.

Re: Barrow match. : Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:57 pm  

I wish Barrow all the best for the future apart from the result on Sunday . To me their main home advantage is when the ground is like a bog not on firm ground. Heads on to our boys and no slip ups. Notice Jones had a good reserve game . Keep going lad and you will be a regular next year . IMO you are the one with the greatest potential that we have on our books it just sometimes takes RM a while for the penny to drop

Re: Barrow match. : Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:58 pm  

I wish Barrow all the best for the future apart from the result on Sunday . To me their main home advantage is when the ground is like a bog not on firm ground. Heads on to our boys and no slip ups. Notice Jones had a good reserve game . Keep going lad and you will be a regular next year . IMO you are the one with the greatest potential that we have on our books it just sometimes takes RM a while for the penny to drop

Re: Barrow match. : Fri Jun 29, 2018 6:17 pm  

Fuzzy Duck wrote:

Hey, the fax in asia, I'm being deadly serious mate! Tokyo -v- Baghdad Grand Final in Dublin? Sweet!

Back to the Barrow match, the heat and dry grounds are widening the gap between the fitter top teams and the lower strugglers, so (dare I say it) a good time to play Barra. I also notice Maher and Green are left out of the Cas squad for their trip to Catalans so could be in our squad, especially with Jones and Davies having big stints in tonight's reserve match v Keighley.

Green is rumoured to have signed elsewhere for next season so is unlikely to feature for ourselves or Cas again this season unless they are desperate.

Re: Barrow match. : Fri Jun 29, 2018 6:18 pm  

jensenFF wrote:

I wish Barrow all the best for the future apart from the result on Sunday . To me their main home advantage is when the ground is like a bog not on firm ground. Heads on to our boys and no slip ups. Notice Jones had a good reserve game . Keep going lad and you will be a regular next year . IMO you are the one with the greatest potential that we have on our books it just sometimes takes RM a while for the penny to drop

He has raw potential but still needs a lot of work and has a good number of players in front of him. If he sticks at it though and puts the time in he will do well for us.

Re: Barrow match. : Sun Jul 01, 2018 8:46 am  

Inspite of the problems at Barrow it will still be a tough game but we should be good enough especially if we can cut out just 50% of the unforced errors.

With Toronto winning against Leigh yesterday a chance to get a 3 point cushion over one of our rivals.

Re: Barrow match. : Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:28 am  

faxcar wrote:

With Toronto winning against Leigh yesterday a chance to get a 3 point cushion over one of our rivals.

Looks like another jet lagged team (and a very good one at that) put to the sword. Extremely annoying that the Rugby League are bending over backwards for Toronto creating an unfair playing field. They should have intermingled home and away matches like every one else and come over here in the same jet lagged state. I'm sure they wouldn't be running away at the top if that was the case.

Re: Barrow match. : Sun Jul 01, 2018 10:06 am  

Fuzzy Duck wrote:

They should have intermingled home and away matches like every one else and come over here in the same jet lagged state. I'm sure they wouldn't be running away at the top if that was the case.

I think you're overlooking the fact that they're already over here.

Anyway, jetlag's not the reason teams are losing to Toronto. Recruitment is. They have by far the best squad in the division.

Re: Barrow match. : Sun Jul 01, 2018 11:50 am  

griff1998 wrote:

I think you're overlooking the fact that they're already over here.

Anyway, jetlag's not the reason teams are losing to Toronto. Recruitment is. They have by far the best squad in the division.

Toronto have not played an away game in the same "jet lagged state" as English teams over there. Unfair playing field.

Also whereas I do agree their squad is the best in our league, they're not "by far" better than Leigh who they were tubbing by 40 until Leigh brought some respectability late on.

The irony about this expansion abroad is that Toronto and Catalans aren't really strengthening the "Canadian" and "French" rugby league, their inclusion in a foreign league is actually weakening "Canadian" and "French" rugby league because these respective countries don't have their strongest teams playing in their own league (if yer get me drift). Toronto and Catalans are essentially English satellite clubs depriving a couple of English clubs a place on our own league(s).

Re: Barrow match. : Sun Jul 01, 2018 2:45 pm  

Why couldn't you lot play Barrow away in Feb when their pitch was a farmers field, recently ploughed. Also they had a full squad of players, and no obvious money problems. you lucky sods !