Charlie thought it was a good win today , without being Spectacular ,still 3 goods points ,PR said after the game he felt Havens tactics were to slow the game down , I have special praise for todays MOM Steve Maden , ive been a critic of his recently but today he made very good yards and scored 2 good tries , well played Steve

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Charlie was proud of Charlie Jnr and his Girlfriend Sarah , whose company ISC Joinery sponsored the Match Ball ,thank you for the Day out

, both myself and Steve had a very good day , thanks to Alan +Mrs Platt ,and Andy Mazey , and Rob Parker for making the day very good

it is an experience well worth the money , and I can fully recommend the experience .

Comfortably moved through the gears second half and definitely hasn't done any harm to our points difference. Played some cracking stuff at times with some top drawer finishing from Maden.

What was the crowd today, haven't seen it mentioned yet.



I had a couple too many pops last nigth and didnt get out of bed until 5.

1523 I think

1,500ish, not great at all. You were in a fine mess when we saw you up Leigh last night!

About 1500.

Remember that match well -damp and foggy winter evening under the floodlights (day before my birthday!!)....and I seem to remember we put a decent Rochdale side to the sword - 49-0 - in our next match!!....and wasn't the Salford cup win around that time as well??

Think we only lost twice in the league campaign that year - a brutal war of attrition away against a 'Singe' coached Donny (which ended our unbeaten start to the season), and a reversal (30odd-4) at Spotland.....but we'd already pi[iss[/ied the Minor premiership by then!!





That was a helluva team we had in 2001!!

.....pity it all fell apart in the play-offs!!

Take my word for it, I got worse haha.



Payday weekend + Start of the football season proper = A horrible hungover nightshift.

I actually found it a poor on the eye game for 50 or so minutes as it seemed very stop start with technical penalties.

Maybe being unfair on Haven but as a spectacle it needed a lift.

Felt Penky gave it a lift and Aspinwalls arrival along with a few positional moves gave us the options that ensured from that we played some good RL.

In fairness I think our first 50 mins of toil probably took a lot out of Haven as I never felt we would lose this game and in the end we ran out comfortable winners.

Brierley with ice pack on at the end wasn't a good sign and he seemed a bit quieter than usual today although in fairness I think that was Haven doing a good job on him - still didn't stop him getting very much involved later on in a cracking team try.



A strange day all round as the atmosphere in the ground was flat and even the announcer sounded like he was fed up to be at the place (for me we really need to get the answers to how to improve the whole match day experience if we want to get people in , I know its probably known by the BOM/D that we need to improve and we are really trying but we are a fair way off being the 'place to be' at 3pm on a Sunday so lots of work I'm sure will be done in the off season to get this better).

In fairness to our club I'm hoping the RFL's restructuring will ignite interest as games with little at stake will hopefully then become the minority.



Having said all that it was good to see some good RL played in the final stages and the determination of the lads to keep going and add points on was a credit to them and the coaching team.



Tough midweek fixture to Batley next up but we are now back on winning ways.

Lets hope Sheffield have given us our last defeat of the 2013 season and we now go on a winning run right to the end of the season.

I'm sure Joe Wood who was called upon at the last minute to take the PA microphone due to Clive having to have a throat operation, will be interested in your critic of his performance.

Note to BOM without wishing to insult the pre-match and HT entertainment, we look a tad on the amateurish side. We had a cracking dance troop at HP about 8 or 9 years ago which included a local Billy Elliot.

It were that long ago Bartie he#s probably playing prop for East or Miners these days