I thought it was a very good performance today what makes it impressive is Rochdale only lot by 1 point to Dewsbury and a couple to York so the potential was there.

Andy Shickell was man of match but I thought Danny Jones should have got it. Apart from the tries the highlight of the game today was when Daley William made an error handing possession to Rochdale then almost immediately took the ball of the Rochdale player.

Rochdale to me seemed intent of doing head shots and the referee was unbelievable in some calls.

In particular when Cougars had ball by Rochdale line one of their players clearly knocked the ball down therefore it should have been another set of six but he called last tackle. As a result Rochdale had to do a drop out and penalised Rochdale for being offside from the dropout which I and others believe was done as he realised he messed up, I must say he did not get much help from the touchjudges.

But I must say we werre very good whilst not being at our best.

Well done to all the players.

To be fair the Officials were not good on all sides....Will Cartledge certainly looked to lose the ball in the tackle early doors ..just up in front of the old Bronte Bar..the ref gave a rip out .. certainly didn't look like it from the view from the stand ....

Much as I don't like havin ago at the ref & his mates ..but today they looked at times not confident of their decisions and almost scared of the players in the game they were officiating in... you felt that a major brawl was not far away throughout the 80 mins.

In the Pennine League ,( Kly Town N Albion ) there is an ex pro , Wilf George, former Halifax Winger , now reffing , what ever his shortcomings as an official , he actually has the maturity & physical presence behind hi to
back up up his decisions , similarly to sort out any skirmish's that occur between players.

This sort of understanding seemed to be missing with many of our officials in the NL1 today....

Discuss

Good points Rach re Ref looking scared, bit of a worry.

One very pleasing thing was the fans were very vocal in their support seemed more noise than usual which was really good.

And that was without the drum.!!!

Also att 901 not bad concidering they only brought a handful of fans.

Also att 901 not bad concidering they only brought a handful of fans.

I enjoyed the game yesterday, in me new shirt!!
I remember Wilf George, too. I was at Wembley when fax won the cup that year. I always remember one of the commentators in an earlier round likening his thighs to two giant turkey drumsticks, he said" look at his thighs - you don't get many of them on a plate!"
Pleased to hear we made some noise!

Great team spirit yesterday,thought Danny Jones was outstanding,here there and everywhere,myMOM without a doubt.Lee Mapels took the ball a lot giving the big guys a break in the heat, good on him.

Hmmm

Worthy point but's probably the fastest player in the division.

I KNOW I am not alone in thinking his talent is being wasted.

After reading League Express even the coach is not "happy" about some aspects of the team.

But a good win.

If this team "clicks" as the coach wants someone will get murdered!!!