I know it's only early days but 2 good wins from 2
is a fine start to the season.

A tough test next week against Gatescastle Thunder,
looking forward to the trip up there as had to cancel
today .

Most important of all we are top of the league !!!

WELL DONE COUGARS !!!

Yes, very good start, but that will be a big test next week

Yes we had a decent game today, scored some good tries. Still had some soft defence at times. But Newcastle will play a lot faster and harder than Hemel did today. We can do it, but we need to keep stepping up the intensity and not get carried away by the big win.

Good start. Looking at fixtures you would have expected 3 wins from first 4 at least so on track for that.

Newcastle will be tough I feel but a win there would be a massive statement to this league.

Be careful, you'll all upset 666, no one has mentioned the score

You never know how any team will perform when they have to travel a significant distance so it's a big plus.

Newcastle will be a tough ask next match, can't wait.

666 was aware of the score throughout!

Keighley never needed to get out of 1st gear for this game(and they didn't look like they wanted to sometimes) however some nice tries, Handforth controlled centre field. But also some soft tries conceded and at 20-38 Hemel had their tails up (albeit for a couple of minutes only).

My gripes-

1 we didn't utilise the wind at all!!! And it was windy

2 fans travel 200 miles (some of us only 55) and the team spend 5 minutes doing pointless attempts at warm down stretching, before half heartedly acknowledging the fans on their way off the pitch

3 no announcements over loud speaker system

The wind was very blustery and blowing across field. I thought unlike previous Keighley games (versus North Wales last season) where we fell foul of windy conditions I thought we managed the wind today pretty well and minimised risks. Hemel put kicks out on the full more than we did ( I think we did once and that was a couple of inches too far onto the whitewash).

So he's selfish as well as dictatorial?


Whilst I dont want to criticise them for a comfortable victory away from home, "cruising" in matches has a habit of biting you in the bum. Or it could just be that they are saving themselves for what will be a challenging and physical match at Newcastle. I hope it's the latter and hope our defence is sorted.

In fairness 2 of there tries were not particularly from bad defence, the first being an interception from a speculative Danny J pass ( I breath in a lot when they get floated out) and another was just clever play by Hemel running into a gap created by a stumbling referee , who had to give the try whilst flat on his face. Quite funny.

Top, Top, Top of the League - we are top of the League!! It's OK, I don't get chance to say that much these days!