Absolute nightmare getting to larhndon, roadworks in Twickenham, traffic rush hour etct etc..



This was my first trip for a RL game since Charlton, Jungle freebe, and quite frankly if it is scheduled again for next year on a Friday I deff. aint goin'.



Sat next to some guys who are Cas supporter who live in the Smoke and they said they cannot understand why they play (Quins) on Friday evening.



The attendence of 4100 says it all ......this with free tickets from ES plus a good turn out from approx 500 - 600 ( tho' sounded like twice that) does not give a good reflection of how RL is viewed by the good people of Twickers.



Surely Sunday will attract more of the Northern contingent to matches than Friday Ev. ........the announcer was in raptures over "....over best attendance of the season "(sic) my own personal opinion is that Twickers is a god-awful place no Pubs (gave up on the route march to the Witherspoons), eateries, cafes.......£7.00 for two pints in the Kings bar, £6.00 for scampi(?????) and chips your havin' a girraffe.



The match....Hmm well lets say a point lost........crap start (again) a la Bradford, Salford, why do we play safety first give the opposition too much respect, then decide we can blow this lot off the park as we did at the start of the second stanza, then far too complacent at 24 -10, started to play tig and pass and not stick to how we had secured a 14 point lead.....in the end lucky to get a point.



Plus points, Snitch great return, Dixon goalkicking carn't spake , rangi well rangi and Joe Arundel great game.



Negatives; Need to come out he traps all guns blazin' and blow oppostion away early doors, Ferres another poor show, handing, penalties perhaps a spell on the bench to get some form back def. NOT a centre, Mathers good on attack but bad defensively.

But hay, ho I would take 3rd in the league ATMIT

I thought it was our poorest performance of the season. We got far too complacent and expected Quins to just roll over and die when we were 14-points up. Our defence in the last 20 minutes was shocking and a stark reminder of many games from last season. Quins took advantage of that and probably deserved the point in the end.



Hopefully the atmosphere and excitement of the game will see some of those new fans returning time and time again. I've always thought of them as a boring side who slow the game down as a means of competing with their opponents but there was none of that on Friday and it was a pretty expansive game all round.



The Friday kick-offs there are not good though. As clear as the A1 was, we then spent over an hour sat on the North Circular Road and Kew Road and still made it before many who'd taken the M1/M25 route which was also bad. Saturdays and Sundays are much better for travelling!

My neck is reeled in. You will notice who I support. This support has been the way for 30 odd years. I have though lived in the London area for over 20 years. I have battled to get to every SL ground in the UK on a Friday with the exception of the Crusaders. At every ground I have encountered traffic problems. Hence why I mentioned the M62 on a Friday. To make out as the person who I was quoting was doing, that it is something only Quins have a problem with is a tad unfare. I might add having travelled by car from Victoria to Barnet and back on Friday afternoon I am more than aware of the traffic problems. BUT as I said its not a London thing. It would I am sure have been the same on Saturday and Sunday (bare in mind FA cup semis and Marathon plus the closure of the M1)



I to work in an office in central London. I gor for beers after work I too could moan about the price of a pint, but its like everything else in life now. Its going up and its not simply a London thing. I stood next to a Cas fan in the bar at Quins on Friday who ordered "your cheapest drink please mate". as the prices are too expensive. If you can't afford it don't buy it. Certainly don't bleat on about it. I will say there was certainly a good few Cas fans who had not complained as they had certainly had a few. (nothing wrong in that before anyone thinks I am having a go.)



I hope that has cleared a few points for you in regards to where I am coming from.



As for the happy hooker and his FACT that no one is interested in RL in London well I bow to his greater knowledge. I will happily meet him after work next Friday for a beer in central London and he can enlighten me with more of his knowledge.

I said this once before on the Wire forum.



Friday games should be for derby matches or teams within 25 miles of each other.

As for the happy hooker and his FACT that no one is interested in RL in London well I bow to his greater knowledge.



At last recogniton for my unbounded knowledge of TGG, MY 50 YEARS SUPPORT boy, teenager and Man have at last been acknowleged I will happily meet him after work next Friday for a beer in central London and he can enlighten me with more of his knowledge.

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:2m7tdz7pAthough I am an afficionado of the malted hops, I have visted the London Breweries on Brick Lane of Trumans and Hegdges and Butler in Bromley by Bow to sample some of their hospitality, for some specific prior engagement at 7;30 on Friday I will have to decline you otherwise excellent offer of a tipple in London, to which I could regale you with my stories, tales, encounters and general repartee of Rugby League at ALL levels ........Junior, amateur, professional U18's and U20's plus they joy of following a club that in the early sixties SURVIVED on gates of less than 1000, and through devotion to said club are now on of the most respected in SL.



Should you attend the rematch at Castleford on SUNDAY the 29th of May at 15:30 I would gladly show you the liquid delights of local hostelries 'The Rock' in Glass Houghton, pop across t' road the George V, nip down to the Royal Oak and thence on to the Glass Blower to sample delights of said ale :2m7tdz7picon_cheers.gif