Rhino, I am usually the blindly optimistic one around here, but I think we will struggle against York, it will be a tough match, then again they all will. We have been waiting all year for the team to tear someone apart but we keep getting fantastic rugby interlaced with errors, loss of concentration etc.

Personally I feel the team is more unsettled now that at any time of the year, Whilst we are on a high securing 2nd, wow what a season, we do not have a settled side or indeed our best 17 available or ready. At least finishing 2nd we have a couple of bites of the cherry if required.

I would love us to do York, but I can see it being one kick winning it.

Hey come on fellas, let's be nice to the York fans on our forum - after all, no-one seems to post very much on theirs!
Jusat for the record, I'm hoping for a good tough, close game on 20th, with a decent crowd (perhaps even some York fans allowed in the bar!!!)
and a Cougars win in the final minutes, perhaps a drop goal by Schick, eh?

I hope we stuff them to be honest.

Or even better, Swindon stuff them first.

Having just returned from the big smoke after a week 'dawn sowth' (on Challenge Cup weekend n visting family ) to this drivel all I can say is ....

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I've always loved the Championship for its sense of fairplay , n sporting behaviour between opposing fans ....but his guy really wants to crawl back under the stone he emerged from....

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He says we struggled in 06 & 07. But these were learning years for the side, & in both those years recorded very notiable wins against the eventual play-off finalists (albit beaten), Swinton (06) & Oldham (07) and in 2008 not only did we beat both finalists, Doncaster & Oldham, we were the last team in NL2 to beat Gateshead who went onto be NL2 Champions.

This year has been an excellent year, we beat our bogie side, York, recorded a 1st away win at Oldham since 2000, won all apart from 1 home game. Fair to say its been our best year since 2003.

Under Bazza, we have got better and better.

Going back to the original part of the post, I notice something that wasn't or hasn't been mentioned.

Following the injury to James Feather, Barry was going to play, getting the ok from the RFL on monday, due to his touchline ban. Then, at 1 o'clock friday, yes, 1 o'clock & 6 hours before kick-off, while the team are travelling down, getting told he can't play. This throwing all preparations out of the window that the team had, resulting in young James Haythornwaite getting selected for the first team.

So, all in all, it was a job well done!!

BRING ON THE PLAY-OFFS!!!