Update Time

Just a post to update news of the FC. Saturday saw us go down to Bridgend, Wales to be the Celtic Crusaders first vistors as they start there Superleague career. Potentially a bit of a banana skin,and going down 10-0 at the start, we did the job, winning 20-28. A great start for the lads I have to admit. Our next game is at home against Le Catatan, they did a complete demolition job at Warrington last Saturday, and have been one of our real bogey teams at home. If we beat them on Friday, I think it can be said we have really started well!



Welcome to new signing Hame Lauaki, a forward from the New Zealand Warriors, I dont know a great deal about him, but I would expect him to be used as an impact prop to cause a bit of havoc when the other side is flagging a bit! The powers that be have insisted he isn't a replacement for Michael Crocker, who is still awaiting the result of his visa re-application.
If he does manage to get it (fingers and even eyes crossed!)....wow what a pack we would have!!

Having a boogie!

I've just treated myself to a new cd, 'Stax Gold, Memphis Hits' With Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Booker T and the MG's et all. I was only a small child when all the tracks were first released, and was really introduced to this sort of music through the 1980 film 'The Blues Brothers' I defy anyone to keep still when listening to this marvellous stuff!

A Winning Start!

We had a winning start last night at home to Wigan. The game finished 18-10 in our favour with tries by Richard Horne, Captain Lee Radford,and Peter Cusack. All tries converted by Danny Tickle.
The lads looked a bit rusty in some areas it had to be said, but the fitness was good. Todd Byrne had a fabulous game at fullback! I am worried about our pack though, although they did really well against the bigger Wigan pack last night, will we be able to keep it up all season if Michael Crocker doesn't have a successful visa reapplication? The other forward signing that hasn't arrived yet, Tongan Sam Moa, (no its not a joke name!) is a big lad but a bit of an unknown quantity and has been labled as a 'project' This gives us FC fans the jitters as our last 'project', Hutch Maiava, (or Butch Mavis as he became known) ended up a bit of a disaster!
I took a short video or a passage of play last night, its not the best quality as I had the video on my phone on the wrong setting lol.
Anyway, here it is:


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Can't wait!

Just under 3 hours to go to kick off! Lets hope we have a good start against the pies (Wigan)
I'll post about the match itself with maybe a picture or two later :)

Not long now.......

....and my darling lads will be back!