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Thought the effort and togetherness as a team was first class today. My only observation - not a criticism - was that the attack was disjointed. After watching the Oldham attack against Barrow, we need to copy their formation. ie. we form one attacking line across the field but Oldham had a two line structure. They thus had two players available to receive a pass instead of one. You will see what I mean if you can watch catch up of what was shown on BBC red button. I agree with comments regarding chipping ball over opponents, but surely chip into a space.

Great to hear the south stand was pressure washed and swept — that’s some job on cold and wet days. Maybe I won’t have to bring a rag with me this year to wipe my seat in the north stand if your enthusiasm can enthuse for that also. Good luck.

Anybody fancy Andy Last?

I’ve just noticed that Salford are wearing the red, amber and black kit and then found out it had already been discussed on our forum. The thought occurred to me that there may be ramifications for us under the IMG proposed new format. Here are some things to consider:- 1) Would two clubs be allowed to wear the same strip under IMG even when in different leagues 2) Do we have ‘ custom and practice’ rights to continue wearing the colours if a “situation” should arise as we have surely worn them for the longest time and Salford voluntarily gave up wearing them until recently 3) Are there any current rules regarding this kind of thing, and if one team had to stop wearing them would there be a ‘financial’ encouragement to facilitate this? Interested to hear your thoughts - good or bad - but under IMG it’s all going to very professional and money oriented.

Forget Friday - the M62 is at a standstill most weekday evenings and it would seriously affect the attendance.

So the question now is where do keighley and the other financially stable clubs get their money from?. Do they all have rich backers with money to spare?

Yippee! Cornwall got their first win by a clear 20 points and away from home at that. Well done to everybody at the club. Hope this is just the beginning and you get a few more this season. All the best wishes from a Dewsbury fan.

Listened to it on radio so difficult to judge — BUT:- 1) I had doubts when Sykes decided to play instead of taking the overall view from a vantage point in the stand and communicating this to the players at half time or from messages onto the pitch 2) How can the wannabe coach throw out a pass which is intercepted and gives away careless points at a critical time in the game. 3) Nobody wanting to be taken seriously as a coach would talk to the ref in such a way that they get sin binned when there is already one of his players in the bin. Altogether a frustrating listen and the temporary coach should forget about being made permanent. — probably best to retire now.

It seems to work in the civil service. What is your answer to the team underperforming? You seem to be suggesting a total clear out of coach and players which would ruin Dewsbury. But it might work in the civil service

The season long message from the players just got deafening !

He said previously he wasn’t interested.

So, I’m going to be silly again as a previous comment on a different thread. Just watching semi final play offs and listening to between game comments. We all know that Tony Smith is leaving Hull KR at end of season, but who new that he does not intend to coach in super league after this season. This indicated to me that he does intend to to continue coaching. Ok so it may be in Australia, or alternatively in this country for one of the clubs with need for a coach but a lower profile and less pressure. You may think Bradford / Widnes etc etc — but he knows us, so I’m thinking ( more hoping ) RAMS.

You just couldn’t make this situation up! Sykes has proved to be inconsistent and Sweeting was very consistent in the pre season games. Just give Sweeting the chance and if he misses a couple then go back to Sykes. But this is a symptom of poor decision making. Something is definitely wrong as I don’t believe the team are this bad. To me it’s more like they do not want to win for some reason. Either they do not want to play for each other or do not want to win for the coach. The effort is there but not the cohesion. Something needs to be done NOW although it may be too late. There will be no fans to play for if we are relegated and hence no club. Blame who you want but the coach is usually first choice.

Oh, what a big disappointment this thread titled JOHN KEAR is. There was I thinking that somebody may have put the words —-coach/Kear/now/dewsbury/vacancy/ available/required/experienced. — together to form a good suggestion for us to consider