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  Fev and Wakefield have now both published their 21 Man Squads for Friday.  We find it quite difficult to see the potential shape of the teams in the form in which the clubs publish the squads so we just have to use guesswork, whilst taking into consideration the line-ups in each club's last match, to set them out in the traditional manner running from fullback to loose forward and then subs.

   First time for Fev this year with this referee although we have had him on seven occasions in the last two years. Earlier this month he took charge of his first Super League game.

  Challenge Cup at Leigh For the third match in a row, when last Saturday’s game finished, we felt really proud to be a Fev fan! Against Wakefield we played against opponents that virtually everyone is predicting will easily be this year’s Championship winners and we beat them. Against Batley we were in a big predicament after losing Thomas Lacans in the warm-up and despite going 18-0 down in the first quarter of an hour the team showed amazing resilience and eventually came out winners. So, it was over the Pennines to play a 6th round Challenge cup tie against the holders. We never expected to win this one, but the team gave us a thrilling afternoon and did much better than most people were suggesting. And what great rugby we were treated to. Like the previous week we conceded an early try, scored by Umyla Hanley (son of the great Ellery) who was to go on to score a hat trick in the first half. But not long after we were treated to a really great try from Manoa Wacokecoke who rece...

         

Fev and Leigh have now both published their 21 Man Squads for Sunday, although Leigh have only named 20 players.  We find it quite difficult to see the potential shape of the teams in the form in which the clubs publish the squads so we just have to use guesswork  to set them out in the traditional manner running from fullback to loose forward and then subs.  

   Away at Batley   Under no circumstances could fevnut be described as a masochist but this morning, before writing this, we did something that comes very close to being able to be described as masochistic. The act in question was watching on RoversTV the first fifteen minutes of this match again! It was a horror show and, but for the Brad Day try right at the end of the first half, it would have been a very sombre mood at half-time. During the interval we were by no means expecting a Fev win but at least there was a glimmer of hope. That glimmer was very much enhanced by the early try scored by Captain Addy in the 43rd minute and from then on we really felt that Fev had a good chance of winning the match, and, as we all know, we did. Even then, we had to wait right up until the 79th minute for Fev to take the lead. It must have been heart-wrenching for Batley supporters to have been in the lead from minute 6 to minute 79 and then to have the victory snatched away from t...

    As to be expected we have a Super League referee for this one. Point of interest - despite the high tackle shenanigans this year, he hasn't sent anyone off (yet) and in the previous 14 matches when he has taken charge of Fev matches he hasn't sent anyone off in those either. However, he has made quite heavy use of yellow cards in 2024.