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   Fev and Dewsbury have both published their 21 man squads for Sunday, although Fev have only named 20. 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. This is our guess at what the line-ups will be but what we would really like to see would involve giving Charlie Harris a game at fullback, then put Caleb Aekins at stand-off with Danny Addy back in the forwards.

   Last week we asked you "Of all the clubs that Fev have played at least 50 times since 1921, against which ten do we have the best Win% against?" This week we continue with three questions (but without the restriction of having played them at least 50 times. Question 1: CLUE: None of the four are in the professional game nowadays. Question 2: CLUE: One of them is a current professional club, the other isn't so, sadly,  we can never rectify our 100% losing record against them. Question 3: CLUE: We have played this club 19 times but only 5 times under their current name.

   Players who never scored In the last week we have been doing lots of updates to our player records after brilliant work done by Stephen Parker and Mark las Palmas had discovered previously missing dates of birth for no less than 178 former Fev players. We were entering the date of birth for Bill Bradshaw who played 70 games between 1943 and 1956 when we noticed something rather astonishing. He was at hooker for every single one of those matches and yet he never scored a single try. That seems to be a reflection of the vastly changed nature of the role of hooker rather than on Bill Bradshaw himself. In today’s game it would be inconceivable for a, so-called, hooker to play 80 games without scoring. Just think of Richard Chapman who scored 104 tries in 240 games or, indeed, Connor Jones whose record to date is 69 tries in 104 games. It really is about time that the positional name of ‘hooker’ should be dropped. The vast majority of #9s in the modern game are far more like a th

  

   Local lad but he is a referee who tends to award a lot of penalties. He is also well above average this year for the production of yellow cards.

  We told you that nine out of the ten correct answers were currently in either the Championship or League One. We wonder how many thought that the other was currently in Super League. Of course it was none of them, the odd one out was Bramley who are no longer a professional club.