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    We have obtained the 21 man squads from the RFL Match Centre which has proved to be more reliable in recent weeks. If there are any changes when the clubs, themselves, publish their squads we will amend accordingly. 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.

  A few days ago TotalRL.com published a list of the number of wins by each club in Super League. So we thought we would take a similar look, but for the Championship League (which started under that name in 2009). We discovered there were 5 clubs that had won more than 150 matches . Can you have a guess at which they are, and (rather more difficult) try to put them in order of their number of wins?

   Toulouse As we drove to the ground for our home match against Toulouse there was a question floating around in our brain – Could we be as good as we had been the week before against Bradford? Well, we weren’t as good as were against Bradford. Despite having played so well at Odsal we were even better against Toulouse. A great deal better. Against Bradford we toughed it out and came away with the win. That had been fortunate as it was a late disputed penalty that gave us victory when it looked very much as if were about to lose. Against Toulouse we looked a much more overall top performing team. And that was all the more praiseworthy bearing in mind the loss of Greg Eden at halftime which meant that Ben Reynolds had to move to full back which yet again disrupted our halfback combination. When Toulouse scored their try in the 71st minute to leave Fev only four points ahead it got very tense but then came that wonderful try in the 77th minute that was, without doubt, the clincher. Th

        

   Seventh time for Fev this year with this referee which seems a lot but we are not complaining! So far, in 2024, he has been lower than average for penalties, yellow cards and red cards.

  

  Head Coach:  Paul Crarey Paul Crarey has been Barrow’s head coach ever since 2015. In the Championship only Mark Aston at Sheffield has been head coach at a club for longer. He was also Barrow’s head coach from 2006 to 2007. He had a short spell as Whitehaven’s head coach at the beginning of the 2008 but left in March of that year as a result of illness. In his playing days he was a hooker and made over 170 appearances for Barrow as well as playing for Carlisle. In 1992 he was hooker in the Cumbria side who played Australia in a warm-up match for that year’s World Cup.   Captain:  Jarrad Stack   Australian second rower, Jarrad Stack, has been the Barrow captain since 2020. He arrived in the UK in 2009 to join Workington from Melbourne Storm at the age of 20. He then moved to Barrow in 2017. He has played 329 games in the UK (171 for Workington and 158 for Barrow) and scored 113 tries (62 for Workington and 51 for Barrow).   Loan players and Dual Registration On April 30th Barrow sign