Help Sitemap Home Skip Navigation Contact Us Disability Statement

Trade Window Sales
Sponsored by
For quality conservatories, windows & doors at affordable prices
Over 17,000 satisfied customers in the last 10 years

Premium Article !

Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button.

Options

Premium Article !

To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the EP Leeds First & County site.

Subscribe

Registered Article !

To read this article in full you must be registered with the site.

FIELD: Rovers aim to give Salford City the blues



Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image

Published Date: 17 July 2008
We are on a high at Featherstone at the moment after last week's win over Celtic Crusaders, but Sunday's home game will be an even bigger challenge.
Salford City Reds have been playing well. They've scored 130 points in their last two games and they are a full-time outfit.

But we're going into it confidently. It should be a good game and if we play well, maybe we can spring a surprise.

National One is a tough division. We lost two games and before we knew it, we were second from bottom. Now we've won two and suddenly we're on the edge of the play-offs.

There's not much between most of the teams, which is a big difference from National Two.

Last year, we could go into some of the games not fully switched on and still win. In this league, any team who do that will get turned over.

You have to turn up every week and be consistent, which has been a problem for us.

We've been able to play well one week, but then we've tended to drop off the next. That's something we've got a chance to address on Sunday.

There's not many games in this division. We only play 18 league matches, so before you know it, the season's over.

We want to make sure we finish on a high, string some good performances together and make sure we qualify for the play-offs. Then we'll see what comes of that.

Two wins from two has given Danny Evans a good start to his coaching career and he's doing a fine job alongside Jon Sharp.

It's always a strange situation when you have a change of coach.

I really like David Hobbs and I enjoyed playing for him, so it was disappointing when he left.

But Danny and Jon have come in, they have brought some new ideas and sometimes a change does bring the best out of players.

Jon is very experienced. He's coached at the top level with Huddersfield and he has been a positive influence. He's been quite strict in training and he has done a lot of work on our defence, which is going to have to be at its best on Sunday.

We seem to be playing teams who have applied for a Super League licence at the moment.

I know Featherstone have got their own bid in, but as far as the players are concerned, that's not really something we're thinking about. We'll leave that to the people upstairs.

I think Celtic will probably get in, along with the current clubs, but I don't know who else they'll pick. It's going to be interesting to see what happens.

Featherstone is the first club I've been at where the players aren't all full-time. That presents different challenges, but it's given me chance to think about what I want to do after I finish playing.

Like a lot of players, I want to stay involved in sport and fitness, so along with Ryan Hudson I've opened a couple of personal training studios, 5 Star Fitness, in Tingley and Castleford.

There's a big rugby league influence, because we've got Mark Field, who's at Dewsbury, and Doncaster 's Tom Burton working for us now.

It's quite tough because most of my clients want to come in in the early morning or the evenings, but I'm managing to fit everything around training with Fev and so far it's all going well.

The full article contains 589 words and appears in EP Leeds First & County newspaper.
Page 1 of 2

  • Last Updated: 17 July 2008 8:17 AM
  • Source: EP Leeds First & County
  • Location: Leeds
 
 
  

 
 


Sister Newspapers:
Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.