Batley Bulldogs's Big Match Verdict: Ten-try Batley deliver right response for coach Diskin

Bulldogs bounced back from the previous week’s 32-6 loss to Featherstone Rovers by battering Sheffield Eagles 54-10 in the Kingstone Press Championship.

Batley ran in 10 tries, with winger Wayne Reittie, second-row Brad Day and substitute half-back Tom Holmes all bagging a brace and hooker Alistair Leek, scrum-half Dominic Brambani, centre Macauley Hallett and winger Michael Hayward also crossing.

Diskin said: “I thought it was a good, disciplined performance.

“For 70 mminutes of that game we carried out what we practiced, for the first time this year.

“It was always going to be a bit scrappy at the back end, when you get those scorelines, but we built a lot of pressure in the first 20 minutes and we learned from the experience of last week, when we got frustrated. This week we were really disciplined, carried out our plan and the points came because of that.”

Diskin accused his team of being too “lateral” against Rovers.