After wins in the last two weeks against teams below us, this weekend seems a stiffer challenge against a Moortown team which sit in sixth place, five places and seven points ahead of us. A little analysis however shows that three of their four victories have come against the same teams as us, with their other points coming against teams we have yet to play. So it should be an interesting contest.
Whilst the team had to work hard at Pocklington last week, they should previously have won at 4th placed Morley, and could have beaten 2nd place Scarborough. League leaders Driffield blew us away (but even then, there was some hope just after half-time) and whilst Durham seem to have come back down to earth after their great start, we could go above them with a win this weekend.
Only five of this weekend’s team played there, with a much strong backline now available, which can only get better as it plays more together. So the team should be up to the challenge.
Last weekend Moortown won by six points in a game of eighty points, away at Huddersfield YMCA (which backs my view that Huddersfield looked good in attack, but their defence is not to the same standard as the rest of the teams we have seen so far)
Once regular visitors to Kendal in the Sixties and Seventies, this is the first meeting with Moortown since 1978.
TEAM : No 4 or 9 named. Changes at prop with Glenn Chesher and Jack Lashley coming in and Dane Blenkharn moving onto the bench. James Gough comes in at scrum half and Joe Robinson, in his thrid spell at the club comes in at lock. Chris Park and Nathan Wooff swapping places.
WEATHER : Sun and Showers after a wet morning
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If you cannot make the game, just a warning that the early report may not be so early this weekend but a report should be there by mid-evening.