The blue and golds progressed to the final of the Ray Speckman Cup in an exciting ding dong affair at Bilton last Saturday. Work commitments forced a reshuffle by coach Guy Adams.
The blue and golds hoped to play this cup tie for league points in order for them to complete their league campaign. Their opponents astonishingly refused to agree to this.
The blue and golds just scraped through this frustratingly stop start encounter at the Beverley Leisure Centre last Saturday.
The blue and golds saw their first action in a month due to recent postponements in the first round of the Council Cup last Saturday at Lambwath.
Beverley ARLC received a double boost ahead of this game at the Beverley Leisure Centre last Saturday. Ben Calvert decided to remain with the club and opt out of a proposed move to Skirlaugh
This was a pleasing performance from the blue and golds last Saturday on their travels. They trailed 8-6 at the interval but produced a dominant second half display to run out convincing winners.
These two sides produced an entertaining encounter at the Beverley Leisure Centre last Saturday which but for the final ten minutes looked as if the result could have gone either way. It was probably the blue and gold’s best performance of the season against a side still unbeaten this season.
This was always going to be a tough encounter on the East coast against a side that will contest the Tom Beeutiman Cup Final against Cottingham Tigers next month but the way the blue and golds played in the opening 30 minutes suggested an unlikely victory.
The blue and golds took 2 valuable league points last Saturday at the Leisure Centre in a game which they appeared to dominate from start to finish but astonishingly only won by 10 points.
Watching the two sides warm up last Saturday at the Leisure Centre, the sheer physical presence of the West Riding outfit was always going to be a deciding factor in this Yorkshire Cup tie.
The blue and golds will be very disappointed to have not taken both points from this encounter at Haworth Park. They led 12-0 after 15 minutes and were 22-14 up with just 15 minutes to go.They clearly have the ability to win games like this but a little bit of tactical naivety at times proved to be their undoing.
The blue and golds got the win last Saturday which will hopefully now kick start their season. The first half was an evenly contested affair with both sides turning around at the interval at 6-6.
This game proved to be a tough ask against a strong Hull Dockers second string. The hosts trailed 20-0 at the break and had to play 50 minutes of the game with only 12 men following the dismissal of full back Steve Connolly.