I'm not a bulls fan, I'm just curious if he is still England's assistant?

AFAIK he is.

That's not a bad point. If McNamara is off to France, who's in charge of our team on Sunday against Wire?



Jimmy Lowes is in charge of the Wire side because Tony Smith is off with England.

Macca isn't going, Kris Radlinski has gone over with Tony Smith. However McNamara is still the assistant coach I believe.

So I guess that means Jimmy Lowes is incharge of Wire for that game then?

Yes, as pointed out on the previous page. Three players out in total though: Morley and Westwood for Wire and Burgess for Bulls.

Unless they back up like quite a few players did last yr.

The game last year was a Friday which made it much easier to back up.

And the difference between the two sides on the scoresheet was?

The fact we were given kickable conversions and penalties (with one or two exceptions) and we have a player who can kick them. If he could do anything other than kick goals, it would be great. Sadly, in his current form, he can't. Sykes would have got at least 6 of the 8 I reckon.

The fact that we scored our tries under (nice one Beaver) or close to the sticks, and we were awarded three easily-kickable penalties.



Sorry...your point was...?

In answer:

a. The bulls were a better side and scored more tries + penalties.

b. The placement of the tries and penalties gave superior positional

opportunity for their convertion to further points.



Whilst I was never a goal kicked of significant note, and am now slightly overage for even senior rugby, and had a knee reconstruction 10 years ago, I still feel that I could have hobbled to make at least 6 of Deacon's simple conversions