Just for you, DG, here's my report.
Awful first half. We lost possession so much that I don't think we had it in our hands for more than 5 minutes. We managed to score in the corner with what seemed to be only our 2nd foray into Batley's half.
I suspect that they were playing to orders: "Lose the ball as much as you can so that we can see how your defensive training has been going". Well, it has been going extremely weel since the home side didn't look like breaking us down. The blond-haired FB put in some excellent tackles. [Left my team sheet in the car so very few names!]
The half time instructions must have been: "Right, OK then, let's play some rugby".
We threw the ball about with much greater effect.
Korky ran the ball out of defence with both power & pace.
Lunt is an outstanding prospect - he regularly side-stepped past the first 3 or 4 tacklers and, IMHO, out-performed Faiumu.
Jammer was wishing that his permit hadn't come through.
No 8 ran hard.
Barber was OK but his kicking was very good.
When we wee about 20-6 in front the game was effectively killed off when Thaler dismissed a Batley player for a blatant head tackle. [Perhaps our officials should have asked for him to have been replaced by another player seeing as how it was only a friendly?]
Can't be bothered with any more - especially as I can now feel my toes and the thought of cold beer isn't that dreadful!
Finally, attendance was 850ish.
[Got a feeling of deja vu?]
Didn't get an invite to the Shogun/Ponner party, though.
And I suspect Penninegiant thought it was a 3 o'clock KO as he snuck in after about half an hour!