come & watch m/c & district rl team take on rochadale town team tonight ,7.30 ko @ eccles rl ground £3 to get in. all monies go to christies.

Rochdale won, something like 24-28 I think.

A very messy game in with bucketloads of knock-ons on very hard ground but rainy and greasy conditions. Despite that there was some good handling on display at times from both sides. Manchester could probably have taken the game in the last 10 minutes but pushed the final offload too far several times for knock-ons.

Personally felt Manchester looked the better side in possession and made more yards with harder running, but defensively were poor in places. Their left side winger never seemed to push up with the line in defence, always hanging back and inside a little - that gave away at least 2 tries. Rochdale for their part were good in defence and played a simple but effective game going forward. They took their opportunities well where Manchester often didn't - some decision making was poor - not releasing the ball with numbers wide, and pushing impossible offloads.

Still, some nice big hits and a fairly enjoyable game.

like cronus said messy game,but seemed like a enjoyable game for the lads,noticed lot of lads playing out of position,but that can,t be helped.alot of m/c team seemed unfit for young lads,lets hope they regroup because they have hard game next week against service team who are a big hard fit team.well done to everyone hope its as good if not better next week.

This im sure will have been a worth while run out for both Rochdale and Manchester with their pending exhibition games.

Mayfield 1sts and most of cobras have big games this sat last and first games of season) so it was a great chance for us to have a look at 8 debutants Thursday ready for the Navy game on the 15th at spotland.

hope we can do this again at mayfield or spotland.

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