Match 23: London Broncos (Away)fevnut's musings
Great News
For fevnut, by far the best piece of news this week was John
Davies re-signing for a further two years. It never ceases to amaze us how much
he does in every match (and he’s one of only two players on to have played in every match
so far this year). There seems to be a hardly a play when he is not involved.
Fantastic tackler, line breaker, deft kicker and try scorer. It is in our mind
to one day write a series about Fev players we have most enjoyed watching and
John Davies is a dead cert for inclusion in that list.
And then, on Wednesday night, Kyran Johnson, who is usually a
good goal kicker is having a bit of a nightmare with his conversion attempts so
up steps none other than John Davies to have a go and kicks two out of two. I was
frankly amazed when I saw him lining up the first one because I was unaware
that he had ever kicked goals before. So when I got home the first thing I did
was to turn on my computer to check. I was sure he had never kicked for Fev
before and I was right. I then checked his record for all his previous clubs
and there was nothing about him kicking for them. The composed way in which he
slotted over those kicks made me think that I must have an error in my stats so
the next day I contacted John. He confirmed that he had never kicked before in
his professional career although he had kicked some years ago as an academy
player.
John Davies has been at Fev now for less than two seasons but he
is rapidly becoming a true Fev hero.
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We seem to be having a bit of an issue with goal-kicking. So
far, this season, we have used seven different kickers, more than I can remember
in any past year. And we do seem to be missing rather a lot which could be a
worry if we find ourselves in an important tight match. This year we have
kicked 97 goals from 147 attempts which is a 67% success rate, a low figure.
Cory Aston has been or main kicker but his success rate is only
66% (49 out of 74), Michael Knowles is at 76% (22 out of 29). By far our most
successful kicker has been Kyle Briggs but he rarely gets a chance. His success
rate is 88% (15 out of 17). The other kickers have been John Davies (100%, 2
out of 2), Ash Handley (0%, 0 out of 3), Ian Hardman (54%, 7 out of 13) and
Kyran Johnson (33%, 2 out of 6).
Someone posted on facebook that John Davies is on his way to
breaking Liam Finn’s world record of 41 successive successful kicks! Now that
would be an achievement to successfully kick the first 42 attempts of your
career!!!!
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We’re not into Queen’s Honours lists, but nevertheless we were delighted to see that Natalie
Gilmore has been awarded an M.B.E.. She has and remains as a tremendous servant
to rugby league in general and Featherstone Rovers in particular. We have enjoyed watching her playing in our
ladies team and are looking forward to seeing her in action in the Challenge Cup
final on July 30th. I hope many of you go - it is a blank weekend for the men’s
team.
What we are
not going to do is refer to Natalie, as all the press have done, as the brother
of …………… The important thing about Natalie is what she has brought to rugby
league not who her male relative is. Imagine, if every time a male player was
referred to, the sentence began by telling us who his sister is!
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Postscript
You can find
all the up to date Fev stats for our players on the page entitled FEV PLAYER
STATS. See the link on the right hand side of the page.
Full career
stats are available for each player in the pages entitled Fev Squad Career
Stats (A-D) etc.
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