fevnut's blog: September 2021

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

This week's referee: Fev v Halifax

This week it's a top ref who hasn't done a Fev Championship match since 2010 but he has done one Fev match this year nevertheless. In that game he made a big error but all refs make errors occasionally! He is generally regarded as one of the best.

Monday, 27 September 2021

Past Matches Against Halifax

LAST TIME (2021)

Although the highest score ever by Fev against Halifax was 64, the match above resulted in Fev's highest ever score in a League match.

Saturday, 25 September 2021

fevnut's musings #28: What a League Campaign (records galore) and Andrea Dobson

What a League Campaign!

Having been recording Fev stats for many years now, very occasionally we have to process a new record being set.

In the 2021 campaign they came many times over. It’s close to being unbelievable but we set a new highest score ever achieved against five of our opponents.

Halifax.

Matches between Fev and Halifax tend to be quite tight affairs and so it was when we went to Halifax this year and won 16-8. But then, when Halifax came to Fev, we won 54-22 beating Fev’s previous highest score in a league match which was set on 21^st January 1973 when we won 50-8.

That win this year was the highest score in a league match although Fev did beat Halifax 64-18 in that incredible Regal Trophy match in 1991.

London Broncos. On 14^th February 1993 (when they were called London Crusaders) Fev set our highest score beating them 58-12. This year we broke that record winning 63-14.

Oldham. The record score for a league match against Oldham was 61 which was achieved twice, in successive years, on 27^th June 1999 (61-6) and 26^th March 2000 (61-26). Yet another record set in 2021 with our 68-0 in May.

Outside league matches we had put 68 points past Oldham previously in a Northern Rail Pool match with another 68-0 win in 2012.

Sheffield Eagles.

The previous high score was achieved on 25^th February 2018 with a 58-14 win. Last week we beat them 78-10. What was extra pleasing about that was that Sheffield’s record of 60 against Fev was higher than Fev’s – no longer the case.

Dewsbury Rams.

We left this one to last because it is extra special. The record points scored against Dewsbury was 60 with a 60-18 win on 10^th June 2012. In 2021 we beat that in both home and away matches with a 68-24 win away and a 64-6 win at home.

Points scoring. In 2021 we scored a total of 943 points in league matches. That is the third highest in our 100-year history beaten only by 996 points in the 1992/93 season (the season in the Second Division when Paul Newlove scored 48 tries and Owen Simpson 34) and the highest ever of 1,040 in 2018. The 2018 total is a little misleading because it was during the Super 8s period when Fev just missed out on the Qualifiers and went rampant playing against the other bottom 8 clubs in the Championship Shield. In those seasons we played more matches (28 in 1992/93 and 30 in 2018) than the 21 in 2021.

The only fair way of comparing seasons with different numbers of games played is to calculate the average points scored per match. On that calculation 2021 is the highest ever with an incredible average of 44.9, beating 42.0 in 2011, the only other time we managed to average over 40.

Win Percentage. The win percentage used this year proved to be very unpopular with many fans but it is useful for comparing league performance between different seasons with different numbers of games played. Our win percentage for 2021 reflects what happened on the pitch not what happened in the clubhouse!

We need to discount 2020 when we had a win percentage of 100% but only played 4 league matches. That leaves 2021 as our highest ever success rate in a league campaign with a win percentage of 95.24% (20 wins out of 21 matches). There were 2 other seasons when we achieved 90% or over – exactly 90% in 2010 and 92.5% in 2011.

WHAT A YEAR!!

Andrea Dobson

Featherstone Ladies captain, Andrea Dobson, has announced her retirement after playing rugby league regularly since the age of 12.

She has been an amazing player whose career includes captaining England and Great Britain for whom she is the most capped ever player.

We are really going to miss watching her. She has been a tremendous line-breaker and is a brilliant passer of the ball with immaculate timing and accuracy. A player who has made so many opportunities for her colleagues.

We hope you have a really happy retirement and we know that she is not being lost entirely to the exciting development of women’s rugby league.

Not bad for a Lancastrian lass!

Milestones

Against Sheffield Eagles there were yet more milestones set.

At long last, Jack Bussey was back on the pitch making his 100^th Fev appearance and his try took him past 100 points for Fev.

Brett Ferres’ two tries took him past 450 career points.

Craig Hall (him again!) went past 350 points for Fev and 1,800 career points. He also kicked his 100^th goal in 2021.

Sitting in the stands we desperately felt like running on the pitch to give a message to Craig after he scored his 5^th try. The message would have been that he only needed one more try to equal the Fev tries in a match record and he only needed 2 more points to equal the Fev all time record for points in a match which is held by Martin Pearson with 40 points against Whitehaven in 1995. Sadly no more tries and Craig missed the4 last 3 conversions leaving him on 38. But that is a summer era record for points in a match and guess whose record he beat. His own, set at 36 earlier this year against Dewsbury in June.

Monday, 20 September 2021

Fev Squad 2021: Complete Stats

n.b. This page will be updated after each match of the 2021 season

Appearance figures are given as Total Appearances with starting and substitute appearances in brackets.
The 'Tries' Column gives the number of tries with the Try Rate percentage in brackets. Try Rate is the number of Tries divided by number of Appearances.

The 'Goals' column gives the total number of Goals kicked with the number of kicks taken and the percentage success rate in brackets.

FEV STATS

CAREER STATS

Abbreviations:

Where appropriate we have included a 'Club and Rep Totals' row. The Club figures are for those under RFL jurisdiction and Australian NRL matches and the Rep figures are only for open-age matches.