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by ROGER HALSTEAD Roughyeds pair Marcus St Hilaire and James Coyle are named in the NL2 form team of the month for March by Rugby League World magazine -- St Hilaire at full-back and Coyle at scrum-half. To get the No 1 job in this mythical line-up, Marcus had to beat off competition from George Rayner of Keighley Cougars and Stuart Kain of Gateshead Thunder, while Coyle got the vote at scrum-half ahead of Luke Gale of Doncaster and Kevin Till of Hunslet Hawks. Gale's half-back partner at Doncaster, Kyle Briggs, not only won his place in the team at stand-off, but also took the chief accolade as player of the month --- a fair indication that the Doncaster half-backs are having a major say in the way Ellery Hanley's team has started off the NL2 campaign at a cracking pace. Form team: St Hilaire (OLDHAM); Sanderson (Gateshead), Luisi (Doncaster), Potter (Keigley), Saywell (Swinton); Briggs (Doncaster), Coyle (OLDHAM); Rawlins (Keighley), Elston (Rochdale Hornets), Ellis (Barrow), Ostler (Barrow), Knowles (Gateshead), Weisner (Barrow). With three forwards in the pack --- prop Andy Ellis, second-rower Martin Ostler and loose-forward Pat Weisner -- Barrow's forwards have certainly made the judges sit up and take note of things that are happening at Craven Park. Apart from waiting for the outcome of Thursday night's draw, Roughyeds now turn their attentions from the Northern Rail Cup (they are through to the last eight) and focus on Sunday's potential banana skin of a game at Keighley where they were beaten 26-18 in last season's league game at Cougar Park. Richard Mervill picked up a dead leg in Sunday's rousing performance that earned a 16-6 NRC win against NL1 side Whitehaven, while Danny Halliwell has also reported a shoulder injury. On the plus side Lucas Onyango is ready to put his boots on again after his shoulder operation and he may have his first run-out in the reserves this week. Tommy Goulden was the official man-of-the-match winner in the Whitehaven game -- chosen by the press -- while the club named Phil Joseph as winner of the club's champagne-moment award for a magnificent one-on-one tackle on Whitehaven's big prop Ryan McDonald. When presented with his bottle of champers, Joseph said: "Once I had broken the line and gone for him, I knew I had to make it count or Deaks would have killed me!". |
