Featherstone crush poor Swinton to keep their top-four hopes alive

By The Newsroom
Published 15th Jul 2018, 22:59 BST
Updated 16th Jul 2018, 17:57 BST
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Featherstone Rovers bounced back from their defeat at Halifax in good style and moved back up to third place in the Betfred Championship when they ran in 10 tries in a 60-4 victory at Swinton Lions.

Featherstone’s first points came on nine minutes when Anthony Thackeray and Ian Hardman combined to send winger Shaun Robinson diving over against his former club. Hardman added the conversion and went on to kick 10 from 10 attempts.

Lowly Swinton dug in, however, and there were no more scores until the 31st minute as Rovers’ other winger, Luke Briscoe, finished off a good move after Misi Taulapapa moved the ball wide from John Davies.

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Featherstone lost Scott Wheeldon to the sin-bin, but scored a third try before half-time as Hardman raced over after Davies made a break.