Greenwood insists Rams must improve away form ahead of Rovers trip

Chris Annakin attempts to break up a tackle by Sheffields Patrick Burns and Corey Makelim as he looks to set up a Dewsbury Rams attack in last Sundays Championship clash at Tetleys Stadium. Picture: Paul Butterfield

Dewsbury, once again, went close to registering victory last week as they led Sheffield Eagles for much of the game until two tries in the final five minutes turned the game in the Eagles’ favour.

Dewsbury’s only win came against Swinton Lions but while the Rams have produced some decent home performances, their form on the road has been cause for concern for coach Lee Greenwood, whose side lie ninth in the table after their opening six matches of the season.

Greenwood will look for improvement as the Rams head to Featherstone and said: “They are all [games] tough. Sheffield was tough, last week was tough, the week before that was tough.

“You can say there is a tough game every single week.

“But we will look at Featherstone and see what we can do to trouble them.

“Our away performances haven’t been great.

“We didn’t play well up at Barrow and managed to nick a point. We didn’t play well last week against Halifax.

“We need to improve on our away form in general but it will be a different type of game to (Sheffield) so we will have a look at that and prepare for that right this week.”