COACH Mark Moxon believes Dane Manning summed up the Batley Bulldogs spirit by cycling to the Championship clash at London Broncos to raise funds for the club's floodlight appeal.
The seasoned second rower, who is serving an eight-match suspension, might be a rookie rider, but he made light of the 200 mile-plus journey to Wimbledon in the south-west of the capital, which he completed in the company of his mate Mark Flynn.
That was before Batley were 16-14 winners in the match which marked the midway point of the 35-year-old's ban, imposed for punching during a brawl near the end of the 16-12 1895 Cup first-round defeat at home to Bradford in early March.