Looking for chinks in Pudsey Congs' armour has become an occasional pastime for some people in and around Bradford.

"They have problems with team spirit," said one spectator this summer.

"The players have become fed up with Matthew Doidge's strict regime - and he's packing up as captain anyway," said another.

"If they win a record successive sixth Bradford League title, the team will break up because there will be no reason for them to stay together any more,"

ventured yet another.

But with two legs of the treble safely tucked under their arm and over 75 per cent of the team already signed up for next

season, seemingly the only thing that is going to stop Pudsey Congs' domination is age.

Congs returned to the Wagon Lane ground where seven days earlier they had won the Priestley Cup and added the Black Sheep Yorkshire Cham-pions' Trophy to their display cabinet.

But despite having to chase 266 for victory against York on the same wicket on which they had comfortably beaten Woodlands the previous weekend, they came home with relatively few alarms.

The main problem for Doidge - without Chris Silverwood (hamstring), Scott Cunningham (cruciate ligament) and with Neil Gill being unable to bowl because of a side strain - seemed to be that of fiddling his bowling attack so that York did not post a score in excess of 300.

Doidge made ten bowling changes in the 50 overs - far more than normal - and even bowled himself for the first time this season, returning the respectable figures of one for 46 from his ten overs.

"We were without two of our regular bowlers and Babar Butt could not bowl his medium-paced swingers because of a thigh strain so he had to bowl off-spin instead," said Doidge.

"When you are faced with a situation like that you have to fiddle things around - but Glenn Roberts' two wickets stopped them getting near that 300 mark."

Faced with a substantial target on a wicket that played better than the previous weekend, Congs knew they could not afford a slow start.

And Andy Bethel (41), but more particularly man-of-the-match Bradley Parker (60), set the tone for the innings with an opening stand of 110 in quick time.

Not even the dismissal of both batsmen in quick succession - Bethel drove over a dipping leg-spinner and Parker was run out after dabbing the ball behind point - caused a flap as Butt,

for whom quick singles or twos were out of the question because of his injury, and Andy Bairstow kept the momentum going.

Left-hander Bairstow seemed determined to pull York's leg-spinners into the River Aire when they dropped short while Butt worked the ball into the gaps for singles.

Bairstow was out sweeping for a typically belligerent 57 and Butt's boundary took him to 50 just before Congs won with 13 balls to spare.

Congs' Mark Bray did as well as anyone with the ball on a day when the bat dominated but his figures were rather spoilt when he conceded 13 off his last over, while clever bowling from left-arm spinner Roberts also restricted York to well under what seemed likely at one stage.

Pudsey's ground fielding was again below average but they are still on course for the full house of trophies with just

two weekends of the Bradford League season to go.