Can't argue much with pinball today, we played badly, Hunslet played well. We looked like we thought we only needed to turn up to win in the first half, injuries didn't help and I thought MC didn't play enough experienced players today, we could have done with a Larder or the like out there just to steady the ship. On the whole I thought Hunslet deserved the victory although we should have had a penalty try when Chapman tried to decapitate Branighan.

On the plus side, the lineswomen was lovely and she didn't get a decision wrong all game.

in some ways that could be good for us.

its not the main concdern even if we would have all loved to have gone to Blackpool.

if we had of some how escaped with the place in the next round.

if we had of got through, the performance might have been swept under the carpet abit, now we have lost it has to be addresed.

i know he's only 1 player but i can't help but think if shad had been there today, we would be in the next round.

Was Royston injured or rested?

flu i heard

Garbage that. We haven't taken this competition seriously since we came down from SL. The only game where i've seen them go all out was last year against Widnes at home - which we lost



Whatever the excuses - you can't dick around in these competitions if you want to progress - no matter who the opposition. Well done Hunslet today and Fax need to cut out the errors. We're like headless chickens sometimes - panic panic panic.

Disappointed to say the least.

but most of those teams will be playing a few games too.

Mate - you play Sunday and fit a midweek game in Wednesday. Or you play Thursday and fit in a game on Sunday. It's still three days - give or take a few hours. What's the difference ?

Yeah, you could've played Monday night but then folk would have moaned about how inconvenient it was for supporters.

When there's bad weather or a cup run, you just have to bite the bullet and fit the games in best you can.

What would [iyour[/i plan have been ?

Sheffield did that last year. We played Gateshead the Thursday after Easter. Gateshead had had Easter Monday off, which I thought was a bit offside.

also why on earth when we scored and need to kick to make it 36 36 which was enough to go through not take the minute allocated to take a kick at goal, to give the players a longer breather and run the clock down as hunslet did evry time, good tactics if you ask me

Agree we should have wasted the time as much as possible on that last kick. Think this was a big mistake and ultimately cost us our place in the cup run...

I would like to see the error stats today, bet they are the worst for a long while!

How many;

Missed tackles
Dropped passes
Knock ons
Field kicks straight out
Field kicks just poor

I think the lack of pre-season showed today.

1 +ve, it cant get any worse.