Yes I was there tonight, not at Toulouse and was there at Sheffield.

We're a team out of form, that is the key point, it will turn around. Toulouse and Sheffield are teams we should not be losing to but we've also had Leigh, Featherstone and Widnes in our first 5, not easy.

Top 4 is easily achievable, 15 games left yet and we're in the NRC Semis albeit with a tough draw but there is nothing to panic about at the minute. Even if we didn't make top 4, but made the playoffs and the NRC Final I'll be happy.

Sheffield are not a bad team especially at home but Widnes are poor thats why I was shocked tonight.
Batley are looking good and I would not write off Sheffield for top 4 so like I said 5th or 6th is our best hope imo.
The thing is the last 2 years we have had a fantastic squad which has won us games that at times we had no right to win, but this year we no longer have the players across the park and just a few top players who cannot do it on their own, this is why I think Calland is getting found out, before we could outscore teams but not this year.
James Roberts pre match article in the Courier is spot on!

Country Mile was tongue in cheek. Ive forgot about the game already which gives me time to just come back to it with a clear mind. I still go with my opinion that tonight those were the two worst teams i have seen in the Championship this season. Play like that against Bradford and they will stick 100 on us. Play like that against Leigh or Fev and they could stick 80 on us. Luckily we were up against a very poor team whom i think would have lost to just about every other team in the championship with a performance like that.

A very poor side who has also hammered Fev this season away? And sheffield, a team who have been cited on this thread as being much better? A few second half losses against Leigh and all of a sudden we're worthless. Just not as worthless as your shower.

Hmm. You've thought this through comrade. I'll be back later when I can find a way to argue against such solid logic.

Calland has been to 2 grand finals.Calland well done.

keep the legend

He's just a hater Chris, nothing more to be said. His bias clouds his ability to speak fairly objectively about anything related to our club.

I agree. I have yet to see Hunslet, York, Barrow, and Dewsbury, but yes so far on that performance last night those are the two worst teams i have seen this season. Im not even sure a decent team would have let us off the hook last night.

Three things from that performance... your defence is shocking and unless it improves you will be seriously in a relegation dogfight. It isn't even the case that you have just one or two players unwilling to bend their back, the whole line crumbled at times.
Secondly. Your discipline needs to improve and fast. I thought Laughton was being fairly generous just pointing and shouting at players for being offside when other refs would simply just blow the whistle and give a pen. Barlow likes to think of himself as an enforcer but he's nothing more than a thug that looks for the littlest players to wallop. The minute Sculthorpe or Varks are around he shrinks away.
Finally. You still potentially have one of the best attacks alongside Leigh. Black for his little drops here and there is a superb player and I would have given a lot to have had him at Widnes for the last three years. Holroyd is a true leader and was by far your best player last night. They also throw the ball around well, if not a little disorganised. Every player is comfortable with the ball in the hand and moving it on. If you can shore up the defence you will be just fine.

I think there are a lot of people making nottingham forrest type comments about you being too good to go down and they are right. But from what I have seen Hunslet have some real qualities and York had their moments.
You definitely need to start playing well soon.

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A website here that maybe some use to our club. You can tell from the first sentance how useful it will be. "This defensive drill works on a number of the core defensive skills as well as getting your defenders working together as part of a defensive unit." We struggle to have defensive individuals nevermind a defensive unit.

Sign touch and pass players you get touch and pass rugby. Very hard to get the mix right in this league. Good defences mean half decent attack, good attack generally means generous defences. All the players that have both traints are usually snapped up in SL

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The only reason Widnes won last night was because they made less individual errors in defence. The ones from Holroyd and Aizue when fielding kicks that led directly to tries were schoolboy stuff and mistakes that simply shouldn't happen from experienced players like those two. Don't get me wrong, Widnes played some good stuff early on and their two pie eaters at 7 and 9 ran the show but it says a lot that 'Fax can play so poorly and still get a bonus point.