We win as a team and we lose as a team.

Congratulations to Batley who were relentless. There's always a post mortem and here's mine;

* we need MG back at FB so Will can be higher up the pitch.
* Jonno and Moore at halves where does that leave Muzza
* we seemed to offload always going backwards or snatching at plays
* sometimes our back line is so deep and static
* do we need to have a look at Brandon Moore
* we seemed totally in control in the first half then a couple of brain farts later and we go in 6-8!!

I'm certain that if we score a couple of those length of the pitch tries we'd have broken them.......that's sport eh.

UTFAX

Ps not bagging the guys

Pps

Thought our kicking out of hand was pretty average and we didn't pressure their kicks either.....

A nice summer day, a firm green carpet to play on, Greenwood at FB, Will on the wing, Johnno and Gaz Moore in the halves, Muzza at loose forward, Grix in the second row, plenty of good footy to come.

Depressing performance really. Yes, I agree with the above comments that Stokes did not directly affect the result, but I would love to hear his explanation to both the disallowed try and Reittie incident. Do refs ever have to justify themselves or answer questions to bizarre decisions?? The ruck was incredibly slow, along with a skinny 10 metres, which resulting in a very boring spectacle. Fair play to Batley though, they played the conditions and circumstances very well. RM will have to make changes though. After Sheffield he mentioned our support play was not where it should be and that was evident again today. How many line breaks did we make, ending up with nothing? Heaton, Fairbank, Tangata Ecclestone to name 4. I'd get Miles back asap, if he's not ready give Salty a go at full back, at least he links the line up fairly well. Gareth Moore was good again, Jonno has to come in at half back with him. On today's showing I'd give Murrell a few week off, really off the pace today. If RM wants to continue with Fairbank, R Moore, Tangata at loose, then I really don't see a place for Murrell at the minute unfortunately.

Agree with all of that. Don't think RM would ever play Murrell at loose forward and as much as I like Murrell he's not playing well enough to deserve a place in the team. Got to go with Johnston and Moore as half backs next week.
When Tangata made that 40 meter break upfield he had no support what so ever, if Tangata's making them kind of breaks and and has no support that tells you there's something wrong.

https://tombatley.wordpress.com/2016/02 ... win-again/ Manning and ambler your best forwards for me Wish dane would come home ha Good luck for rest of season see you at the mount for another great tie with fax

https://tombatley.wordpress.com/2016/02 ... win-again/ Manning and ambler your best forwards for me Wish dane would come home ha Good luck for rest of season see you at the mount for another great tie with fax

Interesting, tangata and Fairbank were the best yesterday for me.
We've had good tussles with Batley for years now and Dane has been our most consistent player for years.

Yesterday was less to do with stokes, and more to do with Fax not backing up, and switching off between 35 and 40 mins. Batley are well balanced championship team, and John Kear knows his onions.

Thoughts are murrell as been poor against Sheffield and today against batley. Needs to be dropped as the whole point of a big team is to keep players on there toes and to me he just is not playing how he is expected

Don't see why saxton is not.in the team he was one the better wingers. Think a few need swapping for next week

deeply disappointing and damaging performance.Seems to be a lot wrong at club at moment which is really annoying as the good work of last season seems to be falling apart.Pity i can't make the RM forum on wednesday as i'd like to hear his slant on things.Did think he was too loyal to the players at end of last season,we needed 4/5 quality players and needed to ship a few.That said opinion is divided on Gareth Moore but in my opinion he's been excellent.

Opinion shouldn't be divided on Gareth Moore. He's been by far our best player so far this season.

Without naming individual players for negative criticism - I believe there were a few players playing yesterday that really weren't up to the required standard.

It's absolutely crazy that Ben J. isn't getting in the team when he was our most dangerous attacking player last season and in the super 8s.

Aye.
We don't look anything like did towards the back end of last year, no fluency or flow as a unit yet, although there hasn't been many changes it looks like where there has been they are not just clicking just yet.

We all were hoping for a better start including RM and the players and we know they will be working towards sorting it, lets hope we can get the right team blend and back to some form asap because it will be harder this time round to do a repeat of last season run in.