Do not be coming on here with such info! Lately it seems all people want to do is knock anything the club does and be negative. Anybody expecting much more than the team put out, needs to wake up. I am sure Marshall and Grix learned somethings about a few players. Punchard went well, but we have to be careful about pushing youngsters too fast too soon. He also has a lot to learn regarding managing the team and telling older more experienced players what he wants. Connor Robinson went well at Fullback. The youngsters in the second half got a wake up call. Likely only a couple will make it but good that we have the Dual Reg with South Wales as the Reserve System is a joke sadly. Grix was Coach for the day and probably learnt from some of his mistakes and allowed Marshall to take a look from a different viewpoint at a few things. Result means little at this stage. Maybe its our attitude and thinking that needs to be looked at not just the Clubs. I doubt we will finish in the top 5 to be honest. But we have a club and are certainly in a better position than a couple of other clubs in this League!!

It's a friendly, it's to be expected. I enjoyed it and was good to get some live rugby. I am still worried about our lack of punch in the forwards, more so then last season as we now have no Moore or Manning and the centres, we have the 2 fastest wingers in the league but will they see the ball?
Top 8 would be a good season however I predict we are 1 silly loss (like Rochdale away etc) from a relegation battle. I rate Marshall but don't think he has the tools for the job.

Ya just never know, although were 5-6-7th realistically, there's plenty of scope for us to improve, and for others to nose dive, team sports and their dynamics often throw up surprises.

We'll have to get off to a flier, get our noses up there, and cling on for our dear life, almost literally, praying that we pull off a couple of surprises along the way.

It's the only way I can see us getting back on some sort of keel, even if that's not an even one.

We lost a pre season friendly, in the words of the anti nowhere league 'So what'

I'm not perfect, far from it, and apologies if I've offended anyone. It's true that I do prefer folk to use punctuation and grammar correctly so that we can easily read and understand the messages that are being put forward, but accept I was maybe (ok, not maybe) a tad OTT this time.

I hope Fax do well this year, and wish everyone who wears blue'n'white a very Happy New Year.

New Year's resolution for me - stop being a grumpy sod...

Best thing we could do this year is challenge Scott to try take his fitness up to a totally new level. Imagine if he could lose a stone and pack on lean muscle, he would tear this league up. He is a sportsman after all.

Its a fallacy that he is unfit. He just looks it because of his shape. He just lacks a yard of pace and thats not something he will ever gain. Unfortunatley though it is one of the reasons our attack is so predictable when you have 2 half backs who are very similar playing together, both Moore and Murrell would look very good playing with a quick running half back but thats not a way that RM wants to play so it will be next season before that is changed as IMO if he sticks with it he probably wont be here next season.