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.