A frustrating game at times with us, again, making far too many individual errors in our own half. Errors in attack and defence which need to be stamped out fast.

I thought Jouffret had a reasonable game but don't understand the over the top praise he's been getting. He dropped about 3/4 balls with 2 being right on our try line. When Scott Grix was making those same mistakes everyone was shouting for him to retire as soon as possible.

There were also a few occasions where our forwards got their noses through the defence and were looking for an offload. The fullback should be tearing through in these situations but he often wasn't. Most of these mistakes will be down to rustiness due to lack of playing time, hopefully.

Due to our larger playing squad I think we are able to apply a 'horses for courses' selection policy, which I have no issues with. Walmsley is going to be a huge threat on drier pitches.

Can't see us getting anything from the next 2 games but hopefully we can put in some spirited performances which will set us up for the following matches.

The thing with Walmsley and Jouffret is they are the type of players fans pay to see and we need something exciting to drag the fans back down The Shay, they're not going to return just to see run of the mill meaningless games. We've got to be up there challenging at the top and playing exciting rugby and these two lads will certainly help in that respect. Up The Fax! Sportsman, shuddersfield Mallinsons Simcoe 3.9% Mmm!

I think everything that has been said has covered the game .

Next week will reveal a lot .

I wonder if Featherstone are a bit like when wilder fought fury the 1st time , wilder intimidating everyone then it ends up where the reputation precedes the thing itself, and it clicked hang on a minute there a little bit vulnerable, they look a bit tired let’s have a go , we ll see next week but we having nothing to lose , start from minute one rather than minute 40 and we will see .

Absolutely. Yesterday went exactly as I saw it. 1st half we didn't test them and they plodded in for three easy tries. 2nd half had a right go and were the better team. Just go for it from minute one and see what we can do. Cheery Tree, shuddersfield Phoenix Wobbly Bob 6.0% Mmm!

I commented on Fev looking a bit tired live at the game then a couple of things happened.
We had a couple of what SG calls pressure release moments in not playing the ball correctly, going wide and into touch early in the tackle count and a silly penalty.

The other was Brian Mc seeing the bit of fatigue and bringing on Lockwood and I think it was Wildie in a double sub to freshen things up.

More optimistic about next week after the second half . Time will tell , I think it's going to be a hard month but the likes of walmsley and firmer grounds to come encouraged me. I only started watching league when kilroy Austin Preston and Bentley were running in tries from anywhere and couldnt care less about making the hard yards in defence . Rugby to me was all about scoring tries and bxxxxx to the rest . Maybe matt calland was right ?