Don't think you'll ever get a better opportunity to give us a bit of a mauling at the Shay, not only do we have the well-documented half back problems but we have been very much losing the arm wrestle lately and this will be the smallest pack you've seen us bring to your place for many years with Springer, Boothroyd and Akauola all missing.



I think we'll be ok later in the season if we get a bit more luck with injuries but we're struggling both in terms of form and health right now.

Happen so but we'll need to play well to get the two points. 

Still need a bit of a pinch with the way we’re playing with the smallest squad we’ve ever had and if we can stay injury free there’s the feeling these lads still have some improvement in them.


Fev a shadow of their usual standards but no surprise with the injury list which isn’t a lot different from ours at this stage last year.


Sorry Fev but there were a few who let your club down again with some of the fowlest language found in the sport levelled at young children when leaving the ground. Please don’t come back.

Another solid win based on strong defence and keeping errors/penalties to a minimum. No one real stand out performer for me, but unlike other years no weak links, with every player doing their job to a high level. In spite of the fact that aggression in defence for the full 80 minutes is better than I've seen in years, the discipline is also massively improved, something that can only be be down to Eastwoods influence. I'd have probably given MOTM yesterday to either Tangata, who ran himself into the ground for 70 minutes, or Fairbank, who's showing real skill and courage taking the ball right to the line and handing off some lovely passes, often getting wacked as a result. Churlish to gripe, but still feel JWH and Jouffret better switched, Jouffret in particular doesn't look as confident as last season. Finally I know Featherstone suffering badly with injuries and rumoured wages issues, but that was probably poorest Fev team I've seen in many years.

It was a fantastic performance yesterday although as KE said , there is still room for improvement.  Tangata was my MotM and agree that JWH and Jouffret should be switched. I was sat amongst the Fev fans in't 1st half and they must have one of the worst, brain dead, foul mouthed fan bases going in any sport. Nowt's changed there, although i feel for the good,  proper Fev fans who have to put up with that set of morons week in and week out.

Fax played a good game certainly the first half.  Douglas is just what we have been missing. Tangata was m.o.m by a country mile.
 Defence wins games so can see that coaches would concentrate on that. Now to try to sharpen the attacking play.


As for the JWH / Joufrett debate i can see why Eastmond has moved them . Woody certainly beefs up defence at half back and sort that  and you will win more than you lose. Neither of them has the same  threat there but still can cause problems.


The enthusiasm must be 100% better than last year and so many of the "old heads" are performing at the top of their game.


Bring on Batley

Just had a chance to watch a bit of the game back and its really nice to see our pack dominating teams after a few years of the boot been on the other foot. We knew getting Douglas and Calcott back would make a huge difference but I thought that was Dixon's best game for us so far and its nice to see an aggresive big man in a Fax shirt after some of the powder puff big men we have seen in the last decade or so.


It can't be underestimated how good a job he has done rejuvinating some of these players and the board have to take a lot of credit from going away from the jobs for the boys mentality. The club is now reaping the rewards for having a fresh and enthusiastic young coach running things.

On a side note.

Even though he wasn’t directly involved this week noticed George Whitby at the game and in the Panthers Facebook picture of young Max the games mascot where he’s sat between him and Charlie Graham with a Panthers top on.


Good of GW to come over and back again on the day from St Helens to be with the lads I thought as it’s not just a short trip around the corner.

As a Leigh fan looking in, aren't Fax the team of the season so far and KE doing a great job or am I missing something ? 


Fax should be getting more credit than they are getting for the start to the season. 

On the field doing really well with the resources available and Eastmond has found / brought a formula that is working which the players have clearly bought into.

Still early days yet and there’s some good sides in the division and as we were at York in the 1875 sooner or later we’ll get turned over in the league and that’s when the character of the team will be tested.


Always have to guard against getting ahead of our self’s, all it takes is a couple of injuries in key positions and no DR that we’re relying on in that scenario being available for a couple of weeks and we’ll struggle to get 18 on the pitch.


Off the field the future of the ground isn’t fully decided and although the statements from the club have been upbeat there’s still the outcome of the HMRC winding up petition to be determined sometime soon as well to keep an eye on before we can feel a bit easier of where we are.

I have had a bit of a problem using this site since its revamp but hopefully sorted now.


As for the game i would pretty much just copy what has already been covered regards both ourselves and Featherstone right now. Full credit to the board for getting Kyle on board despite people like me wanting Lingard as coach and the players too who are so far buying into what Kyle and Jimmy are asking of them. And long may it continue.