So after the highs of Friday night we move onto this years summer bash at York. I have got my ticket for the south stand and will be watching the Newcastle vs Sheffield game before ours. Both us and Batley look like we have picked up some injuries from our respective cup games but from our point of view we have some good players waiting in the wings for a chance so no excuses from me on that front. As for the game for me as long as we at least match them up front i think we have enough in our backs to get the win. I will go for a score of 30-16 to Fax.

Do we know how Keyes' injury is anyone?

I think we are in gear and will comfortably beat the dogs 40-10.

I think it will Come down to which team used most energy in their CC game. I’m hoping our performance against Saints will give us the edge as will have given us confidence as Batley got stuffed and that may have a negative affect on their performance.

All the games NOT on TV are pay per view on RL our league app. Cheaper if you £4:99if you pre py for the March £10 on the day. Although at the moment I can find how to pre pay on the app

A lot will depend on who's fit to play after what was always going to be a very physical challenge against top full time opposition. Obviously Keyes out, Walmsley took a knock and several of the forwards looked battered. Would not be surprised to see Kavanagh and Fleming come back in and maybe even Maher. If Walmsley not fit I think Mccomb has more than done enough to hold his position in the centre- wouldn't mind seeing Maizen given a go on the wing.Would expect to see Pickersgill at fullback and JWH in the halves - personally would prefer to keep JWH in his best position and give Inman another go at half.

Grix got this wrong. Inman and Wood at half were all wrong. Inman looked lost at times and wood just does not have the quickness in thought or distribution. WBH @ 6 and Pickersgill @ 1 has to be until Keyes returns. Hard to lambast Woody yesterday as he has been so reliable. Even with the two howlers, he looked threatening with ball in hand. We seemed to lose our way against the usual Batley style. The last 20 was headless chickens stuff. Few players were really anonymous. Perhaps a hangover from Saints. Tough period coming up now with the log jam behind Seagulls ( they will drop off I think). I worry for the Toulouse game; their first game at home in a while and coupled with the travel, hope we don't get the flogging that most teams seem to get against them. They start games so strongly @ home. Need to really muscle up in this game.

Well the complacent Grix stuns again! Usual MO resumed with a total lack of game plan resulting in forwards panic-kicking out on the full in midfield.

Out muscled
Out kicked
Out caught
Out passed
Out tackled
Out defended
Out everything in fact.

Sure we are missing some key men but wtah was that I just watched???

Time to go Simon for me. Assistant coach at best. Great clubman but we need someone who knows how to build a consistently strong side. Batley were well drilled but I would argue the only player we would have in our team on paper from theirs would be Meadows who was fast and decisive.

Depressing doesn't even come close.

What a load of absolute b******s. We've lost a close game to last seasons beaten grand finalists, having been widely viewed as heroes only the week before. The Saints game will have taken a massive amount out of the team, yes the results very disappointing- but suggesting sacking Grix on the basis of that is just bonkers.

Funny how the same people come out from under the rocks after a poor display but are no where to be seen after a great result.

The loss was painful to watch. Any loss is. Batley were the better team. Sacking Grix is a daft comment. This season is a very tight league and a loss drops you several places a win and your back up the table. This league won’t be decided until the last few weeks. We need a good response against Toulouse. Up the Fax

Listened to the radio, just seems we had several brain farts at the same time.
As mentioned last week probably took more out of the team than most realise. I did think after Batley scored early 2 nd half, senior player might have slowed the game down to retake control.
Fax to rebound and have a great run in .

We were in control for first 30 mins. Forwards making easy yards and played them in their own half. Then we seemed to go off script, kicking ball away when it wasn't the play, not completing our sets and suddenly letting them make yards close to the ruck.

JWH won't normally make that many mistakes in a season. Despite all that, it relied on our mistakes to either gift them the tries or the field position.

Calling for Grix out seems to show mentality of some our supporters at times. The one who posted on FB (since deleted) berating Grix for only giving Inman 3 mins game time takes the busicut! I've occasionally had a beer too many at our games but I'd like to think I'd still notice a player who was on for the full game!!

Im surprised how many of our fans are happy to accept mediocracy and think that is the overall mentality that we as a club have slipped in to. Ive read so many excuses to why we served up what we served up yesterday. I'm not to the point where I think Grix has to go but i'm also not at the stage where I am going to defend him whatever the results.

A few things that people seem to be forgetting regarding our "tired" performance yesterday. Batley also had a tough game last Friday and took a bit of a beating both physically and on the scoreboard. They also pick up just as many bumps and bruises as us from that game. Despite that for some reason for 55 minutes or so we were the only team that looked tired and unorganised.

People also seem to be letting our cup run blind themselves to the sort of performances we have been putting up in the league. For me we have comfortably the 2nd best squad in the league and we probably also have the 3rd/4th highest squad spend in the league and you have to ask the question if someone like Craig Lingard was in charge of this sort of squad would we be running 5th in the league at this point? Look at our league performances so far, we scraped a win against Sheffield which on the face of it given how well they have done was a good win, we then lost to Fev in the first 15 minutes, snook a win at home against London and then turned up terible performances against, Widnes, Barrow, Bradford and a poor performance against a depleted York side. We all happy with that?

Outside of the cup we have really only put on one solid performance all season against a poor Haven side for me at this stage of the season with the side we have that quite simply is not good enough, that is unless we are happy to just meander along making excuses.

Personel wise there have been a lot of questions asked about recruitment. Grix does not seem to do his homework on players, multiple times signing players who within a few games are suddenly "not good enough" for us. We get rid of Springer, King, and probably Doro next who all seem to excel away from Fax. We start the season without a recognised centre which is almost laughable the arrogance that we thought that would be okay and its a problem that has come back to bite us on the bum multiple times this season. We bring in Fleming and Pickersgill which seems a waste of money especially given the perfect situation yesterday to bring Pickersgill in to the team and that was passed up, maybe its just a case of another signing who it turns out is not good enough for us.

So the positives which for me at the moment are been outweighed by the negatives. On our day we are the most exciting team in the division to watch by far and we are capable of playing some brilliant rugby. The cup run has been brilliant and we still have a shot at making Wembley thanks to a great win at Fev and an awesome display against Bradford. If anything its those performances that set the bar high for recent games that we have not been able to live up to. Signings wise he is responsible for putting the team together that has been able to play this sort of rugby and we have the makings of a really good team. I guess another plus is that despite our league form we could still put a run together and get 2nd and where as Batley and Sheffield are celebrating great seasons, ours has been pretty poor in the league and we still have been able to give ourselves a good shot and the reality is that come the playoffs Fev would not be comfortable playing us in the final.

So overall I don't think it is time for Grix to go but we have some tough fixtures coming up and a couple of losses will have the pressure mounting on him and lets face facts, we are not Bradford, we would have people lining up out of the door to go for what in reality is probably the 2nd most desirable job in the Championship and personally I would love to see Liam Finn given a chance if need be especially as our decline seems to have coincided with his move to Dewsbury. The thing I find annoying at the moment is the constant excuses to why we have been average for most of the season, we seem to be at the point now where we are setting the bar so low that its simply seen as been ok if we fail. Nobody ever achieved anything with the attitude that we are showing at the moment.

Added to that just watching Grix's interview from after the game and he talks basically about the other team wanting it more than us. Its not the first time he has mentioned this, why are we coming up against so many teams that seemingly want it more than us? Grix seems to be getting increasinglt agitated that the players do not seem to want to raise their games for him outside of the cup games at least.

I think Grix is a great coach and a good communicator. I think what we are missing is someone on the pitch to get the team to stick to the game plan , a captain, I think we missed Keyes’ organisational skills and overall some intelligence and calm heads to get us through the difficult periods in games. It’s been a very disjointed season and I feel it could either way , some big games coming up .