Big game this week. I can not see Toulose or London slipping up so to make the summer bash more important we need to win this. Rochdale are no mugs. They have beat Fev pushed Hull kr so we need to up it a gear or 2 this week

fax 26 dogdale 16

It will be a tough local derby (Yorkshire V Lancashire) and Rochdale are a good team who have pushed some of the top teams close - think it will be a 30-18 win to Fax.

As usual it will partly depend on what teams are put out, DR or no DR, but if we can deal with their nippy half backs as at Spotland we should go o.k. Fax by 16.

Salford player Daniel Murray in on Sunday.No Kaye,Salty or new loan player strangely.

Ben Kaye has a torn adductor tendon and will be out for up to 6 weeks. Brandon Douglas is also injured. Salty has a hamstring strain.

Murray is a decent player so happy with that. Will definitely miss salty he as been on fire all season. I would move Heaton to the wing and play woodburn-hall as is centre

Murray will be in, alongside Grix I imagine so he can get some match fitness in before Blackpool. Probably rest one of the 'regular' forwards. Would also like to see Heaton on the wing, stick with JWH at centre, he is only going to get better!

Routine win bit dull really,good defence.Brady was really good.Murray as usual with DR offered nothing to justify his inclusion over our fringe

murray went well and hope he plays next week as he adds some size to the pack.

Game was boreing though

Hopefully loan player is fit and it wont be an issue.

Was C Robbinson dropped or injured as he played well at half back in the last few games

I would imagine dropped after the Fev performance, that's probably the reason RM felt the need to bring in Murray who was standout for Bradford when he played for them after our pack got dominated.

Another convincing win and now on to a massive game next week.

I thought the game was very scrappy and lacked any high level of skill, but the best team won and with better hands could have doubled the score.

But I was disappointed by yet another modest attendance - 1124. Standing on the terrace it actually looked less than this. A tight 5th place and 10 wins shows that the fans arn't really bothered even when we are doing ok.

1,424 was what I heard, and looked about right to me. Pretty boring fare, and certainly won't get fans flocking back. It looked like the players had been told to look for the offload and play a more expansive game once the match was won, but you can't just turn that on, and it resulted in a few daft moments where we turned over possession when we really shouldn't do.

Defence was great, but it highlighted how clueless we are on attack. The team we had under Matt Calland might have shipped a couple of tries yesterday, but we'd have had a cricket score on the plus side.

Our d is great at the moment and stopping a side from scoring a try in 80 mins of rugby takes some doing. What does concern me is our inability to keep hold of the ball in the opposition red zone and build pressure. We let Rochdale off the hook too many times yesterday and we will need to be much more clinical on attack in next two games as we won't get that many chances.
Critical period coming up for sure.
Our points diff needs to improve sharpish as well as those teams around us are battering sides at the moment.