Proud of that effort from the boys. Gave a Full-Time team an 80 minute game in terrible conditions!

Positives: Very strong in the middle, took it to Leigh and even rattled their pack.
Negatives: Didn't look like scoring other than that lucky try. Place doesn't offer much at all.

Looking like a very close league this year. London lost to Sheffield and Fev only just beating Doncaster. Going to be a very interesting year!

Seen enough to be optimistic for a good season
Greenwood and Ambler were outstanding in the conditions. Saltonstall looks promising too.
Some of the other forwards really fronted up in the second half.
I'm going to try and give a couple of the other the players the benefit of the doubt but I don't expect to see a couple of them playing next week.
Was that Charlie with Andy Gregory!!?
Over here we move our legs when fellow spectators try to get past

I thought our forwards were outstanding, spesh in that second half. We had the Leigh pack done for large parts of the 2nd half. The difference were the halfbacks, and especially the kicking game.

Plenty to be positive about

Leigh were the better side but we have lots to be positive about.

And on to Batley we go!

very pleased with that considering the result, place didn't offer anything today but I think once he settles in and gets used to the british weather he will be fine, but other than that the forward looked strong and at parts in the second half out did the leigh forwards. so plenty of optimism for the rest of the season and especially the warmer and firmer it gets.

Looks like we are all on the same wavelength here. We were very good up front but they just had that extra class and creativity in the halves. Not bad for a set of part timers and teams will take points of each other all over the place this season for sure. (Anybody know why Robbo and Johnstone didn't make the team today?) Well done to Leigh on travelling support and today's result-simply a team that is used to winning week in week out. Stick at it Fax it's a long season and there is enough talent in that side to cause teams trouble.

Didnt go last season due to KH way of playing but got my season ticket again n glad i did. Plenty of positives today against a full time team that were quicker and fitter but we battled hard and showed great spirit. Cant wait for next game, not felt like this for a few years. Well played and lets keep it going and the results will follow

feel exactly the same first time for a while i'm looking forward to games rather than last year where I had to endure going

All sounds positive. Sounds like Richard Marshall is doing a great job clearing up the mess left by Karl Harrison. If only we'd had him on board last year....

I must admit, as a qualified coach myself, I like the way Richard speaks and how he thinks about the game. I said it before, my instinct is he will be good to play for. Our hardest task moving forward could be keeping hold of him.

Anyway, very promising, we won't play teams as good as Leigh every week. Well done to all

You've a lot to feel positive about - good luck for the rest of the season (normal exceptions of course)

Thought our forrads were excellent today in shocking conditions, first half kicking was really poor and we never got going on the back of it. No idea where the hell that ref came from but hopefully he'll go back there never to be seen again. If he'd have binned Barlow for the high shot then the next incident wouldn't have happened, how can he let somebody walk on to what is his pitch and do that first up, grow a pair man.
Lines men were probably worse than the ref if that's possible, complete waste of time and their trainer spent more time on the pitch than Barlow until Bloemy went after him.
Ref aside I enjoyed today's game, after the Harrison years it was a breath of fresh air, keep it up but it's going to be a tough season, league leaders up next I think.

Good pack performance, in the backs Miles was outstanding and young Saltonstall looked the part.
Halves were a bit iffy with poor decision making and kicking game.

For Leigh Goulden, Beswick, Kaye and Worthington were probably the best.

How the linesman missed the Kay try when Brown messed up again in the second half was amazing - having said that they did their best to keep Fax in the mix all game and it added to the spectacle

I too felt positive about the game, really enjoyed the defensive spirit. Couldn't understand the sin binning and how fun fui avoided ten minutes.? What I don't get about Leigh though is, they have some really good players there, have a really good team spirit, so what's all the niggling thuggish behaviour about. I really like it tough and hard, but they are surely better than that.

For me I thought miles was superb and really looking forward to warm, dry pitches to see his best.

Great effort today and we really got on top of their forwards in the second half as they probably tired from the Bradford game. I think if the ref had of let us play the game at our pace in the second half instead of Leighs then we may just have snook it. Was a really enjoyable game and watching that pudding Moi Moi get smashed repeatedly in the 2nd half was great to watch and got the crowd fired up. The difference in the teams was probably the kicking games, ours was poor in the first half and Leighs was top notch all the game.

I thought Greenwood and Saltonstall looked good in the backs and in Ambler and Manning we probably had the best two forwards on the pitch and the rest of the pack went very well. We will get better and better as the season comes along.