Literally yea

Not good enough tonight

Was never gonna be easy replacing Branighan, and Jones has not stepped up to the plate, can he be blamed though? Luke was a quality act.

Gannon is a work horse and hasnt taken a backwards step, he does concede penaltys, but so did tamghart, but I Jim as more of a replacement for Wrench, we miss having a big firery B*astard in the pack, someone like Said or Dom Maloney, as when the going gets tough we havn't got anyone who can get in the oppositions faces. And if need be, knock the crap out of someone.

I'm not right keen on Fairbank upto now either, the players Leigh had on a Dual Reg last season became top regular players for them, who they missed if they weren't availible, we wouldn't miss Fairbank if he was needed by Hudds as we have players who are as good in the squad already In My opinion.

Need a massive improvement for when we go to sheffield, they'll want to get one over on us after the whole Barlow thing, (Im sure he'll be getting the odd txt message this next week or so). Every team we play are going to want to beat us as we're the champions, but if we dont change quick then we'll be staring down a mid table finish at best

Your 2 wingers Worrincey and White are shiiiiite im sorry to say, boy did they love it running them trys in high fiving, good with ball in hand and a free run to the line but shiite rugby players and when put under pressure again there shiiite, get rid, plus Ben Black what a tosspot didnt like it at the end old benny did he

Why did we have a fullback on the bench?
That was a sub wasted to me when we needed go forward we brought on Miles and left Frank to play about 15 minutes all night. Shoot me but I still have grave doubts about the coaching decisions that are made on numerous occasions.

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!

I know but....................................................................

Personally thought Worrincy had a good game, apart from going too high on the tackle in the corner he was solid, ran the ball back well, started and finished his try off with excellent work from beswick. Thought he was tripped by Saxton (maybe) on the ground which prevented another try too. I too am confused with having two fullbacks on the bench. It was there constant power coming off the bench that killed us as well as a serious lack of discipline.

EDIT watched that 'trip' incident i mentioned but think i was a bit harsh on the Fev player, don't think theres anything intentional there! Plus its completely immaterial.

Fax good in first half and maybe too complacent in second with Fev looking far more up for it and having the better bench and tactics.

We are not the coaching staff......

What a complete t you are!

I don't remember seeing that username post on here when we won the Championship last year. Some people must wait a long time to post crap like that on here.

We did ok in the first half, second half was awful, ref didn't help but we can't blame it all on him, am afraid i think we need to drop danny and bring Holroyd, Ben was far too quiet tonight, Carry on like this it will be a long season

Questioned this as well. Its obvious that MC dosnt know his first choice line up. The backs are good enough if you change Holly for Jones but the pack is quite frankly very poor.Ive been banging on but you cant replace some quality players with players who arnt good enough and expect to compete.We have what like 10 props at the club but i only rate Aizue as good enough for this level of rugby the rest are average at best.

I just cant understand some of the selections, i mean Greenwood on the bench? Its not going to change the game swapping the full backs is it? Jones isnt good enough and anyone with half a brain can see it yet we have Holly playing in the 23`s who even at this stage in his career is twice the player of Jones. Out of the pack you can take Aizue, Penky, Beswick, Bannister and Barlow and that is it.

At least the staff and players get another holiday in France.

Is it right we had kick off delayed because of the fireworks at start? Not made ourselves look very proffessional there have we? I was worried stand would end up evacuated again!!

aye, it gave our lot some chanting ammo, but it was hardly a major issue!
The big thng tonight was that the game went ahead without incident - and it appears it did. AND - I enjoyed myself!!!! - as it should be!

Disgraceful refereeing, who to be honest on that showing, shouldn't be refereeing a national conference game for a while, never mind a championship game containing last years grand finalists. Twice reversed decisons he had made, went to the video ref every try, penalised in general play for very strange things, and only once actually blew up for infringement at the ruck (amazingly that was actually against us). We seem to again be in the same boat as early last season, or maybe a couple of seasons ago when we played Cas in the challenge cup, very one dimensional. We have very little idea as to how to break them down, after having no joy from quick play the balls. We will only succeed with this, if a referee penalises teams for slowing down the play the ball, unfortunately tonight Laughton didn't...... Miles is still not up to speed, tonight at least shows Fieldhouse is up to job, and should be first choice for a few games now. Beswick was superb, tackling everything and basically playing 6 the second half. Worrincy did well, always looking for work. I agree with the previous post though, forward wise we are lacking, take out Bob, penky, sam, aizue and bannister and we're nothing.