I have a feeling a drop goal is going to win this

I'll take that

Fax panicing especially Handforth and Thackray taking poor efforts at drop goal. We just dont seem to be controlling things at all and for me is on a big concern.

AMBLER YES

Easy win.



Roll on Frenchies.

is it nice on your planet

thought we had blown it missing the penalty, phew 18 - 24

any win is a good win

Great in-depth coverage of the game from BBC GMR, excellent pre and post match analysis. Its great that the radio team have put so much effort in. Shame our local radio stations only think that Super League merits decent coverage.

On Sunday, I thought we might have had coverage for the 1st hour with it being a 2pm kick-off but we had Yorkshire Brass Bands instead on Radio Leeds. no alternative FM/AM/DAB/Internet commentary at all.



Once again, a big thanks to BBC GMR for giving excellent airtime for the Championship.

Well done to Radio Manc. Very professional commentary and good to have Rowley adding unbiased thoughts and adding a deep knowledge of the game and how he saw things. Very unlucky Swinton and certainly didnt deserve to lose. We got out of Jail with the win but something needs to be sorted and certain players need to have a look at themselves. We are not as good as we think we are. We are top of the tree but we wont be staying there if we keep playing like we did. I dont want to hear excuses for things like players injured, coming to the game in cars etc. The next game is in France I believe. Use the fringe players and U23s.

Fringe players? We've none left. We were down to the bare bones tonight & Barlow & Reittie will be banned next week. + with all the money the RFL have wasted on this farce of a Euro Cup, I think they'll insist we have to put out more or less full strength sides. + if I was a player, I'd fancy a nice playing & boozing holiday to the South of France.



Also, although I expect, even though a handful of fans are travelling down, I don't think they'd appreciate paying £500 PP to travel to watch the U23's get thrashed.

Whats the crack with tolouse up next?Have i missed something cos last time i checked they werent in our league..... can someone please explain?

I certainly wouldn't be playing any players carrying the slightest of knocks or key players in this game

Anglo-French challenge.



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Like garlic bread - it's the future. When Toulouse get the nod for SL we'll be able to say "we helped them to get there".

From the article.

"RFL Director of European Development Niel Wood". I'm assuming the article has mispelt Nigels name..

I assume this position is separate from his role at the RFL and commands a separate salary.



Nigel Wood, useless oaf. This comp is guaranteed to be another Nigel Wood RFL fail. But even though the RFL will suffer huge losses, the fat controller will still take this separate salary as Director of European development.

Hes enjoying his ride on the RFL gravy train at the expense of the real good of the game.



Wheres the media coverage?

Wheres the press releases?

Great work!

Hesketh, Josh Barlow, Bowman, Casey, Haley are all fringe players that I would play alongside a few U23s. Toulouse will be missing a few players anyway and wont be the strongest team they have. The whole Euro Cup thing is a farce and even if we do win we wont get anything out of it financially unless the other teams win.

Well SL teams dont put out their strongest teams at times and if our players are injured then why play them in meaningless games?



Niel Wood is part of the RLEF (Sister organization of the RFL). The RLEF dont know how to to media stuff at all and thats speaking from experience. How many people know about the Euro Shield, Euro Bowl and Euro Cup comps and which nations even compete in them?

For several years I thought Wood was genuinely called 'Niel', in fairness. The amount of news agencies that still think that's his name is staggering.



Tonight's game by the way - 'Fax will be counting their blessings to get a win from that. Must have been 70%+ possession and territory yet struggled to make anything count apart from the occasions where there had been a couple of sets of six to build pressure. Watson being the best half back on the pitch (IMO) probably speaks volumes for the contribution of Thackray and Handforth, with the latter in particular VERY lucky to remain on the pitch after his high shot in the first half. Aizue, Penky and Ambler were outstanding and probably the difference between the sides, in truth. Cracking game though, another tremendous advertisement for our league.

thought handforth was instrumental in getting us back to a winning position in the second half?



As for watson being the best player, his head high tackel at the end of the match gave us the field position to see ambler storm under the sticks at the end - he lost them the match.

Ambler was absolutely superb tonight. He has been consistent all season but had a stormer tonight. You can see him rallying the team all the time and plays with his heart on his sleeve. Worrincy looked dangerous everytime he had the ball and the last mention goes to fieldhouse, he is the safest full back we have had in a long time, he takes everything that is thrown at him and i dont think ive seen him drop anything this season, always likely to break through the line aswell. I thought swinton were very unlucky to lose and played really well, i was impressed with both centres, the fb and watson had a good game. Penky will be a bad miss but funnily enough i think it will bring the best out of handforth as he will be the main man calling the plays. He did pretty well tonight after a shaky first 20 mins.

I said he was the best half back, not the best player. That would probably go to Penky or Ambler.

Are you serious..easy win... Fact you stole it, that game should have ended all square. Swinton more than matched you all game. Give credit where it's due.

Sarcasm anyone?

big respect to Swinton, this was no easy fixture as Fev also found out...



this league is so tight from top to bottom.

Not at all, I think the Fax lads did really well to let Swinton stay in it until the 79th minute and tease them into thinking they had a chance against the runaway league leaders !

I have to say i'm not to sure how you thought Worrincy looked dangerous every time he had the ball, most of the time he ran sidewards, i'll give you his due he was difficult to get hold of but i can't recall him breking the Swinton line and putting us in any danger. Prior to the game i was looking forward to seeing this guy show us the speed clearly he has.