Sounds like a big chunk of last season.

Were people expecting 17 V 17?

Performance wise it was nice to see us with a half back on the field who was willing to take the line on and with a bit of pace to back it up. His passing to the player was as good as Ive seen from a half back at Fax for a while. He wont get a look in though this season.

Paid my £15 and brought my niece down. I respect Featherstone more for providing value for my ticket.

They'll go well this year.

Isn't Knowles a good clever player. Big Bostock busting tackles. They never get media attention.

Knowles one of the best in this league.
Clever player. Always rated him at Sheffield.

They will be the best PT team this year.

Think we will struggle with a full squad TBF.

Let's hope Marshall has it in him to coach the team to pick off the mid table teams this season.

Yes. It does. Show the fans respect, or charge a fiver in!

I expect the club show what's left of our dwindling support some respect. If they are going to charge £15 for a friendly then at least the coaching staff should put some effort into it. I have no problem with the players today, they really were on a hiding to nothing with the way Marshall managed the game.

Some interesting points of view. My guess is the club needed the revenue and Fev did us a favour by coming to the Shay. I thought they won the contact area quite easily -men against boys etc . Dificult game to play is rugby, especially on the back foot. Fev looked fitter than we did as well.
RM would have used this as purely a trial game to look at all his squad in game situation. He already knows what he gets with Tangata, Calahane,Ambler,Worrincy,Sharpe,Grix,Johnstone etc.
I think he probably got his answer today and has abetter idea of the size of the task in front of him now.
Far too early to be writing us off when one of the stronger sides in our league have put our kids to the sword.Let's get a few competitive games, with our full run on side, under our belt first before we all start slitting our wrists etc.

I went to the game yesterday and expected that should we lose there would be people on her slating the team and RM. I think the young lads that took to the field yesterday with only a handful of senior players looked fantastic against a very strong Fev side. I think we should get behind the club team and coaching staff instead of the negatives all the time. Let's face it we could be in a worse position look at the bulls and the eagles.

Some over reactions here. Its a first run out where thevresult is irrelevant and its a chance for the coach to assess a full squad at the same time the fans can have a gander at some fringe players whilst having a boxing day breather that puts some cash into your club.
Don't get the backslash at all .... not for a boxin day jolly up.

I'm fairly sure RM wasn't in charge for this game. So he might have mainly learned what Grix can do with the youngsters and we likely won't see any benefit from that this season (or at least not masses of benefit).

I'm not a huge fan of letting so many younger players run out to get a beating like that. I guess it's a learning experience for them, but I think it needed to be at least a little more cushioned. And I don't feel like that was the best £15 I've ever spent, but I've definitely wasted money on worse.

spot on

this...
Couple of years ago, under the Bastian stewardship, we (Fev) ran in 50 in a pre-season friendly against what was largely a bunch of Hull FC kids. The prospects of world domination that were mooted for us in some quarters of Fev's social media haven't quite arrived yet, whilst Hull FC's demise still seems some way off.

Didn't expect to win yesterday. What I am getting at is what possible good did it do the players and the fans by making so many God dam changers in the second half of the game. Nobody knew what was going on. The players looked lost with the constant changing of positions etc. The game as an entertainment was finished as we had no chance of competing doing this. And what the hell could any coach gain by that. Total rubbish for the fans and players alike. What did I expect. Well better than that total disregard for my entrance money.

That's often the problem with friendlys, the numbers should be restricted to 17 and see how they go, pointless making a million changes as there is no continuity or fluidity, as you say, what the hell can a coach learn from that, other than possibly not to do it again. If you are going to have a pre-season friendly then make it worthwhile for the fans and the players, if not I'll keep my money in my pocket until the real stuff starts.

Good news is, we won't see the same Fax team on game 1 in championship. How many first teamers can Fev bring in for that? Certainly don't see a repeat performance coming.