Did not go to York along with many others it seems. Nothing special about a trip to York. Listened on the wireless (ok t`internet).
Hard to judge from commentary other than Batley worked hard in defence in first half when we on top and then scored off our errors. Everyone makes mistakes in life, yes even referees. Get over it!
This division is really tough and every team will turn over a team above them at some point , re Broncos beating Toulouse on Saturday. This for me is why it is so compelling even though I love to see Fax win I prefer to see a close game where the outcome is unsure.
We play some attractive rugby and every player puts his body on the line for the shirt. Grix has his style and we have made it to playoffs years in a row . We all want better for Fax but that needs more money....

Well what the hell went wrong yesterday. We was 12-0 up and for me in complete control and not appearing to be missing keyes and then for pretty much the rest of the game we fell apart. I will give Batley there due like as been said they had a tough game in the cup too and had players missing but they seemed to thrive on that sort of challenge where it seems we use it as a excuse to perform crap and throw a game away. I also agree with Greg that our league form so far as been at best poor considering our squad and spend we should be performing far better and not being bailed out by our very good cup form. It would not surprise me if we won the 1895 cup but miss out on the playoffs and for me that would be unacceptable. As for Simon when we play well he and the players deserve there pats on the back but when it goes wrong badly like it as done too many times for my liking in the league he and the players deserve to be questioned what as gone wrong and why. Would i sack him right now no but lets not think that there is not other coaches out there that could do a good job for us given the chance to do so.

That's the thing for me, with the talent we have in the squad I think we could put anyone in charge and I couldn't see us been lower in the league than we are now. If it were not for the cup run i'm not sure Grix would be in charge at this point given the league form and next week is massive. Get a win and we are right back in with a shout but get a loss and there is a gap opening up and our season is in danger of turning in to a really poor one.

Toulouse are really poor at the moment.Bedevilled by injuries but they just don't have that much talent anyway and no depth at all. London are ordinary but were the better team by some way. Fax should win comfortably and so should Fev against Toulouse the following week.

I think it will be a slog, in Barrow and Widnes we had a couple of away games where we should have done better than we did so going to Tolouse knowing the players will be having a jolly up it's tough to see us coming away with anything.

I think Toulouse are under even more pressure than us given early season expectations and their poor recent form - even if they do always play a lot better at home. Before Sunday thought Grix should stick with Inman in the halves to keep JWH at fullback - he's now a really difficult decision to make but wouldn't be surprised to see Pickersgill make an appearance this week. It is crap luck that having carried a spare quality half last season who hardly played, we've now suffered just the sort of injury situation he was brought in for. Don't think JWH is anything like as effective in the halves as he is at fullback - but we are running out of other options.

So Inman is being made the scapegoat Ilkley Fax ? There are enough experienced heads out there to have put a stop to the rot.
For me it seems Fax want to score with every set of 6, never gonna happen.
Don t know whose idea it is to kick the ball to the same place every time, wombat is not a miracle worker, the kicks do not have enough hang time for the Fax players to compete, along with the opposing defense knowing exactly where the ball will go,
Fax have international rated players who should be smart enough to mix up the on field happenings, or are they so scared of Grix and derailing the boss’ orders, the game plan too easy to read.
Sure Fax play some very entertains rugby, great to watch but at times it has cost points on the board and in the league.
I am not a Grix Knocker per se but he needs to change his style and set up, and as has been remarked many times previously, we seem to miss the input of Liam Finn and Scott Grix.
I could go on but I think most know and feel the same, something needs to happen sooner or later or the season is gone.
Up the Fax and never say die.
“From Hull Hell and Halifax may the good lord deliver us” The Thrum hall spirit should be the rallying call

I’m not sure he was making Inman the scapegoat. I think most of us were undecided about who should partner LJ after the St Helens game. Tom played very well that evening, so it was no surprise that he was given another go at half back, meaning we kept JWH at his better position of FB where he is more dangerous coming into the line. But I think Tom struggled to have much impact, he also kicked the ball away twice in good field position early on in the game. Too much was then expected of LJ. We definitely missed Keyes’ organisation and he is also our best better kicker from in the field of play.

Whilst I think we lost some of our intensity around the ruck after the first 30 mins, it was the mistakes that really cost us. Even their first try came from a fumbled kick and subsequent scrum. Had JWH dealt with those kicks better and we weathered that pressure, then who knows, but it would have meant Batley having to chase the game rather than us.

A perfect post and sums up eloquenty why several people,myself included,aren't Grix fans,which doesn't make us naive and misguided as the apologists suggest...

Thank you- exactly what I meant. Inman is a young player with more experience at hooker than in the halves, but on seasons form so far I'd have him in the team every week - just at hooker, in the knowledge that he could fill in at half to cover injuries

Problem is people like you only appear in a negative sense and offer no intelligent counter argument, I actually agree with some of florimos arguments and he speaks a lot of sense , the last time you made a suggestion it was some ludicrous idea to get Kyle amor in to recruit some land of the giant non existent props and if anyone offered an intelligent response they were apparently a clown .

I think Simon has suffered from both the loss of his brother/Fiunn and from any recruitment direction from an experienced Board member.

At the start of the season I said i didn't think he should continue in his job and be replaced, I still think that.

More importantly second level rugby looks the ONLY future for the club without substantial investment and increase in Crowds in next year or two under IMG's proposals, so playing budget in future may be considerably lower than now (we are far from alone in this),

Seems we can only sign players we've had before now..Maher,Lannon,Fleming,Douglas-none of which were spectacular previously-as when we go for potential upgrades Springer,king,Doro the coach takes an instant dislike.Something drastic needs to change in our recruitment policy.

Yes apart from walmsley , Keyes , jouffret, inman , tibbs , wood , gee , maizen , and doro is injured btw .

I was only refering to the more recent forward signings as this is where the problem lies IMO.
I accept Gee was an excellent signing-the only forward who impressed me at York.