That game was won by our 2nd half desire and defence. We made hard work of it after we went 2 scores up, giving penalties away to get them upfield. Going forward we struggled at times, 3 of our scores were from a dropped up and under and 2 interceptions. But with our pack being even more depleted with Lannon & Gee also missing, we've got to take that and should take some heart from the way we rolled our sleeves up

Just saw the highlights - 2 tries chalked for forward passes. They both looked line balls from the footage so may have been even more comfortable. Any reason Gee was missing? Its hard to avoid the fact that we are / have been missing our starting front rowers all season, and Lannon yesterday.

There's no way the pass to Salty was forward! That's the main thing that winds me up most, the benefit of any doubt must allow play to go on, it's a massive call which could mean the difference between winning or losing. Some refs seem to be more obsessed than others re forward passes. The Hird one is harder to see but again that looked OK to me. In both cases the ref wasn't in line with the pass so god knows how he could tell.

Pass to Hird was definitely forward,we were sat just about inline with it. From where we were Pas to Salty also looked forward. We had no complaints about either call.

I would of taken that result before a ball was kicked so happy with the win. We did get ourselves into a tight finish with consecutive penalties being given away for high shots when we looked to have got control of the match but nothing ever comes easy against Batley. We just need to kick on against York and drag ourselves up the ladder.

Then one of the RFL Top Brass leaving their post, declaring they were always a Fax fan and start ploughing that six figure wage they took over all those years in to the club?

Priceless 2 in the bag from a real gritty performance.
The young lads have added some freshness and energy just when we needed it.
Barber looks like he’s on a mission whereas Woody looks a bit subdued of late by his high standards with the main concern being the right edge shipping in a lot of points in recent games and the number of penalties conceded.

Its a huge win especially as it shows we can get an upset win which we never looked like we were capable of. It puts a totally different spin on our remaining results now and I am sure if we were to win our next 3, which you can now see as a possibility, then there will start to be talk about playoffs at the right end of the table rather than the wrong end.

Admirable optimism.. defense has improved over last couple of weeks.More youth and energy in pack and excellent in the troublesome centre areas from Crookes and Barber.However we were poor in attack but the difference was we got the bounce of the ball on several occasions which has not been the case most of the season.

Other than Keyes walking through a huge gap, it looked like we couldn't score if we played for 180 minutes. We scored via a kick dropped by their winger, an interception and a loose Batley pass picked up by our fastest player.

Optimism is needed, but we won on Sunday because the luck went in our favour for once.

I agree our attack still looks out of sorts but we won because we scored more points than Batley.

The two teams defended really well and though a few looked out on their feet at the end we kept up the intensity in defence that had been missing most of the season. The young lads played their part in that as Finn said.

You make your own luck and on Sunday the lads definitely earned theirs. I just hope Kav is ok , he looked to be really struggling for the last quarter.

Should all pitches be level from end to end ?. at what point does a pitch become unplayable ?.
did you play up hill for the full 80 minutes ? or were you allowed to change around at half time...

It's an obvious advantage to play on it regularly than once a season...

I wasn't mentioning it because of the unfairness, just that it's ridiculous having such a steep slope. The only other ground I can think of with a noticeable slope is fev, and that's not too bad. I've never known a ground where the toss of a coin deciding who plays which way has such a massive impact.

Fax may be looking for a new ground soon, especially if the new Labour government tells councils to sell off their non core assets to settle their debts. Maybe we could build a new stadium on the slopes of Beacon Hill, there's plenty of space there