Bad? I'd say so. I didn't know he could do that. I must admit Rocket Ronnie had a terrible match. Batley know how to play that horrendous slope and they were really slowing the play the ball down in the first half. Ronnie kept penalising them at first, but didn't warn them, and even gave up penalising them in the end even when they continued to do it. He lost control towards the end, it was obvious, he was so inconsistently bad he was getting the bad bird from both sets of fans and was losing his bottle.

Anyway, to go to Batley and grind out a win is a great result, no matter what the performance. It's gonna be a graveyard for many this season, glad that one's out of the way.

Disgraceful was maybe the wrong word but poor is not. We lost control of the game and some of the mistakes was schoolboy errors. The Ref did not help but pushing players over twice, incorrect play the balls and poor tackling are our errors and ones that we are famous for. We was lucky Batley played even worse than we did and next week we cant afford to drift in and out of games or let poor discipline creep in to our game.

I was questioning the fact batley had players missing.

I think you're getting a little over excited, pussy cat, there's no way that match was as poor as you're making out. There some bluddy hard hitting stuff went on tonight, I think you should calm down and have a mug of horlicks.

Come on it is Laughton, no one can honestly say they're suprised with his display tonight. He makes the games his own, and when they're on sky, well it's his time to shine isn't it.

The day we get a decent display off Laughton; well I'll have to come back to you on that...

Question for those who watched this on Sky:-

Were we offside so much in that second half especially on our own line (3 or 4 times)?
Did the player who hit the ground before their 3rd and possibly 4th try not have both elbows down?
Did Batley never impede in the last 20 minutes as we did not get one penalty in that period?
Was it our discipline or that toilet called Laughton that deprived us of the ball the last 30 minutes???
Did Wrenchy really hit that guy high when the linesman came on?

Not had chance to watch it back yet, but did Worrincy make a tackle on their number 5 when he was in the air?

ref last night was a but the most important thing is weve returned with 3 more points than last year. still a lok of work to be done and a lot of other refs to put up with but well get there. we dont want to peak too soon

Give your head a shake. Sent off? For what? Pure accident, these things happen.

Not sure what some people are expecting, like people have said we have won 2 games already this season that we lost last season. Our attack looked to be clicking in to gear in the first half and our defence held pretty strong at times in the second half when Batley were on a roll. Laughton had his usual incompetent performance for both teams but that is to be expected. He shows week after week why the RFL havnt shown any confidence in him and why he will never make it to SL. I thought Maloney, Branighan, Black and Penky all had really good games. Overall very good result and if we can manage to pick up at least a bonus point next Thursday we are laughing.

what game did u watch ???,, worrincey DID NOT TACKLE OR DID NOT TRY TO, the guy jumped over the top of him, in no way was it his fault,all he did was stood his ground

Some people don't understand the game of Rugby League. Gotcha - you're one of them.

some good comments made on here.

Does anybody know what the exact penalty count was last night? Maybe somebody could tell me different, but I reckon overall Halifax had the Lions share.

In my opinion we lost the game last night due to the two basic errors when twice we failed to find touch in the first half from penalties, and Halifax subsequently scored on both occasions from the "Gifted"next set.

Referee was very poor for both sides, and did nothing to promote the game of Rugby League last night.