I agree with that and that is fair enough. I just fail to see a point to the 19 man squad named two days in advance.

Don't disagree with folk on here, they will find you .

To be fair, you mentioned a team with a 30 man squad saying why couldn't they be picked from that on the day.
The essence of most sports is that enough time is allowed to enable apposing coaches to organise a game plan based on the published squads.
It seems to me very unfair if a team has 30 squad members and the opposition perhaps have a lot less.
Publishing squads (in my very humble opinion) is the fairest way to go about it.

Terry old chum, a little confusing your post, it's espionage?
Better than Judge Judy?

Not the best of predictions, Faxfans. Back to earth with a big bang against my "not so favourite" team.

How have Fax fared at Sheffield tonight?

Thank goodness they picked a time when I couldn't get there! Up The Fax

Greg FBS certainly knew, I hate to say this but I DID say opposing Coaches would, d have you worked out this season, Tubbs certainly has.Charlie knew.Where's Littlerich, hiding under the stairs.Tezzer Jagger your boys certainly took a beating.

Where have you all gone. You've suddenly disappeared off our forum. Lets all sing together.
Oh the wheels on the Fax bus are not going round.
Not going round.
Not going round.
Oh the wheels on the Fax bus are not going round.
Any more.
Not nice is it?

Not finishing off some of the first half moves was always going to come back and haunt us. They showed us up 2nd half with their clinical play and it could have been more. Certainly need to learn that we cannot score from every move and need to do the hard graft aswell. Saying that does not help playing ft team on a fri im sure they'll be difficult to beat for the rest of the part timers. Let's move on could be a blessing as some fans brought down to earth and see how we really are in reality.

Water off a duck's back. It's not like fans of EVERY other RL club is laughing at our loss. It's hard to go through a season having not lost. Just ask Derek

Anyway. This is an annual event. Sheffield are a phenomenon. Zero facilities; consistently good playing squad.

Well that second half was disappointing. played out of our skins in the first, must've bombed at least 6 chances to score and went through the eagles defensive line at ease. But when you don't take your chances it usually comes back to bite you on this @rse. No complaints from me (apart from the ludicrous obstruction call for Maneelys disallowed try) the eagles deserved their win, they stepped up a gear in 2nd half and never looked like losing after scoring early on. Will have to wait until highlights come out as I didn't see anything at the ground the view was that poor

not too disheartened as tonights game could've been so different had one or two of those passes in the first half stuck. Gaz Moore looks sharp but murrells kicking needs improvement. I expect changes for Worky. UTFAX

I would not have been too disheartened with a one score difference but poor how the game fell away so quickly start of 2nd. We conceded predictable tries again also like the pass out the back to Worrincy surely we should have learned by now. Some moves will come off in time though like the short pass to Fairbank from Moore that will stick on another day. Smeaton replaced by heaton aswell would have been a better scenario. I'm sure we'll do the job on Workington but need to be better v Batley i'm confident it's a blip

Pretty much sums it up.

We should have taken our chances in the first half, hell if we take half of them we win the game. The obstruction try was a joke, the Sheffield player knew he wasnt getting there and saw the Fax player and made an embarrassing jump on him, luckily for him the ref bought it because it was a terrible read.

As has been mentioned it might give us a kick up the backside because as average as Sheffield looked in the first half they got the better of us easily after they got a couple of fortunate tries. Our right side defence obviously needs work as Smeaton, Murrell, and Salty got dominated in the 2nd half. Personally if I were Marshall I would give Moore and Johnson a go in the halfs with Murrell at 13, Johnson is wasted at full back and needs to be in the thick of it in attack.