nearly anything that could have gone wrong did tonight.

We fell off tackles, our timing was out with passes, players were caught out of position & it looks like Gleese picked up a bad injury.

We got a bonus point, better than nothing.

Frank was our best player, always going forward.

Fev play hard in defence & run some good lines in attack.

Fev get away with a hell of a lot, Powell runs the refs.
They are up quick and slow down the ptb, often illegally.
They are top but very beatable.

Another frustrating day at the shay.

At least if were going to lose to a better team make them earn it, we made far too many errors AGAIN!

and yet, other than toulouse in the league this season, no other team has managed to do that!
A weird phenomenon don't ya think!

We were awesome tonight

Our first half display won us the game, 5 consecutive sets defended our line and not breeched, fax confidence was dented because of this and looked devoid of ideas till the realisation kicked in that you needed something from the game, then you picked up, but by that point it was over.

I thought a lot of your players were poor, i thought branigan did very little and expected more from him, Black crapped it again near his own line just like at Fev, Gene and Aizue must be conteders for worst signings of the season, glad Gene didnt come to us in the end

Tonight was a big turning point for us, this was a massive result, weve beaten 'the top 4' now all on their home patches and done the double over you lot, hopefully we might be taken more serious and as genuine contenders now

Just hope you don't choke in the play offs.
Should think your nailed on for the title now.

I'm sorry mate, but we beat this lot in the play offs last season, that game REALLY counted. They played well tonight, credit to them, we were beaten up from sunday, they had a week off. There's a lot of rugby left in this season yet.

Agreed. Your defence won you the game, everything we threw at you in the first half your players put their bodies on the line and kept us out. Your attack wasn't the best but against Fax you don't need the best attack because our defence is worringly weak.

I think you've got top spot sewn up after tonight, 6 points is a significant margin. hopefully we'll have sorted ourselves out by the time the play offs come around.

Get a grip

When i see Powell at the back of the stand on his walkie talkie i didn't realise he was talking to the refs ear peice and as your well aware every teams tries to dominate the ptb, you'd be a liar if you disagree

would you like to expand on Run the refs???? do you mean their his b1tches or gives them a brown envelope before the game?

not many teams have found us beatable this season never mind VERY beatable

Our form this season has been a suprise to even us and we know it won't last forever but insults, complaints and libellous comments about our coach just shows us your jealous and soyund like your just uneducated in the soprt.

The problem for fax is that we don't dominate the tackle either in attack or defence. Even when we had all that possession Fev controlled the spead of the PTB. And in defence when we do dominate or the other team surrender, we still move away too quickly and let them get up.

Fev are the Wigan/Leeds of the Championship in the way thye dominate the PTB so that the game both attack and defence is played at their speed. They push the boundaries, but it seems wrestling, putting extra bodies in, so it takes longer to get up, is in the "in thing" this season.

I don't think it is always our defensive shape that lets us down but more our technique. Yeah its not pretty to watch but thats what's effective for the better teams at the moment.