40-20 is a decent win. Thought Maloney was outstanding making metres going forward. Royston was solid as ever.But the Performance was poor for me. Way too many mistakes. No building of pressure and making Keighley work. Poor defence yet again, especially in our 20. Discipline was not good. Against Fev, Leigh, Widnes, Barrow etc we would have struggled big style.
I was disappointed in what Calland had to say after the match when asked why Fax are so inconsistant and what he intends to do. His answer was along the lines" No idea, in the game we are hot and cold...we have a week off and we will look at the video and see what can be done". I was hoping he would say something like. "Well I know where the problem is and what we both as individuals and as a team have to do to become better. We will work on our weakness even more. I believe in the players and know together we will be better next week".

you could tell it was the third game in 6 days.. give a bit of slack eh....

I agree. They were solid enough without being emphatic which you would expect given the 3 in 6.

I agree good to get the win but wasn't a great performance! The score didn't reflect the game for me and we conceded 20 points! Too many mistakes and poor skill levels throughout! But again at least it's a win!

It's been like this for 20 matches. I think it's something we're going to have to live with. Looked a bit sharper in attack today - despite it being the 3rd game in 6 days.

Lets also not forget the negative tactics from keighley... constant holding down and spoiling the ruck didn't help any fluency of the game. A better ref would have penalised them more... but then again it was probably hicks 3rd game in 6 days too...

Took us over an hour to get going but not bad considering our performances of late. And well done to Keighley.

Special mention to Maloney, Black, Gene and Haley who all went well tonight.

agree, there looked a lot of forward passes too that went keighley way.

Its only constant holding down and spoiling the ruck if the ref gives it

I thought the Cougars did well.

Were you stood behind the posts?

Aye but that was one occasion you were saying it was happening all game

Anyone able to fill me in where the extra thousand people were hiding throughout the game?

A win's a win, let's win ugly until we can build sets, possession & position. These are games we should be winning and are winning, no drama's let's hang in there, it'll come together soon.
No complaints from me.

Know what your saying mate, but today was a good opportunity for us to learn to build pressure-and we failed. Swinton is another good opportunity to do this as well. I would really like Calland to tell his players just play basic football more. That means no silly passes, running on to the ball and then a good kick at the end. In defence, better linespeed and winning the floor. Get the first man to hold them up for a second and a second man coming in and SLOWLY putting them on the floor-this allows the defence time to get back. . Control the speed of the ball and the pace of the game. If we cant do it against the lower sides then we have no chance against the big guns. A win is a win but for me I am looking for more. Maybe thats wrong.