Halifax putting on plenty of pressure, but our defence really is holding out well. We just can't seem to make any inroads when we have the ball.

Lilley... 

Why oh why do we make things so difficult for ourselves? That game was won with 5 minutes to go, then we make stupid decisions to let Halifax have a sniff Still, the win's a win.

It's a great result but my god do some of these players need a rocket. Fax had two props and thier 7 missing. So many unforced errors. We are getting away with slows starts but that lucks going to run out soon. 

That was awful, a very lucky win and we have no clue with the ball in hand, nobody taking the line on, no width in our play, and our kicking game is woeful. We look very confused and I've got to wonder about the coaching. For their part Fax are getting the most out of a fairly ordinary squad and look well coached 

Positives
If we can beat the top of the league
away from home when we played poorly then we must have the basis of a very good team. 


Negative 
Another slow start no sign of an improvement in our fluency of play, same mistakes being seen every week.




Mmmm?

I thought we steadied the ship in the 2nd half after a poor first. But, we are still prone to stupid errors and penalties. I thought Doro was huge today. He really put himself about in both attack and defence. Our kicking game is poor, in the main, with quite a few disappointing kicks from various players.  It was only our pretty solid defene that saw us win a game which we would have easily lost in the past. 

I'm going with this...... We won against the (formally) unbeaten top of the league at their ground. They had confidence and belief (as their fans did) that they were going to win. But we won.

I know we looked far from stellar, but this was always going to be a hard game. Their defence didn't leave much room for creativity but we had enough. The players grafted today, with our defense seeing us through.... Meadows gets a lot of grief (and some of the stuff he does is at times bewildering and infuriating) But hats off, that try was superb, so credit where its due.... It doesn't get any easier does? Oldham away..... Hopefully a bit more fluidity in our game for a more asthetically pleasing display? Don't hold your breath.

I?m going to take the positives there. Overall, with the available squad they had, I think that was Halifax more or less as good as they could be. They threw everything they had at us, especially in the first half and our goal line defence was equal to it. 


On the other hand, in attack, we were patchy, errors, 3kicks out on the full, dropped balls, passes in front of runners and behind runners. For the last 5 minutes of the first half, it came together and we cut them open 3 times in 5 minutes. 


The point is, we won and we have a lot of improvement in us still. Halifax were missing a couple of players, but their performance was basically maxed out. 


Let?s get to Oldham

Weird. Where did the ? come from?

Probably can cut the side a bit of slack especially when they dig in for a defensive effort like today. Still a relatively new 6/7 partnership and Tom Holmes missing at FB - although Hooley was rock solid there today.


I genuinely thought it was going to be one of those days where we invited them back into the game in the final few minutes with another poor kick out on the full. In honesty, on another day we might have lost so it really needs tightening up.


But we've beaten the form team on their own patch without playing particularly well with the ball so I am also taking that as a positive at the moment. The Meadows try was a beauty!

Looks like just is and Barrow picking up wins in the top half of the league.