Did anyone else come away from the game feeling like we had lost?

Yep, all the Oldham fans did.

From what I managed to actually watch on the stream - which wasn't much - it seemed like the defence was decent but once again the attack was pretty average.

It summed it up for me when they were down to ten men and we had a penalty on their line. Two attempts to scoot over from dummy half and then we lost the ball! We absolutely must have had an overlap with three extra men. It's not rocket science - just whip the ball out along the line and the winger will have a walk in with their lack of numbers

Whitehaven at York, Oldham at London Skolars (also with a vastly superior points difference)

We actually can't play Whitehaven - the only way they can finish 5th is to beat York. And assuming we beat Hemel, then we get promoted and its York vs Whitehaven in the play offs

So barring a miracle it will be us versus Oldham at Odsal in two weeks. And after today they will be confident of turning us over!

How come they only had 10 men at finish?

Two red cards and one yellow

I'm really worried about having to gain promotion through play-offs.

Wouldn't be so sure about Whitehaven.

Oldham will have a depleted squad against a London side who are no mugs on their own patch. They have had some poor results but remember they nearly pulled off a shock against York just over a month ago.

Good 1st half, bloody awful second half. The attempted scoots from DH when we had a three man advantage were utterly brainless.

The attacking play in general is pants at the moment.

Sounds like we've picked up some injuries as well (just knew this would happen) seriously, call the reserve game off and just play our U19 side against Hemel. Wrap Crossley, Ryan and Minchella in cotton wool. Egodo was on crutches after the game. Been one of our best players last few weeks.

why will Oldham be depleted against London? If you're thinking bans from yesterday they will be served the following week in semifinal not next week.

But it wasn't in the first half. That's the frustrating thing.

Made a change from recent weeks but I'm baffled as to why we went from that to the nonentity of a performance we put in during the second half. Every player made a bollox of something and it concerned me that nobody seemed to be able to provide any leadership out of it.

Something I find ever so slightly disturbing is hearing Kear being so perplexed at how shambolic we were in the second half. His fame is largely ed around graft and making a team greater than the some of its parts. And yet by his standards I'm not convinced he's achieving that with us. I haven't a clue why though.