That was the worst performance I've seen from us ever since we were relegated. In that first half they looked like a bunch of players who had never even trained together before. Addy at hooker doesn't work, and Mathers/Thomas in the halves was also a disaster. The distribution was at a snail's pace and the Dewsbury defence were on the receivers before they even had the ball because of how slow it was.
No attacking structure whatsoever, no opportunity for Clare to push up as the extra man, no early ball to the centres. The only time our wingers touched the ball was when they collected from dummy half for a scoot.

It was just so bad I'm still in slight disbelief at what I was watching. I cynically thought, after the Leigh game, that some of our guys were trying extra hard simply because of the occasion - against Leigh on Sky with all those SL scouts keeping a keen eye on potential signings. They were playing for contracts elsewhere.
Having seen the dross those same players served up today, I'm now convinced that was the case.

Even Marc Green in his programme notes today was speaking about the upcoming middle 8s. So even the chairman is complacent. God knows what happens if we finish outside the top 4 - the central funding will be peanuts by comparison, season ticket sales will no doubt drop off, and Green doesn't have the financial clout to cover it. In other words, we will be completely and utterly screwed.

I bet Rohan Smith is wondering what he's taken on. We're crap and we know we are but more importantly so do the other teams. They know that they have a chance against a limp wristed set of farts.

And for the sake of Jesus H Christ, can we please scour the earth, outer space or the lower reaches of the Pennine League for someone who can play at scrum half.

Bring back Lowes

Do you think Leigh will lend us one of their six scrum halves?

Ferres has probably not even noticed....

I didn't know his middle name began with H ,what is the H for?

Hedley.

Hominum

We very often are crap, to varying degrees, but I really wouldn't mind so much if I didn't know that the players are all capable of playing like they did against Leigh. That's what I find as hard to take as anything.

It's not H it's F.

Me too, speaking as a Leyther!

Why do you have to raise your game whenever you play us?

Although it wasn't great, I think you're forgetting how utterly terrible we were against Sheffield a couple of months back. To give us a bit of credit I thought the defence held up well for the most part considering how much pressure we were under in the first half. It was just our attack was particularly blunt in the first 40, and not much better in the second.

In an era where a full back is essentially a 3rd half back, you lot are effectively playing with 1. James Clare should be the best winger in the competition, he's fast, tall, gangly, his best features suit the wing , not a creative role of full back. Mathers is a full back, not a half, thus a lot of pressure on the young lad, who will be a good player but ain't gonna get you out of the slight rut you are in.