False haha

I haven’t seen the game so I may be well off the mark here but a lot of you are banging on about attacking options such as:

Brough not playing.
Pickersgill loses his attack at 6.
Wings offer nothing.
Centres don’t offer anything.

My apologies but we’ve shipped 44 points? Surely it’s the defence that needs looking at? I understand we need to look after the ball but shipping 44 is alarming considering we’ve actually not had a bad defence since the Sheff game. Was it poor defence? Was it quality Fev attack? Was it an attitude problem?

Losing all those players, the heat, playing the best side in the comp. This was always on the cards. Make a few errors and you're going to be severely punished and we were. It reminded me of the cup game in some ways.

Looks like we're in for a tough few weeks unless we can bring in a halfback for a decent period of time.

Bernard Dwyer hurled himself about with both biceps ruptured. I think Brough should just suck it up and get out there to help the lads. Big Softy.

Remember it well. Like a footballer running around with his arms by his side.

Scurr and Evans both come away unscathed after the Fev game. One minor positive.

i cant critisize nor pass judgement, just a listener ... but for me dual reg (back then),loan players for 2 weeks, cant be the way to go. gives rise to so much disruption. wot we faced against fev was 3 loanees going back a key palyer injured, reorganizing of the group (that has performed so well) into different positions then losing a player early so the bench was down to 3 and having just read the game comments others (forwards) also going off injured. just wasnt our day. fev also had key players out but like toulouse, still have quality. we could have had these conditions against lesser so called teams and maybe limped home, but it just had to be against one of the top runners of the championship

Just unlucky that we get key injuries and covid strikes causing us to lose our loan players both at the same time.

I don't like relying on loan players either but that's where the club is at the moment. All the more reason to bring on our own.

Disappointing performance without a doubt but I don’t think anyone realistically thought we would beat Fev. So overall if it had to happen against anyone, it might as well happen against one of the best teams in the league rather than a play off rival.

Keep concentrating on beating those around us and we will make the playoffs which most would have been happy with at the start of the season.

Desperately need some players back though

The talk in the main stand yesterday was that Joe Keyes is on his way.

Against York, we looked good, in control. But we had 4 players with current/recent SL experience- Brough, Murphy, Golding, Wilson who were all then lost for Fev.

That forced us to use fringe players that JK doesn’t seem to trust. But the positions don’t work. We used our best FB as an average half. We then used our best winger as an average FB. We put our shortest winger up against one of the tallest & most experienced wingers in the comp. Add in the heat, couple of unlucky injuries again , no wonder we couldn’t do ourselves justice.

Ultimately though, these Fev games don’t matter. The one in the playoffs does. This group have shown enough to get to the playoffs I think.

I'd thought the same tbh, get to a final and anything can happen.

If only we had a coach who was a one-off game master....