We must have played the last of our Get out of Jail free card.

We stay second in the table. Leigh won again.

Perhaps the players read the RAB score projections and thought they just needed to catch the bus to the ground.

Bloody lucky today.

Lucky escape.

Played poorly, but at least we came away with the points.

Surely Shaw has to play each week for his kicking, kept his cool under a lot of pressure.

Hopefully Purtell & JPB back soon.

Sounds like we were well off the pace today and Batley were very up for it. John Kear will have really got his players fired up for this game so in some respects it is pleasing that we've found a way to win. But only just by the skin of our teeth. Maybe a bit of a wake up call for our players that we have to keep intensity up otherwise we will slip up againt one of the smaller clubs.

Another 2 points on the board though.

Absolute nerves of steel from Shaw to land that touchline conversion to make it 20-19. It didn't matter in the end but he wasn't to know that.

Edit: London lost at Whitehaven today. Nobby might be having second thoughts!

Good Job you didn't draw Leyth int Challenge Cup.

Massive wake up call for the Bulls today. We played well for 5 minutes in the first half and then 6 minutes in the second half. I think we missed JPB, Ferguson and Purtell on the outside flanks.

Today's result will be a big reality check.

For a full time team i am surprised that our fitness isn't that much better, Batley and Whitehaven were not that much off our pace at the end of the day.

IF? You don't sound that confident.

Leigh fans winning the the cup and the middle eights in March then

How we won that I will never know. Got out of jail big tome. Didn't really deserve to win it.

I think scoring that early try probably did more damage to us as we seemed to have the mind set we wouldn't have to work very hard going down hill to score.

Batley had the John Kear trademark stamped all over them.

Sidlow should have been spelled much earlier in the game. He looked out on his feet most of it.

Had a big wake up call today and still won so can't complain too much. Will do us good this match.

Batley at home is a tough place to go and we've managed to play badly and come away with two points.

Next week I think we need to rest Sidlow and give some longer minutes to Lauaki and Flemming to get their fitness levels up.

On another note, Saw the amount of players we had on sideline today. Showed how much depth we've got.

Davies, Addy, Ferguson, Mellor, Purtell, JPB, Blythe, Uaisele are all first team regulars and we still had a strong team out. Take seven players out of other teams and they'll be struggling.

With Whitehaven beating London today, it shows just because we're full time that we're not just going to be able to turn up and win.