The gunfight was fun though!

Just out of curiosity, how many of Derek's "we now have 13 internationals" played today

I guess he's counting the New Zeander Rangi as 2

Putting Rangi at FB was a bad choice, given his inability to catch against Wigan. His attacking game was also subdued, but that's to be expected while he's playing out of position.

I also think, when we have a fully fit squad, Armstrong shouldn't be near the 17. He's not the player he was 18 months ago, and he's been poor in most games since June.

Higham was excellent, Fui had 2 very effective spells, Hansen was a beast, Weston went well, and spencer ran in hard as always. Worthington was good in defence. But overall, a very average team performance against a decent side.

Let the trolls enjoy the result, comments made by some of our fans will always entice them to rub our noses in it when results don't go our way

Fax played their best attacking half-back (Ben Johnston) at full-back today. Scott Murrell and Gareth Moore played in the halves. Probably our best full-back (Miles Greenwood) still isn't quite fit, but quality players need to slot in to fill in when needed. At this level, the likes of Rangi should be able to play anywhere in the pivots (which includes full-back nowadays).

Chase was ok as an attacking force, but horribly exposed defensively, particularly under the (very) high balls he was given to defend.

l thought that he could not influence the game where he was, and would have been better in the halves.

Oh and in defence, l suspect he was carrying an injury for much of the second half.

Although Hock missing a few games because of the sniffles is nothing new !

He was. He injured himself making that superb run on the 6th tackle and spent most of the rest of the half limping. (although he seemed to limp much worse, after dropping the two - very good - high balls!

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It wouldn't surprise me to see him miss next week - he missed the Warrington game with a hip injury.

Logically, perhaps Michael. Although Batley certainly opened it up, down the slope, after they went 12-22 behind. Our defence in their half was brutal, but within 25 yards of our own line, we couldn't seem to cope.

We didn't play well, and after the past week, that's perhaps understandable. However, all credit to a well-coached, honest Batley team, who did extremely well to drag themselves back into it, when their heads appeared to drop after Brierley's try.

Don't want to worry anyone but saw Karl Harrison there today

..and yes I know he is Lee Smiths agent

And isn't his brother Cheif Exec at Batley? Surely Harrison can't be on the radar for a job at Leigh???