The video could prove me wrong, but Finn seemed to lie deep to take his kicks - while Martyn seemed to be taking the ball, very flat.

We blew that one with some terrible completion and why Maden threw that ball out I will never know.
Fev had runners and better distribution from the ruck, they dominated the ptb all night, illegally as always but they generally got away with it. IMO we needed a Nicho to compete in this area and put pace on the game, I believe this was a poor decision by Paul.
I felt Fev were much better but we stuck in and when we were desperate and played with pace we rattled them later on.
All in all mixed emotions as we lost and didn't play well for much of the game but we nearly clawed it back and can only learn from the poor selection.
Crap crowd but it looked more than Batley.

That's if he actually got the ball on 5th.... How many times did we either get tackled or end up with a forward kicking?

We definitely missed either duffs or Nicho tonight.

Bob ended up playing both hooker and scrum half for 30 mins which meant he was knackered and we ended up with no penetration at the ruck.

Fev on the other hand brought on Ellis who i thought turned the game slightly with his yards from ahb.

See the defensive sense in starting briscoe at 7 but IMO wrong decision tonight.

Still, a valiant effort from all out there. The defensive effort I thought was one of our best.

Well done lads just make sure we do em it POR!!!

Our lads looked really tired, extra 2 days rest will be good for them before we play Batley.

I think your right, theres no denying that the league table dosnt lie.

Seriously though having seen all the teams this season I do think that Leigh look like the best team we have faced. I must admit I was kind of happy to see the weather as it was because Leigh look like a very good team on a dry track and i thought the conditions would favour Fev. From a Fax fan point of view I was very happy with the result as it means if we can(Obviously a big if) manage to scrape past Fev on Thursday we are in with a great shout of finishing the season top of the table.

Like someone says though theres many twists and turns to come yet but i think we have already seen that Fev, Leigh and Fax are the top 3 teams in this division.

And what a fantastic division it is to. Jack Dearden was buzzing when talking about last nights game but I was feeling a bit down and partisan so I didn't think it was that good. What I do think is that Fev did play a good as they could on the night and so did we for that matter. There wasn't that much between us and we were unlucky not to draw the game. Had Matt Gardner taken that ball and scored we may have even got the ball back drove it to the posts and Riddy drop goaled. Game won. Whats the saying, "If, ifs and buts were fivers and tenners we would all be millionaires".

Featherstone were by far the best team we have seen here this season and also the dirtiest

OK, Here's my twopenneth...

I think that it was a fantastic game in the conditions - the Dull KR v Cats match which I watched later did not have a fraction of the flair which both teams tried to play with. Apart from the tries I think each team had 4 clean line breaks so it shows both were trying to play rugby.

Fev fully deserved the win - on the night they had a little bit more composure and their kicking game was excellent.

We on the other hand kicked poorly - without Duffs on the field Martin is the only grade 1 kicker but as he is also the only pivot in the team he needed to be quite flat in the line which meant that with the Fev pressure he sometimes struggled to get the correct option away.

We seemed to get the rub of the green with penalties but we also had the majority of the "oh no" moments which neutralised any benefit from this.

Either Duffy or Nicho would have been a big asset last night but I am not going to be drawn in to criticising Rowls as he has made good calls all year and we even managed to get close to stealing a draw last night.

All in all a good game played in (relatively) good humour by, I believe, the two teams which will contest the Grand Final this year.

Well done to Fev. Roll on the NRC semi!

I feared the worst at the LSV last night , and was RIGHT , after seeing Briscoe selected at 7 , for me it didnt work against the Seagulls and didnt work last night , against the Seagulls we went in at half time 12-12 , we could have gone in 12-18 down , ut after changing the formation around we won the second half 28-0 , you cant do this against Fev and expect to win .

For me the team performed OK , i stayed and clapped them off as they put the work in Fev looked comfortable tackling us , we could have had 10 forwards out there last night , they would have tackled them ,you need to attack and create problems for teams like Fev , Brierley scored the try of the Game ,and against Kain and Finn you need 2 halfbacks giving them problems ,we missed Duffy,on the plus side we got a point , its not the end of the world,and hopefully PR will learn something from last night ,and get us back on track next week , and again at POR , in the NRC .
Ive also just been told our under 23s are starting up again in September , good news there ,again last night i thought Pownall had a very good game .

As been said we missed Duffy at HB......Briscoe is a 13 end of. Also get Nicho on the bench and I feel we`ll turn em over in the semi.

Not that far behind last night, just need to kick a little better and cut out the silly little mistakes that cost us the game.

I really think that had we not coceded that soft try then we could have beaten Fev last night and even though they looked a lot better than us in most peoples eyes, I wonder if it was just being a little too critcal of our own performance. If they were that much better than us the score certainly did prove it and all can remember are our mistakes and those of the ref. Oh forgot Fevs kicking game was ten times better than ours but that was it.

Proper blood n snot rugby. Two well committed teams. Result appropriately reflected the game. Had Leigh nick a draw/win I would have felt it was unjust given the balance of play etc - but then I would wouldn't I!

Now - that's those noisy pretentious upstarts from the 'dark side' of the hills subdued for a fortnight!!!
I sincerely hope the 62 is kinder to you than it was to us last night. See y'all then.

Totally agree Tony , we easily scored the BEST try , our backs 1-5 are very good , but Riddy needs help at half back its to much for him to ask him to take on the likes of Kain and Finn on his own , when Brierley came on our performance went up a couple of notches , and we could have snatched the Game , still i hope we can get a more smooth performance in 2 weeks , we need a Blackpool appearence .

Not afe! That try ought to be a contender for try of the season! Great build up, great handling and an unbelieveable turn of pace for the line. There won't be many tries scored that will better that this season. Worth buying the dvd just for that!