Well our half backs were poor today. Losing Hood and Hopkins did not help.

Our defence was good apart from the Fev try from acting half back just before half time and the last minute.

Thought Reynolds played well at hooker.

Our attack wasn't good but if half backs don't play well it has an impact.

Ref had a bad game but so do players.

Any coach worth his salt will be all to aware that the starting half backs next week must be Ridyard and Drinkwater.

Fully agreed Harold, not judging Travis Burns after 1 home game, but Riddy would be my starting half back for every match.....end of. We have only lost 2 games in all competitions by 2 points in each encounter, BUT something is not right. Too many loanee's in/out, why can't we just 'make do' with what we already have. TEAM SPIRIT is a big plus, at the moment, BUT there are so many new players, it must be affecting it. If Martyn does not start v Workington, I will seriously wonder if Jukes knows what he is doing. RANT OVER.

Agreed, Last season ‘the team’ was better than its individual parts, this season we are the opposite, we have individuals many of whom could still hold their own in SL but yet as a team we are failing miserably to perform, we seem to have lost the Leythers against the world attitude which galvanised the team, the fans and the club.

Come on Jukesy sort it out.

We have the forwards and the Halves, we didn't need Travis burns we needed a pacey support player ( like Brierley ). Yesterday was sideways rugby and Fev defended it with ease

Leythers,your disappointed with your teams performance because you were expecting a walkover. Fev stood up,
showed some idea and creativity and had a dig. For full timers you looked disorganised and sluggish.
Your missing the Ridyard,Brierley, MacNally combo of cutting through teams with speed.
Do you fear Beaumont is dictating to Jukes who you sign. Rowley seemed to be building nicely.

We have a different coach, with different ideas and his own views on what he wants. Will it be working well enough for the 8s? He has 6 weeks left. Let's not forget while we had a great run of scintillating rugby and high scoring games we game up massively short when tested at SL level and the then coach was unable to lift the team for the last 6 and a half games of the 8s ie everyone who we had already beaten that year beat us with ease (except eagles). I am happy to accept this at the moment if it is a means to an end. Sentiment is not needed, after all it looks like Pownall, Beswick and Kay are off to Toronto and Ridy may not be far behind. I would like to think they would still give their all for the club if required but the coach has the final word. Listen to his interview on LCTV post Fev.

I did appreciate the entertaining sometimes scintillating rugby or Rowley's reign. Cheers.

We are disappointed with our performance because our performance was extremely disappointing.

We gave up so much ball and position through soft penalties and constant errors that we were forced to defend our line for huge chunks of the match. Luckily the defence was pretty good as any team that has as many sets on our line as Fev did has no excuse for not winning that match.

Yesterday was as bad as we have played in a long time so to still come away with the 2 points is pleasing... and a bit of a relief!

And what would any coach worth their salt have said after the whitehaven game? Or are we going to change the halves every week?

Healthy competition is great, when you have it in abundance you simply have to perform to keep the shirt. Burns did enough at Whitehaven to warrant his place yesterday granted, the question for the coach worth his salt is did Burns do enough to keep hold of it for another week?

Ridyard was in fine form prior to being 'dropped' - Does he deserve a chance again?

It is probably irrelevant as we know the answer.

i don't think it's something that should be reviewed on a match by match basis, the coach needs to decide what his best half back pairing will be and stick to it. In my opinion Drinkwater would be first choice, with little to choose between the other 3.