How can you lose a game when your pack is in such control? Batley struggled to get out of their own half when we played simple rugby, both up and down the hill.

We gifted them territory through stupid dropped ball, silly technical penalties and then 2 dropped bombs (great bombs though in fairness) plus a good 40/20 too.

At 12 - 22 we looked in total control. Then Hewer gave a terrible decision (saying Emmitt dropped what was a blatent rip) and we seemed to forget everything we had been doing so well. For that last 20 mins Batley gave away far less pens, dropped far less ball, kicked much better and then converted their chances into points.

Congrats to Batley, a well deserved win and you could see what it meant to them with their wild celebrations at the final whistle.

There were positives but I really can't be bothered tonight.

On Chase I thought he was very good in attack and solid in defence but he is CLEARLY not a fullback. 2 dropped bombs ultimately cost us that match. If McNally had been playing we would have won that game.

Unbeaten season off to a flyer, keep your mouth shut next time please Derek!

We have the SL players. We need a SL coach. This was evident in the middle 8's last year.

Well said nozzy! Not all negative! Thought Greg worthington was class again today he's defence is top notch! No mugs on there own patch are batley!

It was your "Super League" players that have just lost to Batley, would you like another go?

Boots don't stock enough man nappies to catch the amount of trouser wetting that's going on across the Rugby League world tonight.

Did Reni play? How did the relationship between him and Rangi seem?

You only have Derek to blame!

it was terrible, they had 3 punch ups and were constantly arguing, that's why we lost.

I thought we got our tactics wrong. We tried to play too much rugby going down the hill. Passing is difficult because of the bizarre angles and we threw too many forward passes and put the ball down. Downhill it should be simple straight up the middle to tire Batley. Playing uphill is the time to bring out he passing game.

Thought it was a naive performance on a difficult Mount Pleasant pitch.

Ok they came out holding hands. Must be a sad life when all you can look forward to is Leigh loosing a game.

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).

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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.