The Leeds, Warrington and Bradford games aside we haven't been sparkling all season.

But the results have rolled in.

When everything clicks they play great. But you just cannot keep the intensity up for a whole season. Everyone has dips.

When Giants fire they will be up there in the mix. Don't worry about that.

Hope so mate really really hope so

We havent had a "big" game since Leeds and a team cant stay at peak all the time, maybe they dipped too much (in fact they did) but Easter is over, we are at halfway point and 2nd in the league.

now its time to start building momentum again for the end straight.

The team will lift for Saints, end of story.

The only positive i saw today was the fact Batley tired late on allowing us to pinch the game - we were awful and yes we got through but thats not always good enough ! if we want to be taken seriously our players HAVE to put more effort in.

Today they thought the draw had put them through before kick off !

Don't you think with a "weakened team" we might of done better! The point is our big boys didn't put in 100% and didn't have enough respect for batley who played really well.

I thought it was a weakened side being played.

Brono and Cudjoe out of position, Larne starting with a second row of Kirmond and Cording.

Dodgy getting a game.

Wood, Molloy and Fairbank on the Bench.

I would say six or seven of that seventeen won't get in next week.

Good post and I agree wholeheartedly.

Yes, we were poor. But didn't deserve to win? No way.

Our main problem seems to lie in the mental attitude when playing 'lesser' teams. If blame is to be apportioned then it surely must be at the coaches' doors. [Like setting off with no thought to Bank Holiday traffic!]

And one for the Dodgy watchers. Why on earth did he attempt to catch that high ball one-handed? Hasn't he had enough coaching for high balls? Must do better. [He caught it? Oh, never mind!

I like hodgson and would put him on wing instead of simpson anyway!

We must also give Batley's players lots of credit here too - thy tackled like their lives depended on it, time and again they brought our big men to ground.
I remember a 3 man hit on LOD not long into the game (possibly here his shirt got ripped) and he got up and just stood there for about 2 minutes with a look of what the hell was that on his face....he ovbiously hasdn't expected that kind of opposition.

LOD always ends up with a ripped shirt, cant understand why lol

How does he get them to rip at the back like that ?. It happened at Leeds as well. In thirty odd years of watching I have never seen a shirt ripped at the back and now twice in a month.

We have a cracking team but our downfall is our complacency. We play at the level we expect our opposition to play. We could play St.George one week and give them a real good game, the week after we could play Shaw Cross and scrape a win. We lack the killer instinct to put lesser teams to bed early. Yesterday was bad but it doesn't worry me that we'll play like that again. Take nothing away from Batley it was their cup final and it was only due to the effort they'd put in for an hour that they fell short in the last 15mins.

Hope not. We could really do with you being in the worst form possible at the weekend, if that's ok. Cheers.

We rubbish our lads too much, they know in a game like that they are on a hiding to nothing and when a team put`s up a showing like Batley did, they probably try too hard and things don`t come off.
Let`s face it if Batley played like that every week, they would win everything in front of them during the season.
And as for us not deserving to win ?? We did score 6 try`s to 3 the game is 80 minutes not 60.