16-6

Game over!

More errors

Ill disciplined, error prone performance and which resulted in our 1st away defeat this season.
Lost count of the amount of times I heard "Knock on from Sammut"
But I suppose we all knew what we were getting with him, Brilliant one game, poor the next!

Badly miss our 2 hookers!

Ooops that's not a good scoreline
Playing on grass seems to be a problem for us

Rubbish

Not a good result, not overly surprised they turned us over though after the display at Dewsbury.
Back to basics, bit like a couple of years back, throw ball catch ball. Repeat 6 times. Start again!

No idea what happened.

At Oldham we were rubbish, in fact worse than. Today we werent that bad, ok, a few handling errors.

Halifax were dross, one dimensional awfulness, and we were dragged down to and below their level.

At least I have just arrived home to a plated up Sunday dinner !!

Poor result but a place in the 8s isn't decided in March

Sloppy might be the best way of describing today.
- Penalties at the ptb usually on the last tackle
- Allowing them to dominate at the ptb when we were in possession
- optimistic offloads
- passing to the ground behind a player more than 3 times
- sloppy passing out wide with one interception try
- dropping the ball yet fax didn't!
- allowing the high ball to bounce
- bit panicky on occasions
- letting the opposition half dictate to the ref

That said defence wasn't that bad, and some passages of play were very good. The ref made what appeared from the stands odd decisions both ways. Not sure he was in control on occasions and he bottled the high tackle.

This passing the ball behind the player happened a lot at dewsbury, I blamed the conditions maybe it was nothing to do with that. Penalties are much more likely at the 4th or 5th tackle players should know that, discipline needs sorting. Overall our control of the ruck is poor in attack and defence, in defence is down to tackle technique in attack it's about technique but it's also an urgency to regain yr feet. If you are on yr back and do the flopping fish refs are not interested, if you make an effort to place a foot on the ground it shows an effort to regain yr feet, result quick ptb or penalty.
Dropped ball, down to pushing the play rather than completing sets respecting possession and playing the % game.

Swinton, Oldham and Fax performances are just not good enough. It strikes me if we are not on a fast track where we can go wide early we cant play. Get the forwards rumbling up the middle and toughen up, its the championship for gods sake