Any clues as to why the performance was so lacklustre or is this squad just not good enough ?

PH

This was apparent in the York game too

A small pack is okay if they are players like Yates who could make 40 tackles and still sprint around the park.

We need 2 big muddles and outside backs who xan catch a ball at pace

Really hope this is a one off

It was very hard to sit through that. In fact I left after we scored – I was convinced even if we played until midnight we would not score. We were outmuscled, out enthused, out skilled, out coached. One of the most awful displays I have ever seen. Even last year in SL when we were on the back of a few tries we looked like scoring. Maybe this reflects the loss of so many talented and experienced players and their replacements not being up to the job.

Featherstone were good, very good but ……. What anyone sees in Meadows is beyond me. He is an average half back and a woeful full back. He never wanted to catch the bombs. He ‘chimed’ into the line offering a hospital pass to whoever had the misfortune to be outside him. Oh to have Walker back. The halves were bang average. The pack are lightweight and struggle to defend the line. No longer do we have Yates who didn’t mind the hard stuff, getting low as third man round the ankles. The Fev forwards made yards after contact, we just succumbed. Dixon was way off the pace. Hodson looked very nervous. Walters and Curran were quiet. Too many knock ons.

Any one know why Armitage was sin binned. Quite an important moment as Fev cleverly exploited that side twice (maybe three times) whilst he was off.

As for coaching. Fev knew we weren’t going to beat them down the middle so really organised slide defence out wide and all we did was go from left to right and back and get clobbered. Only in the second half did we vary it and use the kick option.

A day to forget, quickly.

Any one know why Armitage was sin binned.

Kicking the ball away in the in goal when it was tap 20 to them.

Any after match interviews with Wardy? Be interesting to hear his thoughts.

Quote: Exiled down south "Any after match interviews with Wardy? Be interesting to hear his thoughts.'" Interesting what he said over the Armitage yellow card. Essentially in RU if the ball hits the corner flag & comes back onto the field of play it's play on which is why Armitage kicked it dead & thus done for dissent. I have no idea if that rule is correct or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRMCiyzh1uM

Quote: Exiled down south "Any after match interviews with Wardy? Be interesting to hear his thoughts.'" Interesting what he said over the Armitage yellow card. Essentially in RU if the ball hits the corner flag & comes back onto the field of play it's play on which is why Armitage kicked it dead & thus done for dissent. I have no idea if that rule is correct or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRMCiyzh1uM

Yes, it was noticeable when York brought the likes of Green on that London struggled.

If Allgood plays next week and you start Butler as well as Battye ie one of them nominally plays at 13, you will probably be a bit more solid up the middle.

The irony is we went to the opposite extreme, Parata, who I thought would love the artificial pitch, was injured so we went with a prop (Bussey) playing hooker for about 70 minutes, but it worked.

Correct in RU if the ball bounces off corner flag without otherwise being in touch or touch-in-goal then play continues unless it was grounded against the post.

I was stood very near the incident and Armitage was clearly confused. I assume the ref was justified in issuing a yellow but it was very soft .

He was playing union until recently..... He's a pro league player now... Learn the rules

To be fair there are some seasoned RL pros who don't know all the rules. Fev nearly lost a game a few years ago because having just taken the lead with a drop out, one of our players didn't realise you can't gather a short kick off until it has gone 10m, even if you are the defending team, fortunately our opponents missed the resulting penalty.

Other rules some RL players don't seem to know...
You can't take a 20m tap if all your own players aren't back behind the 20m line.
The tap following a 40-20 kick takes place from 20m in not 10m in (some refs seem to forget this too).

Armitage actually said he didn't know the rules! He had already been warned about a similar thing earlier in the game

Squad is not strong or deep enough to challenge the main side in the league (Toulouse, Leigh and Fev).

The rumours have been confirmed. We have signed Ed Chambers on loan from Salford, for one month.