Back to reality, I just hope Crown Flatt is a fortress this season giving the Rams an outside chance of top four themselves, otherwise, we are in deep, deep, like, Mariana Trench deep doo doo!!!

Why?
As I said, I asked about the coach when he was appointed and I have seen and heard nothing that makes me think he's not out of his depth. He's recruited badly for a competition that we must win to stand any chance of getting back up. He's recruited mates...including one bloke who had retired from first grade footie.

By the end of March we will have played Donny, Sheffield, Leigh, Workington, Whitehaven and Halifax.....If we aren't on 10 points minimum he should be fired, but no doubt Hughes will offer him a pay rise!

Penguin how much needs to click for a FT team to beat a PT team?

I genuinely thought (foolishly) we would hammer them! Conditions, pitch .... Is a poor response. The tries conceded says a lot.

I thought it was a typo when I first saw the score.

Is Gutterfax really Rupe 1?

He sounds like him.

surely somebody need a drink

As I said, lets revisit end of March.

Well, hopefully, we either a) took them so lightly that our guys took the urine, and are now still reeling from Grima's bestest "hairdryer"!

or b) Dewsbury at home are going to be formidable for anyone! option c) is almost untenable for a Full Time squad, in what should be a three horse race!

Anyone remember 1994-5 when the new Brisbane owners underestimated Div 2 and we were also-rans. That was one hell of an anti-climax after Tanky Gordon and the wonderful 1993-4 season when anything seemed possible.

I was at the game on Sunday, you just had to look at Hughes face after the game, Paul Sykes, Schofield, they were laughing there head's off, you cannot blame conditions on that, same for both teams, grass was long and field un even, but still a POOR performance,

Dewsbury were just doing basics on us, we missed lots of tackles through centre again and the Dews props were just doing the simple stuff and we had no answer, no on field captains to marshall the troops etc, no plan B, just felt like Deja Vu again for the team.

Having watched a fair bit of Championship rugby I'm not totally shocked we lost, though the margin in surprising. There are some very good teams / players here. The worst team is night and day difference to Skolars/Hemel/Oxford. I think a few will be surprised by some of our opponents. Some of our recruitment was good but some is worrying - the pack concerns me for the umpteenth consecutive year. Whilst being pro will get us over the line in a few games, especially as the season progresses, it's less help early on and I think that the line of thinking it was only games v pro teams that mattered will be wrong and we will lose to some part time teams.

Deeply worrying times for RL down south and not just at the Broncos.

You are probably a bit out of touch with the championship if you thought you would hammer Dewsbury at theirs. There is not much at all between top Championship clubs and lower SL clubs. The top players in this division who are part time are easily as good as some of the players in bottom end SL clubs.

It is certainly looking like Leigh and Bradford will run away with the league and leave about 6 teams fighting for 3rd and 4th place.

Keyes, Foran and Farrar will be targeted in defence. I don't see a way to have all 3 on the pitch at the same time, especially not 2 of them defending together. Waiting to see the highlights but I'd like to see Garside at left centre in place of Farrar who is shot as a physical presence and just shoots out of the line looking for intercepts instead of contact.

On the positive side, we do have a good squad and combinations will take time. Having Riley (injured) and Dollapi (late withdrawal?) on the bench would stiffen things up. Nor is defeat away at Dewsbury (an improving mid-table side) a disgrace. But 34-6 is.

They've got 10 days of looking in the mirror to get things sorted
Hopefully this is what was needed to get it into there heads what's coming. No excuse for missing tackles other than lack of application. You don't see Wigan missing many knowing Wane is waiting for them.

Grima needs to fire this lot up.