Been watching their 'highlights' with Barrow. Hall's kicking aside they don't look great. No Chisholme either

I'm confident

As a Fev fan I'm not confident about Sunday, partly because we were poor against Barrow, but much more because Sunday is going to be a totally different type of game to the ones we have played so far. All pre-season and then in 2 league games and one Cup game so far we have played on boggy, muddy pitches, usually accompanied by wind and rain, and the pace of the game has been very slow. It's going to be much, much faster on Sunday and as you say we won't have Chisholm. Whether we can adjust remains to be seen.

Could well be wind and rain but no chance of a boggy pitch.

Yep, hence why I said the pace of the game is going to be much faster.

Both 21-man squads named, both teams have players returning although Chisholm still a big miss for Fev https://londonbroncosrl.com/news/bronco ... ip-action/ https://www.featherstonerovers.co.uk/ne ... lash-JN0Dj

Both 21-man squads named, both teams have players returning although Chisholm still a big miss for Fev https://londonbroncosrl.com/news/bronco ... ip-action/ https://www.featherstonerovers.co.uk/ne ... lash-JN0Dj

Strong squad that for London - Allgood, Smith coming in

I think Butler deserves to start

Good to see Smith back , we missed him at the end of last season.
Presumably he’s fit enough to play? I thought he was still a couple of weeks off .

Weather looks sensational for today - well relatively

Looking forward to the first big test at home in the Championship

Going to watch most of reserves too... See what tje future looks like

Seemed lethargic from the outset and thoroughly outplayed.

It's a long time since we've taken a thrashing like that, dreadful performance.
No go forward, soft in defence, going side to side with the ball, too many playmakers including Battye who forgot what his job was, ..........

Totally agree WQ.

Suddenly every forward seemed to think they were Latrell Mitchell

Why was it so hard to complete a set??? On 2nd/3rd tackle time and time again they were throwing hail Mary passes to the wing with predictable results

I suppose I can understand because they were so dominated through the middle maybe that was the plan!

Our pack looked physically completely out matched and everyone forgot to cherish possession going into contact.... How many balls were lost going forward? .... it took until the 60th minute to have any kind of parity on this score... against forwards who work in the week and only train Tuesday and Thursday nights!!

This is Fev without their best player!

Think I'll concentrate on the Under 18 team who were sensational

Outplayed and outmuscled in every department today. Tbh surprised we hot 10 points on the board.
Concerned with dixon getting put o his backside several times. Some stupid penalties, no leadership no clue basically.
Fev played a very simple game.
Very dissapointing

As a Fev fan I didn't expect that going into the game but was less surprised after I saw London's starting line-up. I don't know how many injuries you have right now or whether this is down to recruitment but starting both Pelissier and Fozzard in the pack seems bizarre when your middles already lack a bit of size. If you knew nothing about the teams but looked at them both as they lined up for the kick off you'd have to have fancied Fev - London had some size out wide with Curran/Walters/Egodo, Armitage, but in the middle of the field you had half a dozen really small blokes.

It's clearly part of the game plan to try and run teams around the park but you didn't have a platform to build this from and the halves lacked creativity, and I lost count of the number of times the ball was passed from one side of the field to the other without looking like an opening being created.

Think London are better than you showed today and James Webster was insistent he still thinks you are a good side and will be up there, but against the physically big/strong sides you're going to be vulnerable if you've got so many small guys in the middle of the park. As a poster said above, Fev kept it fairly simple and were able to wear you down.

On the plus side, the ground is so much better with the addition of that new stand.

Garbage.... can see a repeat of 2015 season if they dont sort it out soon