I was stood right in front of this incident. Our player was subjected to a high tackle, and was held up by that action which prevented him from touching down. I, like all the rest of the onlooking Oldham supporters, were shouting for a high tackle. We were surprised , when Lawton went straight to the posts and awarded a penalty try. Very few Refs would have done this, even though it was the right decision.The Keighley player concerned was lucky not be sent off, or having the incident put on report. I can only assume that Lawton deemed it punishiment enough. The Keighley player could still be cited by the RFL.

but apart from that it was a good afternoon out, yes?

luckily for me the sun was shining on the Worth valley and at 1pm on Sunday the thought of an hour each way in the car put me off.

Oldham are on a roll so it was never a nailed on win - and maybe we're not travelling well at the moment? heads do seem to drop quite quickly. hmm.

Donny next then.

Oh dear! That's one sure fire way to turn the fans against you.

I'm not condoning such actions but lets be fair, it depends how the fan approached him.

He's new to coaching, still has a lot to learn, and like a lot of our fans wears his heart on his sleeve. I would question whether straight after such a match was the right time to approach a coach who is obviously very frustrated with the performance and most of all with himself.

We have seen several experienced coaches fined this year for things they said straight after a match "in the heat of the moment". Barry had time to settle in, JD hasn't had that luxury, I think we should be prepared to cut him some slack.

Fair play to Oldham they played the "pitch" and the ref far better than we did, tbh I would have settled for a bonus point after seeing the pitch.

We refused to park in the jungle down the far end and got up near the gate. I was gutted that they ran out of food before half time. It'd be interesting to see how they would cope against Halifax, Leigh Widnes etc with a couple of coach loads of fans, it was a bit of a farce yesterday with only 600 folk there.

How much damage has the performance yesterday done to all the hard work done over recent weeks to get the fans back to cougar park? I'm guessing quite a bit, saw several cougars fans at game yesterday that I haven't seen at a game for ages, and they left well before full time.

Attendance on Sunday will be interesting.

Highlights from the game I didn't get to film at Oldham. Thanks to Roughyeds TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvqcOJ_g ... ideo_title

Highlights from the game I didn't get to film at Oldham. Thanks to Roughyeds TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvqcOJ_g ... ideo_title