Ok, lets be outnumbered then.

A spot-on assessment of why we got beat. There was a noticeable difference in class between the two teams. I couldn't really fault our lads for effort or desire, it was just that Fax were so much better. They were visibly faster and, perhaps more importantly, cleverer than us in their play. Some of the kicks they put in were of the utmost quality and it shows what we miss because we don't have that. Their defence during that first half period when we were camped on their line was awesome. We just don't seem to have the inventiveness to break down a well-drilled defence which is very frustrating.

I think one of the frustrating features of 2013 has been consistency - or lack of it. How can you square the win at Whitehaven or 34-0 trouncing of York (who had just beaten Featherstone the week before) with some of the other perplexingly poor games? Was it that we were so good or did we play some average teams who were having bad days? Let us hope that our performance up at Barrow is one of the handful of great games or it will be a long road home from Cumbria! I too would hate to see York or Barrow go out of the Championship. Two great clubs - but if it's us or them....

Re consistency: what we have done consistently is fail to perform against any of the top sides. York and Swinton have beaten Featherstone, Barrow have beaten Halifax and I'm sure there have been more such unlikely results. We however have not had any of them; the highest placed teams we have beaten this season have been Whitehaven and Doncaster. We have very predictably lost to all the top teams both home and away. It's not good. We really should not be in the position we are in, having to go to North Lancashire and hope for the best. Yes, Barrow is Lancashire club. 'Cumbria' is a made-up, kid-on 'county' which isn't even as old as me.

I have to disagree. Wins against any oft he top teams would have been a bonus.

But more importantly what we haven't done is performed in games which we should have won:

Whitehaven at home 12-16 LOST
Swinton at home 10-20 LOST
Dewsbury away 18-10 LOST
Dewsbury at home 28-32 LOST
Workington away 28-18 LOST (yes it was the 2nd trip in 4 days to Cumbria)

Alright we got a bonus point in each of these matches but in my opinion there's 10 points gone in the above matches which we could and probably should have had.