We have to accept that was a truly awful performance today yet we won because we are full time and it gives us that bit of resilience in spite of being very poor.
Its left me very worried for the season ahead when it comes to the games that will define it and our future

It's all about winning. You get no further in a cup competition playing great open flowing good on the eye rugby. During this season I suspect there'll be occasions where we don't perform as well as other times, but being full time, I'm not sure many if any can live with us.

We have a fair amount of strike power out. Jerry, Thornley, lino, Doyle, Kay. Playing poor and winning by 18 points for me sums up where we are. Look what happened in previous seasons when we played poor.

I didn’t think we were in too much danger of loosing the game. The variety of kicks the Barrow lads put in tended to keep us guessing and certainly helped their cause in the poor conditions.
We tackled well and our props kept us on the front foot throughout the game. So with a 30:12 score line in a cup game..I’m not moaning….
The frilly stuff finished last weekend and it’s going to start getting harder as the season progresses…there will be different challenges from different teams and we need to make sure that we’re prepared… but so far we’ve achieved this…
Also thought Brad Walker was great for Barrow yesterday..

Pat and Belle Vue with some of the most sensible posts on this thread. Barrow gave us a game which is what we wanted. One would think we lost the way a couple are going on here.

Job done, it's all about getting through to the next round, which we did pretty comfortably.
Conditions were awful for much of the game too.
Barrow's in play kicking options were superb but, the moment of the match was Harvey Smith's solo effort.

Probably going to be away at Bradford in the semi which will be another step up from yesterday.

Well get used to it because we aren't going to score 70 points every match ! Barrow gave us a game.
It's exactly what we needed to stop complacency creeping in.
I'm sure with some team adjustments there will be a big improvement at Featherstone!

I thought Brad Walker was outstanding yesterday and would have given him man of the match...he seemed to have so much time on the ball and his kicking kept us on the back foot for considerable parts of the game and that low drop-out from under the sticks that went about 12 metres to their right winger was absolutely sublime...I would have him back tomorrow

For me, that game was a bit of a reality check for us....so far, we have brushed sides off with ease and as a result it appears as though we got a bit complacent and probably expected to do the same against Barrow, but all credit to them for coming down and making a real game of it. For much of that game, they were definitely the better team and stopped our forwards from steam-rollering them back down the pitch. Their half-backs were definitely a match for ours too and with a bit more luck they could have easily run us a lot closer than the final score-line suggests.
Featherstone next week are likely to be a real test for us if we play like we played yesterday, so hopefully that game was a good wake-up call ??
I noticed that Lawford was limping when he went off so let's hope he is fit for next week

Odasl next round, cant say im looking forward to seeing us play on that muddy kids size pitch.

York and Sheffield in the other semi.