I am annoyed by some fans expecting us to dole out 50 point thrashing to the likes of Oldham and Rochdale. Very disrespectful and misguided.

There are surprise results in our sport week in week out. To illustrate, explain this if you can:

Middle 8s last year, we wallop London away by scoring over 50 points. London beat Salford away the following week. We nearly lose to Fev away who had been hammered by London and all an sundry earlier in the M8s. We lose to Salford in the MPG.

If I take the same sort of blinkered and simplistic approach to the game as some of my fellow colleagues have, why didn't we wallop Fev by 100 and Salford by 70 in the MPG?

Also we dry bummed Cas away last year in arguably our best performance of the season. Hard to believe they are the team that many are tipping to break into SL top 4 and win trophies in SL. On that basis, the same simplistic approach should mean we are good enough for top 4 in SL therefore.

C*#p comes in many forms. Performance and consistency takes time. Patience and honesty is required from the team and fans.

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Oldham have won one and had narrow defeats to London and Fev so not as bad as you make out look at Toronto yesterday

Game destroyed as a spectacle by the ref. Job done I suppose. Defended a lot better. Quality kicking from Ellis in that wind, especially the 1st one. Ban looming for Scruton, don't know what he was thinking.

I've seen some bad refs but today's was even handed. As for Scruton, who knows, but a number of Oldham indescretions went unpunished today.

Minns really is showing his SL quality at the moment whereas Moss looks like a list child a lot of the time with ball in hand. Took his try well but far too indecisive most of the time. Abdul's kicking in the 1st half wasn't great at times. Overall a solid performance today although we lost our enthusiasm in attack in 2nd half. For the record though, Oldhams defence was shockingly bad at times.

The wind was brutal today.

Abdull my MOM, closely followed by Donno and Lunt. We bombed opportunities for more points and caught white line fever again in the second half, lacking composure and vision in the process. Defence was excellent as was forward momentum. Yes, Oldham were poor but we knackered them out in the first half hour playing against a gale force wind, completing at almost 100% and scoring 5 tries in the process. Job well done.

Didn't see what Scruton did to warrant his sin binning. Referee was cack but fair.

You were saying Mr Forearm?

Hewer wasn't too bad, certainly better than last week (Campbell). The biggest error was calling Greenwood as tackled right at the end when his ball carrying arm was a foot in the air!

I just laughed at half of the East Stand moaning about short kick offs, showing their lack of knowledge about the laws of the game.

I went with Abdull for mom, hard to pick as it was a good team effort where no one stood out as such. Scruton chicken winged the player, was so blatant but the lino still had to tell the ref, could have been straight red. Went a bit dumb 2nd half but by far best performance of the year.

I thought the ref was ok apart from a couple of bizarre calls near the end kept a fast PTB which we've been moaning about minns was good but a bit greedy a couple of times he could of put moss away and didn't and we saw how fast he can be but I would prefer him at FB having Abdul is like having another forward agree with pickers him or Donaldson my mom Scruton was stupid and deserves a ban still think we need another big prop although Clarkson is a lot more effective as a prop than a SR

The good the bad and the ugly today, some good play, some overplay, I think it's impossible to put in an 80 minute performance and today was probably about 35 minutes. Oldham tried hard but we're pretty poor today, I kept willing them on to test our goal line defence because I think we need more testing in order to improve it. Spent the second half stood next to Gavin Miller and his wife in the East stand wondering how good he would have been for us in this division.

A much needed winning margin, against a very poor team who looked to be short of ideas and direction.
We are still not playing through our sets, seem to be single drives rather than using our line to beat teams on the edges.
Abdul was good today (apart from his early kicking) along with Clarkson, Greenwood and Donno ( my MoM).
Moss is not showing up very well on the wing and maybe it's time to give Oakes a run out and try him at fullback.

First 30 mins into the wind was very good.
Second half a mess at times...no patience. The defence was good. They didn't make a break.
Quinlan and Hefernan barely saw the ball.
The kicking game remains a concern. Terrible execution. To get promoted the kicking game has to improve dramatically.
Despite the score we know little else at this stage than were a positive work in progress.
Lunt man of the match for me. Abdul and Scruton the next best.
Any news on Clark?