To make the middle 8s and be full time next year.

(Unless we play on Savile Park and pay a tenner a month rent)

Not an easy league. Played a full time side today, on their 3G pitch and a 200 mile journey down.

We are looking mid-table or worse if we don't pick up

As regards Savile Park, I would suggest Ovenden Park and giving Wernick a call if the worst did happen!

Another defeat but don't be too disheartened. It is still early days and the wins will come. I hope people don't start getting carried away calling next weeks game against Leigh a must win game. Don't be ridiculous its 5 games in. Stay positive and keep supporting the lads

What wonderfully negative comments

. Its 5 games into the season not 5 to go until the end of the season. Yes this league is a tough one this year but isn't that what we all wanted a hard competitive league not just 3 teams winning every week.
Yes I wish we had beaten London (and Batley and Sheffield) but we haven't lost by much. think how the lads are feeling. We will come good and the results will follow.

It's been a tough start but all the teams in this league will be nicking points off each other.
Don't panic mr Mainwaring.

Aye. The thing is, if and when we beat The Gobblers next Sunday we will be exactly where we were at this time last season. Look what happened then.

Sportsman, shudds. Mallinsons CM GYLE 900 4.3 % Mmm!

Happy days. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ship/table

Happy days. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ship/table

Quote ="Cokey"Happy days. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ship/table'" Shouldn't you be off supporting Rangi through his latest rehab stint? Oops, sorry, I meant the flu! Need to change your signature too. Even Brierley hates your rancid club!

Quote ="Cokey"Happy days. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ship/table'" Shouldn't you be off supporting Rangi through his latest rehab stint? Oops, sorry, I meant the flu! Need to change your signature too. Even Brierley hates your rancid club!

One again its the same old story. We created the chances to win, but did not take them. Tangata makes a break and the pass goes to ground for example. We then give stupid penalties and make mistake poor errors in defence and allow teams back in the game. We are not too far away, but sadly we are making life harder for ourselves if we hope to make the top 4. The League is very close between 8 teams. You look at the results today for example Fev win by 1, London by 5 and Leigh by 8. You dont take the chances you will suffer a loss like we are doing. We can still make the top 4, but it is going to be very hard. We are only 2 wins beind first place. But we really need to sort our attack, defence and our discipline out soon or else the top 4 is gone. No need to panic just yet.

Sounds like the same old story. Could do with a win next week just to lift spirits and belief in all honesty. Whatever the result though, it looks like we will have to go on another long winning run in order to make the top 4. No sweat yet though, we know we can do it and yes, we do have a better team who despite playing no where near full potential, could easily be sat with 5 wins from 5 if the odd moment switched during one of those defeats.

Correct

Not necessarily. So far, things in this league look pretty tight. You have just lost against two teams who are playing well, and most teams seem capable of taking points off one another. We managed another close call today, surrendering a 16 point lead (only 16 this week

when Sheffield levelled at 28-28. Fortunately, we just had enough left in the tank for a final onslaught to snatch the points.

You would have to fancy your chances against us next week - today we were without McNally, Kay, Worthington, Tonga, Armstrong, Chase and Brierley, in the backs, then Lee Smith had to withdraw when he got injured in the pre-match warm up. Thankfully, Martyn Ridyard held up his hand to play, despite his rib injury, and his class helped enormously.

Looks like you may be facing a team full of forwards next week!

Always a huge disappointment when we don't get the result.



Start again next week, or the week after, or the week after that

Same as in previous week and as has been said, simply not taking our chances. God knows what was going through Tangata's mind when he once again broke through but instead of us scoring a simple try off a 2 on 1 he misses out Johnston and throws a pass to nobody. We didn't lose because of that but it did sum up our season so far. It will stick eventually but again we saw flashes of what we are capable but it seems to me the changes to the team are still taking a while to come off. Every man and his dog knows that Johnston should be at half back and is wasted at FB but RM seems to want to make the Moore and Murrell partnership work, its a really simple change to move Murrell to 13 where we know he is superb and have Jonno and Moore in the halves, this also means Scott can defend in the middle rather than out wide where he has been done for pace a number of times this year.

Fully agree GFB and as I have said before we don't seem to have the size or threat on the bench at the moment.

These results are unacceptable.

We finnished 6th for god sake in middle 8s leaving 750k to play with

Batley and london were not but yet can field a team to beat us also above us in the league.

What as the money been spent on is the question. Was meant to be new fittness equipment and nutrition but we dont look the fittest of teams.

Big mistake not going fulltime this year and is going to cost us at the end of the season when attendances fall as the product on the field is poor

A very good assessment as always GFB and the same as I saw it today. London played on Muzza's lack of pace out wide and Johno is totally wasted at fullback and no threat to the opposition in that role. RM still tinkering with his run on side and once he gets that right then hopefully things will improve. Our discipline was poor today and we gave London far too much easy possession and territory. Good sides punish you for that and London did just that. Still early days but we need to start winning soon or we will start to lose ground on the top 4.

Exactly this ^

While I am looking forward to our visit to the Shed Stadium next week, it really could go either way.
We are massively wrecked by injuries *especially in the backs* more injuries today & 10/11 players out.

As I have said on our board, 8th now, but I expect that to improve as the season goes on.

Please, turn up in numbers next week, it could be a real humdinger of a game & the atmosphere when our
sides meet is usually electric.

C U there.

OK.

We didn't really click until the summer bash last season, see you down the shay

Championship is buzzing atm

Quote ="Cokey"Happy days. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ship/table'" if only fax's owner/cgairman/gobe mouthpiece had said they'd go the season undefeated :chuckles:

Quote ="Cokey"Happy days. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ship/table'" if only fax's owner/cgairman/gobe mouthpiece had said they'd go the season undefeated :chuckles:

Quote ="Cokey"Happy days. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ship/table'" Typical self defence mechanism, laugh at someone else, distracts away from your own failings!

Quote ="Cokey"Happy days. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ship/table'" Typical self defence mechanism, laugh at someone else, distracts away from your own failings!

Miles will be back very soon at fullback, when he is it will give us a better idea if and how RM intends to fit Johno, Scotty and Gaz in the side.

Maybe a little bit harsh but I can totally see where you are coming from. The way we ended the season and the performances in the middle 8's, are a long way off what we are producing at the moment. We set the bar really high and I expected us to kick on this season instead after only 5 games we will have our work cut out to make the top 4. Again I get what people are saying about it been early days but our problem this season is that its not Leigh and Bradford that are topping the table which will happen by the end of the season. Instead other teams who are in the mix for the other 2 places have set off like a house on fire and we have to hope their performances drop as the season goes on.

It all seems a bit willy nilly at the moment and I know we were crying out for expansive rugby but there has to be a happy medium and at times yesterday some of the offloads were crazy, like we had hardly had the ball and a scrum 10 metres out and Sharp tries to offload the ball in a 3 man tackle when we just needed to do the hard yards, London pick the ball up and score, again summing up our season so far.

I don't think Cokey means anything malicious by it Robin just bad timing banter on the Fax board.

On the Leigh board like we all do he will passionately defend anything related to his club right or wrong, although how anyone knows what is right or wrong at Leigh just now who can say?

That must have been a cracking game against Dewsbury yesterday, I bet the full roller coaster of emotions were on display again.