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Don't worry though.. you'll be back to loving him in a week or so............ and then back to bashing him again the week after that... and then..
well you get the drift

The referee actually said the substitution could be made. It was John Holdsworth that stopped it along with 4th official who ended up randomly running on the field.. It probably worked out better for Batley as Gaz Moore could barely walk properly.

As for MC's comments. What does he expect teams to do against a team that's sole gameplan is to play off the back of the ruck? Hello Mr Gannon.. Sure you can get a quick play the ball for Penky to cause havoc don't mind us.. Champion teams overcome these sort of issues..

Mr Carrot. I dont mind who stopped Moore coming on. If the ref was going to allow it, that would just add fuel to those who think that he was giving everything to Batley. My point was that Karl knew he couldnt put him on, but tried anyway (hey I am not saying that we are whiter than white, its just a comment on the situation)

I also dont have a real issue with Batley trying to slow the play of the ball down, the issue, as always, is inconsistant refereeing, again it was just a comment about what Calland said.

By all accounts Mr Schofield was also a little bit vocal about the refereeing this weekend????

We have to really just put this behind us, move on to Whitehaven and do the business. We will have better games this season and we will have more frustrating games, thats the nature of this sport, and probably what keeps us coming back week after week

As it has been said time and time again "its not boring supporting Halifax"

Was the ref biased or just not very good? Losing teams always say biased. Did Barrow lose? Yes - Ref's fault..

Fans of losing teams are always quick to play the blame game instead of looking at their own performance. Was the preperation suitable? Were the tactics right? Did players just have an off day? Was anyone carrying a knock? Or was the opposition just that bit better on the day? etc... Am sure the Fax camp looking back at the video this week won't be looking at referee decisions but our own failings..

Forget the refs decsion at the end, we should not have been in that position.Pathetic first 40 was improved on by half decent second 40 but we should still have done better.
Wingers - why the hell did you keep running towards touch when surrounded by 4 Batley players? Their chase game was excellent yesterday but we did not help ourselves.

Get over yourselves

Had it not been for the pen at the end we would all be talking about what an amazing fightback it was.

Nail on head.

I am currently job seeking, economically inactive, between jobs, unemployed, or however you may call it. Does your quote also apply to me?

people of faxitonia! chill yaselfs! you lost by one point to the defending champions of this competition.
stop shatting in your breeches and relax. you will beat whithaven and calland will be the messiah again

I don't think anyone would say that of you to be fair. The reason behind that quote was yer man above seemed to be proud of the fact he has no job and doesn't come across as someone breaking their backs to get one either.

Plus you don't smoke, do you?

And after MC left the mike he spotted a cat and pulled her tail.

Quite disgracefull.

Bet you win at Haven then you are still ok till the NRC match after that.

Bit of banter, Tommy.

No sir



But the moment you start bragging about living the life of Riley on the back of taxpayers then i'll let you have it with both barrels

Hey, hang on Rich! Whilst the rest of the coaches you have quoted may not have won a GF, I think you may find that Ian Millward did - admittedly not with us though!



When we played at Dewsbury, Mr Leahy was described as hailing from 'Batley'. By the time we got to play at Batley, he had moved to 'Dewsbury'!

Anyway, sorry to interrupt an excellent thread - at least until my lot lose their first game!!

A Championship one?

Picky

Didn't Karl Harrison win a Grand Final at this level with Salford? I'm sure they beat Leigh in a final that was played at Widnes. 2003 was it?

Yes also millward grab the Wcc and super league Steve McCormack is the unluckiest coach in grand final history 3 grand finals and lost also a NRC winner with widnes

Yes 2003 , played at Rochdale , I remember it well , I did a sponsored bike ride to it

I wouldn't say unlucky. His systems just weren't suited to finals.

A chap on the Batley forum has come up with an interesting theory. Could it be that McCormack never had a 'system' to set fire to a ground when his team were losing.

It may sound outrageous, but no more than the drivel spouted from 'Clipper lighter Calland' over the weekend.

Thats right. Those pesky Oldham fans under the stand were so upset that they lost for the 4th time in a row or whatever that the tried to burn the stand down.. Lucky for us though that!