Predictions and expected lineup.

108-12

Should be a very competitive game, I have a date at Kempston Park though, I'm going for Fax 24 v Fev 32.

Who knows, on night shift the night before so hopefully will wake up in time for the early kickoff.

You are Santa Claus and I claim my £5!

probable line up according to courier

C.Robbo
Salty
Butler
Tyrer
Heaton
Moore
Murrell
Boyle
Kaye
Nelmes
Grady
Barber
Fairbank

Sharp is suspended

It'll be under the tree tomorrow morning.

C'mon Robin, we're waiting....

That was the rugby league equivalent to getting coal for Christmas.

"Brave" youngsters no match for quality and experience. It will be a long season with this squad and a relegation battle.

Just what did Marshall get out of this game. That our second team is no match for Fev's 1st team give or take a few players.
Seriously it wasn't a bad game till halftime. Then Marshall pretty much takes most of the remaining 1st teamers off, and on top of that constantly change the posisitions of the poor players leaving them and the fans pretty clueless as to what was going on. Absolutely no chance of competing then.
A total disregard for the fans who turned up. A complete waste of money and time. I for one won't be going again any time soon if this is how the club and more over Richard Marshall treats it's fans.

How did young Liam Bent go?

Obviously his first game but pretty anonymous. It looks like we have him for the season but wouldnt imagine he would be anymore than a bit part player to be honest.

Relegation battle LOL.

What did you expect? This was a purely money making exercise as the players are only 4 weeks in to training its a waste of time as are all Boxing Day games now I hope the club don't repeat this in future.

Sounds like a big chunk of last season.

Its a boxing day hit up.... i was at oakwell.
Result means jack....

Were people expecting 17 V 17?

Performance wise it was nice to see us with a half back on the field who was willing to take the line on and with a bit of pace to back it up. His passing to the player was as good as Ive seen from a half back at Fax for a while. He wont get a look in though this season.

Paid my £15 and brought my niece down. I respect Featherstone more for providing value for my ticket.

They'll go well this year.

Isn't Knowles a good clever player. Big Bostock busting tackles. They never get media attention.

Knowles one of the best in this league.
Clever player. Always rated him at Sheffield.

They will be the best PT team this year.

Think we will struggle with a full squad TBF.

Let's hope Marshall has it in him to coach the team to pick off the mid table teams this season.

Yes. It does. Show the fans respect, or charge a fiver in!

I expect the club show what's left of our dwindling support some respect. If they are going to charge £15 for a friendly then at least the coaching staff should put some effort into it. I have no problem with the players today, they really were on a hiding to nothing with the way Marshall managed the game.

Some interesting points of view. My guess is the club needed the revenue and Fev did us a favour by coming to the Shay. I thought they won the contact area quite easily -men against boys etc . Dificult game to play is rugby, especially on the back foot. Fev looked fitter than we did as well.
RM would have used this as purely a trial game to look at all his squad in game situation. He already knows what he gets with Tangata, Calahane,Ambler,Worrincy,Sharpe,Grix,Johnstone etc.
I think he probably got his answer today and has abetter idea of the size of the task in front of him now.
Far too early to be writing us off when one of the stronger sides in our league have put our kids to the sword.Let's get a few competitive games, with our full run on side, under our belt first before we all start slitting our wrists etc.

I went to the game yesterday and expected that should we lose there would be people on her slating the team and RM. I think the young lads that took to the field yesterday with only a handful of senior players looked fantastic against a very strong Fev side. I think we should get behind the club team and coaching staff instead of the negatives all the time. Let's face it we could be in a worse position look at the bulls and the eagles.

Some over reactions here. Its a first run out where thevresult is irrelevant and its a chance for the coach to assess a full squad at the same time the fans can have a gander at some fringe players whilst having a boxing day breather that puts some cash into your club.
Don't get the backslash at all .... not for a boxin day jolly up.

I'm fairly sure RM wasn't in charge for this game. So he might have mainly learned what Grix can do with the youngsters and we likely won't see any benefit from that this season (or at least not masses of benefit).

I'm not a huge fan of letting so many younger players run out to get a beating like that. I guess it's a learning experience for them, but I think it needed to be at least a little more cushioned. And I don't feel like that was the best £15 I've ever spent, but I've definitely wasted money on worse.