You would have this down as a run of the mill fixture with two points nailed on. All I can say is remember the Oldham game. We need to keep doing what we've been doing and go into the game with a professional attitude and we should be o.k. I'll go for Fax 34v14 Whitehaven. Up The Fax!

Yes potential banana skin if we don t have the right attitude sent you a pm by the way

We’ve had some humdingers over the years with ‘Haven so I’m sure they’ll be up for it, we need to get the 2 points this week and then have a week off to recharge and go again. We should win and I’ll go for 34-8 but a win’s a win so another by a point will do me.

It would be nice if we could come out of the blocks firing from the start this week and not take 40 minutes to get going in attack. Our players particular 1.6.7.9 need to take the game by the scruff of the neck and not give whitehaven a sniff the more of a individual threat these players are the more joy we will have when we put the ball threw the hands. And it will reward all the good work being done by our outside backs and fowards who get us in good attacking positions. I will go for a fax win 40-10.

So no springer or bourouh this week but it is good to see larroyer and mcgrath back. If barber is fit he would play for me if not i would try rawsthorne at with mcgrath on the wing and mcomb to miss out. At hooker will brandon do the 80 or will curtis davies get a chance for me i would give him a go this week i think we are at the stage now were we need to know one way or the other can curtis or connor in the backrow get the job done if not they need to be playing more regular for there own good and maybe its time for them to move on.

Amir suspended for this one, guess Gadwin may be injured as he hardly had any game time last week. Grix's interview suggests Brandon playing with an injury - if so makes it even harder to fathom why he's doing 80 minutes most weeks when we have hooker available on the bench. If fit I would definitely bring Barber in at centre - I know most of the team weren't playing well st the start of the season but wasn't impressed with Rawsthorne at centre - his performances do seem to have picked up over last few weeks so I'd keep him in preference to Mcgrath.

Whitehaven have deffo stepped up, but get our right head on and it's a fax win but they may be tested if the mindset isn't correct

All Simon has to do to stop any complacency is stick the Oldham result on the dressing room door.

Looking at the weather forecast I do not think Barber will be playing. He will be needed with his brush to sweep water away from the "conference corner"

A real arm wrestle and nerve shredder right up to the end.
Once again our defence was outstanding with another zero tries conceded and we stuck at it to finally get our noses out in front.
Main area of concerns were not completing again with the cheap turnovers regularly inviting Haven back on the attack.

Looked a tired performance but again defence superb. Certainly missed the impact of Springer and Bourough but a week off will do us a load of good. Haven will stay up if they can produce that performace against some of the weaker teams in the division. I think they too defended really well and have a few players who caused us a lot of trouble.

It was one of those games you were glad to come through and win. Looking back, yes ‘haven only only scored 2 penalties but they came very close on many occasions. We defended well, especially on the line but at any moment ‘haven could have scored. A lot of coughed up ball and unforced errors by us.
Yet we looked strong, I thought there was some confusion in direction when we where near their line it it’s now 6 wins in a row and we should celebrate that. When was the last time we won 6 in a row? A break now that will do us good and 4th in the league. Up the Panthers!

It was hard work watching that today, very disjointed especially at half back. For bulk of the game appeared to be a lack of intensity, when we did up the speed of play made easy metres but weren't able to maintain this for any length of time. Calcott again ran very strongly, and for me Saltonstall was again mom for the incredible amount of work he did. I feel a few players are carrying knocks which might explain some of the substitutions - as one of these is Brandon really cannot understand Davies not getting more game time as I felt he was playing well..

That was a dire display with the highlight being the sprinkler system going off! The completion rate won't make for healthy viewing that's for sure. It's obvious though some lads are playing with injuries and the two week break is nicely timed. On the plus side the defence was fantastic again and we got the two points.

Sheffield next and hopefully a refreshed squad will be back and raring to go. Up The Fax!

Well that was terrible to watch the positives we won and to keep anyone try less is a very good effort in defence. The concern for me going forward is our 1.6.7 woodburn hall as all the talent you could want at this level for a fullback but he doesn't impose himself enough on games for me if we are to have any chance when we get to the playoffs he needs to do this more. Liam harris as shown glimpse of what he can do like at the backend of both the batley and widnes games but goes missing for to long in-between he also needs to impose himself more on games and is kicking game is not good enough. Scott grix looked the answer to these problems a few games back is kicking game was good and is pass selection was good too but for me these last few games he as been poor too. Like harris kicking constantly down the fullbacks throat and pass selection dropping players back on the inside or passing short instead of going out the back we blew tries yesterday and made poor pass selection time and time again. I think we could do with bringing in another halfback we did this with russell from huddersfield and i was looking foward to seeing how he went but i don't think we will be seeing him again anytime soon. And most sides are struggling to put sides out at the moment so there wont be many players available i just hope simon is looking.