Amazing discipline from Fev though. They've gone 65 minutes without being offside....

Awww bless

Yes, this pitiful performance is all the refs fault. Of course it is:

How the hell have we not scored a single point yet! Utter dogsh*t!

We've looked like a team with no forwards. Which is pretty close to the truth. Oh well, I'll just have to console myself with the fact I'm not from Featherstone. I feel better already.

Smith's team selection looking like a masterstroke now.

Just shouldn't be this far short when we are only fighting for 4th in the Championship.Even with dodgy refereeing we are way off where we need to be.Full-time professional outfit and can't compete..A clear out needed and an understanding of what is needed to be competitive in this division.Whether about ground share,further investment,changes in the management or recruitment of players..questions need to be answered..we cannot accept such abysmal failure throughout the 1st team setup.Amazing that we still have a youth set up that offers much hope.Although Diskin will be on his way...What a shambles.

Let's all laugh at Bradford

Just awful. I never mind that £2 to sit down; I feel ripped off by the Bulls now.

I doubt you feel better than I....

...Well it's NOT the fans fault...they are MAGNIFICENT!

See how you feel next week when Leeds recall your squad

Good luck to the Bull's marketing department selling tickets to the next half of the season.

You cannot begin to understand just how smug I am. This result has dented it a bit, but it's a drop in the ocean when I survey the post industrial blight I see before me.

It's hardly Smith or the fookin ref, Fev came ready to play, and we didn't. We haven't finished FIFTH in the Cgampionship by accident, and despite bright early signs under Rohan, all the teams above us have showed they are superior so today is no surprise.

The sad fact that the players may want to reflect on when playing in the Coconut Shield or whatever it is in front of 900 souls is every game that they have pis.sed away and blown particularly against our level of opposition, if they had won even a single ONE of those, they would at least have scraped 4th, although now the season is over, lets not beat about the bush, a 4th place finish for such a highly paid full time squad would in itself have been a disgrace and embarrassment.

The blame and responsibility is straightforward, Lowes's inability to make them play, and the pigeons of the "no halfbacks" policy inevitably coming home to roost.

Today's debacle, therefore, whilst not in isolation an acceptable effort, isn't the point, and although it has cost the club maybe three quarters of a million pounds, it has spared us from humiliation in the big boys playoffs. The Coconut Shield is what we frankly deserve, and I have zero confidence that we will even win whatever it may be.

I started this as the cretinous Haggerty got himself binned, and NOTHING has happened as I type, the team looks utterly despondent, clueless, dispirited and shambolic. And there's the hooter.

I fear the worst now, I really don't know where we go from here, but disaster looms.

Garbage

Only £275k funding next year. How can we possibly retain a full time squad on that?

Yep. Fear for the future now. Instead of a home derby against Leeds in front of 15,000 we have what? A few diehards who can be bothered to turn up to watch Halifax beat us again?
This is a disaster for the club. But one of their own making.

But you know the answer to that

I'd love to know if Crossley and Clough were actually injured today, and how bad Clark and Gaskell were.
How could Rohan possibly think that only two props would be enough?

This was an even bigger letdown than any performance we ever saw under Lowes. To be NILLED in a game of such magnitude is just completely incomprehensible to me.

That's all folks!

Fail to see why you say it isn't Smith's fault (that he couldn't get the team to play) but it was Lowe's fault that he couldn't.

After the last two years someone will first have to explain the advantage of having a full time squad.

The time for brutal honesty is here. Being billed is poor but irrelevant, the point is we are and have been simply not good enough to get results against our main rivals, Fev looked far better than us, and the result was easily the fair and right result.

Our inquest (if there is any point in one ) is all about how the club has been allowed to descend to a level well below that of Fev, Batley and (even though they didn't qualify) Halifax.

People need to accept that we HAVE sunk to mid table mediocrity. Denial does not help anything. I have been predicting for a long time that we would not make the playoffs and am sloughened and take no pleasure in being proved right, but I really can't see where we go from here.

A lot of it seems to be Smith having to fight against the ingrained Lowes attitude of "Certain games don't matter" as well as certain players having one eye on next year and have already, mentally, left the club.