I hope no one has filled mine and our Olivers reserved seat. Don't forget it is a league game and your reserved seating is in place.

Good call!!



Haven't 'pulled rank' yet - but [i"Needs, must,etc....."[/i!!

more than happy to be proved wrong tonight

wash yer mouth out

Leeds Leeds Leeds

Considering our performance, quite pleased to lose by only 6 points.
Well played Fev.
Cushler, I'm depressed, we were 2nd best for for 'most' of the game, and you guys NEVER win at Leigh !!!!

One good think Crush Leigh will not play that bad again and to think you only beat us by a few points
Roll on the semi

Well Budgie old mate the thing is our teams are so closely matched and you could still come to POR and turn us over in the thomas the tank cup.

I was at work so listened on Leigh life (great commentary by the way) but dont let the guy called Derek give any motivational speeches to the team.

The guy on leigh life, Derek I think is name was had thrown the Leigh towel in at the start of the second half LOL the other guy kept having to try and soak up his negativity.

Well played Leigh



and dont forget the saying "every dog has its day" I am sure you will have yours.

Yep fair comment detroit im sure it will be a belter at POR mate.

Its difficult to get a proper feel with a radio comment but it sounded like an arm wrestle at times mate

You`ve changed your original heading.

Cheers mate, we never gave up, but our 'kicking game' was awful, predictable play, looked flat, and our usual 'rampaging' big backs gardner, littler, maden were kept quiet by their counterparts. Fev played quite expansive rugby at times, but we didn't, and if we tried it, we didn't make much headway. Folk will say "we couldn't play much worse" but the Fev defence was very hard to break down, even when we weren't making errors.

You are correct

Think your bang on there budgie our defence is something that gets us out of jail quite a bit. Right back to the CC when we beat Cas it was obvious we had been working on our defense and it looks like we have built on that since.Obviously my theory is shot to pieces in Halifax n Sheff





I honestly thought you were gonna come back and at least nick the draw mate. I think we knew it would be close and I don't see that changing through the rest of the season to be honest. Thats why for me they can keep SL the championship is where its at.

Yes, full credit to Featherstone's defence. They are well organised, and looked good when they moved the ball wide. Finn seemed to have all the time in the world with his kicking game, by lying deep. Ridyard on the other hand was put under pressure all the time, especially when we were lying flat.

Ironically, the eventual difference was down to that howler of Kevin Henderson, when Maden passed to him just after Brierley's try, and he wasn't looking! Result, a try to Rovers!

Still, no complaints about the result, for me the better team won.

Alan don't you get the feeling there will be plenty more twists and turns in this season shaping up nicely

Best team on the night won.

No complaints.

Your right Frank.

Each to there own but i thought fev never got out of 2nd gear all game,miles ahead of anything in this league

They were n`t against Fax or Theagles though!

The difference was most certainly in the kicking game, we matched them defensively but they just put us back in out 25 every time they got a kick away where as our response to that was putting it right down the throat of the full back.

we work on getting some pressure on their kicker and getting Riddy a bit of protection when its his turn with the boot and there is no reason we cant beat them up the hill in the semi's.

Saxton was a menace all night limping around the pitch for them.

Goulden put a massive stint in once again, and I cant help but notice that Riddy comes alive once Brierly takes to the field.

Bring it on.........I BeLEIGHve

Definitely. We could do with you lot having a couple more 'twists and turns' though, as it looks (to me) ominously like you are getting in the groove again. I admire our lads' tenacity, in sticking with it, and they could even have nicked an (in my opinion) undeserved draw, but Featherstone looked the best team we have faced so far.

Curiously - and it has to give us hope for the semi - your worst form appears to have been at POR!

The video could prove me wrong, but Finn seemed to lie deep to take his kicks - while Martyn seemed to be taking the ball, very flat.

We blew that one with some terrible completion and why Maden threw that ball out I will never know.
Fev had runners and better distribution from the ruck, they dominated the ptb all night, illegally as always but they generally got away with it. IMO we needed a Nicho to compete in this area and put pace on the game, I believe this was a poor decision by Paul.
I felt Fev were much better but we stuck in and when we were desperate and played with pace we rattled them later on.
All in all mixed emotions as we lost and didn't play well for much of the game but we nearly clawed it back and can only learn from the poor selection.
Crap crowd but it looked more than Batley.

That's if he actually got the ball on 5th.... How many times did we either get tackled or end up with a forward kicking?

We definitely missed either duffs or Nicho tonight.

Bob ended up playing both hooker and scrum half for 30 mins which meant he was knackered and we ended up with no penetration at the ruck.

Fev on the other hand brought on Ellis who i thought turned the game slightly with his yards from ahb.

See the defensive sense in starting briscoe at 7 but IMO wrong decision tonight.

Still, a valiant effort from all out there. The defensive effort I thought was one of our best.

Well done lads just make sure we do em it POR!!!

Our lads looked really tired, extra 2 days rest will be good for them before we play Batley.

I think your right, theres no denying that the league table dosnt lie.



Seriously though having seen all the teams this season I do think that Leigh look like the best team we have faced. I must admit I was kind of happy to see the weather as it was because Leigh look like a very good team on a dry track and i thought the conditions would favour Fev. From a Fax fan point of view I was very happy with the result as it means if we can(Obviously a big if) manage to scrape past Fev on Thursday we are in with a great shout of finishing the season top of the table.

Like someone says though theres many twists and turns to come yet but i think we have already seen that Fev, Leigh and Fax are the top 3 teams in this division.