A wee bit close for comfort that scoreline!

We seem to be specialising in those sort of scorelines on the road this season!

If it's working for the England Union boys then it's good enough for me.

Jossy who are these union boys you talk about?

Sounds like we were lucky to get 2 points, they hit the posts after a penalty at the end. Sounds like we gave away too many free Mtrs again,n that's going to have to be sorted

We seem to be specialising in those sort of scorelines on the road this season!

But what you need to remember is we are the only team which travels so far and plays the game on the same day. As we get into the season and the team get more used to this ritual things will become easier for them.

For me the game was summed up in the first minute – we kicked off, deep into Oldham territory, ball bounces and we regather. 2 drives, ball spun out wide, intercepted and we are 6-0 down. Ok, we won, but we were second best for long periods of the game.

In the first half it certainly felt like over 80% of play was in our half, a mixture of Oldham’s forward endeavour and kicking game and our lack of forward impetus and mistakes, kicking out on the full, dropped passes, etc.

We outscored the opposition 4 tries to 2, so that would suggest decent attack but frankly that would be wrong, here again ponderous, ragged, unorganised, and but for a late late length of the feild effort from Rhys we would have lost this one. Even then we gave Oldham numerous chances to draw level with penalties (one attempt hit the upright), dropping the ball and lack of completion – I dread to think what our completion rate was.

On a positive note, I thought Evans looked strong, Gee and Pitts certainly have a toughness about them, Ackers another 80mins stint, Ioane lively. On the other hand Dixon was awful (give KPP a go), Sammut random, Offendahl a carthorse, Roqica a penalty machine. The rest ? Well, they were on the field ...

Worrying....................................... but we won

Dixon was awful, he could not do a thing right. I was concerned every time he was even near the ball. I am pretty sure he will play at Dewsbury though.
Hendo will hope he will put in a good performance against what look to be relegation favourites and boost If he fails there, it may be a few games for him at the Skolars

Strikes me that we played better in the game we lost than the two games we've won.

Dixon is becoming a bit of a concern already, he has arguably the best centre in the comp next to him, I know we all talk about confidence etc maybe he came in over confident and thinks he can do too much. Think he needs to get back to the basics of catching the ball and keeping hold of it before he thinks about the leagues top try scorer stat that was bandied about.
Mark loane I am liking more and more as each game goes on, since middle 8s last season he has started to ,are a real impression. The others hmmm they need to sort out the penalties.
We need to post some points against dewsbury next week.

agree, we need a bit of a confidence boost.

Penalties - we never seem to learn, which is worrying

Dixon, agree about basics - he ptentially is a great player going forwward, but we cannot afford a liability on the wing, not sure how far Grant is off fitness or give the young lad a run, if dixon remains shaky

Around 4 weeks apparently

I expect that the pitch at Dewsbury will be a bit of a bog this coming weekend. The pitch looked awful when they played Swinton two weeks ago.

Dewsbury are likely to bring in several DR players from Wakefield for our game on Sunday. This is due to them suffering an injury crisis with around thirteen players only fit to play.

They did that for the first game and took a hiding

Maybe they could just put out the Hemel squad

Going up to Dewsbury on Sunday, it will be my first away game for a few years so lets hope for a good result and the train being ontime....

If you haven't been to Dewsbury by train before either get a taxi or allow longer to walk than you expect to need. Nice and hilly. Cracking station refreshment rooms if you are waiting for a train.

See you there Roger. Should be a few of us up there. Do not know of any others travelling up by train though.

Dewsbury seem to have an injury crisis [urlhttp://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/sport/more-sport/injuries-mount-as-rams-face-london-1-8404371[/url

Hope we can be ruthless for this one and put our points difference well into the positive (-1 at the moment).

Will be cycling from Mirfield station (direct train from Kings, Grand Central trains), its about 8 miles. Afterwards I'm taking 2 days to cycle along the Leeds/Liverpool canal to Wigan and train back to London. Been to Wigan loads of times but never had a look at the town (same with Leeds). Lets hope for no snow.

I am concerned about the state of the pitch on Sunday. I hope we can slog it out. We performed badly last year in the pre season friendly, when it was just a sea of mud.
But we do need to put some points on the board. Lets get our points difference into positive territory.

Hopefully the players will have learnt from last week's game at Oldham and will play accordingly at Dewsbury.
If conditions are bad then they will act as a leveller, would be nice to rack up a big score but the main thing is to get the two points.

Forecast is for no rain on Sunday which is good.

No excuses for not getting a comfortable win.