Listening to Boots n All previewing the cup games this weekend looking for the 'likely upsets' naturally our name came up and after the discussion abot the Batley Hill being a big advantage for Batley, one of the pundits said that to make sure we progressed to the next game we had 'rested' players from the last game? Certainly news to me. Who are they talking about? In our position i thought we were going for every league point!?

Utter tripe....the comment from the pundit and the teams performances.
Players are out injured......HKR would have been seen as a posssible win and Powell hasn't got the luxury of being able to lose many more games.....

This would be the programme where Paul Cullen suggested he would like to see an England team picked just from Northern born players

Maybe he was referring to us taking the last sixty minutes off?

Scandalous if true- Eddie(who does hate us) did say it with authority which was worrying

We should be able to send our reserves out and smash a "nothing" club like Batley.

As if we would have the luxury of resting players. We've eight injured players, unfortunately.

Whilst I agree Eddie does hate us, he is using material prepared for him by the Sky production team and this wouldn't be the first time they've got stuff wrong (anyone notice Barry Mc last Friday saying how Dixon hadn't scored a try yet, to be corrected by Carney and they agreed he'd scored 1 try- wrong!). Most of the Sky team don't know as much about what's going on at clubs as we do...they ain't interested and particularly they ain't interested in us.

All in all, I'm fed up with Sky Sports presentation of our sport (not the coverage, just the presentation of it ).. The guys on Premier Sports and the guys that work on the Fox network covering the NRL are far superior, imo.

I've even gone off Stevo since he suggested DH merges us with Bradford.

Nice. I hope that Batley ram your misguided sentiments up your rectal passage.

Describing a club that is at the heart of its community and which was the inaugral winners of the Challenge Cup (in fact has won three more Challenge Cups than we have) as "nothing" is patronising in the extreme.

Given the place our club is in at the moment, it is embarrassing to look down our noses at anyone.

Do the "flying commas" not give it away? Why do you think the ONLY word in the post has " " either side of it? Do you think my fingers slipped….twice?

Or wouldn't your stupid posts hold up if you had seen them.

In relative financial terms a non SL club shouldn’t get within 50 points of a SL team given the financial clout SL clubs have, hence the term nothing. Used in a general sporting sense rather than the straw grasping derogatory sense you’ve tried to imply.

Anyway back to talking to people with an IQ higher than a duck. Use that as derogatory if you are looking for a bun fight

Nice try at backtracking, and even some reverse psychology - albeit on a very basic level, thrown in for good measure. 5/10.

Are the " " wasn't there

I get it.

Batley are a nothing club - how does that suit you?

How may on your scale does that get me?

Why not just say lower league club then instead of something deliberately meant to be insulting?

Yours

Barely Able to Write

Oh dear, you really are embarrassing yourself here. I guess your poor Batley education didn't involve the use of punctuation. Makes perfect sense now.

Realisticaly we should be putting 50 points on a tin pot club such as Batley.

gents, shocking comments, Batley are not a nothing club!!! neither should we be calling em tin pot
without clubs like Batley who have been around for a very long time we would not be around

I agree we should put at least 50 past em, but lets show some respect for the game as a whole!
Lets stop slagging off other clubs, and making a good name for ourselves

Totally agree since at the moment it like glass houses and stones given our own state of affairs.

Totally agree since at the moment it like glass houses and stones given our own state of affairs.

You would think it was the off season!

Rugby League and PC hand in hand- Novel. Someone in the Forces educating a civilian in soft skills even more novel.

Its all about perception and reception.

In the context of rugby league, a championship side without huge external resources shouldn't come within 50 points of a SL club- End off.

Let's hope you are right, Easty.

Comes to something when an ex-player (he of the early retirement) says on Sky that there is a potential slip up for Broncos against Batley.

How the (not-so) mighty have fallen.

I didn't realise being respectful was PC.

But then I didn't realise I was in the Forces either. (or are you? - clearly I am having severe problems with my perception).

Agree with your last sentence though.

We should batter them but has nothing to do with the club.
Not knowing a thing about how they are run but would be fairly certain that it makes us look 'tin pot' or whatever the term was

What's the point? The overwhelming majority of our Northern friends have plenty of nasty things to say about our club, why can't we join in? Our supporters are too soft.

'Oh Batley have an amazing history, I hope its a close match, fairly refereed and we will all have a lovely day out and complement the Batley fans on their wonderful hospitality'

No thanks. I hope we murder Batley, their fans have a terrible day out and our supporters laugh at them on the way out. Although I don't care for football much as a sport, their supporters are top class, always trying to wind up the opposition creating a decent atmosphere. Give me that over 'banter' and a 'family sport'.

Very much my opinion, don't expect many to agree but I like a bit of animosity.

I get at times tired of giving northern fans stick! had many letters in both rugby weekly papers telling the truth and defending super league and rugby league in the South! it annoys me how totally blinkered some rugby league fans are in the heartlands I'm sure they would rather go back to being semi-pro and lose talented players to union as long as the game was just in the North!

Couldn't agree more!

Proper super league teams , have a home support over 3,000( what was your att against Dews) and a travellin support of 500 to a 1000 (we will see how many fans you bring on sunday) , we are pretty much debt free are you , yes with the money you get from super league / sky you should be puttin 50 past us , hope you all enjoy your visit to yorkshire , and go home in a better mood than you seem to be at the moment , after watching a proper , close rugby league game

Not bad.