Fantastic of the club to have the PDRL team parading the silverware they one yesterday around the ground at todays game

Hope they receive a great reception they seem to have had a great season. Well done all

They have received nothing but total support from the new owner. I heard he put some money behind the bar for all of them to celebrate.

Pratt then Doyle lose the ball in quick succession and York have their tails up.

Went 12 nil up playing the perfect wet weather game then got sloppy, giving York ball and territory. Half time team talk, simple game plan, protect the ball in the collision (Thompson is putting the shoulder in every time), and build pressure.

And Olpherts and Kay.

We have been very poor this half.

Why we aren’t using our backs g boys down the middle I can’t fathom. That last minute before the break. York on back foot and should have been Uele and Rodwell running it in but instead we run lateral with the halfbacks and send a kick to the edge. We are trying to get backs into play early in the sets and it’s not working. Not sure why we are going away from our strengths.

Well that was a tough watch. Credit to York they were aggressive in defence and we were awful. Couldn't hold onto the ball and kept inviting pressure. To be fair it was a useful defensive exercise ready for the play offs, but a repeat of this performance will make things hard.

A win is a win. Few lessons to be learnt from the performance, but we have to move on to next week against Barrow who will try hard to make life difficult for us too

I thought we were scrappy and made too many unforced errors, York were pretty grubby and the ref not great.
Not the best afternoon all in all but a wins a win.

Thought we looked like a team that just won its last two games at a canter... York looked well coached and confident... Tried to muscle us off our game and it almost worked...

We tried to move the ball too much IMO we should have battered then down the middle more. Sub standard ball control in the tackle... But hands were everywhere and tons of messing around at the ruck... We needed to have to tough it out, good win against a form team

Pratt and Olpherts must have handed the ball over at least three times apiece! Multiple spills from probably 6 or 7 others in the team. We really haven't sorted this problem right back from Siddal in the cup.

If I'm being kind, I could point to another HB combination. With Jowitt return to FB after a few weeks of playing in the halves which perhaps meant our attack was off. Sadly our fowarad didn't lay the platform they usually do, but our poor ball retention from the backs meant that every single drive was practically from our own 10.

A win is indeed a win and there are always positives even in a poor display like that.
We were forced to defend our own try line whilst fatigued, under repeated pressure and all while the match was still in the balance. That is a useful exercise that we can’t replicate on the training field and will hopefully stand us in good stead in the tougher games to come in the Play Offs.

However, we haven’t learned the lessons from the Toulouse defeat and we remain vulnerable to an opposition that defends resolutely and also has a potent attacking game. We are without doubt the best team in the Championship but are wide open to a mugging in the biggest game of the year. If that happens it’s our own fault but questions would have to be asked as to why we haven’t fixed ourselves up after being exposed in that TO away game.

We continue to rely on our conditioning team over our coaching team.

York looked the fitter team today, but again that was our poor ball control putting us under pressure.

Totally agree. There was some complacency and, it seemed to me, some bewilderment - why are York still tackling us and attacking us you could see them thinking. York aimed to get under our skin and did just that and we couldn't adapt. I reckon it came at just the right time, with enough time to put things right before the play-offs. You can bet all the other playoff teams will be looking at that video in real detail.

I thought the two York halves were far better than our pair, not Kayes fault but I thought Gale was terrible. Our forwards looked flat and tired and without the special bits of skill from Max, we would have been in real trouble. A wins a win, but play like that in the play offs and we will be in danger of defeat.

I think York had a good game plan and executed well on the whole.
They really put pressure on Atoni today with 4 in on him consistently.
If they'd had better outside backs, especially Lineham, they'd have scored some points.
But ultimately we had about 4 chances at the line and took them.

Was a good workout before the playoffs.

Thought the 10m by the ref was generous all game, although not the best ref this season it made it a slog by putting the whistle away most of the game, it was a slog and a game we really needed as a test.

Jowitt broken nose.

Won’t stop him playing rugby, but can imagine him being rested next weekend, freshen him up for the playoffs

Indeed. Now Gale back I'd give him a rest and play Walmsley or Booth.

I can see that too though he is making movement up the all time points scorer records and has a chance of breaking the #1 world record so maybe not.

I think there’s two weeks off before our semi final.

I’d still prefer Walmsley on left wing but Olpherts seems undropable from there since after Wembley.

I’m still not convinced with Kay at halfback.

I’d be tempted to run with Walmsley at 1 and Gale/Max hb.

I know that it did not affect the result, but the subs bench looked disjointed. Maybe if Walmsley had have started at FB, Max up to the halves and Liam Kay on the bench we could have freshened the pack up more regularly.
Because of the three forwards and one back we did not get Walmesley on to the pitch until the final quarter. I always think if you can make 12 interchanges use them, especially at difficult parts of the game.

That’s the big question for the run-in. Is it Jowitt and Gale in the halves with Walmsley at full back? Or does Powell put Trueman in and keep Max at full back?