Unable to make it today how did the youth of our Squad go as I feel these games are career makers for our future stars. Had a bet on young Jordan Crowther to be full England International within next 5 years having seen this young super star through is teenage years GET TO LADBROOKES other high street bookmakers available sorry board administrators.

Forgot to ask did he get a game.

Glad RA was pleased with Jordans stint,to be fair,I think a bit more game time would not have been out of place,thought he'd scored with his first touch,but a proud dad indeed,forget the result chuffed to bits with his 15min stint.

get ready for the back lash in training next week.Well done Fev,deserved your win

Yes ,went well for last 15mins.see you in club in the near future.

This, was going to say similar so you've saved me 5 mins. I'd also add that I thought Annakin had a decent game as well.

What a pathetic post bren,there was plenty of skill on show and it was all bar a couple of flashes from collis from feather stone I hope these Aussies that are coming are internationals because on today's evidence its gonna be a long hard season. I was accused last season of being unfair t to mathers well I'm afraid he looks even worse now and if you can't see that he's gonna cost us a heap of games this year

Give over nothing is more of a dump than bell vue, even the Cas ground is better.

Possible difference this year for Mathers is players who can replace him. With other options at centre both Smith and Sykes could replace him so he needs to up his game.
Saying that he has time to get it right.

Belle Vue has many faults but is still bigger and better than post office road + we have a proper pitch.

I normally back your posts Bren but we are in no position to moan at other club's stadium.

From the game point of view, both sets of players got their appropriate return on effort to me.
But it doesn't mean we'll play like this in first game. It'll be tough in Wales next week.

POR is a pretty bad stadium, despite the new empty stand. Difference between POR and BV is that Fev have space for improvements whereas Wakey. You were all shouting about your new stand today, but you'll never fill it or the others. Besides our pitch isn't on a slope.

Bigger yes, better have a word with yourself. The pitch is the only and I mean only thing going for you.

I think it was a fair assessment.
It wasn't our best side (assuming the three overseas players are going to be successful and smith and lautiti to come back in) but we were beaten in all departments by fev today.
The experienced players came up short today.

You may well be right but it's still better than the dump you play in.

So we are boasting that our stadium is slightly less crap than theirs because we have a flat pitch.

Yet we are a city and they are a street. We get significantly more funding than they do from RL and bigger crowds.
We should be better and I find it pretty "UN-classy" to pick fault with theirs. Especially after they just spanked us.

Let's move on to criticising our players

Seems to be a few sour grapes on here and for me the best team on the day won, more effort and enthusiasm, not sure where the earlier poster saw Kirmond putting in a decent effort, as I thought he had a poor game, Annakin was our best forward and maybe young Crowther would have run a close 2nd given a bit more game time, if Richard Moore is in the 17 for Salford I'd be amazed, on a day of por performace the positives I would take is, the 2 players that got the most slating last year went pretty well today (Fox & Lynne) not sure what was up with mathers but he didn't look like he wanted to be there, Sykes was dire for 60% of the game but actually went well at full back when RM went off, put in 2 try saving tackles, Wildie didn't look right at SH and we had no direction from anywhere on the field.
On the ground comments, PO road is obviously being improved and once completed will be a great little stadium, but the pitch needs to be sorted and entry/exit needs to be improves, to say that there was only 2.5k fans there

it took a very long time to get out of the ground, no lighting at the back of the stands and having a couple of young ones in tow was a bit scary at times as you couldn't see what was happening or the ground under foot.
Well done to Fev tho they certainly were up for that game

Brilliant corporate facilities, brilliant atmosphere in the north stand. Obviously it could be a lot better and has suffered years of neglect but hopefully in the new stadium soon. POR will be a nice little ground when finished is the pitch getting levelled as part of the improvements?

My daughters future father inlaw went today,to see how Jordan went mainly,even though Wakey lost,he really enjoyed the game and is now getting a season ticket for BV,so at least some good came out of today's game.

Hasn't mathers just become a dad again in the last week or so? May explain why his head appeared to be elsewhere and his performance not the best.

Levelled and extended by 15m to the regulation size

Well me and mole rat could not stop laughing at mathers how bad was he today and boxing day, going to cost us some points this season fox went ok and yes PO Road is a dump

The fev winger made Lynn look third rate.

was looking for you today mate, hope you were not hob knobing in the private boxes

well done to the lad today

Outplayed in every facet of the game. Well done Fev on the performance, it was cold for their players as well I expect, and well done on being such a professional organisation both on and off the field. The ground will be fabulous when completed, not many better places for creating a good atmosphere than Post Office Road.

The question on the ground levelling has been answered all ready. I know someone who has been in the corporate boxes and he does rate it highly, so I will give you that.

I think BV has always had decent atmosphere just like POR and Wheldon Rd. The only issue at Fev is that it's hard to generate and atmosphere every week when some visiting teams bring less than 200 fans, BV would be no different in the Championship.