Postives for me.

We have a some very key players out.

But we won 2 games that we lost at the start of the season.

Big test will be Saints, not even the result but how we peform.

So if Briscoe and Hall arent learning...whos fault is it or can the person only see it it 1 player.

Yep, but so have both opponents TBF.



Can only be a good thing.



Dead right.

I'm pretty sure that Agar doesnt tell them both to tackle the wrong man or drop the ball.

He's not the only one who seems to think that way though is he? And TBH, Hall really has not done himself any favours at all this year. I've backed him since he first emerged but quite frankly he's been poor for most of this season and I'm starting to question whether he's ever going to deliver.

No, but he (and the rest of the coaching staff) really should have worked on their positional play enough to see some improvement by now. And with you mentioning dropping the ball, Briscoe should also have been given plenty of practice to get better under the high ball too.

Well, that was better than last year.



O'Meley played a shedload of minutes today - what a warrior he is. A horrible completion rate in the first half and not fantastic quality, but once we cut the errors out we looked pretty comfortable. Good effort by Dowes today as well. And better from Tansey who's been a bit ordinary of late. Lovely interception from Long and quite funny at the end when he packed down with the Cas forwards.

I'm sorry but whatever you think of Agar and the coaching staff they will be practising these things.

In fact I know they do

Agar's just been on Blunderside and said he played 67 minutes and could probably have managed 77 if needed. Tremendous signing.

In that case there are only two possible conclusions...

1. We're doing the wrong drills.
2. Hall and Briscoe are as stupid as stumps.

we have to be more careful with him IMO.

But my point is that they're obviously doing something wrong as it's not getting across to the players in question.

Would you not agree that neither Hall nor Briscoe have shown any improvement in their defensive decision-making and positional play over the last 2 years? That really should not be the case.

Absolutely boiling and couldn't believe it - came off for Sam on about 25 minutes then seemingly 5 minutes later came back on for Dowes. I've got used to seeing him come back on on 55 minutes and rip into the opposition so felt a bit cheated



Oh, and a big rap to the FC away support today. Massive following

Precisely. I just don't accept that they can't learn anything no matter what the coaching staff have tried. The only other possibility is that they won't listen, in which case they should be moved on.

It may be that with no game next week he played longer than might otherwise have been the case.

Frustrating to concede late tries again but it's a fine win and given the conditions I don't think we can be too hard on the team for the lapses.

Our first back to back away wins in just over a year.

I was once again impressed by how together the team felt, always congratulating, consoling and backing each other up, it was great to see today

upto 4th only 2 points behind saints , agar out thats what i say

It was boiling..Fantastic following from the faithful..

Brilliant moment when Longy packed down with Cas

Well done to the Faithful today, atmosphere made it feel like we were at home!!

Well played lads, up to fourth and some big players to come back in for us!

Bring on Saints!!!!

I was sweating buckets for the last ten minutes,don`t know if it was the weather,or the tension.

shame we conceded the last two tries, gave a closer scoreline than the game was, but in that heat we can hardly complain and both teams deserve a lot of credit

we need to keep better ball control, maybe it was the heat at times, teams like saints will punish us more if we cough up possession in our own half like today

Rubbish, Cas had about 4 on 1 and he went to try and pat it down but missed, if he had stayed on his wing it wouldn't have made any difference.

Good result, not a great performance, but in that heat, they are all warriors and deserve priase. Didn't think Briscoe was that bad, but would have to re watch to see.
Hall put a monster tackle in near the close to seal it!

So what I said in the second part of my post then?

Assuming we're talking about the same incident, both Blunderside and KCFM had it down as a defensive misread. Just goes to show how things appear different to different people.