Ref: G Stokes
Touch J: S Kilpatrick
Touch J: J Smith
Reserve: G Dolan
M Com: D Asquith Time K: L Fairbank

we were due him to be honest

also he will favour fevs tactics of wrestling and holding down which will only benefit fev in my view, but I hope i'm wrong and its a fast game.

noooooooooooooooooooo

Not the ginger one against Fev yet again nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cannot stand the guy that is not good.

Great. That's a penalty count of 20 nil to fev then



Not fit to ref pennine league never mind championship.

Not a good time to get this idiot. Another home loss against one of the top sides. Damn it.

Not a fan of this guy either however this Sunday maybe different from previous occasions. I think as a team we're getting smarter and the gaffers getting the message across regarding discipline and giving penalties away.

You REALLY need to let this go. Harrison's left, remember? This was one of his ever-expanding excuses back in 2012. Regardless of whether it were true then or not, Fev have had four different head coaches since those days and there are only a couple of players from that original "grapplegate" fixture still in our team. You'll probably never have a better chance of beating us than you do on Sunday, we were very poor against Bradford, but as is almost always the case, the outcome is unlikely to be dependent on the ref.

Agreed.

Fev are crap this year, it wont matter who the ref is.

I hope that doesn't come back to haunt us.

The ref will be fine, another top class chappie, just like last week.

We were that shiiite Sun I went to the pub with 35 mins left

Seriously? So Bradford aren't that good then?

If you think you`ll have a fast flowing game with Stokes in charge I`d think again.

Don't get me wrong there a decent side, but we could not of made it any easier for them, worst display iv seen for some time. We were utter garbage I haven't seen as many walk out that early for years. The players let the club down for me, the stand volunteers and the regular fans who dragged there mates along did there bit. They owe us 1 big time

I reckon we will win by about 10 although if this game was played in summer on a dry pitch I would predict it to be by a lot more. Fev are not up to speed yet and there is always some drama going on behind the scenes, I do however expect them to get better as the season goes on and I reckon it will be them pushing us for 3rd place come the end of the season so not writing them off in the slightest I just think we are ahead of them at the moment. Sunday will be a decent marker of where both teams are though.

Charlie would take Fev and 10 any day of the week.

Never placed a bet in my life Charlie, so I don't understand odds
I do however think you are saying Fax will not beat FEV by 10.
Am I right?
In that case I will wager (is that the word) a meal at the Wren when we meet.
You win you pay, you lose you pay.



Is that how betting works?



Yes I know I'm off thread.
Sorry.

Nice try John ,and partly right, YES I am saying Fax will not beat Fev by 10,and Yes I will accept your Wager as you call it

on the Terms of if I'm right You pay for a meal at the Wren on your visit to the LSV ,and if if you are right and Fax beat Fev by more than 10 then I buy the Meal at the Wren :

of course for one person only.Do you accept.?It is Cheltenham next week I'm hoping for a profitable week.Good Luck on Sunday.

Doris Stokes loves his whisltle far too much. Will no doubt be wrestle mania. I think you write Fev off at your peril in normal league games. I reckon we haven't beaten them in the league for a while.We will have to create a lot more than we did v Leigh and Batley as Fev will score against us for sure. Too close to call this for me.

Your on, I am not sure what we have agreed but your on,

For the first time in years I think we go into Saturday's game as equals with Featherstone, perhaps even slight favourites. On previous occasions I've expected us to be bossed and apart from the odd occasion (particularly the big games

) that's what has happened.

Featherstone and ourselves are completely different beasts from past seasons. New coach, staff and players, they won't have any baggage surrounding this fixture. There's a distinct lack of aye ups, owd cocks and love from this forum which tells me that our friends from P O Road aren't quite as bullish as they have been in the past.

For me two evenly matched sides but I just get the feeling that we're a little bit more settled and our players are comfortable in how they are going about their business. I know we've only scored 2 tries in our last two outings but to be fair we've not seen those sort of conditions for years.

Hopefully we'll continue to improve, give it our best shot and come away with a victory. Fax by 8.

About sums it up for me and LTD'S "Write Fev off at your peril".

Our defence should be okay but hinges on how well our attack goes and I agree with Charlie on this point there are still doubts for me in this area.

Fax by 12 and the first win in the league against Rovers for some time, apart from a crucial 2 points that would be a real shot in the arm for confidence.