A very unenjoyable evening, no place nearby to get a pre match beer, a farce getting in then they had the cheek to charge £4 for a pint - no way am I paying that for a crap pint anyway.
Then you have a poor view from the 'standing' side and end you could not see the play very well at all especially with those training ground floodlights, how do they get away with that? £18 to stand and £20 to sit in a showground temporary stand???
As for the game what I saw we matched them first half and should have had at least 2 tries but we bombed them and were trying to score off the 2nd and third tackles when it was never on and coughed up the ball without putting them under sustained pressure. It was a fast game and we looked as good as them forcing errors and we broke through more than they did.
But what went wrong second half?
Our right had side got bust too easily was it 4 tries on that wing and could have been more Rob made a mug of us again!
Unlucky with the bounce for one try the ball went like a banana about 20 feet weird but the other tries we just got outplayed.
We did finally get over the try line but it is worrying how they scored 20 points in 14 minutes, ouch.
Some players did not have their best game for us tonight when we needed them to sadly, Sam Smeaton got smashed and Scott Murrell faded second half, usual good effort from our pack and Gareth Moore looked sharp as did Will Sharp but we came up against a very good defence, they look good for a top 3 challenge on that effort.
Then as the game finished so late and the M1 had a junction closure and diversion no time for a post match pint on the way home so a crap night really, never mind onto Workington lets get this one out of our system.

Im not happy , it's OK saying bring on Worky, more than likely we will beat them with ease but unless we improve big time the likes of Leigh, Bradford, Sheff, Fev, London, and maybe Dews, will put us to the sword and we will become a mid table could have beens,Worky, Haven, Oldham, and Swinton will be beaten by us , but wake up we are not as good as some thought we were,a lot have been having a go at King Degsy, I wish we had him, I said this last week,my question is ,Have the other Clubs got us weighed up?A night to forget, I thought I was upset ,Crindon was blazing.

oh dear Terry !!!

This point last season we'd beaten a cumbrian side and lost to a full time team and we all know have that season ended. There's a long way to go yet

What you doing on here Budge?Who's stalking who?Have your moment of humour.

Of course there's a long way to go, but it's Ben said by many others will the opposing Coachest have worked out RMS tactics from last season I believe they may have, looking at some of our signings maybe they are not as good as we first though, no doubt we will have that Fax expert Greg telling us not to panic,a Yorkshire Moby.

Nah come on we could have been 12 nil up and we matched a good fulltime team for 43 minutes having a 'try' notched off that was very debatable before they took it away from us straight after. This was a part time team playing a fulltime team on their own pitch on a Friday night, disappointing how we conceded 5 tries in one half but they will beat most teams on that joke of a ground come on.

maybe. I still feel we have more than enough at our disposal currently to do the job needed. Only time will tell and the more these lads play together, the better they will be. We still have Bennion and Grix to welcome back

Again you are using the part time full time argument, I said last year we should have gone full time this season, but most said no, we will meet other full time teams shortly,I think we could end up as also ran unless something is done ,look we are not as good as some thi k we are, it's OK saying Grix has to come , but is he fit?I'm not sure, anyway I'm off to bed I'm up early in the morning,bread still has to be delivered. Good night.

Got in, had a beer, and reflected on what went wrong. First half was a good effort both in attack and defence . Just bombed too many chances. When Sheffield had their purple patch they took theirs and to be fair I thought they upped the pace of their game in second half and we fell off ours.That right hand edge with Murrell/Smeaton and Saltonstall got ripped in the second half and needs some work on. Not convinced the best fullback in the club is currently playing there at the moment. RM has to decide for the team's sake who are going to be the two halves out of the the three quality ones we have.
Nothing that can't be fixed and we have probably played the current best and worst team in the space of two weeks.
Plenty more rugby to come in the season yet. See you at Worky.

No need for an increase in your statin dosages quite yet fellas. I didn't go tonight (down in SY tomorrow to watch the Owls) but from what I've heard we didn't execute and they did. I doubt RM's philosophy of attacking footy will change and he will strive to get the players to improve. Friday night down the M1 on a school pitch against a Mark Aston team was always going to be tough and it's fine lines.

The lads will be hurting and desperate to put it right up in Cumbria.

UTFAX and well done to all who made the effort to go down and support the lads.

Mr Jagger - you sir are one big swinging tit and are currently giving that Italian POW a run for his money in the RL Forum Punchinello stakes. Get a grip you buffoon.

Do you honestly think this season will be a duplicate to the last one?

Chill out guys. We have lost against a solid Sheffield outfit. Nothing new to see here.

Mega overreaction to this result.

We will be in the mix come the end of the season.

Up the fax

I can't get over how the Fax and Fev trolls have disappeared off the Leigh forum. Warms the cockles it does.

Took defeat well there mr Jagger hope you leave us alone now for a bit.

Feeling slightly depressed but hopefully that will be a wake up call. To be fair the lads only had 5 working days to turn round for this one and a late Friday night game was always going to be tough. I wondered why we stuck to the same team now we have a bit more depth to the squad, we could have brought some of the other lads in fresh. I am constantly puzzled at why we keep playing Jonno at FB, he is far more dangerous in the halves - it is not as though we haven't any other options for FB. Miles is apparently fit, and Salty and Sharp can play there. We still have Saxton and Eccleston for the wing (Potts still injured). The right wing is a real weakness, for me wing is not Salty's best position. We need Heaton and Potts when fit - this was our best combination last year.
Still onwards and upwards there is a long season ahead.

Oh yes, and Stringer took a lot of verbals from our fans as he lined up for the kick off. He just laughed it off and smiled at the people giving him stick. At least that made me smile.

An Italian POW and a Buffoon Eh,just because I speak the truth and Tezzer realises you are NOT world beaters, wake up Nigel ,smell the Coffee ,welcome to the real world ,it's going to be a long hard season.What was your prediction?It didn't happen did it,a you stick to the Owls and the Mary Ellen game ,I don't regard you as a Fax fan anyway, I probably watch Fax more then you.You Yorkies have some strange names,Lintle Crindon, and NIGEL

a real burden to bear.



jog on.

If anything we were the better side in the first half and had the better chances, Sharp, Fairbank, Gaz Moore, Saltonstall all clear through but failed to find the line on each occasion and Saltys disallowed try for a forward pass on another break didn't help but at least we made the chances and broke them on multiple occasions.

Second half after the Maneely try was overturned it just went badly wrong, on the back of the penalty they immediately went full length down field and scored quickly followed by 2 more scores from allowing the ball to bounce on last tackle high kicks and game over.

Eagles completion rate improved second half with less handling errors and on the back of that and a high penalty count were clinical when they got the chance I was impressed by their speed and on this showing are an improved side from last year.

I'm an eternal optimist

Is that the best you got, I didn't mention your name in my last post, but if the cap fits wear it my little punchinello.

UTFAX

We can't and won't win every game nor do we expect to. It was dissapointing and a frustratiing night. Lest see how the rest of league go tomorrow. In 7 days time we will be looking forward to our trip to Cumbria.

First half
Thought we were really good and were the better team. Created lots of chances and was awesome in defence. We could of quite easily gone in at half time at least 20 0 up.

Second half
Again we started really well forcing a error straight from kick off and actually crossing the line. It was rightly disallowed for crossing, think it was Maneely? He didn't need to run behind the player he could of passed the ball out and we would of got over the line anyway.
Don't know what happened next but we just seemed to switch off and they scored 3 quick tries and the game was lost in that period. We still created a couple chances down the left and could of possibly got back into the game if we'd scored off them. Overall we were massively outplayed by Sheffield and even if we had of fine in 20 0 up at half time we would have still lost the game based in the second half performance.

The ground
Don't know why I've called it that because everything about it is a total joke from the parking to the facilities. I'm assuming it's called a temporary stand because it looks like it could fall down at any minute, the fanzone behind the "temporary stand" isn't a fanzone its a tent that charges £4 for a pint of watered down carling, a few portaloos as well for everyone to share with no hand washing facilities was pretty grim as well.
The parking outside is organised chaos, what they gonna do when they play Leigh and Bradford? They'll take a lot more than we did. A rugby league team playing in the championship shouldn't be allowed to play there.

Workington next week

It's a game we will win and can make some changes. Personally I'd put salty at full back try Johnston and Moore at half backs, move Murrell to loose forward and deffo bring Divorty and if Bracek and heaton are fit play them as well.

I knew you was referring to me Nigel,but I think you should concentrate on Mr Jagger and his statements of Supremacy, it seems he wasn't amused last night.

Fax won't be the last team to get beat at that $hithole on a Friday night, Leigh won't be the last team to get beat at the Batley mudslide either.

The better teams will come good as the ground hardens, spoke to Weston about last week who had been in the NRL for 8 seasons and he said he had never played on anything like that before.