I'm going Batley 12 - Fax 22

butler or woodburn-hall cover centre.

Will the usual close one up there -and blummin freezing looking at forecast!
Our kick/chase game will have to be good to have any chance.
Fax to sneak it by 2.

Think it will be tough as always but hopefully we showed last week that we can do enough to win these sort of games, we just need to keep our heads and make sensible decisions. Fax by 8!!!

Ben heaton is confirmed out
Ben kaye 50-50

I would be looking at get Wellham from Salford as can not see him been in the first team and see if they have a hooker and rotate with Murrel with Johnston and Moore in the halfes

Salford have 5 out injured so may not want to risk any of their backup players, DR is great.

Did the rumoured 3 to Bradford ever materialise ?

No Grady according to team sheet???

But DR is bad isn't it????

At the moment it's Batley 12 v Fax 0,

Batley may be playing downhill in the first half.

Now Batley 18 v Fax 0.

cmon Fax.

Irony is often difficult to show, I'd much rather bin it off and play our reserves, I think that's why we have them but not too sure now.

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Agree totally. Lets start having faith in reserve players otherwise we may as well bin it off like Featherstone and just go Dr route

Agree and have sympathy for Morgan Punchard's dad. We have a lad there who should of been given a opportunity at Batley. By playing a youngster from Salford it makes it look like RM has no faith in the reserve setup. What's the reward/incentive for Morgan to play well in the reserves? If we are going down DR route at least go for a side with enough fringe players of a Championship standard. Sheffield had 3 players from Leigh of genuine quality who have played championship. We had a young lad from Salford with little experience of championship.

I'm gonna defend RM here, he might have done the lad a favour by not playing him in atrocious conditions against a bigger better pack, on a notorious pitch. Make or break might have worked, but it also might have destroyed the lads confidence, throw him in another day, the pack were poor, he wouldn't have been able to do anything.
2 losses hasn't killed our season, but we need a win this weekend or were looking at a super unbeaten run to get us anywhere, and I don't think this crop have that in them, too many of them are going backwards.
P.s. its been sadly lacking, but well played Batley, after a poor opening week they nailed it.

Destroyed lads confidence by not playing him and suggesting he is not good enough by picking a Salford player.

Disagree, not getting picked or getting picked is part of sport, sometimes it doesn't feel fair, and sometimes the manager/coach gets it wrong, but he'll get his chance and when he does he'll be hungry im sure.
We needed some go forward, any hooker would have struggled behind our packs performance, lack of runners, poor lines, too flat and no options. Batley looked organised, our halves seemed like, well, you saw it, we had nothing to offer that any Amatuer side in Halifax couldn't have done. Morgan or no Morgan. He's not missed out there.

To be fair reading Simon Grix's comments after the Fev game he really does not stand a chance of getting game time this season. Ive been watching RL for over 30 years and it was clear half way through last season that our half backs do not work together, I cant believe that this has gone unnoticed by RM so I can only assume he does not know what to do to change it. Our distribution is atrocious for a semi professional team and I can not see that improving any time soon.

halves need to compliment each other. Ours just don't, both trying to do the same thing in a predictable average manner. Apologies to some, but its what we see. Then we are left with Johnno, who's kicking is hit and miss, passing weak on one side, but he can attack the line, we need to make a call on Muzza and Moore, just not effective as a pairing. When we don't have go forward we are exposed badly.

Exactly. They are almost the same player, can anyone name 2 half backs that were so similar to each other but had good success. Going back through the years where you have Edwards/Gregory, Martyn/Long and recently in this league with Ridyard/Brierley or Black/Holroyd. For me you simply cant have two organizers at half back it just does not work. Structure is great if you have the players with the skill to carry it out but we have a lot of players who struggle with the basics so at some point it comes down to individual talent and been so structured that will not happen.

Surely you'd have Murrell over Moore any day of the week.

To this day, I'm so grateful you signed Moore from Fev. Overrated, inconsistent and not a team player. Will be on good brass I imagine?

Neither for me Scott's 4 year contract was 2 years too long and Moore was excellent up to the bash and then went completely missing.

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Not a happy day for Ryan Boyle on his 200th career appearance mind you not a good day for anyone truly awful