the only difference in that game was one side was full time and one side was part time. he hard question for us is which one was which?

great to see all the lads that didn't go commenting on how badly we played and that we're doomed! the only difference between the two sides today was fitness (full time team/part time team). if we were full time, our ball skills/game management would've won that game without much hassle.

Johnston for GB

Well as a fev fan I can't see how any fax fan could possibly be happy with that today.. As much as were all delighted with the result I haven't spoken to one single fev fan after the game who was happy with the performance. Not to mention the abysmal one sided referee, who gave fax everything.

We are still without Briggs and Kain, but the fact that the painfully slow bussy has been given the #6 Jersy is very worrying. add to that the fit Hardman cant even get in the 17 man squad i just hope that Bastian isn't trying too many changes too soon.

2 very poor teams today, maybe a bit early to judge either team with so many changes. But vast improvement required form both to challenge leigh

As with any game there were some good points and some not so good.
Johnston at times caused them some real problems and can only get better.
Brachek put in some big carries without the knock on's.
With 15 minutes and 2 scores in front the forward pass on the exit set and follow on penalties completely changed possession and momentum.
Wise after the event but 2 scores in front with 15 to go keep it simple and get to the kick.
On the other hand if the pass had have been good we are in at the corner and game over.

The referee had a decent game, you lot are just used to bullying referee's at your place & don't like it when they don't fall into the trap. Kain should do as his coach asks him and keep his mouth shut, that's why he isn't getting selected. He's due to play in the reserves midweek at Leigh according to Bastian after the game. Fev fans might have to start to give the opposition a little bit of credit for making their own side look ordinary i'm afraid, rather than Fev were poor again comments. There's a lot at stake this season, some clubs are desperate to succeed.
I was more than happy with our performance & pleased we came away with the BP.

For me some players at times forgot to bend their backs. Murrell at times was tackling like a beast then was a human revolving door.

Adamson has had two poor games in my opinion - made some poor decisions too.

Bracek and Divo played really well for me. Heaton too played well but he is not a winger.

The referee had a decent game, if he was one sided - why did he give the last Fev try from a blatant knock on. we spent part of the game explaining the rules to Fev. fans.
You can`t straddle the dead ball line and take the ball out of play, only allowed on touch lines. You cant be offside when the opposition ask to take a quick tap. etc. etc.
The Referee cheats If you don't know the rules!!!

don't get me started on the crossing rule as well. Had to remind fev fans it isn't american football, you can't have a blocker

Probably worth mentioning that Fev are not full time.

Well slappa my thigh , "Getting above our Station ", how dare we ?You will want to Chastise us next

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You've put quotation marks around something which GFB never said. That's criminal. Your clown's pocket should be sewn up for that.

Good afternoon Rich , English was never my strongpoint at school , now Italian , That's Amore ,hope you are well ?I told you have faith in Fax , apparently you played OK against Fev and it was a close game , as you says its early days yet , but don't get envious about our Comfy start to the Season , our game at the Shay will be the yardstick , im taking nowt for granted yet .

Got to disagree when Barlow left he took our line busts/offload
game with him and thus far not replaced.

He also took his ill-discipline, bad attitude, and one good game per 5 or 6 games with him as well. You only have to look at all the mistakes he made with his offloads to see it didnt add too much to the team. The game at Fev where we got in the game and he had just come on and tried an offload in a 3man tackle inside our own twenty, how about the game at Hunslut where he was totally dire. If im honest I saw him have only one real good game in a Fax shirt and that was the NRC final. He wont be missed on the field in my opinion and going by what the players say he certainly wont be missed in the dressing room.

Got to say I have watched barlow a few times now and he seems a good player bit of a hot head but good player.i think leigh will be a better player with him than without. Leigh will be the team to beat this year.

Fair enough i accept your viewpoint.Personally i like risktakers am bored of the
5 half-hearted drives and a kick philophosy.Only offload i saw yesterday was Adamson's
which was telegraphed but i admired him for trying it.

Have to agree and yesterday he was outstanding.

This imo is the best Leigh side since 1981/2 and although I am biased my generous Fax friend Bentleyman will tell you I never exaggerate.

I sort of agree but yesterday although I thought the first 25 minutes was very much one out rugby from that point I thought we played some decent stuff. The loop ball out the back to Johnson had Fev in all sorts of trouble and we looked very good when that happened although we seemed to go away from that for some reason.

Some stats from yesterday taken from the Fev forum on TotalRL:

[iRovers race into a 12 point lead. Penalty count at that point: 3-1 in Rovers favour.

Fax hit back and score 20 unanswered points thanks to 7 consecutive penalties in their favour. Penalty count 3-8.

Rovers come back and score 16 unanswered points thanks to 5 consecutive penalties in their favour. Penalty count ends up 8-8.[/i

Gave us everything???
The penalty count was 8-8.... seemed pretty even to me.
Fax got on a roll with a string of penalties, we got back with 5 on the bounce!!
Come on 76, open thi eyes and see it like it was. Tough game and I'm glad we got the points. It could have gone either way at one point.

I gave myself sometime with the dvd before I replied to this. The ball is clearly visibly ripped out by a fax player. Cording gathers up the loose ball.... that's play on and is rightly a try!!
Rules??? Maybe you should have checked the dvd first me owd cockle doodle doo!!!

Nowt wrong with one out stuff early on. Absorb the pressure, stay patient and test near the opposition line.
Johnson was the best player on the park and as you say he was causing damage. I said to Marillion man when Scott Murrell gave that forrad pass that all was needed was a stady six and a kick and the game was there to be taken. It didn't materialise that way. Fax stopped doing what the did to get a hold of the game, panicked and the discipline went. Result ...fev win.
Old fashioned rugby. Enjoyed the game. Enjoyed the company. Enjoyed the craic.

some bloke at fev reckoned Fax think they are the man utd of rugby but I cudn't get him to explain wot the heck he was gobbing about.

I thought it was the tamest Fev Fax game iv seen for a few years, no intensity and it looked like 2 poor teams to me, mind i was smashed

Fev arent full time, I know some of the lads who went from batley last season and they all work.