https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/ ... -1-9593903 Hope he wasn't taking disciplinery tips.....

https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/ ... -1-9593903 Hope he wasn't taking disciplinery tips.....

Batley don't seem to be as strong as last year.

Grady's back..

Feeling a bit more confident this week and expect the lads to kick on from 7 days ago.
I expect the early forward exchanges to be head on and hope Fax can get on top after that and have a bit more finishing power to get some points on the board.
Up the Fax!

Cut that fine, didn't you ?

The best team lost today, no question. Fax were awful and if we carry on like that it's arrivederci Marshall and that isn't a knee jerk reaction. Up The Fax!

RM not very popular in the dressing room right now.....

Tell yer what Griff, your team are the surprise packets this season , which is great for this League,I think it will be a great season .

Elaborate.

Im not sure what our fans expect with the budget we have.

It's not the fans voicing their concerns.... Also a near £450k budget is by far the biggest budget RM has had since he started... You seen the club move forward on the field in his 5 years here cos I ain't....Today proved that

Today was awful and full credit to Batley for making it hard for us.

However, I fail to see how RM is responsible for the inability of some of our players to do the basics properly such as playing the ball correctly, hanging on to the ball, and not giving away the dumbest of penalties.

Or are you really saying that all of these things are coached instructions?

In amongst some poor performers today, credit to Will Sharp who was single handedly awsome

Defended well in the first 40 and took our chances well.
Second 40, well we hardly had a look in.
The first 6 minutes of the second half the inside left defense let 2 identical tries in giving Batley a sniff of victory, that followed by a glut of penalties and they almost got it.
As TH says Sharp especially took the dangerous high kicks well on our line and along with the other backs ran the ball out well, other than that just relieved to get the 2 points.

Yeah. Come on. Let’s hear it....

It’s easy to drop hand grenades on an Internet forum then disappear. Back it up

50% completion rates and a terrible penalty count - lucky to have won.

Nice to see 3 good tries and Sharp on fine form - (I thought Manning had a stormer as well).

First 15 I thought It was going to be a long day for Batley then they managed to slow us down.

Second half was the worst I have seen for a while the game reminded me of the Dewsbury match we drew last season luckily we had that peanalty or it could have cost us

I would think that with our budget, which is a fair bit higher than Batley's I presume, our fans expect a lot higher standard than we saw yesterday. We don't have a divine right to beat Batley but we should at least be able to see some improvement given the players we have brought in. As for RM this could be a make or break season for him. It could go one of three ways. He could become a Fax great by leading us into Super League. He could have a good season again with Fax and get himself a move to a SL club. He could have a poor season with more displays like yesterday and at Widnes and find himself out of a job. With the players we have I see no reason why we can't have a really good season, achieve the top five and then see where the play offs take us. Up The Fax!

Still early days, Charlie. Let's not overlook that Bradford were winning up to James Green getting sent off.

The ludicrous division of central funding from the past few years has disappeared too. That should improve the competitiveness of the Championship.

If you honestly believe that Harrison's team would have competed in this division as competitive as it is has been then you are completely and utterly deluded.

At least yesterday's 'showing' means there'll be no overconfidence going into next weeks important game.The coach and certain players need a long hard look in training this week.Having Chester back will help but can't see much else to bring in unless we go down the Cas route,which is ok this week as Hudd-shays on boycott...

Having considered yesterdays game i feel we used one of our nine lives.
At times we looked very dangerous with ball in hand and QLT gave us a vision and passing ability from the back that others have not for a few seasons now .
However some of the handling was atrocious, bad passes at ankles, silly offloads and poor catching. This is not down to coaching at this stage of a players career but just carelessness. Due to this Batley had a huge spell where Fax hardly touched the ball. Penalties are rarely given against when you have the ball but often when you defending set after set. Only some strong defence (apart from one particularly bad read) and hard work kept us in the game.
Once again when one of the on field leaders goes off, Last week Murrell this week Grix, we turn into the headless chickens. Heaven forbid they run into each other!
Three games in and it seems to me solution is easy though hard to correct. Stop giving ball up and we will win most games this year. Rugby league is a simple game.

I thought Sharpe was awesome, my man of match by a mile, then Larroyer and QLT (despite his catching).

Roll on PO Road , and perform to our best.

UTF

If you dont think/realise that RMs team over the last 5 years is essentially the squad that Harrison put together then you are the deluded one Nat.....

Harrison was the start of the rot with his very poor man-management skills and poor tactics. RMs additions to the squad have been mediocre in the main with very little done to improve the key areas the team lacks.... Half Backs.

The team has been in the main Harrison's squad. If you think we have moved on as a team then you are totally off your head

Lesson to learn when you sack a dour 5 drives and kick coach ex forward as coach don't replace with a similar animal who didn't even have half his playing pedigree.

After a confident start crisp handling we looked in total control which we some how managed to turn into a mistake ridden penalty strewn 2nd half looking totally inept thank goodness Tyrer had his kicking boots on & Sharpe for his taking of the high ball.
Only positives we won & the Att was 264 up on last year.

It's never o.k. Grrrrr!

I thought it was a shocking performance for most of the game. Goal line defence was very good which I guess is one plus but when you are completing at under 50% and giving away so many penaltys its going to have to be. Theres no point glossing over it but Batley are at best an average team in this league and I can think of at least 3 maybe 4 games that would have run 40 or 50 points on them yesterday given our 12 point lead. As has been said certain players attitudes don't seem to be right and for me that is just a run over from a very poor pre season. Im still hoping that a SL job comes up for RM early season and we can get Grix and Murrell officially running the show.