Well today's game was a truly awful end to an awful season. To be fair to the lads if a ref gives a team 16 points start you're always going to struggle but we need a real good clear out. I can think of only a handful of players, Tangata, Johnston, Ambler, Woodbourne-Hall, Fairbank, Calahane and Manning. Maybe a couple more but the luckiest bloke to be contracted for next year has to be Marshall. Brilliant last season, KH this season. Any road, every cloud has a silver lining and at least we're spared a trip to the RFL'S dump next week! A nice break now and let's come back refreshed for what can only be a better season next year. Up The Fax! Magic Rock Tap, Ringmaster 3.9% Mmm!

It was a tough first half and always going to be difficult to come back from that, and yes the ref seemed just to give Sheffield penalties for fun, however we were atrocious at tackling. Jeez I'm glad that season is over and we can look forward to next year. I'm sure early bird season ticket sales will be slow, especially if they drip feed us information like they have done in the past.

What the friznit has happened this season?

Why is RM not spitting bullets?

Didn't seem right bothered as he came down to the dug out during the game.
But then again neither did the players.
Much as I dislike the little sheite we nead a half back like Aston and a centre like Tyson.
Players who can mix it without getting caught (cue G Moore)

Im glad its all over, beng stuffed at odsal would have been awful.
Hopefully RM has seen enough to plan and execute a better next season.

I'm sure he thought he had the right plan this year but not sure at what point in the season that was. The whole season seemed to be up and down, the win at Blackpool should have kicked us on but the number of times we fell apart against the weaker teams in the division was embarrassing.

With al the rumours and nothing coming from the club who the hell knows what stage we will be at come the start of the 2017 season, next season will be even more difficult so if we are to compete we will need to be ready right from the off.

We were competing with the ref in the first half to demonstrate who could perform the worst. I'm sure the Eagles supporters thought he did fine, but he really wasn't in control, and that's what contributed to the spats that we saw later.

Second half was better, but forced passes trying to make things happen was our downfall with the interception etc.

Good to see a hard fought game with defences on top



Roll on 2017 and a better season. Good to see the reserves who've made it through to the 1st team showing good promise and making an impact.

Well thank God our season is officially over. Think it actually happened when we got hammered by Leigh. Hopefully RM has learned more from this season than last. From what I hear he might need to take on board what his backroom staff say and put more trust in them and be less stubborn. We have had some good young players come through and that is more down the work Martin Gonzalez is doing and hopefully this continues. And from what I know had RM taken his advice we would have had Rawsthorne signed up way before Hull came in for him. At worst we might have got a fee for him.

We could have signed Rawsthorne to a 10 year contract and still not get a fee for him because it would have been a part time contract. Any team comes in for him offering him a full time contract and he is free to leave as the RFL think he will develop better in a full time environment. Strange though in this dual reg era that better development is seen as loaning young players to the very teams where they do not think they will develop.

Anyway season over and god knows what next season will bring. The club has been let down badly this season, what started out as what should have been our most promising season in years has probably turned in to one of our most disappointing ever because of that optimism. The final act playing a 5th place semi final in a stadium with only one side open and a crowd that Town would be proud of sums the season up really.

On another note any reason why 87legends now only browses the forum without posting? I know his team has not gone too well in the middle 8's but even so at least it was a laugh.

I totally agree and like everybody else I am glad this season is over, it ended at Leigh for me as that was when I realized we were not as good as we thought we were. I have heard the same rumours about RM not listening and that he has been stubborn and I think this has cost him this season and he must learn to open up and be more flexible. Sadly I am very dfown beat about next season as if he doesn't then we will go backwards and the club will struggle, things have to change at ALL levels for me the club have become very insular.

Eagles intensity from 1 to 13 from the start was a level or even 2 above us today and has been typical of they way Fax have approached the last half dozen or so games.
Everything that could do wrong we did, penalty after penalty, kicking out on the full, not finding touch from a penalty kick etc etc.
Last game for a few of them and there are 2 or 3 lined up as replacements, any more than that will depend on how much money we get from income streams.
This is a dilemma, season ticket sales for example need to be high but with how this year has gone many will be thinking is it worth it and you can't blame us but it will just add to the problem, so do we dip in our pockets again or not??????? Still thinking about this one.

Aye, the Jekylls turned up. Last week it was the Hydes.

As the title says a fitting end to a dreadful season. I like so many others had such high hopes at the beginning of the season but I am actually glad it is over now. Unfortunately the success of last season seems to have gone to RMs head and I have heard all the same things everyone else has heard - arrogant, doesn't listen, favours half the squad and ignores the other half, players don't really know what he wants....and generally Fax has been a very unhappy place to work and play. He needs to give his head a good shake and learn from this season and learn some man management skills and listen to the other coaching staff ( if they are still here next year ) Unless he sorts himself out, it doesn't matter who we recruit for next year we will get the same result. To be honest the new recruits don't look particularly promising, we are just replacing like for like imo so it needs to be a change in leadership style that will make the difference. I am not sure where all the money has gone either - I also hear we are skint. Surely the reserves hasn't cost £450k ?

When the news broke about RMs new contract i was the only negative contributor initially,don't think i'm in the minority now....

Problem many of you have is that your squad (and Marshall) are nowhere near as good as you were claiming at the start of the season. TBH you were pretty mediocre for much of last season too, but a combination of a mini Fev implosion (just before Hay's departure) and a stomach bug in the Fev camp during the week before the game at PO Rd gave you a top 4 finish. A purple patch of form in the middle 8s (together with a slump in that of the other Champ clubs) further helped to bolster the illusion.........

In other news we put a man on the moon.

Stomach bug? I thought we finished about 6 points clear of Fev in 5th place last season or did I just dream that?

Our start last season wasn't great, but I hardly think winning the last 9 games to be "mediocre". And yes, we were clear by 6 points (and 201 points difference) of Fev in 5th. Only Leigh had a better defence than Fax last year, and tbh it's probably the hundred or so extra points we've conceded this time round that was our downfall.

Our goal line defence was so much better last year when the players seemed to be playing for each other but this season a team only had to look at our line to score.

A demoralising end of Season am i the only one concerned about the Match Programme as well going from 48 to 28 Pages for the last 3 Games if my Maths are correct a 41.66% drop therefore the Price should have been about £ 1.25 are we that desperate for money?

Yes total rip-off only bought the last ones because i have this season's full set.

Most of those pages were adverts too.

Disappointing end to the season. Not watched any of the games in this meaningless competition. Hope we stick with the reserves because would make no sense to scrap after one season. Mistakes have been made and hopefully learned from. Wouldn't it have been better investing money on first team and cementing our spot in top 4. Once we had done this we could then have looked at a reserve setup.

Feel like we have gone backwards and talk of reduced staff/ cuts doesn't bode well.

Hopefully we can get that team ethic back in 2017, which was missing this season.

And no stats page...

Like you i am an avid collector & wanted to have complete collection but feel totally ripped off