After yesterday's poor but not unexpected performance we have Swinton Lions at The Shay next Sunday. Hopefully with a couple of players back and some knocks healed we can get back on't horse and start a good run again. Swinton have had a slight resurgence lately but their loss yesterday means they will be in Championship 1 next season. This could take the pressure off them or be demoralising, it's up to Fax to be clinical and make sure it's the latter. Presumably Robinson will be back to give us some more direction and we can get the two points to get us rolling. I'll say Fax 32 v12 Lions. Up The Fax!

A fax win but attendance worryingly low

We need a big improvement this week last week was unacceptable. Hopefully they have had a good kick up the backside and respond in the right way. I will go for a fax win 30-10.

Swinton Lions will win.

Another optimistically complete squad - while not wanting to give the opposition any advantage it would be nice if fans could be given an idea of who is genuinely in contention to play. Jones named again - if he doesn't make the 17 with all the players apparently knackered then I can't see he has a future at the club. Disappointing if this is the case as before his injury he looked to have a lot of promise.

Well said. Some players have been conspicuous by their absence, Jones, Rawsthorne, with little said about what's happening with them. Saw the Bulls brought in a lad from Hull in the front row. We haven't made any moves with little given as to the reason why.

Not a clue what is wrong with Rawsthorne as the club don't really say anything but by all accounts it could be long term. Jones just been named to make up numbers along with one of the Davies twins who got concussion last week. I guess we are naming full squads just for the integrity of the competition as Swinton will obviously know with probabl;y 90% certainty who won't be playing.

Yes it would be nice to keep fans in the picture . So much else going on this weekend my 22 quid is going elsewhere.

If you listen to simons lastest interview he says we are still looking to bring players in but super league clubs are reluctant to let anyone go because they have games coming thick and fast. Which is a change from last week when we where not looking to bring anyone in because in is words it would compromise the integrity of the competition to bring players in on loan so late in the season even thou other clubs are. Just like bradford have by bringing in a prop from hull for the rest of this season. As for rawsthorne i have heard he could be retiring at the end of this season to concentrate on is career outside of rugby weather this is true or not i would still pick him to play.

I thought there was a deadline for signings in the championship - heard it mentioned several times but can't see anything official - hardly surprising as the RFL appalling at communicating anything that relates to the game - and even when they do they're quite likely to change everything for no apparent reason.

Not sure why no ones posted after a largely entertaining performance against admittedly fairly limited opposition. I'll admit to initially being disappointed that Grix had displaced JWH at fullback but happy to hold up my hands as I thought he was excellent throughout bringing the best out of the entire backline. On the back of this thought both halves played really well, with several belting tries including 2 where quick hands led to traditional wingers tries where they were given a run to the line - can't remember when we last got one of these in a game let alone two!

It were a little patchy at times but was good to see us get a big win under our belts in the run up to next week. We also scored a number of very nice tries as well which again its been a while since we have turned the style on like that. Performance wise I thought Kavanagh was very good for us along with Connor Robinson on his return. In the backs McComb was very good again and has really earnt his place as a starter with a number of good displays capped with a good try at the end, and Worthington who is probably the best centre we have seen down at the Shay for a number of years. Nothing gets past him in defence and set up two tries that he could probably have scored himself.

The bad parts - As many of us guessed JWH was the fall guy and for me it sends out the wrong messgae that Grix and Harris can be as bad as they were last week and keep their places. As it is Harris's injury looks like it solves the decision for a short time. For me Grix is a passanger for us, he is at that point now in his career where he won't carry the ball in effectively leaving us with a back 2 and was lucky yesterday as he could have given away 2 tries against better teams with mistakes. I do think on attack he did add something though but nothing that JWH can't do.

Good in the longer range attack with some cracking tries and a couple of others that were nearly there but just lost the plot closer to their line at times.
Overall some good D just a couple of lapses in that 20 minute spell after half time when the were still in the dressing room.
Happy to get past a banana skin game with a convincing result.

I think you some up yesterdays game and the situation with certain players being un droppable spot on. We did a good job in the first half and even could of had a couple more tries but overall a good half of rugby. Then for about 20-25 minutes in the second half we went back to how we played at widnes giving away penalties and dropping the ball right left and and got punished with a couple of soft tries. But then we got our act back together to finish with some really good tries. We cant afford to drop off like that in the upcoming games it will cost us dear we will need to be really ruthless to keep third spot it could even go down to the last game against batley. As for mom grix did have a better game but for me mcComb or worthington should of got it if you are picking a back or in the forwards kavanagh had is best game for a while.

Some good trys on the highlights. Whitehaven thrashing widnes puts perspective on things. Swinton defence looked at best amateurish.
Any attendance figure given?

1606 was the figured announced.

I thought it was a return to form at a good point in the season, we need to build on that going forward now. Apart from the 3rd quarter it was a pretty complete display with some cracking tries along the way. Bring on next week. København in The Fax, Vocation Bread & Butter 3.9% Mmm!

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