York have been a revelation and I'm absolutely chuffed for them. I hope they can move initially towards 3k a game quickly and really cement themselves as a solid championship team if not more.

M62 closed today. Appears some fans are caught in horrendous traffic jams on the way over to Oldham. No news on whether the team has been impacted by these delays.

Oldham finish the game with 10 men.

Looking like could be Oldham at home for us in play-offs so may help us if a couple of them suspended. I gave up on stream so i don't have a full picture of our performance but from what i saw and from the tweets it sounds like we've been no better. Basic school boy errors and to not score a try in the second half when we had a man advantage is a bit worrying. Much improvement needed.

As it stands, we'll be playing Whitehaven. However, it might be a bit of a catalyst for them to pull out all the stops next week against York and do us a favour.

Did anyone else come away from the game feeling like we had lost?

Yep, all the Oldham fans did.

From what I managed to actually watch on the stream - which wasn't much - it seemed like the defence was decent but once again the attack was pretty average.

It summed it up for me when they were down to ten men and we had a penalty on their line. Two attempts to scoot over from dummy half and then we lost the ball! We absolutely must have had an overlap with [uthree[/u extra men. It's not rocket science - just whip the ball out along the line and the winger will have a walk in with their lack of numbers

Whitehaven at York, Oldham at London Skolars (also with a vastly superior points difference)

We actually can't play Whitehaven - the only way they can finish 5th is to beat York. And assuming we beat Hemel, then we get promoted and its York vs Whitehaven in the play offs

So barring a miracle it will be us versus Oldham at Odsal in two weeks. And after today they will be confident of turning us over!

How come they only had 10 men at finish?

Two red cards and one yellow

I'm really worried about having to gain promotion through play-offs.

From what I managed to actually watch on the stream - which wasn't much - it seemed like the defence was decent but once again the attack was pretty average.



Just this. At least two tries lost from Flanagan’s try line fever - we were stood near Chizzy and he was going mad - I can really understand his frustration sometimes! Play some great moves coming up field (when we not knocking on) then all goes to near the line as good TEAM play drops outta their heads! Thought storton and Wood each had a cracking error free game . Really think Wood organises the team defensively as it showed when he went off to the blood bin and they scored two quick tries. Think Storton played well and looks the part.

Wouldn't be so sure about Whitehaven.

Oldham will have a depleted squad against a London side who are no mugs on their own patch. They have had some poor results but remember they nearly pulled off a shock against York just over a month ago.

Good 1st half, bloody awful second half. The attempted scoots from DH when we had a three man advantage were utterly brainless.

The attacking play in general is pants at the moment.

Sounds like we've picked up some injuries as well (just knew this would happen) seriously, call the reserve game off and just play our U19 side against Hemel. Wrap Crossley, Ryan and Minchella in cotton wool. Egodo was on crutches after the game. Been one of our best players last few weeks.

why will Oldham be depleted against London? If you're thinking bans from yesterday they will be served the following week in semifinal not next week.

But it wasn't in the first half. That's the frustrating thing.

Made a change from recent weeks but I'm baffled as to why we went from that to the nonentity of a performance we put in during the second half. Every player made a bollox of something and it concerned me that nobody seemed to be able to provide any leadership out of it.

Something I find ever so slightly disturbing is hearing Kear being so perplexed at how shambolic we were in the second half. His fame is largely ed around graft and making a team greater than the some of its parts. And yet by his standards I'm not convinced he's achieving that with us. I haven't a clue why though.

This is possibly the lowest quality playing group he's worked with. Maybe that's it?

Aye, fair point. I forgot everything happens two weeks behind in the lower leagues.

I was stood with an Oldham fan and his comments were that you are going to have to get rid of a lot of this lot if you go up.

He's right there. We need some leaders and some experience. Webster is a good start. Think the spine needs some attention too.

I will throw a name into the ring who would be good for the bulls
MARTIN RYDYARD