No, more like 1200 Fev and 17 Broncos, and the amazing thing is, you rammed yourself into 4 coaches and 20 cars.

Any idea when the draw for the next round is ?

Round 5 is on 11th May.

I think that's the date for playing. Draw is on Monday l think.

You're right, the draw is on Monday 22 April 2013 at 15:30.

Featherstone came with a game plan and stuck to it. Closed us down. Hit Gower at every opportunity, late a few times but also ensuring he ended up doing a lot of tackling. They played well and controlled the ball well throughout the first half. They were up for it and we were a bit lifeless. Joked on way we'd spill the ball from kick off and err.

Bit more passion and more importantly controlled the ball when we had it. Started to play our sets and had better field position. Dorm coming on gave far more penetration. A win is a win and hopefully they learn from it.

Shocking attendance today at just 1,217. Even the Hemel Stags v Wakey game got 2,456.

Not much between the two teams but we got ground down in the second half and once the first London try came we buckled ever so slightly

With a game changing substitution of Luke Dorn into the action after 55 mins and a young winger in Keiran Dixon, who we failed to handle all day London just deserved to win and advance for me

We just didnt get enough points on the board in a first half dominated by us, we had enough pressure and chances just couldnt take any

But it was still a great effort and a wonderful day out, that little bit of extra quality made the difference today for me

Yes well done today for getting the win. Thought we played well and had a chance of winning but once Luke Dorn came on he made the difference for you and won it with Dixon as well.

Had a good day out good luck in the draw for the next round

Well a win is a win and might help confidence, but that was another poor performance. Professional Super League players shouldn't be hiding from the ball at kick off, passing into touch, not chasing kicks, and so on. There is a malaise within this group of players who, with the exception of Dixon, look as though they would rather be somewhere else.

Agreed. Awful 1st half. didn't complete a set until after 15 mins. Camped on our own line far too long , gave them too many repeat sets with penalties and drop outs. No line breaks.

2nd half we were quicker and remembered how to play. Like Dollapi, young , got a lot go forward . Some of the other forwards can only play for less than 40 minutes which is disappointing given their pedigree. Dorn's second try , from a grubber kick was brilliant. Fev carved through us twice easily in he centres, scoring one.

Surprised with 1200 crowd, thought about 800 with 300 from Fev. At least our reduced gate , percentage wise, is less than some of the' heartland teams' , when you don't get the game in the season ticket, for the cup games.
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Home tie against a championship side please.

Thought the Fev number 4, Greg Worthington was excellent. Looked like a proper centre, not much meat on him but he gave us problems all afternoon. Wonder if he fancies the smoke?

Fev played well. If they had the team today they have had for the previous year or two, we would have lost.

Not defending the Broncos crowd, but that Hemel game was switched to Wakey

Our last 'home' game attracted 1,400 and only drops to 1,200. Widnes as an example get 1,900 after a last home game of neigh on 6 k crowd.

PCP

Think you right be right because there are no trains to London

only 6889 at Wigan v Leigh, local derby with 1890 leythers there. Only 5000 paying Wigan fans.

our superior fitness will see us through

I do hope that was a tongue in cheeck joke. Fev were suoperior their defence was so slick

We were woeful once more a 30 minute game.





Nope. On paper we should have superior fitness as we're full time professionals. On paper we should have won. Both have been ticked off the list on paper.

The reason we lose in the last 20 has been explained by Wire Quin on another thread. Fitness is not why we lose or capitulate in other games.

Well done London. Even if you didn't play well. Sounds like our defence was excellent in the first half. No one bar Mark Rammond and Tony Rea has given us credit for that.

have to agree, the attacking play was woeful but in defence, a gutsy effort to keep a determined team who dominated possession and territory to just 4 points, lower division or otherwise. still hard to be enthused about the first half performance on the whole though. second half obviously far better, dorn added a lot of spark. frustrating though that if we'd played as we did for the last try for the whole game ie backs lined up deep, spread the ball quickly aka BASIC ATTACKING RUGBY LEAGUE then we might have made the scoreline look a bit more comfortable. if you give dixon any sort of space on the outside hes liable to score- getting the ball to him on the wing as fast as possible should be the aim of any attacking move beginning on the opposite side

end of the day, solid viewing as a contest if not a spectacle, and a win's a win. probably not going to see too many more of them over the season so may as well savour it





full credit to fev today, they were the hungrier side and enjoyed seeing their team spirit in effect, celebrating every little thing on the field that went their way, especially in the first half when they were fresh and clearly very fired up for it. credit to their fans for travelling in good number too, enjoyed the atmosphere they created.




oh and finally, award for strangest running technique- will lovell

Fev completion rate in the first half was 17 from 17. Amazing. Unfortunately when they got to our 20 they came up against a well drilled defence who to be fair looked comfortable.

The game played out how I thought it would other than expecting Fev to buckle at the 15-20 min point, they kept going to the 40.
The second half was all London

I suspect had that game been played at Fev we would be auctioning the shirts Mon!

At half time I thought that we were using the first half to practice defence skills. Either that or trying to find how many ways there were to hand over possession.

Maybe that explains TR's mysterious quote "It may sound a bit strange but I thought the first 20 minutes was the best 20 minutes I've seen for a long time from us".

When we got this draw I thought it was a great one for us and so it proved. Sheffield at home next round?

Fev were excellent, so were their fans.

I was particularly interested in the fact that Shaun Edwards presented the shirts to the team. This did not seem to inspire them. I was fortunate to train alongside Mr Edwards a few times in the 1990s and he is inspiring company. Except if you are in the current Broncos squad it seems. That's rather sad.

Heard you very nearly signed him last year.