Poor poor game one which should have been an opportunity to raise next seasons fans yearning for more!! Last game of season at home and on the Tv. Shame we were so bad. Still not sure who chooses MOM but really?

Leigh fans ( not true supporters ) what came out of some of there mouths wasnt acceptable -we were stood with the kids and asked them politely to refrain from using fowl language and just got further abuse- mentioned it to the steward and he wasn't prepared to even say anything to them- Cougars this needs sorting out -Stewards are scared to do anything when confronted by loud abusive supporters, I'm sure we are not the only family with young children who don't want to put in this situation - they should have been asked to leave

Danny Jones had another bad game - why is he been selected or don't we have another fit option?
Sam Obst - I personally thought he had a reasonable game
Way to many ball handling errors again -
Referee was bad as well - but no excuse

You obviously not watching the same Danny jones everyone else is watching- since his return from Fax he's not the same player. Slow and half of the time not interested in the game - same play time after time - the other team know what he is going to do which puts other players at risk.
I would say Jones is one of the players to be departing( don't know how that effects his 2 year deal) but if your not upto it

to keep him

Its like groundhog day at CP.We are so predictable its unreal.

Jones and Obst do not click together,always moaning at each other.
James H ,as good as he is never gets a look in.

At least Leigh tried to throw it around a bit and mix it up.
As for there fans,never heard any swearing where i was stood but outside the ground while i was waiting for a lift two of their fans were having a right ding dong just before they got on the coach back home. You had to be there

some quality intellectual musings there I'd guess .....

As a "neutral" but one who would have liked a Cougars win, I think that the main area you should be concentrating on is giving up so much cheap possession, dropping the ball, and conceding soft penalties.

Cougars started well, and had a reasonable first half, 14-0 down was doable.

Started off the second half very brightly with some good repeated pressure, but the bad habit of coughing the ball up, and playing panic plays instead of knowing when to just take a tackle was what cost them. If they had got over for one, more would have followed, but they couldn't steady themselves.

The ref was not the reason Leigh won. He gave Cougars plenty of decisions too. The scoreline was no reflection at all of the play, but was what happens when you can't complete a set of six. Mind you probably the worst decision of the evening was Colin's mission to cross the ground and try to get Nobby, who was live on air, to do the half time draw! But tbf he didn't drop the carrier bag . . .

Don't disagree with any of that. I came away thinking we'd done a good job of beating ourselves.

Well here goes
Have had my first season as a season ticket holder for cougars, mainly followed fax as this is my hometown.
Why cougars?
Origanally I came with a friend to watch the final when cougars went up.
I was impressed by the lovely atmosphere at cougar park, more friendly, down to earth and very supportive towards your players.
That day i saw Danny Jones and lots of fans going up to him and welcoming him back to the team and patting him on the back, saying how much they had missed him, I thought how fantastic. He has said it feels like coming home a big admission for a Halifax lad and a compliment to Keighley.
I have always looked at the forums and didn't like it when after a bad game players were singled out and torn to shreads.
Yes I hear you all say this is a forum and everyone has a view.
Please please don't get like other teams, stay true to your players they will all have bad games, I'm sure they are their own worse critics and i'm sure they do read these comments, Famous quote " if we live with encouragement we learn confidence ".
Imo too much rotatation too many half backs signed they don't get chance to gel if you read the fax forum it's happening there and they played together at batley.
In a previous quote about playing for Wales not helping, Wales have one of the best coaches Lestyn Harris also our own Barry Heaton, who has only just lost the title for consecutive goals in a season, as assistant coach and one of the best half backs ever,Lee Briers, training him, how can this not be benificial.I think both Danny and Craig Moss can only grow in strength from the extra input.
I feel that Paul March will lead the cougars well, we may miss some of the Wakefield "big players"but this is only the first season in championship I for one think Cougars have done really well and am excited for next season "Cougars" not at the top but not bottom either.

Finally sign up to "The Pride in the Red and Green" i have and intend to encourage others too. Lets keep it friendly I love "Cougars", players, fans and all.

to be honest i think the biggest problem was 6,7,12 and 1 all went missing. defensively you weren't bad. the only real aggression in the team came from korkidas and jermaine ray. seemed the only 2 that wanted to really mix it. none of the pivvits wanted to take on the line, they all just wanted to over play pass , pass for passings sake. thought you got some bad calls. thought the score flattered leigh. jones would be better at fullback. jermaine at standoff, seems to have a bit more flair but as i said the biggest things missing were the pivvits and agression.

the fact is that if you drop the ball you wont win any games we wernt great ether would say we were at probably 60 per cent on our game bt tbh diddnt need to be better really. the other thing is the gate how do you pay players like obst korkidas and cherryholme on gates of 800 to a 1000 there was at least 200 of us at the game so where are all your fans !

With regards some of our signings, 2 or 3 came through our squadbuilder program, then players like Korkidas, Tadulala and Paul March were pretty much signed on mates rates by JD. The "Man City of the Championship" moniker we were given was completely unfair.

The fans thing is concerning. The Premier Sports deal doesn't help, our gates are down by about a quarter we play on TV. The amount of folk from Keighley who are Leeds/Br*dford/Huddersfield season ticket holders is shocking, and don't get me started on the parents who are bring their kids down to our game but dressed in Super League merch it's galling. We cannot compete with them at all, in Br*dford's and Huddersfield's case their season tickets are similarly priced for more games in better facilities and guaranteed better quality rugby because of the closed shop that is Super League.

Yup! You don't need to be a genius to work that one out - it's been our biggest problem all year


I simply don't accept that, not that I want an argument, but if you had seen your defence close up they were working at 110% and blowing like steam engines. If we had managed to keep hold of the ball and seen our sets out, the sustained pressure would have seen a different game. But it's all "if's and but's", we've done this all season. You were the better team on the day, no argument.


Korkidas and Obst were give jobs in the community working with kids. Some of it specialist work working with "difficult" kids that the schools can't handle. They are seeing it as a step to careers outside rugby. Tadulala came to put himself in the shop window for SL and is on match terms only. I would imagine Cherryholme is on no different terms to any other forward in the division.

With all the dual reg. players you use are you going to change your name to Wigan reserves?

If they could get merchandise from their home town club maybe they would wear that? Kids like to dress in the kit worn by their idols, be it Cougars, Dulls or any other team. The Cougars, despite the advert on the website, don't offer merchandise other than the shirt (long waiting time) or a cheap polo. The teamwear is not available simple as.

what all 2 of our dual reg signings 1 of witch played on thursday for 15 mins lol

I actually expected a stronger response when mentioning "Wigan".



Must get some fresher bait.

yeh mate youll have to do better than that lol

I was only texting at 60%

and for our doubters think what you want about our 'big' signings ...but both were replacing posts where the previous incumbents had disappeared to Oz ..Sam replacing Tommy Hall on the Community Development team and Korki replacing Greg Nic with Sporting Chance ..

Is this post by Rach who goes to wembley every year and stays at the Strand Palace Hotel.??

Wembley yes - Strand Park Hotel ..no

Hi Marshy1 - have spoken to the Rachel you refer to and she says she she is going to Wembley and yes again to the hotel but wonders who you are? Could you please pm your name and I will tell her .

I've been away since just after the Leigh game, hence only just posting now, but I can't recall ever leaving Cougar Park so frustrated, mostly at the number of times we dropped the ball and coughed up possession so easily - time after time. If I had any hair I'd have been pulling it out. Our attacking play was so predictable; if we in the crowd could see what was coming every time then it goes without saying that the Leigh players could also see it and could defend against it all day long. And unless I missed something, we didn't even attempt an off-load in the tackle until the 73rd minute. I know it's not always easy or even advisable to do that on occasion but the better teams seem quite capable of it and it brings them points on the board.
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Lastly - PLEASE introduce some variety into the kick-offs / re-starts!

Can't seem to be able to PM you....but if you tell her we are the gruop who have been going years and I am Alan, she will probably know then.

ok Alan will do