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I know most people have us down but really good win for Thunder this afternoon. We did our best to try and lose it but pleased for everyone to get a win!

Amazing result for the dogs. Seriously though, if Fev had a sudden slip, what do you reckon the club would do if the dogs DID finish top - stick or twist.? Naturally this would depend on the RFL overlooking the club’s application for SL for : 1. Ground capacity being too small. 2. support numbers too small. 3. pitch too slopey. 4. Shirts wrong colour. 5. Burgers too small. 6. Beer too warm. 7. Piggy’s mate. Really hope you finish as high as the club deserves. And that’s coming from the old enemy.

Good win, thought we kept our cool against Swinton's painfully obvious and dull spoiling tactics, despite 3 yellow cards. They did a good impression of a football team with the feigning of injury, going down at the slightest of touches and didn't really play any rugby. Hau was impressive today, he treated their 7 like an annoying ragdoll that kept getting in his way. Springer and Yei put great shifts in and I thought all the backs went well. Onwards and upwards!

Given Fax's preference for a dry track, I'm assuming it's raining in Batley.

Over 1300 at Workington- well done to Workington with the crowd and the result.

Just announced that Ciaran Walker has signed a new 2 year deal.

At least they will still have the best ground in BD

Today's attendance 1337 well done everyone

What does Fartown become then?

Me & The Hubby went today for the 1st time in over 10 years. Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to next season at BP.

Great result, great attendance

Off the field town are reaping the benefits of their community programmes, these initiatives take time but what they will achieve is a new generation of supporters. On field so pleased they have stuck to their guns and stayed away from duel reg and the like, things are looking a lot brighter than they have been for a long time

Great performance today. Couldn't fault the effort from anyone. Hall in particular was excellent. Did the tough Carrie's a la Hardcastle. Hau came of age. Given the injuries to Bussey, Day and Josh he is now integral to our hope of SL. Credit to the management team for getting him here. What would our neighbours do for having him in their ranks. I'm told also that Junior is only 2 weeks away so good news there. Killer though needs resting after every 2 games. Plenty of cotton wool required. What a player.

Very enjoyable game and great to see the ground fuller than usual, well done. I'm gonna keep banging this drum..every time Marwood comes on we finish the game well and it's so good to have him back, to think him and Walker were allowed to leave last year. Well done whoever brought them back. The game had a bit of everything..hard running, strong tackling, skillful kicking, flying finishes in the corners and that try! At 20-12 they'd wrestled it back and looked dangerous but some good substitutions and a couple of moments of magic and it was game over. Some tough games coming up now Oldham, Dewsbury, N Wales away and Donny and Hunslet at home.

Not last season in s/f Fev gave Batley plenty of credit and best team won.

Some lovely tries today but switched off to let Rochdale back in it. Switched on again to finish in style. A really good crowd, well done to the club. Even though we have injuries it’s very good that we turned out a 17 with 15 Cumbrians, 16 if you count our adopted Cumbrian in buffer, and haven’t gone down the dr route but stuck with the squad we put together for the season. We’ll need to strengthen for sure, but some of these young lads look impressive. Hope the 2 Rochdale lads aren’t too badly hurt.

Well played lads, great atmosphere and there seems to be a buzz about the place which has been missing for a number of years

22 points for Hooley. No doubt the Blue Sox fans will be crying blaming duel reg again.

The NSWRL was the premier comp in Australia despite what an old angry man from Leigh says & is the precursor to the NRL,that’s why clubs are credited with premierships going back to its inception. The Brisbane comp was pretty successful in its own right but with the birth of the Broncos it sadly faded away,although the Qld Cup is a pretty successful comp these days.

Hope RFL never expands to Scunthorpe then.

I agree it should be the IRL or the nations involved organising these games. Are the NRL allowing this though? The IRL are hampered and hamstrung at every turn and the NRL waste no opportunity to put every other RL body in their place, whether that is the IRL, a World Cup, the RFL and NZRL over mid season tests or arranging NRL internationals for Tonga without asking them and preventing them from arranging their own own. It is the NRL that benefit from the international games it organises. It is the NRL that sells them as part of its TV deal and benefits from sponsorship, government funding, any grants and ticket sales. It is the NRL that furthers its brand and solidifies its stranglehold on the international game through doing this. The NRL being the ones to pay the players, after receiving all the benefits, is just another form of control.

I think the crowd was 12,385 at Warrington which is about 1,900 more than last season. Well done wire.

Not when its in the NRL's interests to do so. They belatedly see the international game as helping them grow the sport in Australia, but its in their interests to have competitive opponents. It's closer matches that generate interest. Makes perfect sense for the NRL to level the pay playing field to help Tonga and Samoa have stronger sides. It helps grow the NRL.

Him or Kear and Oxy will end up in intensive care.

solid from start to finish , Hendo took a bit of flack with some of his selections and transfer activity but you have got to believe , jesse dee showed what a destructive centre he is , daley and cunnigham outstanding , great team performance , keep it up .

Great day,the club looking to the future, in Henson ,Bradley, walker and marwood were building something

Great crowd considering what was on TV , UTT.

No two situations will be identical. Anyway refs might make some errors they are human, I bet they don’t make as many errors as the players though.

Wasnt the best but a wins a win. Our middles and left backrow really struggled to hold Andrade. Right side looked strong both sides of the ball. Some great backrow lines to open them up for Rawsthorne who had easily his best game for us.

We need to forget about the season so far Our season is now 4 games long 2 at home, 2 away We need to reset, take stock, focus Cut out silly penalties, total control the set of 6 after scoring, bully teams, build pressure rather than trying to score off every play, line defence needs to be rock solid We've to lose the swagger of "simply turn and win" and "if you score 4 we will score 5" Away games need the same intensity as home games, relentless, unforgiving, turn the screw on the opposition, and grind them down. Force mistakes, force errors, capitalise when given easy possession, beat NWC & Hunslet and we're almost over the line, these 2 games will be very difficult, we snooze, we lose... 4 games that's all We've not lived up to expectations away this season and I'm sure the coaching team would agree with that.. 320 minutes of lean,mean, killing machine needed COME ON RAMS

We really need to improve our defence!

Good result, but what was excellent to see was all the new faces watching. The work going on behind the scenes is just starting to reap rewards. Well done to those who are putting it together

Thanks for getting Mcdermot fired - I think lol.

What because Bradford are ………… still 5th but behind Sheffield instead of Fax?

wow. just wow.

"A Travel Guide to London Broncos home Ground" by Michael Portillio

Let’s hope the issues get sorted,International RL can’t afford to take any more hits.

Or Penistone.

Are these the same players who benefit from the Sky NZ $14 million per year broadcast money ?

The contempt you have for players asking for a share of the money their work creates is quite remarkable.

Cat.... alan's.....just a stab In the dark but maybe how its referred to when you shorten the Catalans name?

Great result for Cornwall, it is a great result for Rugby League, hopefully it will boost their confidence and inspire them to a few more wins which should draw a few more people to their home games which has to be good for the game as a whole. Skolars will come good we need them to be successful also if we want this great game of ours to thrive. It is so hard making progress with so little funding for all the tier three teams, it is hard enough in the Championship to make ends meet so you have to applaud the efforts of all the people in involved in running the clubs at this level.

Totally agree but Aekins is as good as you get in terms of utility. Whether he makes 1 to 6 when everyone is fit is debatable but because you lose very little when he plays, and often gain, he's pretty invaluable to the team. He's been another astute signing.

I've run the figures on Leeds and they are coming out at 17.610 using present league position/attendances to date and some informed assumptions. There are lots of things that strike me from running through this absurd process in a bit of detail but for now I'll stick to just two things from the document: 1. Leeds would get another 0.5 points if Paul Caddick wrote a cheque out for them for £500,000 as a long-term loan. Now this might actually have happened as the club is believed to have made another large loss in 2022 (accounts yet to be published) as the corporate events industry was slow to recover from Covid so he might actually have needed to put some cash in. But it makes no sense whatsoever that a club should be rewarded for taking on debt it doesn't need. 2. I think the document has an error in it. On page 9 it says website visits are worth 0.8 and social engagements 0.5 whilst on page 13 these scores are reversed.

It’s hard been a rugby league fan keighley looked a quality side when they beat us at Easter one of the best sides I have seen at the LNER this season threats all over the pitch but today they looked so poor and pretty devoid of ideas. It’s the genuine fans who turn up week after week win lose or draw that suffer I hope you stay up and can regroup but it’s going to be hard this division is unforgiving no easy games and even we are not safe.

Great win for the Knights, players still to comeback as well, feel a bit safer tonight, we'll played all.

Worth noting that this innings saw Harry Brook hit his thousandth test run from just 1,058 balls - a world record in this format of cricket.

If you know anything about the IRL you'd know this is completely out of their league. They are almost incapable of even the very basics.

Giving bottom half clubs security is what will enable them to plan for the future, and invest in it, rather than the current season. This is cognitive dissonance: The "4 winners" you see as a weakness are a result of the promotion & relegation system you think is best! Look at the NRL. How many clubs have won the NRL in the last 15 years? That league has a salary cap, just like ours. But they don't have relegation. That enables clubs having a poor season to plan for the next one, to make the changes needed, rather than waste all their time and energy in a desperate fight for survival. One which even if they stay up will mean they'll be in the same sort of position next year. Hell, it even enables them to build their player list 2-3 years out, investing in youth that they know will come good. Where do you think Penrith's titles came from?