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That mistake from Lomax killed Saints. Warrington well on top after that. Pretty poor how he tried to blame others too.

Touch line reporter: “George, you just ‘nosed’ yourself in front there” Williams: <Scowls>

The last decade has seen the emergence of two new teams challenging the established top few. Both Hkr and Leigh are huge success stories of the last couple of years and both built from good investment from promotion from championship. Sometimes relegation can help a team rebuild and change business plans and the way clubs approach things, rather than sitting safe in a nothing to play for bottom half sl. We saw the demise of more teams under franchises than new teams and over the last few years there seems to be an emergence of new teams outside of the m62 corridor in the the lower leagues. We spend to much time putting our great sport down when we should be shouting from the rooftops how good it is, yes it has its faults but so does every sport.

Superb from wire really match Saints up front and then picked us apart out wide. As other posters have alluded to Saints lack of pace out wide is killing us both in attack and defence. Saints will have a hell of a job getting the backline something like at the end of this season.

Once again, we see folk confusing a city with an administrative area. The City of Wakefield just includes Wakefield. The City of Wakefield MDC includes Castleford, Featherstone, several other towns and vast tracts of farmland. A city has a Royal Charter saying it's a city. It's not just a big town. St David's is a city. It's not big.

Trylights already up on YouTube

One day I would like to see a post match interview when a player is asked "how tough was that?" and he replies "it was easy, they're proper soft".

They didn’t need to keep Saints and Wigan apart in the draw after all

The Totally Wicked Trudge?

Saints revert to type when under pressure and start getting petulant.

In terms of Yorks ‘star signing’, there’s been one - Thompson. The rest have been a waste of time and money.

Congratulations on the win today, thoroughly deserved. Think this could be a springboard for Batley now. Good luck for the rest of the season

‘Bit of a scrappy one today,’ says Bailey Aldridge on the club’s Roughyeds feed on Instagram. Incidentally, the social media presence of the Roughyeds is unbelievable. The club is working its backside off. Tremendous stuff.

This. Opinions and facts are not the same thing.

Pia v Albi is live streamed with a 2:30 pm U.K. kick off. U19s is also being streamed with a U.K. 12:30 pm kick off for anyone interested.

There are no 'rugby league' towns in England, in my view. In every one listed in this thread, I would wager that more people follow football than rugby league.

forgive me crab but who are these they that ruined oldham rlfc. for as far as i can remember it was one man, and one man only who ruined this club. i hope when oldham are at home on sundays and he is sat in his house. with all his widows open he can hear all the cheering

We were totally outplayed today, and even allowing for all our missing players, our defence was embarrassing. How many tries do we concede down our right hand side, why can't this be addressed? Get rid of the defence coach, he obviously isn't doing what he is paid for. It looks like our fan communication system has broken down again. Despite being in our 21 man squad it seems that TNW, and Severs have been recalled by their parent clubs. Did anybody know? And finally, who had the idea of playing blaring music at every break in play, something else that shouldn't be repeated?

The same places where the expansion programme has been funded and resourced appropriately.

Personally I would have Jordy Thompson as Captain, I think Harris’s game has suffered since he was made captain, I would also play Harrison at Full Back, whilst Dagger is out. I don’t really get why we need all these different coaches either, fair enough having an assistant and maybe one of the senior players but to pay money out for the likes of Paul Cooke - no disrespect to him, in the Championship seems like madness to me. I also think the whole Myler thing has had an unsettling effect , from his signing to his apparent defection, along with all the speculation about his ‘father in law’. Time to move on now and turn the ship around.

Same 2nd half as last week. We can't seem to control games. They made way too many yards easily 2nd half and I agree some of them lost the plot. Emslie was very very good and I am afraid Brad Walker very poor again. I think we could do with a lively stand off to speed things up

You were excellent. Beat us up down the middle in the second half too. Well done Warrington. Horrific day with Liverpool losing too.

Well the worse team definitely lost. Here's hoping for a Huddersfield vs Rovers final.

JP just pointed that out, said he didn't want to take responsibility for his own obvious error.

So we threw the ball wide. Honestly one of the best performances from a Warrington team I remember seeing.

A word for the referee. We will never agree with all refereeing decisions but I thought she handled the game well, penalised decisively what she saw and most importantly was consistent for both sides for full 80 minutes.

Excellent coverage there of one fan going to the loo, vintage stuff from the BBC

Classy little tribute to Ray French from Jonathan Davies there.

Had to laugh at the Wakefield fans singing “You’re supposed to be at home” when it was actually them who were supposed to be at home. Best bit of the afternoon tbh. Referee didn’t even fall over or anything decent like at the Toulouse game.

I wonder if he does it in everyday life. Sat in Subway saying “sandwiches don’t get any bigger than this” as he tucks into a 6 inch sub.

BBC Cumbria team was right beside us in the stand. Pre-game Mokko was worrying about 'Haven's big pack and there Aussie players....their pack did nothing, our 4 lads battered 'em. Only Singleton made a solitary break, the rest golded like a concertina, it was a proper Batley pack performance.

Players come out and the commentator says “it doesn’t get bigger than this. A challenge cup quarter final…” Wouldve thought that it’ll get bigger than this in the next two rounds

I don’t mind the music but appreciate it is not to everyone’s taste. It was great to see quite a number of the kids in the crowd dancing and singing along at times and it does seem to contribute to the atmosphere.

So they should giving the playing budget and full time against part time, it is hardly a fair contest but they are the cards we are dealt. No doubt next season when you are back in Super league normal service will be resumed and the Trin will be on the end of a few hammerings as last season.

1,112 reportedly at France vs Greece women's match yesterday.

Smithies expectional as per usual. 43 Tackles, 0 Missed 163 Metres

I like George King, but Luckley is really like a fill in just like Nakabuwai is for us - happy to be corrected - Gildart please, I was happy to see him leave us last season, had we had Lutelle fit he wouldn't have got nowhere near the team even accounting for how bad Hardacre is.

https://www.facebook.com/thechallengecup/videos/795133569190351 Highlights if anyone is interested?

i have offered on more than one occasion to help with website for free as i work in IT and nothing

Consistent refereeing? Applied the rules to both sides? Good performance? Fans happy with her? Hope the rfl don’t hear that…she’ll be running the line next week if they do!!

Congratulations to the Wire, very enjoyable game. Like to see Hull KR win it for a change though this year but hats off to the wire

Kirmond & Clarkson. Can’t complain about those two. We’re missing them badly this season IMO.

Amazing finish by Ashton.

That's my point -they weren't biased at all. Very fair commentary and complimentary to Batley. A pleasure to listen to them

We’re not going to steamroller and nil everybody. Key personnel changes make a difference. Good to get these boys who aren’t playing regularly into the swing of things. We don’t want to be found wanting and underdone against the top teams. With the knowledge and experience in our squad and coaching staff I reckon lesson learned from today and similar marches/results will be sharply pointed out and learned from. It will be interesting to see the result of Keighley v Crusaders. Cru could be the dark horses this year- as they were in fact last season. They could well take points off the supposed too teams.

How many "star" signings dropping down from SL to a Championship club have actually been good value? Far fewer than those who significantly disappointed, I would say.

But how is the new grading system going to make any difference to the fortunes of League 1 clubs?

Yes. Before "blame" we should establish what we want to achieve. Sure, there is a certain satisfaction seeing rugby league featuring in places familiar to us, places we already frequent. In my view, though, the real achievement comes in increasing the viewing figures, the interest, the attachment to our sport of lapsed fans and new fans. I see it much more important to see the games trailed in advance in the national media, with match reports and live text being secondary. From my (limited) viewing of the BBC sports news in recent days, I saw no mention at all of the upcoming cup games, just as I hardly ever see any promotion of SL games on Sky News.