phildog

The 'academy fodder' will be walking away; Hepworth, despite great performances, was overlooked when we had no second row so walked away. Parsons and Dean good enough to earn places, again being overlooked, along with Atkinson will soon follow unless they've signed new contracts. Players, alledgedly, unless playing are no longer being paid,Trinity haven't set our team alight with capable DR's, the fact that Shaw went to Hunslet shows how attractive we are. There are many who have reached the end of there abilities if not their hearts, just bring in more 'academy fodder' and set 'emnon their way.I'll be there for reunion day then that's it. Championship 1 is a long, lonely, way away, there is now no foreseeable future with the current set up, board downward, we need a buyout and funds. If, as we are often told, we owe nobody then it must be a proposition to someone, advertise it down under, up and over, do something.

Trinity forum seems to suggest Hunslet. Just watch he'll play out of his skin.

Fev, Bulls, Eagles, Fax, Donny....anywhere except....I wonder.

Might be to us Rog, but we'd have had it on here....should have had Teanby from York. We're struggling...

MoM v Toulouse Kear. 17 votes. 3pts High. 11 votes. 2pts Brown. 8 votes. 1 pt Goldsmith. 6 votes Manning. 6 votes Gledhill. 1 vote Totaliser Woods. 13pts Greensmith. 11pts Brown. 11pts Manning. 8pts Butterworth. 7pts Moore. each Leak. 6pts Ward. 5pts Kear. each Parsons. 4pts White Myers. 3pts each Flynn High. 2pts.

Keep up the improvement and dedication and maybe we'll see a new influx of Batley Boys like the 80's.

I didn't expect in the slightest that w'ed go for Corbett, it was facetiousness for the most part. It's obvious that there won't be any changes/ incoming as any would have happened after previous shellackings and knowing that there's not a lot of match-winning, natch-changing talent to return paints a sorry picture. I still stick to my opinion that we didn't play badly against Bulls and Olympique.

Pick up young Corbett from Bulls?

Didn't get to Fev but since Bradford I think there has been improvement in performance. Being beaten by a good side is vastly different to being beaten through abject surrender and the performance v Toulouse was also very good, full of effort, we handled our defence better I thought, made more first tackles than usual, had more knitted together go forward, so there are good signs, but the problem isn't always your own performance and improvement but that of teams around you and if they improve as well with one or two slightly better players then situations don't always seem to be getting better.

Good luck to all, enjoy the experience of a cup final!!

MoM v Featherstone. Manning. 9 votes. 3pts Greensmith 4 votes. 2pts Moore. 2 votes. 1pt White + Kear 1 votes each Totaliser Woods. 13 pts Greensmith. 11 pts Brown. 10pts Manning. 8pts Butterworth. 7pts Moore. 7pts Leak. 6pts Ward. 5pts Parsons. 4pts White Myers. 3pts Flynn Kear. 2pts

We appear to be down to a bare 17, 7 players at least missing for various reasons, Butterworth, Render, Arundel, Moore, Walshaw, Blake, Chitakunye, then regular DR'S Myers and Shaw. Allowing for that everybody put a shift in today, we just weren't big enough or smart enough to take advantage of good positions, that said we did damned well to contain TO, we made a great % of our first tackles today which have often let us down and their big lads certainly knew they'd been hit. We've kicked off at bad performances, we should clap 'em, players and coaches, when it's clear they've given everything, I reckon today and both Bulls matches have been great performances. It would be nice to think that this could lead to a change in fortunes.

His missus took it....

Nobody had a bad game, simple, any number of contenders. 1 Kear, immense at full-back, showed why he's been a long time international. Defying age. 2 Brown, put 2 superb stints in , as above defied his age to lead the pack from the front. 3 Greensmith, led the three quarter line and showed the others how to take it forward.

Even if we do pick up, those couple who were down there with us already have done so. Can anybody point to 4 clubs who might finish below us? Usually we can count on Barrow, they're top end, Hunslet only need to beat us again or pull out another surprise win, who else is continually playing badly?

But guess what folks, there'll be nothing.....

And with Toulouse rolling in on Saturday there's another tonking on the horizon. Do we remove the coach or let him resign? Sad if we did with his continuous service but these things happen. Do we have anyone to step up, would Chapman spark a revival? Is there anybody out there to come in and manage this? Can we find 4 or 5 players to come in and lead us around? Who's letting us down? Is it halves or are they playing behind a beaten pack? Why isn't livewire Parsons playing? Why, when we lost our second row, was Hepworth ignored and then allowed to walk? Why is Chita not getting a go? Are we going to lose him due to something I shouldn't really mention? The whole thing, the vibe is totally wrong, what has happened to our biggest asset, spirit, the turning up for your mates? Lots of ?'s to which probably only 2 people have any answers as I don't think the other 20'ish have any.

Burton back, will he go to 1 or Kear? Manning back so suggest Greensmith and Arundel in centres, Dean and Burton wings for me, Kear full back.

MoM v Bradford Flynn. 9 votes. 3pts White. 7 votes. 2pts Leak. 4 votes. 1pt Kear. 3 votes Totaliser Woods. 13pts Brown. 10pts Greensmith. 9pts Butterworth. 7pts Leak. 6pts Manning Moore. 5pts each Ward. Parsons. 4pts White. 3pts Myers. 3pts Flynn. 3pts Kear. 2pts.

Trevor, we had 5 'academy' if you like, players. I'm sure they came with the idea of playing pre-season friendlies and maybe a sub appearance now and then, but they showed up and did well. Parsons has had a fine run, surprisingly dropped for the last 2, we've been a bit light in the backs at times, yet despite having Dean who's a big lad he's only been let in as an afterthought. Foulstone unknown to the coach dragged an amateur ban with him, Atkinson has waited around and now got in the team and done well, that brings us to Kieran Hepworth, as good a back 3 man as any we had in my opinion and that of a good few. Walshaw goes down, Manning gets banned, prime time for him yet we bring in blokes willy nilly who have hardly set our game alight (prime example yesterday of Brow, who ripped us apart yesterday but barely ripped a tissue for us), Hepworth gets overlooked, sticks the 2's up and walks. It wasn't until the Barrow game that Shaw and High (who strikes me as a decent Batley type player) really got stuck in, Shaw to a great extent did yesterday. Season long-loans; expect Myers back, will Trinity keep sending the above 2, who knows. Signing anybody, unlikely to convince anybody that 6 points and 56, 50 and 48 point defeats are a benefit to them. But as EVERYBODY has pointed out to me over a LONG TIME, we can't finance anything. So, are we already in that dreaded play-off scenario? Seeing as Midlands showed us up once already and The Cumbrians handing it out to everybody, are we going to get a run on to improve chances of beating them in cup final atmospheres? I suppose the most we can do is still turn up and shout, the rest is down to the inner circle.

Kear was my other name Ginaldo!!

Bullmania, I'm on the wrong end of a shellacking but can't attach any of it to Mr. Moore, who was far tighter and kept more control of the guy who reffed the 1895. The incident you refer to (from my view in the long stand side) was that Armitage jumped from infield then planted a foot trying to claim a caught in goal and then he was knocked down. All a matter of view and expectation I suppose. As a trio of officials they did a far better job than the SL tripe that 4 officials throw up, made decisiobs on what THEY saw in a split second, good enough for me! Good luck next week, whoever wins that wins the cup IMO.

Not often you could say after a thumping that nobody was absolutely useless, but I think that applies today. We were simply outplayed and brushed aside by a bigger, faster outfit. After the first 15 minutes we did have flashes of good play by a number of players but I have 4 names, 2 of which agree with KTF; Flynn Leak White.

Scrim and Bullmania both have great points for and against either side; I've felt that we're at the mercy of DR's/ loanees whether they want to actually play on the day or just fill a place on the teamsheet and which day it might be. Fortunately on Sunday I saw every man put in all they had. A minus is that we don't have them all this weekend. Bradford likewise have problems either knocks and losing Pele will shake things up, the fact that they withdrew Brow and Peposhi from loans shows it. They're probably still stronger on paper but they don't like playing us and there's not been a lot between the 2 for a while, so to battle but not THAT literally!

I've been on the same page as you fellas, in fact I started the page, but got shot down in flames over and over again! Now you're seeing it too. Running with this small squad including 4,now 2 trialists/ready for next year, may be blamed but was there a choice, was money there or not? Are we getting the right players in via DR/loans, I mean look at Bayliss-Brow today, unrecognisable from the player who turned out here. Also it's no good talking about all that money for floodlights but they are a RFL requirement or bye bye. Maybe now that they're paid for there WILL be more money, maybe not. Thing is, as we must accept that we'll be in the play-offs, are we going to beat enough teams to stay up? Are these players all capable of pulling it round, some, all? Get rid of Kev? Sure, he probably has no more money, none of the others gave either, but who would come in? There's been time in the better times for someone to buy out but nobody has. Rumours fly around that somebody showed an interest but was rebuffed and there's nobody loves a conspiracy theory more than me m, but we don't know and why would we? The ONE thing EVERYBODY does know is that at the moment it's unacceptable.