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Surprised to not have had any news on Jack's condition. No news either on Hunslet's page about their man.

We DON'T have Hooley, we have what we have, he does well enough for me. And here's me thinking that I'm the one who complains....

All competitions Butterworth 6, Render 5, Burton 4, Arundel 3, Dean 3, Martin 3, Myers 2, Manning 2, Kear 2, White, 2, Woods, Brown, Moore, Ward, Parsons, Leak 1 each. Who's top try scorer....

Good job we don't have 3 players whose names are colours; Brown, was immense I thought, full of everything James Brown is. White, probed all afternoon, did the job of both halfbacks and anybody else who went missing. 3rd was hard; Greensmith was full of effort, Kear had probably his best game for us in his proper position for a change, but for sheer persistence, breaks, the lift he provides and for that massive dummy and dive-over... Leak.

Leave it out with new fullback argument, he joins in where he should, takes 99% of bombs, runs back well, hits the vast majority of his tackles, what else, oh btw he's top try-scorer as well.....he's doing a hell of a lot more work than someone else regularly mentioned and he is a halfback after all. Who put out that brilliant pass to put Alfie in last week (top of a lot more)? Are we suggesting that he's the one player that needs replacing as a cure-all for performances like today?

Bradford the biggest but not a very pleasant bunch.

MoM v London Woods. 13 votes. 3pts. Brown. 12 votes. 2pts. Myers. 6 votes. 1pt. Stav-Carr. 4 votes. White. 2 votes. Dean. 2 votes Accumulator. Woods. 11 pts. Butterworth.7 Brown 7 pts. Greensmith. 7 Manning. 5 pts. Parsons. 4 pts. Leak. 3 pts. Myers. 3 pts. Moore/Ward 2 pts

30-14 Batley.

Butterworth, Render, Myers, Dean, Burton, White, Woods, Gledhill, Parsons, Brown, Greensmith, Staveley-Carr, Moore. Leak, Ward, Shaw, Bayliss-Brow. Flynn to return next match.

A chance to hold our mid-table spot. This should be a 10/12 point victory. Could be that if other results go our way we could even climb a couple of places!

KTF please make a single choice....

As an aside, the winner of the the 2024 Forum MoM will be presented hopefully on Friday again half-time, please pay attention all!!

It's not a lack of faith Scrim, it's utter confusion sometimes!

What a massive win that is, fight to the end! Top marks from Mokko downwards.

Butterworth, Render, Myers, Kear, Burton, White Woods. Gledhill, Parsons, Bayliss-Brow, Greensmith, Blake, Moore. Leak, Ward, Brown, Staveley-Carr. Atkinson. Worried as to why Hepworth is no longer in the picture.

Point is we're swapping and changing, we're not getting a great deal of consistency which means Mokko having to spend more time bedding in different players whilst knowing at the back of his mind tgat ge might be wasting his time cos Joe Bloggs mightn't be here next week. Surely you can see this?

Bit low on DR/loans this week, a bad sign IMO. Peposhi, Martin, Thomas, High gone, where's the Trinity partnership gone? Shame as this was a game to target as a win.

Referee Ryan Cox from Liverpool, always found him confident and consistent m, didn't he have the Widnes game?

That's a really positive move, hope the same is offered to Kieran Hepworth. May it serve as notice to others that Batley are open for business for those bubbling under in SL development squads.

Sorry, done it again!

Mom v Halifax. Ward. 3 votes. Moore. 3 votes. Myers. 3 votes. Parsons. 3 votes. Greensmith 2 votes. White. 2 votes. Butterworth 1 vote. Woods. 1 vote. The top 3 gained their votes a a 1st place, Parsons from a 2nd and 3rd. As there are only 6 points available to top 3 will get 2 points each Totaliser; Woods. 8pts. Butterworth. 7pts. Greensmith. 7pts. Brown. 5pts. Manning. 5pts. Parsons. 4pts. White. 4pts. Leak. 3pts. Moore. 2pts. Myers. 2pts. Ward. 2pts.

Will also be reliant on tge state of Trinity's injury list, I know they're not positions we're struggling with but both Russells broke bones last night. Marshall from Warrington has now gone to Eagles.

We need DR/loans of players who fit the position, not ones who are a 'one size fits all' type. We had Shaw and High who were props, reasonably experienced whereas the 2 lads from Warrington, promising as they may be, are still developing. Smith was a great little player but that particular day he was 1 of 5 hookers and I wouldn't want to move Parsons onto the back burner. Centres; Goldsmith and Myers, Joe Burton is a great finishing winger but gets over-run by opposing centres who often are much bigger. Martin is a really good second rower, who it's hoped we can afford to keep him in the long term. Jowett is out at Trinity so Rourke won't be available short term, again am I the only one championing Butterworth? Sorry again, great service and everything but halves aren't influencing anything at the moment. I know Mokko can't just wade in and say 'oi, I want' but you'd also hope that the guy he's dealing with has a good ear.

And I thought I was the one always accused of belittling players....

This is going to play havoc now with the end of season play-off idea intended to level up all the divisions. Alternatively a return to West and East and the crossover fixtures, or Bedford step in to Div1.