Adam B

Aye that looked to be precautionary, but knowing our luck that's him done for a month.

A sound performance that, in testing conditions, and fantastic win, especially given the boost to the points difference. Didn't see any obvious injury concerns so if we've come away with a clean bill of health it's been a great night's work.

I've some sympathy with this suggestion, but I'm wary of 'weakening' the halves for a game against theoretically weaker opposition, as we know it can come back to bite us. Without knowing what Reynold's niggling problem is it's hard to say whether it's worth the risk, but I guess if we're going to take it this would be the right kind of game.

See what you've done here is confused a wild conspiracy theory with a reasonable possibility. Unless you're suggesting that nobody has ever been promoted/given a leg up due to their sex, which would be as naive as it is absurd. Anyway, back to the rugby (again).

Agreed, we live in a country where discrimination essentially no longer exists. That's why most people rightly despise the DEI agenda currently invading every nook and cranny of our lives, it's a solution to a problem that no longer exists. We can debate why, despite this, we are still getting it shoved down our throats at every opportunity some other time. Right, back to the rugby.

Which wild conspiracy theories would those be then? I've just re-read the thread and all I can see are opinions.......

She's slowly morphing into Eorl Crabtree, so it should work. 'We didn't have much time so we created a raised stone burial mound, from where their filthy hot tub would have views of the surrounding Giblets, reached by a stepped aorta with a bright flurry of vas deferens every few feet just to lift the mood.'

You have to wonder how much Betfred put in given the actual value of the product? My guess is a pound each way. No surprise the BBC showed the ladies' final though while ignoring ours - what an insult to the men's game - they appear to have decided to go all in on women's rugby and football etc despite the overall lack of interest, and give them a platform and status they haven't earned and never could.

With any luck it’ll just rain during the women’s final, at least then no fans will get wet.

Sorry m'lud.

Equally thinly veiled pompous nonsense from someone who thinks he's the lord of the fev forum. Get a life lad,

Nope, me too. The 1895 cup was already pointless and a distraction before the IMG b*llocks hoved into view, and it's even more so now. That said I know many Fev fans loved their trips down to London for the final so what do I know?

That's on a par with 'someone hacked my twitter account'.

This was pretty much where I was too after yesterday's latest embarrassment. Heard him blaming the players again on Radio Leeds on my way home, and however much of a point he's got it's not a good position for any coach to take, and suggests he doesn't have any answers as to how we're going to get out of our current doldrums. I won't lie, I didn't want him after the London playoff game last season as I saw that as his rehearsal for the job proper, and as we all know he (and we) failed miserably in one of the most shameful performances I've ever seen. However, I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt, not least given it was possible the 'he's not had enough time to build his own team/get his ideas across' crew could have a point, but it looks very much like he's not up to it.

Dec Patton?

You're not wrong, until I googled it I was about to refer the Fox family to the local child safeguarding board.

Yes I noted that too, really ungracious and unnecessary from Lam, they'd just survived a scare and gone through to the next round - would it have killed him to say something nice about how we pushed them all the way? Apparently so, not much class unfortunately. Agree re Leigh deserving it, but there wasn't much in it - massive credit to the lads - and but for some of those 'marginal' calls going Leigh's way who knows what might have been. Good luck to 'em anyway in the next round, I'd rather they win it than a bl**dy Wigan or Saints. Again (yawn).

Addy Gale Aekins

More chance of re-signing Kyle Briggs. Not sure I can bear the thought of getting tonked twice by Wakey in those first few weeks (of the season proper), but the Reynolds fiasco makes it feel like the club has given up for the time being, so looks like a double-tonking it shall be. When you think what a complete waste of a SL place Wakey have been for the past 25 years, I almost don't begrudge them their new found sugar daddy.

Jones Addy Gale

I second that amen. Not only did we do all that ourselves, we did it without a penny of Supergreed's Danegeld, while Trinity spaffed a quarter century's worth of sky money up the wall, with so little to show for it they eventually had to bounce the council and it's partners into re-building them a ground. No doubt the cost of this will eventually be passed on quietly to the unsuspecting council tax payers of Wakey and the Five Towns. They should be ashamed.

Agreed Col, sounds like there's definitely a player there if we can get his development right, at least with the squad size we have currently he's likely to get some decent playing time, which is most important of all. Looking forward to seeing how he goes.

the benefits of living near a farm shop. Still a toss up between Tomkinson's and Stalag Luft for me, but they were all great, obviously. Gold from a golden age.

Madness. Just that. Still, coming from the same studio that brought us Ford/Aekins as the preferred half-backs, nothing would surprise me.