Roger York

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Another good performance today defence again won us the day and good all round team performance. Fair play to Widnes they never gave in and I think they were beat up after a long season and there fans backed them all match. Hope Fev beat Bradford tomorrow as would fancy our chances at Toulouse.

Brutal defence at times today at one point in the second half for 3 tackles they absolutely smashed Fev then the referee blew for a penalty maybe to calm it but brutal defence. Great game to watch and our props worked over time as we lost Jack Martin early on. Special mention for Josh Hardcastle for Fev he was there best player massive effort from him after suffering a stroke last year rugby league players don’t get paid enough.

In my eyes music playing when a player is badly injured its not respectful I may be wrong. Let the medical staff deal with it and be able to communicate with each other without that distraction.

Good strong performance again today was worried we might have a hangover from Toulouse but gladly not to be. Brad ward again gets better and Jack Martin looks a really good signing he ran and tackled really well plus a couple of good offloads. I hope the Batley player is okay and also can they stop playing music when a player is badly injured please show some respect to the player.

Fantastic result defence was outstanding and really took it out of tolouse they looked gassed at times. Ref gave us nothing but who cares get in.

I agree Cunningham has a fantastic rugby brain does the little things you don’t notice and organises well. Nikau Williams has improved vastly from early season and can’t be dropped on current form plus his versatility is a big thing for us.

Good result as Swinton are always a tricky side but our defence stopped them playing. Ata’s cut out pass was worth the entry fee on its own pure class there and we finished it well. Only worry was our discipline was poor today and we can’t do that against Halifax. Big game again next week win that and we are firmly in the mix for the top six.

We are playing by the same rules when dagger got suspended we brought in Litten for the Halifax game so you can’t really complain when the opposition do it. Anyway tough ask tomorrow Bradford have had some tough games let’s hope we can keep our run going.

Great defence today Mash said when he first arrived he wanted to work on defence and it’s showing Doncaster never looked like scoring all day. If we keep defending like that we’re going to be hard to beat, big test next week at Bradford think there missing a couple through suspension if we get a result there it will be huge.

Great result we seem to be improving pitch wide now. Really impressed with Connor Bailey he seems to be getting better every week and Brad Ward has took his opportunity in the first team really well.

As others have said can’t fault the effort everyone gave there all I think all the players can be proud of there efforts. Fair play to Widnes they stuck at it our backs were up against the wall for the last 15 minutes another day we hang on. We need this break now chance to recharge hopefully get a few players back for the rest of the season.

Unbelievable comeback after sounding terrible. I think we have a good side but belief and confidence is low and when we go behind early we seem to struggle hopefully more confidence and belief from todays game to take into the Widnes game.

Totally agree about pembo I thought he did his job superbly and also his enthusiasm is massive for the team. As a team we looked a lot better still a bit clunky but probably down to confidence more than anything and the 2 lads from hull fitted in well would be nice to have them longer. Let’s build on this into next week and hopefully get a run together and more confidence.

Who were shouting those comments? We may not like certain opposing players but you have to respect them they put there bodies on the line week in week out for little reward and comments like that are bang out of order.

Better performance today but as others have said the poor start cost us I don’t think we touched the ball in the first 10 mins apart from to kick off and it was bound to sap our energy. We did well to get back into it but we’re always playing catchup but I felt if we scored first in the second half we could have won it. The ref made some strange calls for both sides but I can’t understand when they were 6 up and we were defending he gave Sheffield a full penalty I thought it was for offside I may be wrong but 99 times out of a 100 it’s just six again not a full penalty unless it’s in your own 40, that 2 points just made it a bridge to far. Next Sunday is a massive game we need to build on this and sort our discipline out too many players arguing with the ref we will never get the 50/50 calls if we are constantly arguing every decision.

Yes he dropped the ball but the referee had given the try and shouting at the ref ain’t going to change his mind as a senior player he should be leading by example. Those incidents happen in the Bradford game they had a perfectly good try disallowed around the same position. For me Williams is not smooth enough everything looks clunky with him l don’t know if he sticking to a plan and not playing his natural game and that’s hindering him. To me it’s clear that Higano is our best attacking halfback so why blunt his energy playing loose forward and defending in the middle. It baffles me watching us sometimes we keep hearing how good our training facilities are with the video sessions etc but come game day we look like 13 strangers on a pitch. I hope it comes right soon we are all used to disappointment but have we had a squad with more money invested in it than this season? And to be turning performances out like that obviously something is not right.

Does anyone know how to book your season ticket seat for the Sheffield match I try but it says my seat is unavailable?

Credit to Whitehaven today they took there chances well ran harder and looked faster than us. York were very very poor today I love my rugby but this is the first time I have watched a game wanting it to be over so I could go home. No passion today no leaders nothing I always back the team and the coach but something is wrong why bring higano off and for me Williams does nothing let pemberton play he is always 110% which is more than can be said for the majority today. So much optimism going into the season was really buzzing for it but so quickly has that gone out of the window something has to change is Hendo the man for the job with results this season I would say no.

We were poor today no direction everything seemed clunky as though we had just met as a team. I thought we would get beat today but with 2 players sent off we should be doing better even against 11 men we struggled to find gaps. If there is a take over or not wish the club would just make a statement to confirm or deny we are the fans after all it’s our club all we want is stability.

Yes I read that it’s down to the budget apparently, the same fans thought they should beat us today with the money they spent. Oldham should win league 1 and no doubt will be a strong championship team in time but as we know you can have the players but they sometimes don’t play as a team.

Agree good first half performance totally dominated the only thing that got Oldham field position was the short restarts after we scored. We did fall away in the second half it became very scrappy if we had kept the foot on the gas we would have put 60+ on them. I watched the 2 televised games of oldhams they looked good but today I thought they were poor Keighley may push them in league 1.

Looking forward to todays game be nice to see us play some rugby after last weeks match. Oldham have signed well but have lost 3 forwards which will be a big loss for them let’s hope the ref lets the game flow.

I think Cunningham picked up a injury at Newcastle I don’t know about ATA I believe he had surgery on his ankle and was not going to play until the league season but did play the second half against Newcastle.

Is there any news on Santi he came off injured and didn’t look happy he was indicating that something had broken in his foot. Could be expensive day yesterday looks like dagger will get banned losing Santi and any comeback on the late hits by Thompson and Dee. Regarding consistency with the ref I think we were lucky not to get another sin binned with the tip tackle late in the first half.