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He's been a great signing and he's improving each time he plays. Had to play big minutes yesterday as we lost another prop to injury fairly early on. Got anymore you can send our way

I'm surprised we've managed to sign a player of Jack's caliber, given our current position. Looking forward to seeing him in action on Sunday.

I can't foresee anything other than a very comfortable victory for Fev. Keighley's performance on Sunday at Rochdale was pathetic and I wouldn't be surprised if you put 60/70 past us, similar to Fax and York.

No, absolutely Rochdale had important players missing too. Hopefully we can each have a much healthier squad available for the next time we meet. I didn't hang around after the game Sunday but I feel the general consensus is that the playing squad is underperforming and we don't look like a well coached side. Fans don't expect to win every game but we do expect effort and commitment, and that didn't look to be their at the weekend. I'm sure the owners expect more for the outlay of money as well. On the flip side, as mentioned we haven't had a settled side and that will of course have played it's part. Injuries and suspensions have ravaged the squad, but i'm sure that's true to some extent for everyone. I don't know if players want out, but I wouldn't be shocked if that happened. I think it was quite telling that in Jake Webster's post match interview that Billy Walkley was name dropped as poorly (Fair enough) but nothing was said about George Flanagan, if true and he dropped out to go watch his son then I think there's questions to be asked.

I think Sammut was at fault for Rochdale's first try as well. If you watch the game back on YouTube, you can see how narrow and in front of the defensive line Sammut is, this means everyone outside him has to accommodate this and it left the space out wide. I'm not coach but I guess this it what coaches mean when speaking about a connected defence.

I think if you take Ioane, England, Brown, Lynam, Flanagan, Miller and Walkley out of any L1 side, they are going to struggle. We've also signed an Aussie we've yet to see and there's another signing that looks promising but we've yet to see. Then throw 3 young duel reg players in from Wire and it's no surprise we looked so poor and disjointed. Like I say, this takes nothing away from Rochdale, far too big and powerful on the day and scored some nice tries, and all that without Ridyard and Else.

Keighley aren't without a coach, Jake Webster is the head coach. We were absolutely shocking yesterday and have been all of pre season, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise. There was up to 9 players missing yesterday, with at least 5 being starters. We had a full back on the wing, centre at back row, no interchange hooker and 3 kids from Wire on DR. That's no excuse though, the 17 that were playing should be much better than that and Rochdale fully deserved the win. Worrying signs for Cougar fans, there's zero confidence in Webster's coaching and many wanted him out before the season even stated. Results like this won't obviously help. The fans were arguing amongst themselves yesterday. All seems very toxic and feels like something has to give.

I wouldn't take too much notice of the Keighley you've seen in pre-season. There has been lots of Injuries and suspensions which has resulted in lots of young lads on trial and duel reg playing. If we perform like that in the season we will be bottom 4, not top 4! The betting is really interesting. Personally, I wouldn't have Goole in the top 4 and think they're a terrible price. I think Crusaders and Midlands are strong this year and will be up there and are probably fairly priced. I'd say you guys are massively over priced, I think you will be top 4 with your recruitment, and will get stronger as the year goes. As you rightly said, I don't think anyone will walk away with the league this season, can't wait for the proper stuff to start (especially now Cougars have some players back!)

It'll depend on what team Keighley can put out. The squad is ravaged by injury and suspensions already - with more probably to come after Harry Bowes was sin binned against York. There were 2 more injuries to starters in the York, so it'll interesting to see who is available. Thankfully there's no game this weekend as by my count there is 11 potentially unavailable, 9 of which would be starters.

Keighley are very much depleted by injuries and suspensions. For our game last week there was no Brad England, Lewis Hatton, Aaron Brown, Josh Lynam, Dan Parker, George Flanagan, Junior Sa'u, Brandon Pickersgill, Tane Bentley. I'm not sure if any of these will be available this weekend, hopefully Sa'u, Pickersgill and Flanagan are able to play. Then, to add to our early season woes, Mark Ioane picked up a 2 game ban, so he is now missing. That means the barring one player our whole pack is unavailable. We also have an aussie that was due over middle of January, but he hasn't appeared on any socials yet, so not sure what has happened there. I expect it'll be a comfortable victory for York on Sunday.

Was there any word of what Jack Bussey or Wellington Albert were doing now they've left Fev?

Keighley have unretired the number 6 from 2025 onwards

A convenient draw to say the least!

Looking at the signings Crusaders have announced so far, I think they'll be up there. They've recruited primarily Swinton (Spedding, Cooper, Eaves) and Widnes (Brookes, Roby, Wilde) plus Olly Davies. There's apparently more to come as well. I'd probably be changing my predictions already and would have Crusaders top 4 instead of Swinton.

Keighley have friendlies scheduled 12th & 19th January, and could potentially be playing in R1 prelim round of the 1895 cup on 02nd Feb (draw isn't until later this week). Challenge cup round 3 is to played 08th/09th Feb - could be a struggle to fit it in if Keighley are drawn in the 1895 cup. 5 L1 teams get a bye, lets hope Keighley are one!