We took Ridyard and Brierley off for the last 15 minutes. Game was well won so no point risking them. I think Haggerty and Beswick were playing as our halves for the final stages. Haggerty's kick lead to Hocks try though so fair play to him. And big Jake Emmitt nailed the final conversion too.

Did you miss the first twenty minutes?

Honestly thought Fev played some good attacking rugby (funny isn't it, yet another opposition playing rugby, yet another game with no scrappy fighting) they really challenged our defence, which was up to the challenge though. Defensively they weren't up to much though. They were obviously very tired by the end of the game though and if we'd have gone out after them rather than easing off we could have really done even more damage.



After a poor 1st 20 min with lots of unforced errors (don't know what caused that but was thankfully sorted) we played some brilliant rugby yet again. Barlow's offloading is incredible, a little flick round the front to a player running onto it is almost impossible for teams to defend against. Brierley had a great game and did what Brierley does, think Fuifui Moimoi deserved MOM though, put in some great effort, really powerful runs and for a prop to score a hat trick, for Fuifui Moimoi to score his 1st hat trick of an illustrious 12 year career is something you had to be there for.



Ref was quite poor, very short 10 m and we barely had any 50:50 decisions go our way all game. Last week we seemed to have a ref who gave every loose ball as a knock on, this week we had one that gave every one as a ball steal, honestly starting to think refs decide if they're going to give knock on or ball steal before they go on the pitch.



Still important win against a good team. It's looking like top spot will be ours now (thanks Sheff); would still go full strength to Bradford though & try to get a big win to knock their confidence and boost ours.

Aye, I agree.

No - why?

To be honest it almost seems like we've settled for second now anyway, even before the defeat at Sheffield. We just didn't look bothered yesterday.



I'm hoping we'll rest our key players for the Leigh game because there really is no point playing them. But knowing Jimmy Lowes he'll probably play them and risk them picking up injuries

I agree, I hope we rest Riddy/Brierley and go with Reynolds and Foster. Pala/Higson in centres, Pownall FB

Acton, Spencer, Emmitt, Wilkes/Hopkins front rows, Beswick at 9, Goulden, Haggerty and Sarsfield in the back row with Kay/Lee on the wings, Tracey and dixon to make the 17 up on the bench.

I don't think it will make much difference to confidence ........ Losing to Fev, Eagles and ,probably, Fax would be much more telling had it been important to beat them. I don't think many fans or players recognise the kudos in finishing top of the Championship.........We need a few more years down here to spot that and that might have to involve the development of rivalries and all that entails. However I do think it will be hard for fans to see the Bulls smashed again. It's a shame really that the game is largely meaningless as an unpopular team selection could see the crowd reduced from what it could have been. I make no claim to understanding what plan our management/coaching team are working to but it's clear that our performances for a long time have been little more than effective in reaching the objective of a place in the top 2. This seems very different to how Leigh have approached things.

To be honest the choice wasn't yours.

You sure about that.

It might've been if we'd beaten Fev and Sheffield like we should've. Prior to the Fev game we'd lost the same amount of games as you and the Leigh game was set to be the decider for top, but we've been poor in the last few weeks.



Next week's game is unimportant now. If we play a weakened team and you stuff us then it won't matter. We both start on 0 points again in a few weeks.

Bradford might be starting on zero confidence at this rate.