Batley forum : Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:19 pm  

They are at it again slagging us fax fans off.sick of it,they never let up.they have one hell of a massive chip on their shoulder for some reason.our crime this time is that we expected to beat them.pathetic!

Re: Batley forum : Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:25 pm  

Funny but they expected us to beat them!
They are not the team they were but hey they won so last laugh was on us, that's why we are all hurting as we know we should not lose to them this year, they will be 5th at best is my bet.

Re: Batley forum : Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:19 am  

ron ryan's jockstrap wrote:

They are at it again slagging us fax fans off.sick of it,they never let up.they have one hell of a massive chip on their shoulder for some reason.our crime this time is that we expected to beat them.pathetic!

Bit harsh that mate one poster complaining of u fax fans then two defending you, hardly been complimentary about our team on this forum, dreadful, boring, poor, these are some of the comments on our doggies, and yet we won .

Re: Batley forum : Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:27 am  

I must say i do admire Batley,season by season their best players are cherry
picked by s/l and top championship clubs and they have to rebuild.They seem
to always come back stronger.Always rated Kear as a coach but it goes deeper
than that,it's pride in the shirt mentallity.

Re: Batley forum : Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:49 am  

mr t hall wrote:

I must say i do admire Batley,season by season their best players are cherry
picked by s/l and top championship clubs and they have to rebuild.They seem
to always come back stronger.Always rated Kear as a coach but it goes deeper
than that,it's pride in the shirt mentallity.

I'll second that, if there was no Fax, Batley would be one of the teams where I would take in the odd game or two.

Re: Batley forum : Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:47 pm  

faxcar wrote:

I'll second that, if there was no Fax, Batley would be one of the teams where I would take in the odd game or two.

Not long to wait then

Re: Batley forum : Tue Mar 04, 2014 1:00 pm  

Shutterman wrote:

Not long to wait then

Get away with yer man.

Fax will be here for at least 4 seasons, they might just be the current winter, spring, summer and autumn mind you.

Re: Batley forum : Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:00 pm  

I agree Batley are my 2nd team if you can have one!

On Sunday Fax should've won, in my opinion we were the better side for the most. Did Batley slow the ball down and spoil things at the ruck? Yes.

We have to be better at combating that In future.

Rhino sums it up, dumb rugby in last 10 cost us again! Just like at Fev.

We need to really get behind them on Sunday vs sheffield!

We haven't started as well as we'd have liked but could and should have won both against Fev and batley. They can only get better.

If we beat sheffield we will be front of them in the league. If you'd have offers me that at the start of the year I would have taken it.

Re: Batley forum : Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:07 pm  

thanks for the more positive comments about the Dogs, good luck for the rest of the season till we meet again.

Re: Batley forum : Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:34 pm  

I think on Sundays showing both teams were woeful, had very little go forward and no creativity. And that is no disrespect to Batley at all. They have lost some key players over the close season and personally I don’t think their team is as strong as it was in the last few years.

The ref did spoil it as well as he never gave an advantage to an attacking player who dominated the ruck but allowed the defenders to put in a second effort or a third man to come in after the tackle was complete. But he was the same for both sides and we slowed it down just as much as Batley. Did this affect us more than Batley? A few years it would have done when we had props who got to their feet quick and hookers like Penky and Gleeson who would then take advantage of a quick play the ball. I just don’t think we have that now so I don’t think we can say Batley benefited from the slow play more than us.

It made me laugh how KH commented that Batley play a simple gameplan. Yeah they do, but do we don’t anything different. Both teams seemed to have the same gameplan on Sunday!!