Very disappointed after that game, we lost to the better side (just) in a very tight and not very exciting game it was a tackleathon.
We are not firing in attack against the better defences like today, Batley are a very hard working team, nowt special but respect the ball and grind out the results with Brambani just doing his job, putting the kicks away making sure the yards were always gained with bombs that we dealt with very well to be honest then he took his chance when it came along.
We panicked at times and Scott got caught far too easy today, he works his socks off but is he too slow now? The big worry is our pack which has been excellent over the last year met its match today, Batley had a very big pack with quick dummy runners and Mitch did not come off today whilst Dane tried hard as ever but he go well hit hard only breaking the line a couple of times.
That was a big defeat and makes next week a must win game now, maybe we will come stronger while Batley may have peaked early?
Time will tell, we came good last year?
Oh and as for our friend Stokes well he had one of his better games today but still made two calls that could have changed the game, the disallowed try and not giving us the penalty after Rettie threw our man to the floor???