Re: Batley in the cup. : Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:15 pm  

bulls2487 wrote:

Ben Evans has signed for Bradford.

Going to have to go for what Meatloaf said then.

Re: Batley in the cup. : Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:40 pm  

None out of three you’re bad ?
DR dead and buried however bad we get..
As for coach....don’t know how much post match bollx like that I can stomach,certainly not a full years worth...

Re: Batley in the cup. : Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:12 pm  

Beaujangles wrote:

None out of three you’re bad ?
DR dead and buried however bad we get..
As for coach....don’t know how much post match bollx like that I can stomach,certainly not a full years worth...

His post match interviews are pointless. Every single one is exactly the same, like a Richard Marshall impersonator staring into the air and saying the same old things.

Re: Batley in the cup. : Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:34 am  

I just don't know where to align my expectations with the guy or for us this year. Won 5 of his first 6 and then just 4 of the next 20. When you look at who we beat with Grix there; Rochdale, Barrow, Bradford x 2, Dewsbury in the Cup, York, Sheffield x 2, Widnes - Make of that what you will. Although last year was 4 games, there was still evidence that he's not up to it. Lost at home to Dews, a last-second win against Sheffield and lost against Leigh who played with 12 men for close to 50 mins and still lost by 12. You can only base his performance following on from Marshall and evidentially, we have only regressed results wise.

Put it this way, for Grix to win 50% of his games since he's been in charge, by the end of the regular season we will have to win 17 of 25. That would mean us probably finishing top 3 or 4.

If we lose against both London & Bradford, he needs to go.

Re: Batley in the cup. : Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:26 am  

Never ceases to amaze me how quickly some people change their tune - after the Oldham friendly everything was great, barnstorming forwards, half- back pairing that really clicked - then one game later the teams absolute "s****e and coach doesn't know what day of week it is and should of course be sacked. In reality Oldham looked fairly dire and this week we played badly with a substantially altered team in its first meaningful runout for 12 months. I was just as disappointed as anyone on Saturday, but I'm prepared to give a new team with some real potential a bit longer than 1 game before deciding its time to end it all!

Re: Batley in the cup. : Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:56 am  

I don't think anyone was over the moon after the friendly win over Oldham, it was a training game nothing more. When Fax parted ways with Richard Marshall I thought it was absolutely the right thing to do. The club's decision to chose a coach from within could be seen as a taking the cheap option in giving a rookie coach his 1st No1 job but if that had to be the case I couldn't see beyond Scott Murrell. Simon was the clubs choice however and although his results have hardly been world beating the circumstances we found ourselves in hardly helped him or the players. Now though he has his own team, he's gained some experience and has what looks like a very good squad to go with for this season. It's in his hands now and we shall see whether or not he is able to take Fax at the very least into the play-offs. The Batley result and performance was more than disappointing but it's gone now so we need to get behind him and the players and see if we can finally get the club to where we all want it to be. Up The Fax!

Re: Batley in the cup. : Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:00 am  

Beaujangles wrote:

None out of three you’re bad ?
DR dead and buried however bad we get..
As for coach....don’t know how much post match bollx like that I can stomach,certainly not a full years worth...

Haha Im certainly not calling for the coach to be sacked if that is how you took my post. I regard Darryl Powell as one of the best coaches there has been in the UK game in the past 10 or more years and if, and its likely a very big if, he decided he no longer wanted to coach at SL level then any club in the Championship would be daft not to be taking a look.

As for Dual Reg it will just be dressed up as "season long" loans that will have recall clauses. I wouldn't be believing its dead just yet sadly.

Re: Batley in the cup. : Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:10 am  

Grix has to be given this year, there is no doubt about that. This is truly his team, he has got rid of the players he wanted to get rid of and has brought in a lot of the players he asked for. Ultimatley he will be the one who falls on his sword if results do not go our way. It can't be overstated how much the missing players would have improved the team we put out against Batley. I said before the season started that outside of our first 17 we look pretty weak and to be honest we had at least 4 players who I would not count as in our first 17 and 3 of those were in the pack, a pack that was easily dominated.

One thing that does worry me is how we didn't really look up for the game like Batley did and we looked to lack leadership which is also a worry as Im presuming that is the reason Scott Grix is on the field.

Re: Batley in the cup. : Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:33 pm  

With all that’s gone on and the disruption it’s caused no surprise that we will be off the pace.
But it’s been exactly the same for all the other teams.
With just one game to go on and from watching the games live or the highlights which are now all available on YouTube the only assessment to make is we looked more off the pace than the others.
Of the so called better teams they clearly looked better and we didn’t look to be in that group.

London could be just the right game to focus the minds but if we fail again already the pressure starts to build.

Yes as SG says it’s a long season but with all the rebrand hype and expectancy we need to hit the ground running in the games building up to crowds been allowed back in.

In that sense you only have a short period of time to get any new interest growing and simply stated that means putting on a show and winning, otherwise it’s back to the faithful few that gradually get fewer.

Hopefully a couple of good performances / results and ............................?

Re: Batley in the cup. : Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:12 pm  

faxcar wrote:

With all that’s gone on and the disruption it’s caused no surprise that we will be off the pace.
But it’s been exactly the same for all the other teams.
With just one game to go on and from watching the games live or the highlights which are now all available on YouTube the only assessment to make is we looked more of the pace than the others.
Of the so called better teams they clearly looked better and we didn’t look to be in that group.

London could be just the right game to focus the minds but if we fail again already the pressure starts to build.

Yes as SG says it’s a long season but with all the rebrand hype and expectancy we need to hit the ground running in the games building up to crowds been allowed back in.

In that sense you only have a short period of time to get any new interest growing and simply put that means putting on a show and winning, otherwise it’s back to the faithful few that gradually get fewer.

Hopefully a couple of good performances / results and ............................?

Absolutely spot on!