Fev Fan



In my former life I was in the Army-I had a Sgt who worked for me who was married to a junior rank. His arguments always had a junior ranks perspective on them (Rather than a middle managers) very similar to your championship perspectives on the match summary yesterday.



5 knock ons not given, forever off side, every time Batley applied pressure Ref penalised them- are you getting a feel for how your post may be perceived? Just a thought.

I went to the game as a neutral because we played on the Friday night and thought it would be a good game. I couldn't have cared less who won and I told it how I saw it. Obviously the conditions helped Batley and made for a much closer game, bet that doesn't deflect from the fact that the ref was all London



Fact is I am not even a Batley fan but i was at the game, were You??? I saw it first hand without listening to the radio. Its a joke the way you talk derogatory about championship teams, (not just in this thread).



Rugby league didn't start with the Superleague mate and Featherstone have been in the top flight of rugby for many many more years than your made up team, and will be around for much longer too.



Without RL handouts you wouldn't even be around.



Tell me what will you be called next week and where will you be playing

I’m not sure if you have managed to watch the Sky recording of the Fev v Wigan game yet. You will note that the commentary, that included ex Wigan players, were bigging Fev up throughout the game



It’s a British instinct to back the underdog!



Your neutrality doesn’t seem to come through as maybe you would like us to believe particularly in your last 3 paragraphs.

its also the job as sky presenters. To be a fair to them on sky (not eddie and stevo) they have been bigging us for 2 years with the championship coverage



True its British instinct to back the underdog, and maybe I would have been happy to see Batley win, but I have no reason to a come away from the game moaning about the Ref, I certainly last no sleep over the result. But honestly the Ref was terrible



Your initial reply prompted those last 3 paragraphs, talking down on us championship lot as if we know nowt. When infact we probably know a hell of a lot more. My view was an honest assessment from someone has watched played Rugby for over 30 years.



@jaybs



"""If I could have 1 pence for every "Get Em on side" at northern grounds I would be a millionaire, Batley did their fair share as well! LOL"""



Maybe us Northerners understand the game more and know what were looking at.

Fev- I was 30 years a Wire fan before moving down south!! I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about as shown by my choice of 2 underperforming clubs (Wire have since become a top club!! typically)

What are these RL handouts you talk of?

jaybs knows all about calling "Forward!", he's from Tellins.

Why do you think I have never supported them since I was in my teens! LOL - no a little more deeper than that.

Over the year we have become used to such claims and rebuff them with witty replies.....I think I will use my personal favourite in this instance:



[iF()#k off back down your closed pit you toothless northern monkey![/i



Thanks for dropping in...and enjoy your game v Halifax in the battle for promotion......oh, er....

I do find it mad, when Northerners say they have a better view on the game, shame about all the great players then, not from North, like lets say, Stacey Jones, Andrew Johns, Steve Menzies, Leulai family players, oh, plus Any other clueless Ozzie/Kiwi player etc, Mel Meniga, Brad F, and who was that great player just retired from footie, whats his name, Darren lockyer, shall we stop now....



I was at the game, me, a clueless Southerner, travelled all over the world watching RL, have watched over 600 games, yes six hundred games, the conditions were a leveller on Sunday, rain, slope and really pride did a good thing to Batley, Broncos, were horrified by the day out, they just got on with it and won, Batley were not cheated out of the game, they just lost a close game, simple.



Even, if you lament the poor French ref, Mr Alibert, did he really deserve the abuse, he took at the end of the game, some really shameful batley folk, took more pride in ref baiting, than actually clapping off the there team.



WITHOUT THE REF'S, THERE WILL BE NO GAME LEFT TO WATCH, WHO WOULD WANT TO DO IT..????



Batley deserve real credit for the performance they put in, but they could not just go the extra mile to win game, they did themselves proud, its never gonna be a case of northern/southern bashing etc, reality check, game comes first, WE ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER

well said Orientwestsider, but I still say, "F*^k off you Northern Monkey" is a better rsponse to this idiot

We were there, we froze, we got soaked, we were told by one fan we were London scum but still came away laughing as the rest of the fans were such a great bunch.



Pitch was horrendous and how either team managed to catch anything was amazing! The sloping pitch was awesome, tv does not do it justice maybe Batley are part mountain goat? Once question though... how come Dorn was on the bench and not used?