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Once again we haven't shown up, this is totally embarrassing just about half time and it's 42-0. All our confidence has disappeared, a few poor decisions but I'm afraid this game was lost before we come out of the tunnel.

Feel gutted, yes only NRC but we should be playing to win. Fev look great can't take it away from them.

Ok take back some of what I have said lol, second half and the ref is giving us nothing.

Forward pass after forward pass.

Sorry as I know how it feels to be on the end of a drubbing so you won't be feeling great now, but I honestly don't think the ref has had a bad game, it has been down to really strong fev defence and some shoving failings and missed tackles inthe keighly line. I think our ball speed has forced mistakes from your lads but fair play for how you started the second half. Our defence wrapped up some of your huge forwards by working as a team. I think blaming the ref is a cheap shot, although I understand your frustration.

73 mins and its Kly 6 - 60 fev.

Dear oh dear , Keighley have just been totally outclassed.

No more , no less , no excuses.

Total disgrace, Tackling non existent first half, and only slightly better in the second, i heard one shout basic rugby one-up' one-down and i totally agree, featherstone did it constantly and moved up to tackle where as we were standing off and waiting, no good iam afraid against a team like featherstone, a couple of their tries scored were ridiculous we just didnt TACKLE, after seeing that performace i'm hoping that is the bad egg, and we can get back on track in the league.

Remember Fev shipped 60 twice at home in consecutive league games. Hopefully things will turn round soon and its our bad spell over.

The first good thing about tonight's game is that MICKY wasn't permitted to video it!

Did we turn up? It didn't look like it!

I fail to understand why we play 'one-man rugby' straight 'down the middle' when everyone knows that fast delivery to the wings is the way to play. The second 'good thing' that might come out of tonight is that JD can learn a lesson from the way that a TOP TEAM plays - hard and fast. No 'floated' passes and few missed tackles! Let's face it our first half tackling was abysmal and the last try that Featherstone scored should never have been! How many missed tackles were there by Cougar players? There must have been at least 5!

No-one looked to be interested in playing for us in the first half!

With both teams having played on Sunday, fatigue can't be the explanation.

Who really wanted to win? Not us and that's for certain!

It's a good job this wasn't in the League.

Let's hope that JD can get things sorted for the Batley game!

We were as appalling as Featherstone were brilliant.

I feel for jd at the minute and it's easy to say I know especially when your mates with someone you are talking about but it is obvious that jd is giving his all on and off the pitch at the minute. It must be very frustrating for him as by the look of his reaction at some points of the game certain players were not sticking to his game plan.

No team especially in this league is going to go all season without losing a game or 2 and if I'm correct in saying this even fev and Halifax have been on the end of a couple of hidings this season so I aren't worrying just yet. I am sure we will be kicking down the changing room door for the batley game after our games against Halifax and fev as our boys will be eager to use this to spur them on now to get back to winning ways.

As we always do let's stand shoulder to shoulder and give jd and the lads our continued support, come on jd you can do it. Coouuugaaarrss!

For the first time in ages I sat in the stand.

To be honest I only saw 2 forward passes that weren't called.

I'm going to pay tribute to Fev first, they were outstanding. Liam Finn took us apart...... again, and landing 41 consecutive kicks at goal is a fantastic achievement. How Stuart Dickens isn't playing in Super League is beyond me, he is by far and away the best Prop Forward in the Championship.

With the wonderful benefit of hindsight could we have seen this result coming? Woeful first 20 minutes against York? Woeful 2nd half against Halifax? If you can't tackle you won't win games it's really that simple, we were just bouncing off them. Fev were playing in Pink but it was us who looked like the big girl's blouses. Our attack looked so basic and predictable. We look a little naïve tactically. In the Second Half whenever Korki got the ball there were 3 defenders looking to smash him. There was also 2 big gaps in their line either side of those defenders. Why is there nobody backing the ball carrier up? If Korki gets the ball away it creates a line break, if he doesn't the backing up runner creates enough of a threat to distract the 2nd and 3rd men in the tackle and it makes Korki's runs more effective.

It's brought us back down to earth with a bump. Perhaps we aren't quite as good as we all thought we were.