Bad news about Lilley. Puts pressure on Jowitt. He looked OK today but let's be honest he wasn't ever going to be first choice and we are now down to the bare bones at halfback.
On today I thought we looked fairly comfortable in the first half but the less said about the 2nd half the better. While we only lost narrowly and gifted Batley two very soft tries we were very much second best in the 2nd half. They played some really good stuff and we played it down the middle even when we weren't getting any jot there. Once they got to grips with Patton we lacked any ideas. On the positive side when we were going forward Patton looked great. Sam Scott went ok too. Walker send Crossley had a good first spell.
Fullback needs sorting and luckily we have a few friendlies to do it. Burton gave 100% but made a bad mistake that led to a try and he was eventually taken off. Kear and DFJ then looked at each other rather than catch a bomb and that allowed another Batley try. Kear looks much more comfortable on the wing IMO.