fax got ovenden

Doncaster v Siddal! Could be a Siddal win there

With all due respect to Ovenden i know which will be the better game

Whats crowd capacity up at Ovenden?

Thousands.

Have you seen the size of Four Fields.

Its just that you won't see any of the game once you are stood more than 3 deep around the pitch.

Not a gambling man, but I have a sneaky feeling that it may well be played down the Shay.............At the Calderdale Council run facility................for a cost!!!!

if fc halifax town's fans let us

i say give out about 5,000 free tickets to this game... give both set of lads a great support and make it a great day for every1 (except the losing team(unless they lose with grace)) as i doubt this will get alot of money through attendance.

Who is with me?

[uFull Draw[/u
Widnes Vikings V Wigan St Judes
Oldham V Blackwood Bulldogs
Gateshead Thunder V York City Knights
London Skolars V Limoux
Doncaster V Siddal
Rochdale Hornets V Lezignan
Drighlington V Dewsbury Rams
Batley V Leeds Met
Royal Navy V Blackpool
Featherstone V Workington
Warrington Wizzards V Swinton
Leigh Miners Rangers V Whitehaven
Sheffield Eagles V Thatto Heath
Ovenden V Halifax
Barrow V Hunslet Warriors
Keighley Cougars V Toulouse Olympique XIII
Leigh East V Hunslet Hawks
Leigh Centurions V Wath Brow

I see none of the French teams have drawn home games. Was that planned?

Good luck Ovvy. Good set of lads and a lot of happy memories! Before I was a Park Amateur I was playing for the lads in Red n Black.

Being from Ovenden im delighted for them. They could certainly do with the cash boost.

This may be the perfect game for the club. Get the game down at the Shay. Use THIS game to open the new stand to show off the club and it may just get those extra spectators interested in Halifax RLFC that we need to boost our SL Franchise bid for next year.

Plus offer a decent cheaper price if we can so that people do come down. Could always try and get the courier involved with a buy three out of five vouchers from the paper and get a normal entrance fee for £10 or something.

Lets get Halifax, blue and white once again!!

far better idea than giving out 5000 free tickets which is a terrible idea.

At the second time of asking:

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Well there's a shock!!!

wonder who we got in the first draw,??? lol

Halifax away.

Great draw

Its not really our game to market, Its Ovendens, we're the away team afterall.

though i'd ay its 99% likely to be played at the shay, but we may wind up with away dressing room ect.

In this round the french are always drawn away,if the win they can be drawn at home in the next round

This is a good and bad draw.
Good as its a local team and hopefully they will get a decent pay day as even a crowd of say 1500 at a tenner will give them a few quid and we will win obviously.
Bad as if we slaughter them we may get criticised and it won't do them much good but hey they once got was it 110 against them at Rochdale it could be a very big score if we want it, sorry Ovvy (where I grew up from 8 to 18 by the way).
I was at Thrum Hall the last time Ovenden played Fax and it was when Fax had been at rock bottom and there was a chance Ovvy might beat Fax, a lot of the crowd thought they would I remember, luckily they didn't pour more misery on the club who had hit hard times.

The biggest mis-match in the draw.

dont think it will be much of a spectacle!

On the point raised by Fax4Life, Rochdale Hornets set a new Challenge Cup record score when they won 120 - 4 in the 2005 competition, beating the previous record of 119 - 2 set in 1914 by Huddersfield (before they had grown up into Giants!) against Swinton Park. BUT Rochdale's massive score came against ILLINGWORTH, not Ovenden.

Despite that, a VERY comfortable win is on the cards for Fax.

Happen you're right, but I'll be there to support my team (Fax) and help out Ovenden.

Am I right in thinking this game should be on the first sunday in March?