The club got exactly what they deserved today - thinking they could turn around after two days and beat Hunslet. Massive disrespect shown. No greater motivation for Hunslet, and it showed. As horrible as they were, they fully deserved their win. It would have been a travesty if 4 halifax players wouldn't have so easily fallen of their winger in the last minute to let him score.

Why the short turnaround? Just so we could play on the sunday? More ££? Who knows

Or possibly to avoid playing midweek before you play Leigh?

Monday or Tuesday night? Allowing another vital day or two for recovery.

BBC Leeds reporting we are through

No they've changed their mind

Halifax Town play on Tuesday at The Shay, so Tuesday is out, plus i would think the ground staff would want more than a morning and afternoon to carryout any pitch repairs. Same with the football so that would rule Wednesday out. So realistically you only had Thursday this week or Sunday.

We didn't lose this game because we played on two days rest. We lost because we played badly and Hunslet played pretty well when they were close to our line. We dropped the ball far too many times and it was the defining factor when we'd got the draw and couldn't hold on to it for one final set in the game to close it out.

2 days turnaround is NOT the problem, we have same thing come easter,

April
2 Featherstone Rovers A 7.30pm
5 Toulouse H 6pm
8 Keighley Cougars H 7.30pm

so what do we do now, start making excuses?

No, I don't think the turnaround is the sole reason we lost the game.

However, of course it will have had an bearing on todays result. If you think the players were back to full health after 2 days after having a big game against Widnes then its just ridiculous. If you have ever played rugby I'm sure you will be aware of how your body feels after a game!

Why can't you play the day after the football? Leigh have today and there were also 3 games on consecutive days on our pitch over the CC weekend.

too many of the 2nd string haven't had enough game pre-season game time.

one things for sure we cant play that bad again!

Please do next week

You'll know when you see the pitch next sunday. It's a complete mess.

All I'm saying is the ground staff may not want us to play the next day as they may not be able to repair it as they'll only have a morning and afternoon before the night game. Since we don't own it, it's not up to us.

If the pitch was in a good state, it wouldn't be an issue.

Can't argue much with pinball today, we played badly, Hunslet played well. We looked like we thought we only needed to turn up to win in the first half, injuries didn't help and I thought MC didn't play enough experienced players today, we could have done with a Larder or the like out there just to steady the ship. On the whole I thought Hunslet deserved the victory although we should have had a penalty try when Chapman tried to decapitate Branighan.

On the plus side, the lineswomen was lovely and she didn't get a decision wrong all game.

in some ways that could be good for us.

its not the main concdern even if we would have all loved to have gone to Blackpool.

if we had of some how escaped with the place in the next round.

if we had of got through, the performance might have been swept under the carpet abit, now we have lost it has to be addresed.

i know he's only 1 player but i can't help but think if shad had been there today, we would be in the next round.

Was Royston injured or rested?

flu i heard

Garbage that. We haven't taken this competition seriously since we came down from SL. The only game where i've seen them go all out was last year against Widnes at home - which we lost



Whatever the excuses - you can't dick around in these competitions if you want to progress - no matter who the opposition. Well done Hunslet today and Fax need to cut out the errors. We're like headless chickens sometimes - panic panic panic.

Disappointed to say the least.

but most of those teams will be playing a few games too.

Mate - you play Sunday and fit a midweek game in Wednesday. Or you play Thursday and fit in a game on Sunday. It's still three days - give or take a few hours. What's the difference ?

Yeah, you could've played Monday night but then folk would have moaned about how inconvenient it was for supporters.

When there's bad weather or a cup run, you just have to bite the bullet and fit the games in best you can.

What would [iyour[/i plan have been ?

Sheffield did that last year. We played Gateshead the Thursday after Easter. Gateshead had had Easter Monday off, which I thought was a bit offside.

also why on earth when we scored and need to kick to make it 36 36 which was enough to go through not take the minute allocated to take a kick at goal, to give the players a longer breather and run the clock down as hunslet did evry time, good tactics if you ask me

Agree we should have wasted the time as much as possible on that last kick. Think this was a big mistake and ultimately cost us our place in the cup run...

I would like to see the error stats today, bet they are the worst for a long while!

How many;

Missed tackles
Dropped passes
Knock ons
Field kicks straight out
Field kicks just poor

I think the lack of pre-season showed today.

1 +ve, it cant get any worse.

It's bloody irritating though isn't it? They lift us right up with a great result at Widnes - AT WIDNES!. Then they come HOME and lose against a team in the division below (no disrespect intended). It's this cup - i hate it. We've never shown any priority for it. I'm annoyed at the moment. Really annoyed. So will the players be too - i'm sure they don't enjoy the losing pay and the hairdryer treatment from Matt.

"Ooooooh to, oooooh to be, oooooh to be a Fax fan" !!!!

Leigh will feel the full force of the rebound

Don't forget that the nature of the competition means that all games that affect qualification issues will have had to be played before the draw is made - it isn't possible to have a "Halifax or Hunslet will play..." because of being a league table etc.

Blows the competition wide open and certainly gives us extra belief for next week, but I'd still suggest that 'Fax are favourites. Pitch will be knackered if there is any more rain over the course of the week though.