Reight, we've had a bad few weeks but we're back at The Shay for a game against Rovers which we really could do with winning to get our season back on track. They got hammered by Barrow yesterday so following our defeat at The Raiders this one is all to play for. I think it will come down to attitude, alongside cutting the mistakes out, and if we get back to what we know we can be I think we'll be o.k. I'm pretty confident about this one and will go Fax 28v10 Fev.

Good Evening Pete,I may see you on Sunday, as I hate going to Sheff,can’t stand the place and I think the Fax v Fev game will be very good.I will let you know later in the week what I’m doing.
I’m struggling at the moment , with toothache, I had 4 fillings done last Thursday and my mouth has got infected,I can’t eat anything , Pat my missus says it’s keeping me quiet, lol.

As for yer game I truly want Fax to win as I see Fev as our main danger with Toulouse for second spot.Ive heard we are very close to signing Ryan Brierley and Junior Vaivai from HKR,so I want Fax to win , but I’m not tipping Fax don’t worry.Anyway might see ya at the week end.

That 'ground' at Sheffield should not be allowed in RL. It's a sad indictment of how our game has gone that we play there. Let me know if you're coming over.

Murrell out injured-time for Grix to step up and take control.Ed Barber back which is good but it looks like we've lost patience with Butler.
Young hooker in from Cas-why the hell Davies/Kaye can't cover one bloody game-----the DR joke continues after RM leaves...neither Clark/Mahar in after their one week 'efforts'-just a pointless lack of continuity IMO.

It's beyond a joke is this DR job now. I thought/hoped with SG taking over we might have ditched it but no, out of the frying pan into the fire. Three games we've played with a dual reg player this season and three defeats resulting from it. Great isn't it? P.S. are we still paying Chester Butler? I'm rapidly losing faith.

Good afternoon Pete, hope you are well, I won’t be coming to the game on Sunday, I’ve just had 2 teeth and I’m feeling a bit off , I was unwell during the Dews v Leigh game on Sunday, as well, nothing serious I hope to be back for our game at Fev the week after.
Anyway ,I hope Fax do us a favour and beat Fev , I won’t tip anyone, but the way Fax are playing I have to fancy Fev.

A wise decision as watching Fax is very similar to having teeth pulled at the moment.

BJ, should be a cracker of a game, both teams need to win, Fax to show the fans all is not lost yet, and Fev to keep their top 5 hopes going.
Should be a decent crowd, good weather as well,as I said a Fax win will do Leigh a favour.

Better be...give us some hope that those of us who've coughed up to travel next week haven't royally wasted our money....

Davies has a broken bone in his hand, plus it could be pretty hot in the middle, would you want to run around for 80 minutes.!!!!

O.K. mate, hope you're feeling better soon. Ringmaster 3.9% Magic Rock Tap, shuddersfield, Mmm! Up The Fax!

Lol! You're getting better BJ.

Heart says fax but head keeps saying fev to take this years spoils .

Sorry having seen the team its fev for me .

Seen a lot of people on Facebook mentioning JWH and why he is not included. It might have something to do with letting the reserves down on the morning of last weeks game. That probably didn't go down too well.

Too right.

What's irritating is we had funding to build a stand and the Council said, "no, no, we'll let these fine Sheffield United folk build it."

Still waiting for the first brick to be laid ......



Obviously, you know all about Councils in Halifax. How long did it take to build the East Stand ? 20 years or so, was it ? Might have been less but it seemed like 20 years.

Our local council's attitude to sport in general is appalling. Calderfail Council would rather spend money on gay pride flags or repeated regeneration schemes in 'culturally diverse' areas than than on the youth of Halifax. Sport and fitness is way down the list. I see Workingtons joint new stadium has just been vetoed by their council with a recommendation to downgrade it from 8,000 to 6,000 capacity! Blimey!

Is the North Stand open ?

Hard to justify spending money on the Shay when it is used so little. The community stadium that has a pitch that is not fit for purpose so hardly any teams are allowed to play on it. As a tax payer Id rather money not go towards it until it genuinely is a community stadium.

Not that I'm aware of.

My ticket says north stand so I guess it is, see you tomorrow Bentlyman.

The Shay is an awful RL ground run by an awful Council. Oh how I dream of cutting ties with those clowns with Fax building their own quirky stadium with the touchline running along the terracing, just like Thrum Hall.

As it is, I'll be trudging down the Shay this aft to a stadium with one side permanently closed (why can't it be made into some grassy aussie type knoll with beer tents and bouncey castles, eh, with a band playing?) with stuck bog taps and bust flushes.

We seem to be just missing that extra bit that used to take us over the line previously. That sense of one for all team and the sum of the parts etc .

If anything it were a slightly better performance than we have seen the last couple of weeks and for 25 minutes this week we played well. I were surprised by Fev and expected so much more from them but Im not sure they made a clean break all the game and if you took the last ten metres out of the game they never really looked like scoring. Sadly for us it has been that last 10 metres where our defence has been the weakest and all Fevs tries coming from either a dive over from the play the ball or a one out barge over goes along with that theory.

How some of our players justify selection is beyond me, to be able to put in poor performances week in week out and still in the team the following week I just don't get it. We have just signed RCS to a new contract which suggests he is rated by the club so for me he needs to be in at full back. Theres a couple more young lads knocking on the door who were told there would be changes if players didn't perform but now Grix says in the courier it would hamper their development playing in this team. Well its hampering getting people through the gates watching the current performances.

Valid points GFB.