With our win at Whitehaven this match on Saturday has become hugely important. A good second half display and another runout for Joe Keyes in Cumberland augers well for the team's hopes for the season's run in but it all depends on this game. Toulouse are looking likely to get 2nd spot and may not be at full strength so it's definitely a game we can get the points from. Let's just hope we get a linesman who can see three foot in front of him. Lol! I'll go for a Fax win on Saturday evening, something like 26v14. Up The Fax!

Not sure on toulouses injury status but from there point of view there are two schools of thought , they could rest players as they're guaranteed to finish 2nd or they could look to finish our playoff hopes because regardless of our indifferent season we would still be one of their biggest threats if we met them in the semis .

All Toulouse's 6 defeats have been away (including the summer bash) so home advantage is more useful than usual.

Hope Toulouse will eventually get promoted to get them out of our league ...... having a foreign team in a part time league is so stupid it beggars belief, the travelling for part timers virtually gives them a guaranteed home win - their 12 home wins out of 12 so far says it all. Not to mention the costs. A total farce!

As for Saturday ....... Fax 24 Toulouse 18. Crowd 1,415 with zero fans from Toulouse.

Think we win this one given Toulouse will have a number of players missing and it just about being do or die for us.

I'm in agreement with that although a part of me wants Featherstone out of our division, if we can't go up, for different reasons.

I want Fev to go up so their fans get battered in hull when they try their usual anti social antics .

I once played in a amatuer game in hull, and there was about a 10 minute walk from the changing rooms to there actual ground don't ask why. And the last part before the pitch we had to go under a small bridge with steep grass bankings either side were there fans would be waiting, lets just say it was as big a battle to get on the pitch as it was on it.

I wouldn't mind but most of these fev fans are built like deontay Wilders legs , high on coke and ed on carling when they actually meet some proper lads they'll be obliterated

Last time I went to Fev was when Worrincy scored that great long distance try which helped us get into the qualifiers. I remember stumping up the fiver for car parking 'cos I didn't trust parking on the street at the mercy of the local scuffers. Also remember a fat fev fan goading the Fax fans in the stand.

My first visit was when Andy Fisher took Dave Watson's head off ..... he got sent off and the fev fans were applauding Fisher as he did the walk. Thoroughly unpleasant folk.

Remember when Worrincy scored a long distancer,late on in semi of NRC at PO road-Danny Jones drop goal year..kicked off in car park afterwards-still on youtube.Think they took exception to us flooding on pitch at end..

Being investigated AGAIN for a group fighting against us on Sunday. Tanked up, came to the Bulls end, literally 10 seconds later throwing punches. I've said on our board im fed up of it and the RFL are complicit in this with their pathetic 6 month investigations and suspended fines.

Im equally fed up with the same old "whataboutery" "it's only bulls and fax fans that moan"

I mean let's be honest, Fax and Bulls can't stand each other yet we're quite happy being in the same stand together, bantering and there being no bother (as RL should be) I'm certainly not afraid to wear my bulls top at the Shay, equally yourselves at Odsal. Yet I won't go to Fev and certainly wouldn't wear my bulls shirt.

It sad as there's some good Fev fans, but it's just ridiculous now (they currently have two investigations now for bother) a line needs to be drawn and these scumbags driven out of our sport.

Seen that they was bother at odslum with the fev lot on sunday

It is obviously a problem that Featherstone as a club have hanging around their necks that is not going away, and like as been said it must infuriating for most of their fans to keep hearing stories like this keep coming up. I have a couple of friends who support them and if they witnessed any of this behaviour they would deal with it themselves but then would end up in trouble themselves.
As for our game i feel a bit nervous for this one, i have looked at the Toulouse side that played at Newcastle and even with some players missing that looked a handy side to me so we will have to be on the ball from the off on saturday. Even with O brien missing we are still strong in that position so no excuses it is a must win game and we need to get the job done.

Using our latest showing as the benchmark, play like we did first half and we'll likely lose, play like we did in the second half and it's more than likely we will win.

Unable to get to Fax tonight does anyone know if it's on any radio / mixr / stream etc pls?

Well, I’m just leaving the Shay having watch Town play, and dear god it’s hot at 2.30. Much respect to the rugby lads taking the field in 3 hours or so.

A fax win but a dire attendance , 6pm and rugby on tv . , no chance of a break even crowd financially,

Mick gledhill , sylvian houles , elisabeth bourne , Greg florimos boots , Thierry Henry , napoleon bonapart, the Eiffel Tower , you guys took one hell of a beating.

Haha brilliant.....

We have a massive win and your first decision is to come on here and try and score some points.



But yeah if thats me taking a beating, give it to me every week because Ive had a fantastic night watching my team win and once again playing some really good rugby.

Back to the game its a huge win in the context of our season and again it makes you wonder what could have been when we can produce performances like that. I can't remember defense like that in many, if any, games this season and you could see after the game how much effort the players had put in to that one and its great to see.

I thought Crooks, Lannon, Inman, and JWH were all very good so the MOM decision seemed a little bizarre but we had their number in attack for a lot of the game constantly carving them open. We just look so much crisper in attack with Inman on the field as most of us have said all season but he looked to up his game in defense as well tonight with some good shots.

We still need a result or two to go our way along with winning the remaining games but it would be nice to get another shot at Bradford over at Odsal setting up potentially another trip to Post Office Road. Hard not to be excited after a performance like that.

Relax Greg it’s a joke , I saw Liam Finn at next to Grix when we was 12-4 down he whispered something in his ear and after that we turned it on , so no need to worry Grix is still a crap coach and finn is the messiah . Always knew you were the oracle.

Unbelievable after a performance like that just coming on to have a gripe about the attendance. What did you expect- half the country having a BBQ, England football and rugby union on TV, and playing a team who's away support was probably about a dozen! The important thing tonight was the result, and the crowd inspired by that performance created a great atmosphere. Hard to know where to start with individual players in what was a fantastic team performance - thought Tangata put in a massive shift, Crooks had a great game topped off with the pass for Walmsleys try, and JWH as is often the case looked the best player on the pitch. Could say something positive about every single player tonight - just hope we're not to badly affected by injuries after some massive collisions.

Stuck with them in the first 40 and then a huge second half saw us get on top and dominate for big minutes and when we were on our line hold them out.
Hard to choose an outright M o M with some good performances across the park, so I'll give it to the full 17.

Main downside is the number of knocks picked up but at least there's a full week + 1 to recover.

Spot on mate. Home in Birchencliffe now having a beer and listening to some reggae. I'll comment on that very good performance tomorrow! Up The Fax!

Absolutely!

One other player I meant to mention was Alex Sutcliffe - he really lifted the team as soon as he came on including a thumping tackle that led to JWH's try. He looked completely lost when played at centre, but if he could maintain yesterday's firm I'd be delighted if he signed for next year.