It's pointless, literally, seeing as we've no form to go on but for a bit of fun let's have a scorecast for Saturday's match. I'll go for Fax 28v14 Batley. Up The Fax!

18 - 16 Panthers.

On paper fax look to have the edge . On a flat pitch as well.

Im hoping for a comfortable win. Batley look like a team that will be me worried about relegation than top 6 so a loss to them really would be a worry.

Fax by 8

Possibly but really don't think they will be overly worried if they lose. With no Manning, Brown or Bowman they will see it as a chance to give some squad players a run out!

Fax by 20 for me!

Not sure that I think their squad is that bad, I'd say they're a pretty good mid table team with the ability on their day to put one over on most teams. I think it will be pretty close with a try in it. The score will depend on whether CR has got his kicking boots on. Fax by 6.

I don't think they are awful by any measure just more a reflection of how high the standard in the championship is getting. You could class ourselves, Bradford and Widnes as mid table teams and I dont think Batley are iof similar quality.

Batley were the best side in every department tonight.
Apart from a 10 minute spell after half time our pack were largely out muscled and out enthused and halves largely anonymous as a result with little cohesion in attack with little threat as a result.
Well done the Dogs on a good gusty disciplined performance.

Well we won't be winning the challenge cup this year. Not great that.

I said before once we get outside our best 17 we don't look strong and it showed tonight. We are carrying too many players who would not standout at the next level down. On top of that when the main players do not raise their game to compensate for those players been in the team like we saw tonight then you are going to struggle.

Didn’t like there were too many “first choice” players not playing tonight. Only Worthington from the backs.....

Well, I'm speechless. The only good thing is the stream on my phone kept freezing and I missed most of the 2nd half. Birchencliffe, a tin of Thornbridge Jaipur 5.8% Mmm!

Although we hardly ever looked like penetrating a good Batley defence had Rawsthorne grounded the ball it would have helped our cause. He really should have scored that one. I thought only Larroyer, Grix ,Springer and Fairbank showed up at all. Kicking game was atrocious. Having said all that I enjoyed the game and all credit to Batley they played with enthusiasm and no little skill.

Its more the forwards where we are light. I thought only Springer and Fairbank looked decent and I still don't get having a token hooker on the bench. If I were our board there would be three phone calls that need to be made, Ben Evans is now available maybe he has somethng lined up but worth a try, Huddersfield who have you got that we can borrow, and Darryl Powell whats your plans for next season?

Very disappointing- came out after a half time b********g and for about 5 minutes showed what they could do when they played with any sort of speed and enthusiasm - once this evaporated they had no one to take the game or the team by the scruff of the neck keep them motivated. 90% of fans were really excited at the prospect of seeing these new players as we seemed to have brought in some real quality- some of these players however looked to be going through the motions and lacking confidence - hopefully just a reflection of 12 months without a game - although that didn't seem to affect Batley. Finishing on a positive I thought Curtis Davies played well with the sort of enthusiasm and drive lacking in some of his more celebrated team mates.

New squad, New strip, New name same old Halifax. We looked slow and predictable. We never looked like breaking Batleys line in open play and we looked clueless close to the line. I really like the Panthers branding but unless we improve drastically we are looking at lower end of the table and fewer fans. I hate being negative but we didn’t look like a top club.

I watched it all. Fax were more than disappointing...
Now I'm watching a fat orange thing playing for West Wales who are getting a tupping by Widnes and both those games were far more enjoyable than the 6 nations sheeeite .
Clynelish cask strength 58.1%..... delicious....

Anticipated better than that even if they did bomb 2 trys . They looked to be searching for a style of play but were unsure and without a leader.

Ben Evans has signed for Bradford.

Going to have to go for what Meatloaf said then.

None out of three you’re bad ?
DR dead and buried however bad we get..
As for coach....don’t know how much post match bollx like that I can stomach,certainly not a full years worth...

His post match interviews are pointless. Every single one is exactly the same, like a Richard Marshall impersonator staring into the air and saying the same old things.

I just don't know where to align my expectations with the guy or for us this year. Won 5 of his first 6 and then just 4 of the next 20. When you look at who we beat with Grix there; Rochdale, Barrow, Bradford x 2, Dewsbury in the Cup, York, Sheffield x 2, Widnes - Make of that what you will. Although last year was 4 games, there was still evidence that he's not up to it. Lost at home to Dews, a last-second win against Sheffield and lost against Leigh who played with 12 men for close to 50 mins and still lost by 12. You can only base his performance following on from Marshall and evidentially, we have only regressed results wise.

Put it this way, for Grix to win 50% of his games since he's been in charge, by the end of the regular season we will have to win 17 of 25. That would mean us probably finishing top 3 or 4.

If we lose against both London & Bradford, he needs to go.

Never ceases to amaze me how quickly some people change their tune - after the Oldham friendly everything was great, barnstorming forwards, half- back pairing that really clicked - then one game later the teams absolute "s****e and coach doesn't know what day of week it is and should of course be sacked. In reality Oldham looked fairly dire and this week we played badly with a substantially altered team in its first meaningful runout for 12 months. I was just as disappointed as anyone on Saturday, but I'm prepared to give a new team with some real potential a bit longer than 1 game before deciding its time to end it all!