Sounds like one man team syndrome. Murrell has made us a better team but we need to have a backup.

Has Bowman packed it in or is he long term injured?
The lad could have made it as a cracking stand-off if he had gelled.
Not heard anything for a while.

Didn't he have an op on his shoulder?

He's played this season in the centre but turned his ankle in the Dewsbury game and been out injured since....

787 crowd...pitiful.
1,237 at london who put out the bulls even worse.
wake up RFL.

Wigan Athletic have been surviving in the Premier League on crowds of c. 15000 for years now. They have a chance to lift the FA Cup tomorrow. You don't win games in the stands.

FWIW if Worrincy doesn't have that complete brainfart I think you win. You'd have been 2 behind with your tails up rather than 14 down.

London at Home,Bring it on,Semi Finals here we come.

Dust ourselves down and get back on the horse. Nice to see Chris Smith posting on here again. Only read his drivel when we lose - so thankfully not often.

Gosh I bet you can hardly contain yourself at the thought of the size of the crowd.

It'll be more than what you get in the quarter finals I'll guarantee you that much

I don't see the point in slagging Sheffield off for their attendances. It's not like we're pulling thousands more is it? Right now I'm more concerned that they are The Champions and looking like the best team in The Championship. We were hot 3 week ago but our confidence has been knocked.

I'm confident we'll bounce back.

Not bothered about the crowd,Its all about the silverware,Champions 2012,Challenge cup winners 2013

Trophy cabinet will be brimming .

Bless, looking forward to your 'other' club's game tomorrow ?
Huddersfield v Leeds, remember when Hudds 'swallowed you lot up' ???
Indeed !












Fat coach..no fans - tra la la la

No fans Champions,Next round off the cup,Jog on

Ridiculous.

We've been stripped of the Championship title and disqualified from the cup due to there being 4000 Fax fans in a crowd of 700 tonight.

In all seriousness you're far too sensible to be posting on here in the immediate aftermath of a defeat!

There was definatly more tha 700 and I concur sensible post from Littlerich,Sombody who seems normal.Budg just a sour loser IMO and a winde up merchant.

There was definatly more tha 700 and I concur sensible post from Littlerich,Sombody who seems normal.Budg just a sour loser IMO and a winde up merchant.

Ah Littledick thank you for your repost!! One mans drivel is another mans opinion and we've clearly not been at the races for the last 3 games! 2 of which were opportunities for us to set ourselves apart from the rest, which sadly we haven't done. Still I'll dust myself down and keep cheering the boys on. It wouldn't be Halifax if we became consistent now would it.

Opportunities missed at both Fev and tonight in my opinion where in both games we've failed to turn up rather than be soundly beaten.

Lets have a Sheffield v London final. The RFL can save money by just hiring an executive box for the fans.

Got to be in it to win it!!! We should have come in a taxi !!!!!!

Havent seen so many brain farts in 80 mins for a long time, players and coaches.
Too easy to say Murrell would have made a difference, he probably wouldn't, Sheffield were up for it from the first set with a gameplan, whats frustrating is we looked to be trying, just not concentrating and making bad calls in defence and attack. Rob W had a poor game to some but he made a load of yards with the ball, he just should have passed inside and should have tackled QLT instead of standing off, Ambler also made a tonne of yards and Tonks punched above his weight as always. Leadership and organisation was very very poor though. Sheffield and the officials were not to blame. Self inflicted wound tonight, long hard looks in mirrors the cure. Dummy half was poor tonight, we moved away from what was working at the wrong times, tried short side balls when we never had the numbers to begin with.
Slightly concerned that QLT and Menzie looked a good class above anything we had, some of our young lads need to turn potential into actuals, Rhinos put faith in some of them, he must be as disappointed as we are.
We were unlikely to ever win the cup but to go out like that is poor for everyone connected.
Massive wake up call, I feel sorry for Tonka and Ambler.

Couldn't make it last night as the lady of the house was not too well so can't comment on the game.

Am I surprised at the result, not at all, Eagles aren't Champs for nothing.


They keep producing the goods year in year out inspite of the low crowds and seeming anonimity in their own city which makes it all the more remarkable.
Not bad for a fat coach and taxi size support.



By and large they still don't get the recognition they deserve from within the game and many are still surprised when they win when it matters.
They have their own distinct way of playing and personality and add something that others don't, without them the comp would be less than what it is.

Fax will be having a good look at ourselves and it makes the league fixture all that more interesting in a couple of weeks time to see if we can come up with a game plan to get a result.

They have a good pack, play a structured game and have quality in Yere in QLT. They could win it again and I wouldn't begrudge them it.
The sad thing about last night was if you take away the stupid errors we made we actually made good ground and got into positions, far too many mistakes and bad calls though.

Don't mind losing but not like that, brain farts and stupid school boy errors, Ambler did well and Worrincy apart from his 2 on 1 effort.

Like has been said on the banter page, Fax come up against a good team and fail to impress. So far this season we have been found wanting when we play good opposition, no point hammering swintons etc if we don't beat the big teams, hmm infact isn't that what Batley used to be like, and now we have their coach.

Oh and 782...............lol really!

We have beaten the big teams. We beat Sheffield. We bitch slapped Leigh. If people thought we're going to go through the season undefeated then you were on a hiding to nothing. In previous seasons we lost silly matches against opposition we should have beaten (Featherstone themselves have lost against York). As yet we have not done this.

People, straighten your knees, they're jerking unnecessarily.

Up the Fax!!!!!!