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Couldn't make it today. Who scored for Fax?

Reittie and Tyrer

Blummin freezing at Batley but it is that time of year! 1st 40 mins was pretty impressive by Fax playing up hill. Brown's kicking game was superb with a quality 40/20 , dinks to the corners instead of straght down the full backs throat, and some great up and unders to the wings. He will save Fax's forward a lot of graft over the season. Ambler was quality with drives and also two sublime off loads. Defence was spot on. Created a few chances out wide but fluffed. Work in progress but that is what these games are about.
Nice touch by Fax fans when Blacky was coming off the pitch in front of us to applaud him.
Nice to be back watching the Fax on a Sunday.

Great to see some rugby again, it was a hard fought game for a Friendly we shaded the first half they took the second. It became an arm wrestle and we did not use the ball well second half, good kicking game in first half but lost our way a bit but its a friendly and that's what they are for. Good turn out by the Fax fans.

Cold

It was cold

It was very cold

it was very , very , cold

Ben will always be well regarded by most of us supporters and I think it's great that we acknowledge all our ex players.
At Leigh last year one or two of our travelling imbeciles kept shouting "reject" at Ostick, not necessary.
Back to the game, I must admit I thought it was pretty dire, the second half particularly. however there was plenty of promise as Living has said above. A typical Batley, Fax, pitch, weather game.
Chips were excellent, only fault? the lady asked small portion or large. how insulting, do I look like a person who eats a small portion of chips? Nearly burst my speedos.
Well done Fax. A good afternoon out.




ps, great Fax following, easily outnumbered the home crowd. Lets keep it up all year, home and away.
See you at Fev?

Just one further point, Danny Cowling, when you make a break and run so wide that you have squeezed out your winger (no name on his shirt) so that he is nearly in touch, don't throw a pass which is a yard in front of him, goes straight to into touch and then shout at him showing your obvious displeasure, take responsibility, you did it twice which can't be good for the man with no names confidence.

Halifax RLFC = Team Spirit.

Josh Casey... one of under 20's squad

Quote ="urbancarrot"Josh Casey... one of under 20's squad'" So perhaps a little bit of encouragement woud have gone down well? Any way onwards and upwards? www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/h ... -1-6368088 Wel done Fax.

Quote ="urbancarrot"Josh Casey... one of under 20's squad'" So perhaps a little bit of encouragement woud have gone down well? Any way onwards and upwards? www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/h ... -1-6368088 Wel done Fax.

Winger should have come inside. I thought both players ended up looking bad for it. Obvious poor play by the winger and not sure what Cowling was doing with the pass.

Both their first game together so think we can cut a little bit of slack with the rustyness.

Great to see three (four if you include jarrod) of the academy lads on the field together and not looking out of place

Cougars beat Rochdale 58 to 4. Shows how you cant read much into them.

Fev beat Wakey 24-8 today including what appears to be the quickest ever try in RL (timed at 6 secs from wakeys men)

Always nice to get one over a SL team

Next week a much more realistic test though - both teams confidence will be sky high, shaping up to be a cracker even if its only pre season

Golden rule = only pass to a team-mate in a better position. No need to panic pass regardless of where Casey was or wasn't. This type of relationship/partnership forming is what friendlies are intended for i think.... no drama.

Just slightly O/T - anyone remember Dick Fairbank trying to catch passes? If you didn't put it EXACTLY in his bread basket he used to knock on. He even used to pre-shape his arms (upper and lower forearms) at right angles in the catching position as he came in on a run. Used to crease me up

Leigh at home was even better. Thousand of us chanting "Penky is a fax fan, Penky is a fax fan...na na na na"

Can I ask who was missing from your team yesterday ?

Johnston
Heaton
Worrincy
Tonks

Robinson
sherrife
?

Tonks, Robinson, Potts, Sheriffe as well.

So probably 5 starters in Potts, Tonks, Robinson, Heaton and Johnson.

Conditions were really bad so its hard to draw conclusions about the game. I would hope we will be a lot better on dryer grounds and Batley had the dual regs missing which showed.

Defence looked really good but Batley didnt really offer much, partly due to the conditions and I would assume been a few new combinations for them.

The real test to have an idea where we are will be next week against Fev. Sheffield and Fev will set the bar again this season so it will be interesting to see how we go.


Edit: Worst catcher of a ball I have seen, rivaling Liam Harrison, was Said Tamghart. Destructive when he had the ball but unless it was placed in his hands was like watching coco the clown juggling.

Was once in the cricket club and Jack Fairbank was in there, good old Stan H came in and asked him if Dick dropped the cows all the time

He then trotted off with his pipe muttering something like big useless bugger

Going back a little further, Welshman David Jones who played centre late sixties would steam onto the pass so hard and fast he always broke the line, shame he only caught about one in ten passes. Still managed two caps for Wales and was a loss to Fax when he returned home.