God, I enjoyed that!!!

This is a proper Fax side, one that wears the shirt with pride and puts their bodies on the line. Second half defence was simply brilliant - we took nearly 30 tackles at one point

Atmosphere was great, the game was good enough for SL and if you closed your eyes the spirit of Thrum Hall was there.

Very very proud tonight - we did the things tonight that we weren't capable of last term (like tackling!)

well done boys, now let's kick on from here.

Atmosphere was decent but only 2,200 which is a little poor.

i thought it was 3200

3272 mate which is not bad for us on Thursday night.

Yes it was 3200 - not 5000 admittedly - but its progress for us.

Oops my mistake, the next door neighbour watched it and said there was 2,200. Ill do his legs in the morning.

This was Sky's error.

Im blaming Terry O'Connor

Crap 1st half from Widnes, thought we were very lucky to be in the game at half time - which was incredible considering how rubbish we were and not to mention gifting tries for fun. Better 2nd half from Widnes and probably should have made more of the possesion and at least got the game to 18 all if not 20-18 ahead. Despite how well Halifax played in making yards and how enthusiastic all of the players were, I don't think they were that special in attack and probably the defence was probably the best aspect from a fax point of view.

As unlikely as it seemed at half time, Widnes had the possesion to win the game and although its very early doors, it does give Fax a massive boost in terms of going for top spot and a bit of a dent to Widnes' chances. Even though we are only at the beginning of the season, it has to be remembered that in 2006 Hull KR didn't lose a single league match until top spot was assured and in 2007 Castleford only lost the 1 match. So if anyone thinks this game didn't really matter, they are kidding themselves.

P.S. Was good to see Beswick have another game.

But no club in this current league is as strong as Hull KR and Cas in the respective years. It's a very fine balance between around 4 clubs in the division if you want my honest opinion and more games will be lost as the season progresses.


I also agree regards Beswick, didnt do a thing.


But the same could be said about Webster who also did nothing.

I am more impressed with Bob's defensive game - thought he was a ball handler supreme - but he is regularly putting in over 30 tackles a game (and 42 IIRC at sheffield).

Well done Halifax. Definitely the better side. We're not to far off, but we need Cullen to do his job and coach some of the sloppiness and indiscipline out of our play, if we are to beat you.

Great defence by the way!

nice to see varkulis have a very ineffective game as well

Cas and Hull KR were full time in their Champipnship winning seasons, we have been part time from 2004 to now.

Shows how different perspectives are gained from being on the terraces to watching. At the match I thought Black was ordinary, but he was one of our best players for the first 50 minutes!

Widnes were a 1 man team tonight, without Duffy, they looked lost. Webster showed fleeting glimpses of his fantastic talent, but Widnes oin the whole didn't impress me, no cutting edge to their attack and always looking to spoil in defence.

Fax IMO never really hit top gear either, still plenty of room in the tank. Royston just made his play look effortless tonight and Worrincy worked his heart out in spite of massive pressure.

Oh yeah, PS// Nice to see Toa Kohe-Love have his usual excrement bag performance once more, same again next time

Agreed, you're in transition at the moment, you'll be there at the end of the season, I've no doubt, with some good youngsters coming through.

So it wasn't just me

touché

there were a few that were in that same category tonight.

webster looked dangerous at times. i thought he was one few that played well for us.

after watching that no try thing with paterson again i can understand why they would be offised beswick if facing the other way who would expect the ball to come over his head from the kick.

i tell you what after looking back at it if that touchjudge had noticed it greenwood would have been off he better cut that out cause it will backfire if he keeps doing it.

Mark Smith can't tackle, at least 2 of they trys were a results of his poor defence.

Also why from a tap penalty do we use a pivot? All it does is give the defence more time to move in, really don't see the benefit of doing it

Well done to both teams for providing a great nights entertainment.

Result was about right and the defensive stint from Fax in the 2nd half was outstanding.

I have to say that I thought Duffs had a good game and was the Widnes stand out player, he totally put Webster in to the shadows.

Widnes look to be a young team and all will have benefitted from the game but Fax always look better with Penky on the pitch.

Fax overall had too much pace across the park and played the ball much quicker. Doran is again proving to be a penalty machine for the opposition and Smith and TKL are way past their sell by dates.

Congratulations I believe were in order on the night for TKL as I believe he made his 3rd consecutive appearance, however this was soured by him having to go off with an eyelash injury.

In summary, good game, great entertainment, correct result on the night but both teams will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.

One last thing, as a neutral with the added luxury of the TV cameras, I would like to give a special mention to Mr. Hicks who had a good game and controlled the game from start to finish.

I guess you are on about the punch in the tackle? but if someone drove their elbow into your throat/face you might be a little peeved too. Sky failed to mention that though even though it was in clear view.

Overall we can be very pleased with the performance. Excellent in defence although we probably lacked a bit in attack. Was very impressed with how much stronger we looked than Widnes. Our players constantly got over the advantage line and in defence constantly knocked the Widnes players back. Some of the hits that we put on were awesome. Take Dave Larder after he threw out the bad pass boy did he make up for it with 3 massive hits. A good start to the season and with a bit of composure would probably have beaten them by more.

As for Beswick having a bad game, just watched the replay and i hope that he has more bad games for us. Maybe while your players were watching Beswick they should have been watching Black. Widnes players on the end of the handoff is becoming a regular thing.Might want to go low next time.

Thought we defended brilliantly but we still have a few gears to go up in attack for later in the season when we "should" be peaking. Discipline was good as well last night. If the ref would have clamped down on the Widnes holding down we would have scored more i feel. How many times in the first half could you hear Hicks warning Widnes in the tackle about getting of the neck or that they need to be quicker of the tackle and then he didnt penalise them?

Great crowd as well which hopefully will start to increase if we keep winning and playing like we are.

Just coming down from cloud nine after last night.
Great team effort, what a tackling stint from our lads and they had to score eventually after all those sets of six in the second half.
Good crowd, must have been around 2900 home fans at least as hard to tell but Widnes had 300 or maybe more, not bad for a Thursday night.
Plus it was on Sky which out us in the national spotlight.

Big well done to the club for putting on a good show as well.

Thing is I came away thinking that whilst we played well in defence we have more to come in attack, plus we gave them the ball too many times which gave them filed position, they played well second half but we coped mostly with it, took a couple of good kicks to get two of their tries.