In 26 years of watching, this was the worst ever home performance that springs to mind. Absolutely souless performance. I feel demoralised and cheated today.

Another whinge: £18 to watch this or any other championship rugby is a joke. Over £40 for a family to watch semi pro RL is unacceptable in times of a recession . You can watch premiership football for less..

What a wasted opportunity. The stand is fantastic, the band were excellent and a decent crowd turned up, but the team looked it just regressed 4 years. We had a real chance here to convince some of the floating fans to turn up against next week - now there's no chance.

Black didn't look fit and Penky simply isn't a half-back - Gene should have played there to tighten things up. There's a real lack of a rugby brain when Branighan isn't playing - the 2 cheap points given at the end of the second half just sum it up really.

I don't think Leigh were particularly brilliant, they just knew what was expected from each of them, were disciplined and had a game plan. Can't doubt the players efforts, but it's like watching headless chickens at the moment.

Time to get someone else in before the season runs away from us. I was looking forward to getting a big team in the cup (assuming we get past Swinton

) - now the thought of a Super League team coming to the Shay is not so palatable.

Stand looks great though

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The pensioners in your front row were battered off the park which left us in control for the majority of the game, we were the best team by a country mile.

Its down to many factors. Several half fit players out there who are obv not going to give 100% and then some players not putting in enough effort. Too many old men in the team and this is occasionally letting us down with lack of covering tackles e.g Wrench, Larder. Black is atm a total liability he is giving away more tries than he scores so he needs to have time out. Its a shame that we can't play out of form players in the u21s because some need to get some confidence back. Calland is not the man to take Halifax forward for me, the players are not professional enough under his leadership and this is unlikely to change so expect more highs and lows. AIt would be better to get a coach that has his team well drilled like Leigh but who would come in.

A little unfair in my opinion as they didn't need to be anything but ordinary because we didn't pose a challenge to them

Your pack was beaten senseless today and not a high shot in sight.
We softened you up then pulled away, at times I thought some of your forwards were going to throw up on the pitch.
Defence wins games and our defence today was awesome.
We ran at Frank and took his go forward away, Aizue was pooh at HKR, Gene is 106 next birthday - why dont you spend some money on your local kids instead of quick fixes.
Nine of that Leigh team played against you last year btw, what a difference a great coach makes.

Too true Maurice!!

Agreed Maurice with much of that especially the point about the coach.

Bit of a let down from start to finish in every aspects of the day. Little things not being done right across the board from the club build up to making us look a tad embarrasing. There's about as much proffesionalism in this club as there is in my little finger.

Firstly pre-match, people not being allowed in car parks, no hunger hill parking availalble again, one turnstile open for adult resulting in massive and needless queues. As Waddy said, some band (who technically were good btw, well played them) singing some tinpot song the club has adopted for 10 minutes (and btw, 'the fax IS on fire' implys the town of Halifax is physically on fire..the word you're looking for is ARE when applying to a club/organisation, but never mind)

The crowd itself, 3,050ish, sounds good? wrong. With 700-800 Lethyers there, that meant just 2,300 Halifax fans turned up to the first game with the new East Stand. Another amazing feat of advertsing and marketing going on there it would appear. Aslong as someone keep posting a random blog to 500 fans who ALREADY go down every week, im sure the attendances will grow...

The match, well, no one looked bothered and everyone was expecting everyone else to do the work (minus Rob W and Shad really) they obvioulsy sit in that changing room, look around and think Black, Gene, Royston, Aizue, Penywicz etc, we can't lose, we just have to turn up. No urgency or desire for some reason. Nothing in terms of plays and options it would seem either. On 60 minutes i thought if Leigh were slighlty dangerous, they'd be putting 70 on us, perhaps harsh on Leigh who were still a very good side (bizarre considering they were pish last year and should be in Champsionship one...just an observation, not sounding bitter, i'd rather Leigh and their fans were visiting us than Gatehead). Good coaches count for a lot. And i still find it funny that people seem to have some hatred to Robbie Paul who has been running rings round us and organising teams to beat us for 13 years now or whatever.

Problem with the club at the moment is everyone seems to rely on each other. The club rely on a good team to get the gates up, if that doesn't happen there's no plan B. The coach relies on his purchases to do the job so he doesnt look bad, still lack of game play, and the players think they're all too good and think if they dont try another 'superstar' with sort it out anyway.

I never said anything like this last year as, even through the rough patch at the end, it seemed to late and pointless to get on the players back and they had had a good year, but this year, we could well be getting a lot worse being we get better and something needs doing soon because for some reason, as good as the first 3 results were this year, Halifax appear to let one result get to them, and that's it for 3 months, that's why something needs doing soon.

*Thickest quote of the week alert*

Er No!

And why's that then? Penky .... before his daft sin binning .... had a great game. Don't any of you bozos REALLY understand the game of Rugby League? Maybe you should watch brain dead soccer.

Good post Tommy, I just thought it was asking for it having that song played as we run out and the players even waited for the song to finish before kicking off, by all means play it before the game as part of the build up but not at 3pm with the players on the pitch waiting to kick off, just cheese.

So why was there 1 turnstyle open for adults if thats the case?

I also thought the band were good too.

New stand looked great, just a shame we didnt provide the onfield product to keep the coming for a nosey fans staying for the next home game.

Christ .... Fax fans must be amongst the biggest *ankers going, it's times like this when we really need to get behind the team when times are tough. You make me sick, I'm off here for a while before I get banned. Adios.

Were you actually watching the same thing as me Tony? There is absolutely no excuse for what went on today.

Good bye and dont bother coming back then. If you cant see that we have not progressed since last year and done next to nothing to sort them problems out then it just shows how much you know-sweet F.A

Lots of hot air in here tonight, long long way to go yet folks. Take a chill pill and relax and breathe...................

exactly. a good team would have scored lots more points.

I took the novelty option of sitting in our new stand today, but some of the BILE that was aimed at Calland, Hally & Gonzo was amongst the worst I've ever seen from a Halifax crowd, shameful comments.
I'm sure they don't ask players to miss tackles, pass to the ground & knock on, but then again I could be wrong.

two were open, but for some reason all were in line for one for some reason.
i walked to the front ahead of said queue and went straight in.

We were absolutely terrible - no exceptions, no excuses...wtf?

Your whole style of play for the last 2 years has been based on speed , support and above all confidence , today we took that confidence away from you with a solid aggressive defence , hopefully when we get Nash back to fitness we will have the best , fastest , biggest set of props outside SL , they will provide us with a strong base to play some RL , and that is the key to so much in sport

Confidence , you could see it draining from the fax players today , that is now what Mr Calland has to get back , no team in any sport can play well all the time , you will pull things back again , perhaps you had become over confident

Every cloud has a silver lining

Well well well.

Absolutely appauling today, players looked tired and with no passion or commitment. We were out played by a well coached team who simply wanted it more.

Ben Black is clearly injured, so why are we playing him? His, and other player's confidence is low, but we have no 2nd or U21s team for him, or anyone to get dropped into to get that confidence back. Calland said today we had 17 fit players to pick from, well where is this youth that we are bringing through?? Oh yeah sorry, we signed 2 PNG kids didn't we.

Today was a big day for the club, the stand looks brilliant and the band were really good (highlight of the day for me!). Leigh brought a good following over, and it was a good crowd. Again, we have lined ourselves up and shot ourselves in the foot. It's a shame that the players in blue and white wanted to play hot potato rather than rugby league. Nobody took responisbility for driving the ball in and we kept going left to right across the field rather than going forward.

People can blast Penky, but I thought he had an alright game today. Yes the sin binning was stupid, but at least it showed that he actually has some fire in his belly which is more than can be said for other players.

Watene today was awful, I don't think we should have resigned him from last year, I'm sure there are other people who could do the development work in schools.

On the subject of Calland, I'm not usually someone who will have a go at coaches and say it's about time they should go. However, 2 awful performances, and a team of players who look as though they don't know what they are doing. He picked the best hooker in the league at half-back and put Beswick at hooker??!! Clueless. Also 2 and a half hours before kick off last week, instead of being with his players, Calland thinks its more important to go on a dog walk.

Rumours of course, flying around saying players out on the pop the night before the game, players falling out, players asking to be released from contracts. If they are true - then let them go.

I have watched Halifax through the bad times, and the even worse times. We will never stop watching them. Fans don't get annoyed at losing, fans get annoyed when the players are not playing for them, which is the case at the momment.

At the end of the day, the players, coaching staff and BOD are accountable to us, the fans. Get it sorted.