full time fev 54 doncaster 10

patterson try

patterson goal fax 20-16 swinton

Try Patterson & converted

Swinton 16 Fax 20

Good side Swinton this season, Saw them play Salford and they play nice Rugby. Fax will come through and win but the Lions worth a fiver to win their league this season

Swinton in.

22-20

62 mins Try Holland Converted Dodd

Swinton 22 Fax 20

Fax in

22-24

Patto

Sounds like swinton are giving it a good go but fax should be doing better.fev showed us how it should be done by disposing of donny 54-10.

Game over - Barlow in.

Easy win for Fax

Oldham next up

Donny are rubbish and have team of amateurs, Swinton have a very good squad on paper. Sounded like we were let off the hook a bit.

Well done fax.

DONNY ARE NOT SWINTON.

Swinton have some quality players for NL1 and will do really well this year.

Scruffy win. But a wins a win

The bad weather conditions are always a leveller!

Yeah i agree swinton are a better team than donny but lets not kid ourselves it was a poor performance tonight with a not far from full strength team out there.

Did you go?

I didn't either mind.

No im just going off radio commentary and the fact it was swinton, ian watson terrorising us

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Off to pub now for a few cold one's and post match inquest

Apart from the wind, it was a pretty good evening weather-wise.

Fax looked very rusty, and Swinton ran their hearts out. Should have won easier, but could easily have lost the game. They had two late tries (correctly) chalked off for a forward pass and offside, but the ref was so awful he could easily have missed either offence.

Ref was just inconsistent, and hacked off both sets of fans as a result.

A win's a win. Onwards and upwards!!!

Exactly that, however we're off to a winning start.



Very impressed with Swinton, think they'll be very strong contenders this year.

We shouldn't see Mr Hicks again soon. Apparently, he's gone full time and will be reffing superleague games this year.

What a good entertaining game that was tonight.
It looks like fax are on for another slow start to the season again.

TBH i thought in the end you were lucky to win, swinton dropped a lot of ball in the first half and they more than held there own in the second half so well done fax for a hard earned win.
Also i thought black and worrency looked good tonight.

didnt go but wet muddy windy playing conditions are not what Fax are about. . think we prefer a firm surface but a wins a win

anyone know attendance?

and if we finish like last season it will do me fine. Plus we have Nash, Goddard (when fit), Ostick, Cherryholme, Watene , Larder and Azuie to utilize

Windy yes, but the pitch was in good nick. No rain over the other side of the pennines.