Great result for Fax. Good for the game to see Fev humbled for a change.

Yep all been said about the performance.

In just a few weeks how we can go from the shocking performance against Batley the joy of winning in London, the dejection of throwing an 18 point lead and losing in the last 5 mins at Sheffield and then play like that and win against the top of the league.




Can’t have asked much more from this weekend, a vital 2 points to stay in the 6, didn’t see any serious injures and the perfect confidence booster leading up to Wembley.

One game at a time but after that who knows how we’ll go in the 4 pointers against London and Widnes.

Last thought, Pickersgill showed is value in the last few games and character after being on the sidelines for so long.

JWH is the best fullback in the division for me and I like LJ but with his random bloopers increasing it wouldn’t be the biggest surprise to see Woody and Keyes in the halves when he does make his come back.

Haw do you get whooped by batley and lose to sheffield but beat london away and fev at home . All down to mindset .

Exact same issues at Bradford.

It is the inconsistencies that are frustrating, the loss at Barrow as well, if we played like we know we can consistently we'd be up in 2nd or 3rd.

Great win yesterday, some great performances from individuals as well as an all round team performance. Thought Pickersgill's defence in the second half was MOM worthy, made a couple of tackles that were certain try savers

Funny how the only 2 games this year that i said i couldn't see us winning was Fev away in the cup and yesterday and we won both so on that basis i am tipping us to lose on saturday. I do agree about Fev looking a bit one dimensional by that i mean they are a big side across the park but if you can hold onto their coat tails and execute some good rugby you will get some joy. I would say that was by far our best performance in the league this year and that is what makes this season so frustrating so far. If we can play as a team in the majority of our remaining games there should be some good times ahead.

Sean Long now left Fev, James Ford in charge til end of the season.

I had heard a while back they wanted rid, They brought James Ford in as Director of Rugby and at some point got rid of Leon Pryce, watching the game yesterday Long looked particularly moody throughout, but I thought it was good to see him shaking hands with all the players at the end.

He's been hard done by Fev, he's lost 3 games all season, 2 in the League and 1 in the Cup. So there is more to his "parting company" than is been let on as it isn't down to results, they're still 6 or 8pts ahead of Toulouse

Fev are getting more like bradfraud every day, they're deluded. Up The Fax! Lindley Liberal Club, White Rat 4.0% Mmm!

Another disappointing crowd. Did the naughty fev fans behave themselves? Very poor following to say they're runaway leaders. And if you couldn't see them you wouldn't know they were there. Quiet. Didn't even hear them chant that obnoxious anti-fax chant.

Great performance tho'. Can't believe how good Lannon is. Even the big fev forwards struggled to handle him.

Sat next to them in first half and yes the w@nky Halifax was very evident as was the F word in their Cas tributes.I'm used to it with football but was upsetting the older generation around us while the stewards stared and did nothing...

Anyone who from either side stayed away irrespective of anything else missed a great game simple as that.

Really cannot stand the fev fans, and cas aren't much better. If Toulouse pip the chokers and cas come down, we'll have the pleasure of both next season.

There was much talk about Springer on the other thread. He was quite a handful the first quarter but looked absolutely knackered in the 2nd half, surprised he was kept on. Lazy in defence and started to hide in attack. Maybe grixy had a point after all!

I'd have Gwaze over Springer and Lannon over either of them.

Same old foul mouthed tripe, on the way out a couple we're giving it " I've done this to your sister bla bla bla" the reply was "Yer she said she was disappointed and hardly noticed and I hope your brain cell doesn't get too lonely."

One Fax fan on the Total Fev site actually questioned why other home supporters, (which would include woman and children) would be upset by things like that and would not want to be anywhere near them.

Woman I work with pointed out to a Fev fan in a red Merc leaving the car park in the wrong direction.His reaction was horrendous including 2010 references,which were unrepeatable.A formal complaint is being made included a picture of Reg plate-if anyone else witnessed/heard they should contact the club.

I'd have all three..

Leaving old disputes to one side.

That would be pretty close to as good as it gets at Championship level.

On another note the full Fax recording of the game is on YouTube and it’s also on Viaplay Extra channel 420 at 7.30 pm tonight.
Viaplay Extra is included for anyone who has the Sky sports package.

"Tragedy chanting" or similar has been made an offence at football matches, don't know if it extends to Rugby or other events, but as an example 2 football fans were arrested at the weekend for making "aeroplane gestures" towards Cardiff City supporters, so it covers a lot. Certainly worth seeing if the local constabulary are able to do anything if they're not too busy looking for people calling people naughty words on twitter

Finally got around to watching a replay of the game last night and just realising how good JWH was, Fev literally could not handle him but added to that Pickersgill was safe as houses at the back and it will give Grix a massive dilema in the coming weeks with Keyes back. Lannon was quality and the best forward on the field but I thought players like Gee and Kav had really solid games as well and obviously AOB is class and just gives us so much of what we have been missing early in the season. I know Maizen was our MOM, not sure who picked that like, but again Fev were really scared every time he touched the ball and the threat of Walmsley outside of him really cut Fev open a couple of times. For Fev I know he splits opinions on here but Springer was their best player and to me its a really shame that Grix felt like he couldn't get the best out of him and he is ripping it up for one of our rivals.

Watched the game on YouTube, Surprising how well some can raise their game when there is a blockbuster of a game up next that everyone wants to feature in.
Don’t envy SG having to give the news to the unlucky ones outside of the 17 on Thursday evening.
Up the Fax .Panthers to eat dogs.

Hmmmm ..... he certainly was a handful the first 20 and took some putting down, but I did notice he went missing in the 2nd half and wasn't half as effective - might have been clouded by a few Sunday afternoon pints! But also looking at the highlights he seemed to be plodding around in the 2nd half hence why I was surprised he stayed on.

Might be worth asking Walmsley if he thought Springer was plodding in the second half.

But yeah he did seem to do a lot more minutes than he either would do normally or you would expect him to. The question is if a plodding Springer is better than some of the players we have? I can think of at least 3 players who had spells as prop for us on Sunday I would take him over.

Maybe kept Springer on to try nullify Lannon ? I prefer a balance in forwards with different attributes and different game times.Think we've been too one dimensional for the Grix tenure.

Wembley team pretty much the same as Sunday with Bob coming in leaving a shoot out between Flemming and Layroyer for who misses out unless Sutcliffe qualifies and he may come into the frame for a bench spot.

Going on performance against Fev LJ could have done better almost most losing us the game with a first and last set charge downs (as at Sheffiled) and more than one wild pass to no one except the pitch so he could come under some pressure when Keyes returns.

As before Woody and Keyes could go into the halves (at some point) with Pickersgill doing enough in defence and coming into the line with a nice bit of skill to put in Jake.

The 9 slot O'Brien is a certainty and I can see both sides of the argument between Brandon and Tom but Grix will go with Moore.

A side note on Springer, as per usual when he was a Fax player lining up against Fev we had them saying "not a single Fax player would get into our team" but now he's at Fev he's one of the first on the team sheet and not a single Fax player could replace him.

Long catches everyone on the hop by not going to Warrington and instead going to Wakefield as No.2 and becomes possibly the 3rd head coach from the championship to take up 2nd in charge jobs in SL. I honestly don't blame them, likely more money and probably a bit less pressure.