It wouldn’t surprise me if the gate is less than when we played Hammersmith and York Acorns.
I don’t see why they put the price up. Just because it Catalans that won’t attract more people. More likely to get more people in if the prices are as before.

£20 South Stand, £23 East Stand: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hal ... c/1194688# The club should stop raising the price for pay on the day. It puts people off. Those who buy in advance will probably go anyway. I think there'll be a decent crowd. Looking forward to it myself .... the first competitive home match of the season at last.

£20 South Stand, £23 East Stand: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hal ... c/1194688# The club should stop raising the price for pay on the day. It puts people off. Those who buy in advance will probably go anyway. I think there'll be a decent crowd. Looking forward to it myself .... the first competitive home match of the season at last.

Quote ="Tony Fax"£20 South Stand, £23 East Stand: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hal ... c/1194688# The club should stop raising the price for pay on the day. It puts people off. Those who buy in advance will probably go anyway. I think there'll be a decent crowd. Looking forward to it myself .... the first competitive home match of the season at last.'" You'd be amazed what hoops the RFL & clubs have to jump through to aquire funding and grants. It's very political. Cashless stadiums are testament to this. Unwanted, but the grant money is more valuable in the short term.

Quote ="Tony Fax"£20 South Stand, £23 East Stand: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hal ... c/1194688# The club should stop raising the price for pay on the day. It puts people off. Those who buy in advance will probably go anyway. I think there'll be a decent crowd. Looking forward to it myself .... the first competitive home match of the season at last.'" You'd be amazed what hoops the RFL & clubs have to jump through to aquire funding and grants. It's very political. Cashless stadiums are testament to this. Unwanted, but the grant money is more valuable in the short term.

Interesting to see the bookies have given Fax 30 points start. Generous on what will be a heavy pitch for Cats big forwards.

Batley getting 18 points start against Cas. What I've seen of Cas on the relly so far they're bloody awful and wouldn't be surprised Barley run them VERY close.

Also worth a punt on Fev who've been given 34 points start at Leigh.

And the remaining Championship team Sheffield given 50 points start at Wigan.

Bookies underestimating the Championship imo.

Cats will win by 50+ look at the size of the centres compare to the likes of Mcombe
I would take a Batley win. Think Fev V Leigh will be fev+26

Yep, centres are a worry. I'd stick Kav and Woody in the centres, Louis at fullback and Widdop to play full match in the halves.

The FC HX Town game called off, Fax will probably play on a pitch that more resembles a threadbare bowling green than a patch of grass for people to play sport on. When will the round ball ever learn you need an amount of grass to help drainage, I am not talking about 3 or 4 inches but somewhat of a covering that shows green not concrete grey/brown.
Taking this point further I seem to remember the pitch has had several drainage upgrades in recent years so what is the issue? Years ago when the football had a decent league side there was grass on the pitch 90% of the time, and they played some decent footy. Or is every one going to blame the council for the weather causing the issue?

I can't see owt but a good old rollicking today and it seems strange to say we've been unlucky with the draws considering all four games have been at home. It is what it is though and if i can sit in't Three Pigs come 5.00 with a pint of White Rat knowing the lads have put up a good show and come out of it injury free that'll do me. Up The Fax!

Well, the other 3 championship teams gave a great account of themselves and watched Fev give Leigh a game on the sportsman.

I also think Fax will give Cats a game today and get within a couple of scores.

In all fairness I think we did ok today. Catalan are a top 3 SL side and will be pushing to be in the GF again this season. They brought plenty of penalties with them which disrupted them. Our ball control and some decision making was way off today. Fairbank was easy MoM. We looked better once Widdop came off the bench

I was impressed with the crowd of over 1800. I thought we would only get 1000.
Although Salty got our only try I thought he has poor game. Running out of the defensive line (and not fast enough) and then missing the tackle. Not good and he needs to cut that out and stay on his wing. A lot of the time our defensive line was not line it was just a mess. All of this need sorting before we start on the league again. Over all we did ok

Overall better than I'd expected- better attendance and no apparent injuries which were my 2 main concerns about a game we were never going to win. Was a bit worried after first 10 minutes it was going to be embarrassing, thought the pack stood up really well and stuck in there until the end. They did put some slick backline moves together but this was helped by porous defence on Edens side although not sure it was all his fault. Crooks would definitely have helped the defence and we also missed the accuracy of pass from dummy half that O'brien provides. Overall not too downhearted about the performance and as long as they're not too battered feel quietly confident about Friday's Derby.

Aye, sounds about reight that. Take the first 7 minutes away and the lads did all they could. A lot better crowd and no obvious injuries so all o.k. Victorian Café Bar. Up The Fax!

One thing that game showed we need some centres with size asap Tibs and mcombe are no where near top 6 championship standard

While you are correct,its not something we needed a super league opposition to identify..

Attendance wise it looked more than 1800 to me but i would never accuse the club of fiddling the attendance. Game wise i thought our middles did a pretty good job considering the size difference between the 2 sides, but once they attacked our edge defence even if we got our numbering right which we completely got wrong for their first try they ruthlessly exposed us with there pace power and clinical finishing. It goes without saying there was a big gulf between the sides across the park but i was disappointed with some of our outside backs efforts when attempting to make those tackles. Chances was limited for us but for me our spine didn't look connected like i would expect and it looked like we was looking for individual efforts rather than team ones, this as been a issue so far this season not just yesterday, which was not helped by very poor distribution from acting half by Tom ingham, what we can do about this with Obrien out for the next couple of months other than bring someone else in. Thankfully we look to have come through with no injuries but with Fairbank banned for friday there will at least need to be 1 change from yesterday.

Nothing there that I don't agree with - I don't think they'll try and replace O'brien although I think messing about with the spine of the team to accommodate Widdop is a mistake, as it disrupts the team too much. The only replacement I can see for Fairbank is Hursey, especially as Campbell was limping just carrying on the kicking tee on Sunday. If Douglas recovery has altered would be good if the club could provide an update as based on last update from finn that I remember he should have been fit by now - seems pointless just padding out a squad with him each week if he's not fit. Apparently Tee Ritson is likely to be loaned out by Saints, couldn't really justify going for him as wing is one of the few areas we're not short - that said I'd still love to see him here.

Is Hursey injured? He was announced as a permanent signing but with him not even been named in the squad this weekend it looks more and more like some type of loan deal with Leeds especially with Campbell and Douglas both been named with no chance of playing.

Shudds & Hull could only muster a paltry 1653 for their game which actually puts our 1800 in a decent light.

Great effort by the lads, Cats obviously had the SL class but still thought 40-4 flattered them somewhat. If we had Worthington and Arundel in the centres there's no way we'd be shipping in the tries down the flanks that's been happening.

Also nice to see the attendance, and it beat the all SL clash down the road at Huddersfield.

FK knows what's going on half of time,there really needs to be better communication.Only just caught up with news that you have to sign someone on DR to carry water nowadays....

Wow that is really bad. Theres a number of teams in SL that would struggle so much if they ever lost the central funding they get.

Not to rehash old threads, however taking the Hudds v Hull attendance, how did some teams score ‘top’ marks for average crowds on the IMG matrix ?

Based on a 3 year average and seen as though we play Bradford this week, discussing what they did last season in artificially inflating their crowds before there was a proper audit process was actually quite smart of them as those figures will stay on record for the next couple of seasons. I remember when we played them and there must have only been about 1200 or so people in the ground and everyone was laughing as they gave out a crowd of over 4k. We didn't know at the time why, but we do now.

More fool us for voting for something we weren't even wick enough to use to our advantage....