Defensively we were shocking - black had his poorest game for fax ; as did most others - at least Worrincy tried to make good yards.
full credit to sheffield - they wanted it more, played the right tactics ; their kicking game was spot on - fully deserved their win.
just heard mc on radio.gracious in defeat.
blacks gone to hospital for an x-ray on his leg - hope its just precautionary.

Yes every coach in the division will be queing up for the video of this game.
How to beat Halifax ? Get in their faces so they can`t play.
Sheffield deserved the win and sorry I don`t think we deserved a bonus point either.
I thought Worrincy had a good game ,Black had a shocker could have done with going off earlier ,then he could have sorted his head out and wouldn`t have got injured.
Their forwards had ours well beat too and what`s all this about us not being able to play well in the rain ? They are not a bunch of Show Ponies if they can`t play in the rain it`s time to pack in.

We were always going to lose a match lets hope this is the only one.

Terrible, that sums up todays performance.

Well done Sheffield, far superior in every department.

Our players do make life hard for themselves a lot of the time, even in games we win. Today we'd just got back to 16-16, Thamgart takes the ball up from the kick off, he's got 4 men around him so tries a ridiculous offload and we lose the ball. People will say this is how we play and we have to expect mistakes with the style we play but maybe we have to learn when to adapt to the conditions/circumstances and play a different style.

Then with about a minute or 2 to go Paterson tries a little chip over the top and Sheffield catch the ball and then go down the other end and score again to deny us a bonus point. Even if we had regained the ball and scored there wouldn't have been enough time for us to score again.

I'm disappointed we lost but not surprised, think we got out of jail at Barrow and Fev. The important thing now is how we react, look at Manchester United, they lost at fulham about 8 matches ago and then won 7 on the trot from then. Thats what champion teams do.

Overall a poor day at the office but i'll still be there at Donny on Thursday hopefully watching my team bounce back.

It was nice to see Gibbo roll back the years and score a good try too.

lets be honest about it this can only be excellent news for the rest of the league,at least it'll wipe the smirk off Martin Halls fizzog

Just to let you know that Blacky's ankle has been xrayed at the hospital and there are no broken bones - just bad bruising.

Sheffield deserved the win they were the better team today.
Fax were their own worst enemies consistently turning the ball over on the first tackle most notably when we had just scored to level at 16 all and
when sheffield had been marched back another 10 metres for backchatting a penalty, and we might have got a bonus point had Patterson not chosen to kick forward again on the first tackle late on and turn possesion over again!
We've all enjoyed the exciting open rugby the team has played this season but sometimes you have to mix it up and play some basic settling sets and build pressure.
Hopefully the team will put together another long sequence of wins and learn a few things from today

To his leg or to his ego?

Well thank goodness for that. Best to rest him against donny though and then he can have a nice rest before the leigh cup game.

Ah, Mr High, I've been expecting you ...................




Garbage today folks. It looked as though the squad had just met for the first time this morning - hopefully it's just a bad day at the office but we've now lost two on the trot. Confidence won't be so high going to Doncaster on Thursday night. We missed Gleeson terribly, we just had no go forward whatsoever. Hopefully, the defeat will have hurt the players - that's the best aid to getting back to winning.

For those who put words in the mouths of Halifax fans - i didn't read any people on here saying we'd go undefeated. Plenty said we were miles ahead of the other teams - Matt Calland included. I still believe that.

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Thank God though, both Black and Penky were garbage today but need them all the same.

Wonder if the Bowmans will get a game at donny?

Apparently some of the players felt there was some boo's from the cround at the end, I personally didn't hear anythging.

I hope so. Thye're both good players and since black has been injured it's good to give young anthony a run out just in case we need a cover.

I was a little disappointed in hemingway today although the whole team were pretty poor and that may have added too it.

There was some booing aimed at the referee at the end. Didn't hear any towards the players though.

I never boo but they were a few boos and I suppose you're going to have to accept that we have a few glory fans atm which is expected.

Not that I heard ,not after one loss surely a loss was bound to come. Might as well come sooner rather than later.

That always p!sses me off. When so called supporters suddenly turn against their own team. The players had a bad day at the office. I'm sure they didn't go out intentionally to do things wrong, but some people just think they should hurl any type of abuse at them. For the odd mistake here and there.

The booing was aimed at the Referee and TJ's as they left the field at the South East corner. I suppose that comes with the job but generally I thought they were ok today.

I thought the ref was ok today. Most of the things that cost us were self inflicted.

Before people start quoting me saying he missed this and that. That's what happens in the game. Sometimes you get bad calls against and bad calls for. You just have to live with it in the end and move on. The ref isn't going to change his mind. He can only give what he sees.

Good things is we play on Thursday and take it out on Doncaster. I think we maybe got in to the comfort zone and went out mentally wrong and doing stupid things. I think MC and his staff will have a fairly easy training week as they do not need to say anything really as the players will know they were poor today. They do not need us neither to bitch and moan. Lets get behind them on Thursday and roar them to victory.
Next week also sees Barrow v Fev which will be very intersting-Go FEV!!!

I think that's the best thing. We don't have to dwell on this for a full week. The players can regroup and show that this one bad performance so far this year isn't the norm.

I'll be there cheering the team on, that's what us fans do.

PROVE IT knob..... how your enjoying us getting beaten... is it to deflect form the face that your lot did?... oh & are still below us?

as for the game. we were out fought in every department. We lost it in the forwards. Eagles have a big pack, so seems strange to go in without Frank.

They dominated in the tackle (with help from the bleached blonde idiot!). Our forwards thought they were ball players at times, rather than making the hard yards. When they did we scored from it.

Miles again was our best player, yes Blacky had a shocker, but will win us more games than he loses.

As for the booing, there was some in the Skircoat, only a bit but still stupid. We even had an idiot behind me shouting for Matt & ther rest to get down from the North Stand to motivate the players from the side of the pitch!!!

The lads tried today, just im sure didnt stick to the game plan.

This will hopefully be the kick up the we needed & we go on again from here.

i would like to see miles at lose forward and royston back to full back,

i think miles would be amazing at loose,