Well that's kind of ging dong's point Rich. He's ok with that opportunity - most wingers are. However, if I was a coach I'd be asking my half backs to bombard him with the high one and exploit his defence. It appears Daryl Powell thought so too.
He's quick and a good athlete but he has defensive frailties - otherwise he'd be in SL!
A good quick athlete, Yes. Rugby player??? I suppose it's a subjective question so down to each individuals assessment.
Bob would have him in his team every time. I wouldn't mind him being in the opposition cos I believe you can plan to keep him quiet and leave his defensive weaknesses to open up in front of him.
As I said, it's subjective. Cost you the game?? Well no. Fax's discipline made a significant contribution to the result as anything else.

Yes, it is subjective, and he does have the occasional bad game. There was one game last year (and I just cant remember which one it was - someone will tell me) where the opposition peppered Rob with the high bomb time after time, and after he caught every single one, ran them back and even scored from one they gave up that particular idea!!

Yes, I would have him in my team and the season will tell, he will do more good for us than bad.

Was a disappointing game last night. First half went well but the second half was a disaster.

Was very simple why we lost... too many penalties. No matter who we play this season if we give them as much free yardage up the pitch like we did with Fev we are going to struggle. Gannon and Penky are just too hot-headed. Both have been in the game for years now but still give cheap penalties away that put un-necessary pressure on ourselves. Forget about the ref for once. If the players can't control themselves we deserve to have penalties awarded against us.

Fev didn't do too much fancy last night, we're just played it very simple. They didn't give silly penalties away, moved it well from left to right to catch our defence out and kept their cool under pressure.

One other thing, we need to get better distance on our kicks when we have a penalty. One last night looked as if we'd kicked the ball about ten yards.

Sort the ill-disipline out and we have half a chance.

qu)did we get a bonus point last year against Fev,if not Fev have gone backwards this year and we are a point up in compared to last year.

now that's a bloke who's glass is half full!!!

yes it was 26-16 last season to us at the shay, and the year before that you got a bonus point when we beat you 22-20

26-16 would have got us a bonus point and I am sure we didn't get one against you last season

Yes we did.

Button to the right: statistics/championship/sesons/Championship 2010/Halifax RLFC/fixtures

Ive just watched the game back, thought Worrincy played really well. Put the effort in taking the ball forward, made the tackles in the first half and was solid. Sure, not a good effort in the tackle for the try in the corner but time after time he was left 2 on 1 by his own centre which is just poor. He was solid under the kicking game of Fev, just got caught out with one tackle. In all honesty, other than Beswick I thought he was one of Fax's better players.

so a bonus point against fev last year no change and through to the next round of co-op cup,= progress? at this stage of the season.

apologies for senior moment =nrcup.

But you beat toulouse away last year so your 3 points down

the TO victory at Fev last season was a cracker - irrespective of the scoreline,if only all RL games could be that entertaining ???

If the in-goal area had been two inches bigger, this thread might have had a completely different feel to it. This was right in front of me, and my first reaction was "try". If not on Sky, I think it would probably have been given. Winning at half-time, and then scoring first in the second may have resulted in a completely different outcome. Sport's a fickle old thing - that's why we love it so much!

'IF' is a big word.............

You're right, and it clearly wasn't a try. Games like this can be settled by the smallest of margins.

And you might have seen a flying pig......

I don't think Fev are that good a side, they simply wanted it more than us. In the Second Half after the Paterson no try we looked flat and pedestrian and Fev stepped up a gear with Dickens, Grayshon and that dirty get Tonks laying on a great platform for Finn and Kain to do their business. Most teams would have beaten us the way we performed in that second half.

We desperately missed a half back tonight, Danny Jones was playing Centre for some strange reason, coming in on crash balls from Black. I hasten to add if Holroyd had been playing he would have played a lot more simpler game to wrap up the points.

Hopefully its a kick up the backside we need, we lost three times to Fev last year and look what happened? Plenty of time to build and improve, but the table doesn't make pleasant viewing.

LOl!!!! Do you know, I read that so many times last season and we still, despite "not being that good", won the league with a bit to spare (notwithstanding the final outcome)!!

true, we weren't at our best on Thursday, though I thought we were very effective in attack and more so defence, once Heppy came on. If we had been upto speed and had players who were fully fit playing (instead of coming back a bit too early out of necessity), I think the score may have been greater. Who knows?
However, I'm happy to carry on watching my team that "aren't that good"!!

Fev are an average side who normally would be around 5th place. But they have probably the best British Coach in the game and he is what makes Featherstone such a good side. He knows what is needed and can change the team to suit. Powell is a Quality coach and its only a matter of time before he coaches in SL. Fev fans enjoy it while you can.

I wish TO were that bad !!!

Of course, the likes of Briggsy, Zac that are now in SL have nowt to do with that then eh? The fact that Tommy Saxton was so close to going to SL and the likes of Tonka etc making themselves known is nowt to do with it????

Like I said, I have kept reading how average we are. I've kind of got used to it. Since Daryl arrived, there has been a change in recruitment, a few bob made available by an ambitious and astute BoD and some decent youth coming through.
I'm not denying Daryl hasn't made a massive impact at the club, but to suggest that we 'enjoy it whilst we can' cos when Daryl goes it'll all go down the tubes is somewhat farcical. We have a decent squad who won't run away with the league this year, but will be thereabouts come the end of Aug and as you know only too well, being "thereabouts" is all you need at that stage. You can't make a silk purse out of a cows @r_se! A quality coach still needs quality players OR bottom play off is the best you can expect.

Average?? Aye, if you like.

Fev are not average, they have the best Thinking half back in the league IMO in Finn. The front rowers are tough as hell and will hammer you all day long.

Halifax were good in patches on Thursday and we still have a looooong way to go.

Calland out

We were average or not too good all last season as well and in most matches we were so lucky and had the ref on our side or the opoosition had just come back from France. Some of the opoosition had off days when we met them; Hope we have a similiar season

or hit a pigs ear with a banjo