29th july

I WAS at the game and saw every minute.

Your assumption of the game is spot on, not impressed with the first half at all, but boy, what a second half display.

Congratulations, great second half comeback. Gutted we couldn't hold on after a strong first half, and had we curled the conversion over from the last try who knows what might have happened, but such is life.

Best of luck on the final.

Awfull display first half with hardly a set completed but second half completely different team and to come back against a good Eagles side took some effort.
This win was a must, lets hope we can kick on and get some form back.

Good to meet Robin (RFF),top bloke

Here's my match report if any of you fancy a read, I try to be as impartial as possible! www.sheffieldeagles.com/index.ph ... Itemid=502

Here's my match report if any of you fancy a read, I try to be as impartial as possible! www.sheffieldeagles.com/index.ph ... Itemid=502

It's a very fair reflection of the game.

671 spectators though. There were a lot more than that?

I would have believed it more if they had announced 1,671. It would have been a nearer estimate of the crowd.

Are NRC games a shared gate by any chance?

I did think they announced 1671 at the time, but wasn't paying that much attention (more focused on what was happening on the pitch!).

There did seem to be a hell of a lot more than 671 there but that's what was announced.

Must be a split gate if thats the case then.

Garbage in the first half and thats putting it politely. Whatever was said to Handforth and Thackery in the interval worked because they were both fantastic in the second half, both looking good in attack and working really hard in defence. How much better do we look when them two fire. Once we get on a roll we are very hard to stop. Great second half lads.

Dont pack yer bags for Blackpool just yet though as we have a couple of important league games before we smash Fev in the final.

your gonna have to be a hell of a lot better florimo to smash this fev team at the minute, you never looked like scoring the other week against us


i hope you play tiger and thackeray again against us cos their non exsistant in big games

Here we go again iv never know a set of fans go from 1 extreme to another in such a short space of time, probably the reason weve no time for you. Thaz beat Sheff by 2 points and its back to world domination. Get a grip man for feks sake

That is true, however remind me what happened this year when it was Fev V Fax at POR.



I wouldn't know about them two specifically but again remind me what happened in the last 'big' game between Fax and Fev.

Fev are the best team in the league at the moment and IMO by a distance. However Fax are so unpredictable and as the game at POR proved when we are on our game we can be devastating.

I thought we crossed your try line 3 more times. Just got the wrong result. Shows we have the ability to do it.

Lets get a grip, we are going to Blackpool.
We hamered Fev away, they hamered us at home.
The league is between us (in my humble opinion) and Fev, the NR Cup Final is between us and Fev and possibly the Grand Final will be between us and Fev, so, stop all this sniping. Lets make July 29th a great day for both clubs and the champiopnship and Rugby League.

Mate, if 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or whatever post what they think it's hardly a "set of fans" and you know how you hate everybody being tarred with the same brush as what happened over the "incident."
When I post it's just my opinion and that's all and no I don't think Fax are set for world domination or domination of any kind.
I also hope that no other club is either as no contests would not be good for the game but only in my opinion.

I have time for Fev as a club and as fans for a number of reasons.
In some ways we are very similar.
First, historically we have a great heartland rugby league tradition.
Second, geographically we are thought of as the lesser of so called bigger clubs.
Third, for the last few years Fev have been steadily building both on and off the field with remarkable progress.
Fourth, at the moment Rovers are just about as good as it gets at this level on the field.
Fifth, I personally know and work with Fev supporters who are top blokes and would do anything to help me out if I got in a fix and I would do the same for them.
Finally a good few years ago now when I went back into construction from shall we say other duties I worked in the houses right along side of post office road,
They had a communial heating system that ran through the lofts and tee'd off to feed each property and I upgraded loads of these to seperate systems.
During that time of course I got to know the residents with rugby league a daily topic and had a great relationship, they were just straight up and down folks, some tough buggers amongst them but no different from anywhere else.

Last night the game could have and almost was over by half time.
Eagles went very close on a couple of occasions to finnishing it.
Second half the Fax forwards finally got stuck in and got on top for longer periods of the game.
Bearing in mind we lost Luke Ambler midway through the first half, Sam Barlow had been nursing a knee injury with ice packs on his knee for most of the week and with only Aizue left for bulk on the bench it was a massive effort which gave the halves some room to work in and come back from the dead.

Yes we got out of jail, the emphasis on "we got out of jail" Eagles didn't leave the cell doors open for us to walk out we had to batter them down and did.

Fev v Fax at Blackpool.
At the moment if we played next week Fev by 4 or maybe 5 scores.
If things stay as is again Fev by 4 or 5 scores whenever we play the game.
In a few weeks time who knows what will have transpired.
Injuries to either side.
Fev may dip in form.
Fax may pick up in form.
The unpredictable nature of Fax anything could happen.

A few weeks to go with plenty to play for in between and on the day lets hope it's a cracking game and we all enjoy the day.

Similar to the poster on the Fev forum who suggested that you should send your U23 team to Hunslet as it would be good enough to beat them. Arrogant or what?

We're on a high about getting to the final after looking like we wouldn't at half time so it injects a certain amount of confidence/bravado. Do you really think the guy was serious about stuffing Fev? We are, however, capable of beating you as we have already shown.

One man's arrogance is another man's confidence!! I'll live with what Vic (the Vicar) suggested and why!

Suggy ya short fat round numpty. If Greg Florimos Boots ever goes fishing he needs to take thee n puddin with him!!! Cos tha bites every time!!

Go away.

Glad someone saw the funny side.

Of course I dont think we will smash Fev in the final. Fev will start the game as massive favorites and are clearly the best team in the league(at the moment at least). Then again though they do seem to have this habit of choking against us in big games so they will have to keep that in the back of their minds.

fev have won a final now and got the monkey off their backs, think it will be a totally different fev for you to deal with now in a big cup game

I would have thought our game at home the other week was a "big game" We win we ease away, they win we play catchup.
Yes they certainly choked.

They certainly did, choked us to death