Stick out a non malicious, lazy arm apparently. Dave Alstead got a red today at Leigh for a high tackle. Was a bad one but I have seen 4/5 worse tackles this season (mostly against 'haven actually!) that have not resulted in any punishment whatsoever!

Brannigan did that today imo.

I thought we have five but Gleeson and Wrench were injured/not selected

We look a more composed side when Gleeson's on the field IMO.

Penky, although good, pushes the plays too much when not required.

Gleeson, Black, Beswick, Branighan key organisers for me.

I accept they're doing better. But in everyones honest opinion would we beat teams like Fev and Leigh in our current form? Because we should be doing with the squad we have.

I can't argue with that

I am sorry a.n.other but today Brannigan was not the organiser today he was more interested in keep moaning to the referee all game.Yes hes a born leader but not today.Ben Black is getting some form back and great to see Shad Royston picking up a couple of tries,his support play reminds me in many ways of Kris Radlinski when he played full back for Wigan.The players allowed themselves to get dragged down to their poor standards and level,they were poor and a little more composure Fax could quite easily have scored 50+.

So what do you think a "leader" would have done differently today?

On current form it would be damm sight closer than it was when we played them last. The defence in the main today was very good. We had good line speed and some very hard tackles going in.

Are Fev and Leigh peaking too soon? Look what happened to us at the back end of last year.

Just got back from Haven - how much more pleasurable is the journey home after a win up there? I missed the win last year.

I must admit I feared the worst after speaking to Cov before the game and finding out who was missing

Nice to see Blacky back to something like his best, Shad was great again, Aizue had his best game yet (shame about the pass that ended his break) - he ran strongly in attack and hit hard in defence. How the Haven no 8 did not get sent off for his 'assault' on Dylan Nash just before half time is beyond me. After the game Coxy on radio Cumbria said he was unlucky to be sin binned

- I thought he was lucky just to be given 10 mins. Laughton was his usual incompetant self

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I was impressed today by Dylan Nash - how strong is the guy for a centre??

I still feel that we are missing Gleeson - the team looks much more 'settled' when he is on the park. We are no where near the finished article yet but the signs are encouraging at the moment.

Can't remember the last time my other half came away from a game smiling so much, she loves watcing a game with a bit of Biff!!!

Interesting how you've not mentioned Maloney's "assault" on Leroy Joe in the opening 10 minutes. If Jacko should've been sent off then so should Maloney.

The best rugby side definately won although we probably had more possession and built more pressure particularly in the last 20 minutes but we never looked capable of scoring enough points to win. I would say my only criticism of Fax is that every other pass seems to be forward and there was a long pass in the build up to your last try that went a good few yards forward.

At least Maloney took on the man one-on-one whilst standing and not while he'd been tackled and held on the floor by another 2 players, Blatant Cowardice if ever i've seen it.

What is it with 'haven fans and 'forward' passes. Every game I go to up there you can hear the 'haven fans shouting FORWARD for every pass, even the ones they cant see



Last year the fax fans joined in with the FORWARD chant

Because they were forward. I've never seen it too an extreme like today.

I take the point above about Jackson taking the man on the ground but both offences warranted a Red Card and he couldn't have sent Jackson off after what had happened previously. He just lost total control of the game for both sides he was crap.

Sounds like i missed a proper good old fashioned game of RL

god i miss playing rugby

I thought Wrench had a good game.

If Laughing Ronnie had given the penalty before when Joe took out the kicker it wouldnt have happend.

if nash has broke cheekbone he will be sorely missed as has started to play well after last injury.

R U a Saints fan in diusguise ??

appalling attendance, where the hell have all the haven fans disppeared to?

There were a few forward passes, but from both sides, the last haven try was from a blatant forward pass directly in front of us, even the haven fans around us didn't believe the touchy missed it. Then we scored from a huge forward pass. Even themselves out???

Just got back from the game now!

For what its worth i enjoyed my trip to haven for the first time ever! the last few times i have been i said never again! however, we know the drill now, Morrisons for lunch, then off to the game, and we won.....







twas a very scrappygame, Haven are obviously in turmoil, the Haven fans sat around us were predicting how big there loss was going to be before the game, they were however very friendly and had a good sense on humor

The game aside the best moment for me was when Haven did not take the 2 points in the opening minutes and fax went up the other end and scored, two haven fans sat at the back of the stantad were hurling some rite abuse at Stokes, he turned around and stared at them for a good 3 minutes, if looks could kill they would have been set in stone, to His defense he did send out the signal for two, the players ignored it, then when Haven did score later on Stokes turned around and shouted up to thew fans,your quite now nd gave them another hard stare!

I have never seen a coach eyeballing and shouting at fans like that before! me thinks he is a man under fire!

Back on the filed a job well done in a very scappy game.

Just back from the game? Its 11:18 on Monday. What happened, did you walk back????

Yes at last I have seen us beat Whitehaven (I missed last years win) at the Rec.
I did see us beat Kells that time in the Cup so have seen a Fax win there.

I have to say it could have been more and if we had not got sucked into the 'dirty stuff' for a while and had a Ref who had b*lls we would have beat them by 50 plus.
Good support up there today from Halifax, if the crowd was only 1100 there must have been 250 to 300 Fax fans well done all. I alwasys said they were punching above their weight and will drop back to wher they belong one day, Barrow are the big boys in Cumbria and if Worky got their act together they are bigger than Haven.
We had some star performers out there especially the pack we really put it to them. My one complaint is how the Ref can let a team just go out to attack our players and get away with it!
Disgraceful.

Aizue much improved, thought it was a good performance from the team really. Branighan is all the difference - much better when he plays. Black back on song, makes a huge difference. Mattinson was a disgrace, how Laughton didn;t see that I don't know. Disgusting.