Missed Grix badly today.

Effort is there as it has been all season but our skill levels let us down at key times over and over again. We probably won't win a game in these qualifiers but hopefully this year it will be obvious to the coaching staff after the 7 games where the team needs improvement and investment can be made as we are not that far away. We would have got away with todays performance against Toulouse and London at home but we could have played all day and not scored against a good team.

Very unfair criticism about not being able to score if we played all day ………… we nearly did score for heaven's sake!

I don't know what some of you guys expect. Take a look at Toronto's team, full of full time ex SL/NRL we did a fantastic job today. After watching 3 championship matches this weekend, and "guessing" how Hull KR and Salford performed, I guess the final table will look like this:

Salford
Toronto
Leeds
Hull KR
London
Super Fax
Toulouse
Widnes

Up the Fax!

Oh, and what's this rumour about Scott Grix coming to Fax next season?

Thought Toronto won the ruck area and we just fired blanks in the Toronto 22m red zone. That link between Johno Grix and Muzza was weakened by not having Grix at pivot in the middle of the field today. To put in context that narrow margin defeat may still be a positive down the line as I expect Toronto to beat teams by a larger score in due course and if we can play to that intensity and upskill on attack then we may have some more money to come by finishing higher that the pundits have us down for. Keep the faith.
PS yes Scott Grix will be back next season-to draw another golden gamble ticket at half time

I felt quite flat after the match. I the ref was very one sided but we looked very clueless when near their line. We stood in a bunch. Didn’t push up and and had no one dorecting play and it was slow. Had the attack been better I feel we could have won that game.
Up The Fax

Cant fault the commitment & effort unfortunately let down by a lack of composure in attack I see Brian Noble is now whingeing about travel costs !! Shame

I thought the ref was fine and it was a fair result.
We missed Grix, Tangata and Fleming, i think we could have won with them, but alas, it wasn’t to be.
Top effort from the lads though, did themselves proud and should take positives that hard work can push anyone close. Some great last ditch defence from Toronto probably flattered them a bit.

The consolation with this defeat is that Toronto will be out of the Championship. Noticed Noble whinging yet again. Oh so sorry Brian that the RL aren't bending back for you guys. Sport = Level playing field = alternate home and away. So so so stupid having a Canadian team in our domestic league. I really despair

I thought the Ref was fine. He made the odd mistake but so does everyone. It was great to actually have a super league ref for a change.I wonder why anyone would want to be a ref. You just get stick and clearly they aren't trying to get it wrong.

The better team won. Yes they niggled, slowed the game down and generally used all the tricks but Fax didn't have the ability to score. It was a good effort and on a different day could have gone a different way but on balance it was at least a ten point ball game.

The question I have to ask is, could any of the Toronto side make it in Super league if they qualify. I would have to say no. They are a collection of either over the hill or fringe super league players, Toronto will have to recruit a whole new side.

I was sitting in the East stand and I have to say some of the stuff from the crowd was an embarrassment to Halifax, A few hysterical old ladies clearly had no concept of the rules. There was a constant anti ref tirade, class comments as "hit him", "pull his hair" and a load more I'd expect to see at a 1970's wrestling match. They told the ref to stop the clock when the scrum wasn't formed, accused him of wasting time when the clock was stopped and had clearly never heard of the free play by the way they screamed at the players when they kicked on one.

It was just really really cringey.

OMG, Really?

I feel for you, that must really really hurt. Wish I hadn't read that before going to bed, I'll never sleep!

The ref penalised Toronto off the park in the first half - then they changed tactics, stopped chelping at him and just ground us down the middle.

Great effort, but missing Grix in the attack obviously blunted us in prising open the best last line defence I have seen - I would expect them to get promotion based on a defence like that if they don't run out of players first.

We heard Nobby complaining about travel before the match - who would have thought travel from toronto would be a logistics nightmare....

Halifax RLFC have been fined for chants at the REF... Heard worse before now so bit pathetic really just making an example out of us

No they have not. Fans have just been warned to keep their behaviour in check. Every team has idiot fans and the club are just trying to nip it in the bud early on which you can't really blame them for.

Fair enough just read it on a facebook status that a fine as been issued regarding the chants at the ref e.g we know where you live

Very much all this,the plaudits for effort/defence all well and good but it masks the fact that with the ball we were simply AWFUL.

I think they were just warning fans that it were possible we could get in trouble. Atmosphere is great but they just need to cut out the daft stuff, its not football.

Didn't hear any untoward chanting but 'super league your having a laugh'is cringeworthy alone when we're losing......

You must be deaf then. What about "You can stick your f*****g money up your a**e"?

As for the chants against the ref, you must be joking. "All we want is a decent referee", etc is soft stuff, is it not?

Wasn't deafening at far end of East where we were 'attacking' second half.

Talking of the East Stand, that's the fullest I've seen it for ages. I thought the crowd looked well over 2k so was surpised at 1,774. But thank god we're not in the Shield ...... Leigh got 2.6k and Fev 1.2k.

Would agree,was busy bar end section and included 50/60 Toronto followers most with shirts....

..from shuddersfield! Lol!

Might have been the ‘Referees a w@#&er’ chants, although I have heard much worse in Aus. TBF some of the lack of action on laying on at the tackle, late elbows knees and fists in the tackle and follow up roughing up probably warranted the chants. That type of stuff gets picked up pretty quickly in the NRL to stop it happening but the ref on Sunday seemed to miss it completely. He certainly didn’t bend to the pressure of the crowd, or the assistant refs! Not the reason we lost, but he was pretty average to say the least so maybe he was self indulging

Could see this result coming a mile off. Missed Grixy, Muzza tried hard but Johnno went missing again. Johnston really is the weak link for me. Jinky? More like headless chicken!

Very hard to perform in the amount of room available from their defence . I don't think Muzza faired much better than Johnno to be honest, his passing on attack wasn't too clever. Especially to Moss on the right hand side , a pass on the money may have unlocked them but not to be unfortunately . On to the next one now heads up .