4 points up, shud of kicked ball in to corner and killed the game off! played safe rugby yet again and it back fired!! i am gutted

and who do you support?

plus it wouldnt have made much difference when there was 20 mins left.

you know what your on about,,NOT, what were we going to do, defend for 20 mins on ower own line, you dont shut shop with 20 mins to go and only 4pts in it

Er i think you have agreed with his point there

Like Black said it was a 50/50. Stick it in the corner and pressure them afterall like the comentators said not much difference between 4 and 6 points, really only one score with Rooney kicking. If we are tired take the two but as the call came from MC straight away im guessing it was simply more tactical. I can see both points of view and some people on here would do well not to be so `one eyed`

Cant knock the effort, but we blew it, and i dont think the side this year is any better than last years, if anything its worse.. sorry if it upsets people but i just dont see any progression other than not having a SL side relagated to push us down the table. The jury is still out on MC and MH, Barrow were stronger and smarter than us.

Semi final of a domestic cup

Minutes away of causing an upset in challenge cup at a SL team

Second in the league

Grand final appearance


Think you need to cheer up it has been a good season competing against the money of Widnes and Barrow.

absolute rubbish

Excellent season overall.

Lets face it, it could have been a lot worse

Look at Dewsbury Rams, totally domnated CH1 and missed out on promotion and GF day out!

2010 is going to be our year

they got promotion to ower league by becoming champions, no need for grand final day for them

The team has been weak this year especially at 6-which we all know. But I feel just as much at prop we have had a big problem.
[uWATENE[/u has been a shadow of himself. Poor tackling and not fit enough
[uCHERRYHOLME[/u is well frankly poor and offloads badly and gives penalties away. Simply not worth keeping.
[uJAMES[/u was a great player but we have missed his presence since he got injured and missed his tackling and go forward.
[uWILSON[/u had a couple of decent games but generally poor and missed tackles. Doubt he will be staying
[uSAID[/u very good player on his day but also gives too many penalties away and that is where he needs to work on. He looked tired 2nd half the season
[uMALONEY[/u for me has been quality. Some of his tackles yesterday were top notch and has good go forward. Certainly glad we have signed him for the future.
I think we also need players to play in there right positions and for us to have a bigger squad as most of the times we have struggled due to the smallness of the squad and too many players carrying knocks. I am a little concered with gene and Aizue as we need to spell them with both being over 30. It takes longer to recover from games and silly knocks. The heart may be willing but the body not. We need a couple of young guns as well who can learn of them.

Christ almighty we have some moaning fans!!!!

We have just played in the 1st MAJOR final for 20yrs & already the knives are out for players & the coaching set up!!!

I for one enjoyed this season immensely, yes some of the players could have done better & im sure they would be the 1st to admit it, but come on, lets at least enjoy the season we have just finished & look forward to building on the success,after all, it has been a successful season as we can now apply to SL, which was the main aim im sure at the start!

Roll on Boxing Day!!!!!

Not sure you need to worry about Gene and Aizue been over thirty, Larder is our oldest player and regularly does the 80, if your fit enough and not injured you can do the 80 regardless of age. That said Aizue won't do the 80 as he's a prop!

Well said mate! Its been a fantastic season and im proud to be a Faxlad

didn't bomb it - just unlucky on the night. Perhaps barrow were a bit more composed when they had possession near our line.

And some of the crucial calls didn't go our way. Ref didn't have a bad game but on another day, he'd have called them for a forward pass (final one to ballard) for the 2nd try, and i think the 2 penalties to piggy back Barrow up the field before their 3rd try were a bit soft. Even for the last try he should ave gone to screen and they would have seen the Barrow player on the floor "tacking" paul smith off the ball.

Lets not forget we lost penky for most of the game. And in my view it was a bit of a cheap late tackle after he had got the ball away. The Barrow player saw him off load but still went through and twisted him over.

But the effort was there and after the last few months, it was good to see that fighting spirit return inthe last few games and more structure to our game. We even did our homework on Fev and Barrow in the way we played them. And it nearly paid off in the end.

Good couple of entertaining games of rugby league yesterday.

Sorry guys, i think we can do better...
I dont think as a club we should settle for semi finals and losing in grand finals at this level.. Were Halifax RLFC, we need to aim higher.
I think its disapointing, and i hope the players and staff feel the same, we should give pats on backs when we win something.
Yesteday summed our season, Rooney and his big pack have something we don't. and its nothing to do with Des. They played simple rugby off the back of a platform.
We should not be happy that we have yet again won nothing, we should aspire to be the best in league.
harsh lessons to be learnt by players and coaches, not good enough, end of....

Im not settling for being in the semi's or losing the GF,just appreciate that after some of the dross that we've seen down at the Shay in the last 10yrs then we have improved & it's a hell of a platform to continue building upwards from.

Remember where we were 5 years ago though, we almost got relegated again. I appreciate you want us to be succesful as we all do, but lets walk before we can run.

Next season we'll have a complete ground to play in and hopefully go one step further.