The Co-operative Championship
Halifax RLFC v Dewsbury Rams 3pm
Ref C Halloran TJ M Leach TJ S Moss RR R Dolan MC P Crashley

Oh Cock.

Are there any ref's that Fax fans actually like?

Exactly, Every single one of these posts brings out responses like "Oh not him again" or "He's rubbish".

FWIW I think Halloran is one of the better ones in our league along with Hewer. Laughton on the other hand...

Don't think i'm come across him before, so thats a good thing right?

Fax are form at the moment and if we keep playing the way we have and toughen up in defence a bit more, then we will get the result at the end of the 80 mins despite who the ref is.

We're our own worst enemy at the moment by gifting the opposition too much ball. The Leigh match was a prime eample, cough up the ball too much and put ourselves under too much pressure. Next step try and stop the opposition getting loser points.

Hewer and better ones?

should never be included in the same sentence.

I'm just happy its not Spewer or Laughton for that matter.

Actually I got Hewer and Halloran confused. Its Hewer who it crap. Cant remember Halloran, which I suppose is good.

The thing that frustrates me about Fax is that we get into positions we know the referee is going to penalise for time and time again.

The first 5 or 10 minutes should be used to test out the referee, how long can you hold down the tackler, how early can you rush from the defensive line, how high tackles will he tolerate. After those instances you can build your game around. Fax seem to be still gauging his reactions in the 79th minute.

I'm not entirely convinced most refs are consistant with what they will/won't tolerate. You get the Gansons of this world that impose how they intend to run the game from the off, then the others that try and do the same but just end up making ill-judged calls thus frustrating the players and you end up with a melee every 5 minutes.

God help us, if he is one of the better refs - simply awfull today.

Today Shad was binned for lying on in the tackle and Dewsbury took the lead from the penalty but there were several high tackles and the player concerned wasn't even spoken to.

Not to mention that Halloran is Dewsbury born and bred according to a number of Rams fans and should never have been in contention for the game.

Although I thought the ref had an interesting game , his decision to sin bin shad was correct - Royston stopped a certain try so he had to go.

Totally baffling as to how the ref and the touchjudge missed the forward pass for the first Rams try.

First try? Did they get more than one?

It was still their first, and last.



Amazing that the officials could spot any number of alleged offsides at kicks but missed that one.

not only forward but the dewsbury player had his foot on the flag pole before he grounded the ball,

FWIW I think for the 1st time in months we had the rub of the green from the officials especially in the 1st half. But noticed when Fax decided to step up to the challenge in the 2nd half (when you showed you were far too good for us) then the focus and bad mouthing of the officials fell away greatly.

Disappointed with the result as I thought we might catch you napping today (which it looked that way initially) but well played Fax.

My mate called me childish for having a go at the officials.
I nearly choked on my lego.

Well at least no-one who should know better like, say, a responsible, long serving, well respected volunteer at the Club had a go at the referee after the game with his 'official' pass on full view so that the referee could get his name for the purposes of reporting him!

Did they?

I thought some of his decisions were frustrating but Fax fans always seem to forget that we get penalised several times for the same thing. If you know a certain referee (or touch judges for that matter) will penalise for offside even if it is marginal, you stay ONSIDE. If you know a ref is going to penalise for messing around at the play the ball, you don't mess around at the play the ball. Fax don't seem to grasp that idea and were guilty of the same offences over and over again yesterday.

Was that by the dug out? was like a scene from Dads Army.. "Dont tell him your name Pike!"

Which is fair enough if the other side are getting penalised for the same thing, on Sunday they were constantly offside and messing around at the play the ball which the werent getting penalised.Thats why the players and the fans were getting frustrated.