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Fieldhouse, White, Tyrer, Heaton, Reittie, Handforth, Thackray, Robinson, Penkywicz, Hesketh, Gannon, Manning, Ashall
Sub: Barlow, Bowman, Ambler, Chandler

T:Tyrer, Heaton 2, Ashall, Hesketh, White
G:Tyrer 4
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[u[size=150FEATHERSTONE ROVERS 34[/size[/u

T:Hardman 3, Ropati, Bostock, Briggs
G:Finn 4
[size=150MIKE HALEY RED CARD[/size


Well done both teams. Well done to Fax who did way better than I thought with so many injuries and still rebuilding/gelling

Barrow 32 Swinton 16 FT
Doncaster 12 Sheffield 56
Leigh 30 Hunslet 12
Oldham 28 Dewsbury 30
Rochdale 16 Keighley 40
S Wales 30 London 38
Workington 44 Whitehaven 12
York 26 Gateshead 22

Bowman and his brainfart cost that game.

Also our Kicking has been poor for last 3 games.

Fitness showed when they upped the tempo in second half and our line speed
Slowed big time.

Great game from fieldhouse. Missed the warrior today IMO.

Really well played both teams. Credit to fev for coming back at us. A really good advert for rugby league in the championship. I dont know what happened for the sendings off but bostock was fair swinging his punches, i would be suprised if he didnt get punished for that. Im looking forward to the other games against fev this season we are going to have some right ding dongs. Any neutral must of loved that game today. Bring on the season.

Featherstone didnt win that game, we lost it and whars with the 45 minutes?. We wont get many games as exciting as that this season.

Very well done to both teams and to our lads especially. Apart from a few spots our defence was fairly strong today and we didn't half run hard.

However, there were far too many mistakes and we could have run away with it if we'd have just kept our heads on. We can't afford these mistakes especially against a team like Fev. But, all in all like before very well done to our lads and lots of positives to take forward... Give it a month or so when we've gelled and players have returned and we could whallop them!

Very exciting game! Bruising encounter with neither team really deserving to lose!
Exciting times ahead when we play like that and we have so many injurys.
Sending offs proably a bit harsh, seen far once go un-punished. Bostock had to go for me- swinging at anyone and everyone.
Did really we for all 85 minutes.

Up the fax

unfortunately the better team lost

Fantastic game. absolutely fantastic.

Unlucky Fax. I think a draw would have been a fair result for that game and I'm confident when we get players back from injury we will beat them. But wow what a game! Well done both teams!

Who needs Super League ey!

You got to be joking ! any team that comes back from 22-6 down, well and truly beat you.

Been talking to a mate who was there he said Fax played very well, so well done Fax can't wait for you coming to POR ..

Funny that I remember that feeling in a Grand Final

Thought your kicking game was great not a single open field kick fielded by Fev, a 40-20 to boot as well.

For me fax played really well especially in broken play, Fev were lucky and played their get out of jail card but to be fair played right to the end. Which as a supporter is all I can ask for.

What a great game of rugby hope we get more of the same in the games to come.

we will have em when the big guy's return, dont worry about that

Dont get me wrong, you took your chances well, which is what a good team does, but thats exactly it, chances were given to you far too often.

Why on earth the two sending offs? Karl summed it up well, saying its rugby league not tiddly winks, he should have given a penalty and got on with it. You have to say Fev used the extra space better than us.

I am sure we have more tough encounters to come this season.

Handforth gave Bowman what-for after his brain fart gifted them possession.

Im sure both teams will be close at the back end of the season,to be honest I never bought into the fax injury list = Fev will run away with it theory. I had 6 points in it either way.

So well done Halifax and Fev great ambassadors for the game of Rugby League..

Not sure what game you obesrved. Our kicking game was 1st class and Rettie was far more impressive than the Warrior.

The work ethic is brilliant and Feildmouse has secured to no1 slot, think he'll be SL next season!

Belting game can't wait for the next tussle as I think we have another 10-15% to improve, I think Fev were at full strength?

Brilliant effort from both teams, what great entertainment.

Dont know about full strength, no maloney, freer, hepworth, raynor at the very least

To be honest i thought a draw wouldve been a fair result based on our performance from the 60th minute and Fax prior to that I thought we were done at 22-6

Second half changed when Ashall got sent off as he was your best forward by far and we stepped up a gear and seemed to find a bit more space despite going 22-6 down shortly after

Ashall was definately missed more than Haley

Think fitness told in the end in the last 10 minutes and it showed, we took our second half chances which we created or were given to us by Fax

But it wasnt a good Fev or Fax performance by far, a lot of things for both coaches to work on, but as an advertisement for the game and the championhsip it was unbelieveable!

I meant conversions. I should have said.

What beats me though, is why we didnt go for the 2 points (twice) when we had kickable penalties????

spot on assessment - roll on 2012

What a superb game in front of a very good gate ,I think it said around 2,500 that is just brilliant for the club. I think if we had a few people who don`t come too often what they saw today has got to bring them back.
We need to keep trying to push the crowd numbers up ,a few hundred extra can make such a differance to our club . Well done Fax Directors and everyone else at the club a great advert for Rugby League.

Never doubt the rovers! Also, a few of the seats in the 'skircoat' stand will need to be screwed down again....if there found.