All ready for Sunday now and time to talk about Rugby League! What do you think? It's a total guess but I will go for Fax 42v10 Lions.

Fax 28 14 Swinton

Really looking forward to it, Fax 36 Swinton 7
I hope it's a good crowd, for the first time ever my season ticket is in the East Stand, purposely, so I can't get at the chip van.
No good doing Faxfit twice a week and eating chips.

when do you reckon they will take the drop goal ?

Fax 62 - 10 Swinton

Match abandoned, pitch unfit looking at the weather.

But, 44-10 if it goes ahead. To Fax.

Although we are at home on Sunday and so my query is somewhat academic, do Swinton know where they are playing their home matches yet?

I don't think that Swinton have played any warm-up matches (though I stand corrected if they have), so, if that is correct, their players will not have gelled into a competitive outfit at this stage. So, I'll go for Fax 48 Lions 8,

Charlie predicts a long hard season for Swinton , so im going for a score of Fax 44 v Swinton 10 ,just to please my Fax friends .

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I agree with Norman unfortunately. another weeks delay and hope the weather improves by Fev away

If the game goes ahead, I think 38-10 to fax

You are ALL welcome at the LSV

the pitch is very good drainage , and undersoil heating , and doeas good Burgers and Chips for Halifaxjohn , come and watch us .

cannot see the game going ahead due to the weather. players will all have trench foot come the end of april.

LSV looks like a snooker table tonight, our council spent a fortune on drainage

Fax 12-26 swinton --crowd 1765

If it goes ahead Fax 46-18 Swinton

But can't see it being on at this rate.

Oldham 24 Swinton 18 last sunday

That's clearly not big enough. You're going to have problems.

Big pockets tho'

One of your best Richicon_smile.gif

Fax 36v4 Lions. Mrs Hudd-Shay says so!

I was talking to the groundsman at Fev last year (think he's called rob?). He said that Wigan council do some treatment thing to the pitch at the LSV which costs best part of £20k a couple of times a year. His budget for fertiliser, seed ect is 8k.

I've always thought the best pitches are the ones that aren't relaid almost annually, but ones that have been established for many years. Whitehaven for example, might not be a billiard table type of turf, but even when it's wet it rarely cuts up badly.

Josh Barlow, Anthony Bowman, Freddy Walker & a kid called Joe Worthington who recently played with Elland all got a run out for Swinny at the weekend, that could make things a little more interesting.
I don't see the game being on because of the weather, if it is on, i expect a dour, error strewn forward battle and a Fax win but not by a large points margin.

Scrappy encounter Fax 28 Swinton 14