Saturday 24th of February, 17.00 kick off at The Shay.

Interesting to see what they lower the ticket prices to, can't see there been much demand at twenty odd quid to watch us put a lot of points on an amateur club.

Another training session but this time the reward is there. £15/£10/£1 for adults, OAP's and kids would be about right.

Won't happen, But closing the south stand for this should be considered.

A good chance to try a few things out on the pitch though, give player's who aren't first choice a run out etc

Looks as though the club were listening to you

I'm strangley looking forward to this one, something i don't normally say about games against amateur clubs. At least this game is a proper competition where the outcome is decided on't pitch and not in some far flung foreign office block. Although we are unlikely to go the whole way and reach Wembley it gives our club the chance of some good recognition and making a bit of money if we can get through to the later rounds. Hammersmith will come up here full of enthusiasm and wanting to show up well on their big day out. Here's hoping for a decent game and progressing to the next round alongside a good Saturday out! Up The Fax!

Football off tonight, no doubt it's our fault having played one game on the pitch in about 5 months.

Good to see the footy off to give our game more chance of being on. Did i just say that out loud sorry football fans.

Will have a head over to the Town forum, no doubt they will be losing their minds and blaming us. That pitch was in an awful state before we even played a game on it, if Town had any sort of backbone they could have put pressure on the council at the same time we did to try and get them to sort the pitch out so it was fit for purpose. Now its at the point where the council know it is going to cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to sort out and they don't have the money and are willing to offload the Shay for brass tacks. Their chairman has played a blinder in this one.

Good chance for Finn, and the fans, to take a look at the players who've hardly had any game time this season, although, without being disrespectful, quality of the opposition will make it hard to make any real judgements. If any doubt about JWH fitness wouldn't be surprised to see him miss out, especially as it will be a very heavy pitch. Quite a few with something to prove should hopefully mean there's no chance of team not taking it seriously.

Bit of a non-event - worryingly win could have come at a big cost with what looked like serious injuries to 3 of our most important players in Crookes,Calcott and O'brien. Calcott looked easily our best forward, before his injury, lousy timing if its as bad as it looked, with Murray leaving this week. I like Inman for his enthusiasm, but his distribution from dummy half at the start of the game was awful - our attack looked loads better once O'brien came on. Difficult to make judgements on players brought in because opposition while totally committed were limited. That said thought Walters really put himself about and looks promising, also thought Olly Davies showed some nice touches. Obviously very early days in Widdops Halifax career but at the moment Keyes Jouffret and JWH would get in ahead of him for me .

Sounds like Calcott could be a broken knee cap and Crooks a broken foot. Disaster if true for Calcott and would be his season over. Crookes would be touch and go depending on the location of the break. Not heard anything else on Obrien other than feared torn bicept. Leaves us desperatly thin on troops now before the season has even started proper. To lose 3 of our best players in a nothing game is awful luck.

Spirited performance by hills hoist and an average at best performance by fax . I would much prefer them to try and complete the sets and put in a kick than trying to score off play one and two , our completion rate and territory game needs to improve as better teams will punish us and it could be a long season. Obviously the injury front is worrying calcott, crookes ,Douglas , obrien and the departure of Murray leaves us with not enough players to name a 21 man squad.

Well.... If both long- term;
McComb or WBH to centre
Scrapping the barrel with Props now ; Tangata, Lannon, Larroyer - Surely they didn't get rid of Murray without an incoming. Not sure how long on Douglas.

Firstly a good effort from Hammersmith they kept going to the end and seemed to get better as the game went on which for a amature side is good going. Unfortunately for them some of their fans when they entered the south stand started shouting in the faces of faxs fans this could of caused trouble not that the stewards was interested. As for us that was a terrible game if we had started like a house on fire and then dropped off fair enough but we never looked interested right from the start. Bad old habits like going side to side instead of earning the right to by doing the hard work up the middle first. Surely we can take a amature side on up front instead we treated it like a game of touch and pass. And then the injuries flipping heck they was going down right left and centre Calcott and Crooks who is our only centre both looking like bad injuries O'briens bicep and Lannon hobbling about. Happy to get that one out of the way but our performances which as far as yesterday is concerned is down to attitude need to show some sign of improvement because so far we look disjointed and some of the players instead of doing the hard work are looking for a easy way out.

The whinos have a big squad and 3 good hookers so at least AOB should be covered re DR with Ackers (we wish!), Johnson or OConnor

York Acorns up next. I hope we put a better display on against them.

Saw Lannon after game, was a bit of a dead leg so nothing too serious and in his own words he blamed his "skinny legs"

Is'nt Connor Davies a hooker anyway ? Havent worked out where he's meant to fit in yet(loose ?) certainly not a second row IMO..

His brother Curtis is the hooker, Connor is a loose.

I got shot down for suggesting this before, but I'm sure Jouffret used to play hooker and I remember him running rings round us when he played for Batley and I'm sure he was hooker. OK,some would argue he's too small from a defence point of view, but Salford's Bourouh copes OK and Jouffret would be a right handful around the ruck. .

Would also mean a Widdop/Keyes half back partnership.

Isn't he what was called a utility player? He brings enthusiasm in shed loads.

Fair enough,time will tell,not convinced enthusiasm alone cuts it..

you are right but after Saturdays showing I don't think he'll have any problems getting back in the team. Its a shame he's not got a bit more size to him, but on the games he's played so far, his work rate has been immense and i think he's been a good link at loose.

I suspect that he could fit in at hooker as well if need be.