but it wont help you if you are as you will still be in the Championship

We know but better to be top than 3rd eh?

Tangata came from nowhere near the initial incident to get involved and his actions were not to diffuse or split the melee up. He seemed to be a bit niggly all match with leg in at the play the ball and the late shot on the kicker - wonder if the disciplinary will look at that as Tafua has been banned for less this year.

Hopefully no repercussions for Bradford players with hopefully bigger games to come.

Potentially Myers could be in a lot of trouble for contact with a match official. We have seen players banned for a lot less than that so it will be interesting to see how that is dealt with.

Nothing in that, he collided with his own player and puts his hands out to try prevent himself running into the official.

Like I say, players have been banned for a lot less than that when it comes to contact with match officials. Contact is there when it could have been avoided.

It seems to be a lottery on what is and isn't cited, I personally think it is pretty clear that the contact was unintentional. Obviously the repercussions for Bradford players are somewhat more severe so hopefully common sense will prevail.

Might be repercussions coming for the club as a whole with the RFL having written to Bradford for an explanation over allegations that plastic bottles were thrown by Bulls fans in the direction of Halifax players.

Well hopefully anyone guilty of that is identified and dealt with accordingly - can do without that. I was in the East Stand and I can't say I saw anything like that, but hopefully if anyone did they help identify those responsible.

That was the younger Halifax water guy who was celebrating by giving both fingers to the Bradford fans. If there’s blame being shared around, hopefully he gets his share.

This will be on the video won't it? Point it out so we can have a nosey.

I wish we would vary our kick offs now and again. On Sunday a low hard kick on a wet greasy pitch would have a good chance of finding touch but our usual punt down field show little imagination.

Agreed. Our kicking has been poor all season.

Kicking in general too especially bad when you consider we must have one of the biggest packs in the division givi g them plenty of thinking time

I see Barber has got a two match ban for punching.

Just watched the highlights back. Not quite sure how that Gill try was chalked off. Onside and clearly grounds the ball. Dreadful call from the linesman.

It looked alright to me.

No case to answer, I notice Myers also wasn't cited.

Yeah, the rules seem to change week to week as we get through the season. Almost a lottery at this point.

I didn't realise their off field woes were still continuing. HMRC have had a lot of practice and experience now with Rugby (both union and league) clubs over the last 10 years, accelerated by covid lockdown and are playing hardball it looks like.

If HMRC have submitted a winding up petition then they will play hardball. Unless Fax can come up with the money the current regime is all done. We've been there ourselves. When this keeps happening it's better to call it quits and take the points deduction and start again rather than chuck money and goodwill into a black hole.

Sounds very ominous. Hopefully they can steady the ship.

Always sad to see any club in this situation.

Taking rivalry out of it, they will be lots of families very stressed and worried currently.

Doesn't sound good. The sport can't afford to lose a club like Fax.

HMRC aren't someone you ever win against (as we know) and two wind-up petitions from them usually ends one way. Particularly as this one seems to have completely caught them he surprise.

Just hope the club keeps going in some guise. If this is really a 2nd WUP then it's probably best to go into admin rather than chuck money into a black hole. They'll get a 12 point deduction and potentially lose a lot of players but it'd be a fresh start hopefully with a new owner that knows what they're doing. With luck they won't get a succession of buffoons running the club like we did. The Championship needs Halifax. It's our biggest derby.