Very impressed with Fulton, he looks like he will be a real handful. Ott didn't get much time on the field but didn't let anyone down either. Thought the loanees all did well, especially the forward from Wire. Hope we can keep hold of him for a few more weeks.

Really impressive defensive effort from the Bulls, they scrambled back countless times tonight. Halifax on the other hand looked vulnerable in defence and I suspect if we'd had Gaskell on the pitch they might have been on the end of a bit of a hammering.

Side was more than a bit makeshift but they looked eager and played some decent rugby in tricky conditions.

Brilliant result considering all the disruption we’ve had. We didn’t give Halifax a sniff in the second half and defended our line exceptionally well.

A fantastic team win with lots of stand out performances. Davies in the halves. Eamon O’Caroll coaching masterclass.

Davies outstanding tonight thought he kept Widdop quiet and run his blood to water, Great selection by O'Carroll. Thought Smith had a cracking game as well as did the rest of the team.

Such a lot to digest from that game. First half discipline was awful and we had a lot of defending to do as a result. Second half was way better only one penalty and one 6 again I think.

Makeshift halfbacks and a lot of players on debut so a bit disjointed in attack but nonetheless some great performances. Thought Souter, Davies and Doro had really good games. Smith had his best game for us. Fulton showed some promising signs. Of the loan lads Wood was the pick, a real handful. When McGowan gets on a decent surface he'll do some damage, he lost his footing twice when making breaks on the Odsal potato field.

Thought Fax lacked much punch in the middle and cutting edge. Like us they had players out but a smaller squad and it showed.

I thought it was a committed performance. Not the well oiled machine, as you’d expect with that many debutants and players out, but everyone worked hard.

I just can’t believe we won against what is a far better team and club overall than us. Plus we are about to go bust (despite making a profit last year and new investors coming on board).

John Davies a stand off, who would have thought it.

Doro was/is an animal. Souter is class. When the season finally gets some consistency he's just going to get better and better. Dan Smith had his best game for us. Fulton looks a find, think he'll destroy championship when ground firms up.

One thing I noticed, was when we were setting up to attack their line, was how deep our attacking line was. Our winger was on the 40m line!

Still need to work on our discipline. Some frustrating 6 agains on the last tackle was the only reason Fax got in our half. When we tidied that up we looked a level above despite all our injuries.

Was it McGowan with the try saver in the second half? Thought that was the game breaker. We looked comfortable at that point, but it would have been a sucker punch against the run of play, suddenly Fax look confident and we're clinging onto the lead. Massive play!

It was McGowan and Souter that got back to make that try saver.

I don't know what EOC said at half time but it did the trick in terms of the poor discipline. In the first half we gave Fax tons of possession and field position with heaps of penalties and six agains, not to mention our mistakes. We looked a much better outfit in the second half.

Fax seemed to run out of steam and only seemed up for it when Doro was out there. Not sure why they had Keyes on the bench at all. Finn was given a coaching lesson.

Interesting side note George Flanagan posted pic of team feed on Twitter… I’m sure I can see Tom minns there

I've seen the same picture. It's definitely him. Interesting...

Full game on the both clubs YouTube channel, I chose to watch the 2nd half with Fax commentary..it added some extra saltiness!!

Thomas Minns rubbishing the rumours

We were sat in front of their commentary team on Friday. I thought Gledhill was bad.

It was rather embarrassing but entertaining at the same time. Basically insinuated the crowd influenced the referee and described the refs decisions as 'laughable'. If it was a coach making those comments the club would be receiving a fine from the RFL.

Tempting as it is to bag Micky G I remember David Doyle Davis regularly questioning a Refs decision and ability!
But these days its a finer line to tread commentating on the Match neutrally and suppressing ones passion for the Sport and your Team.

The problem is it gets back to the Refs and they know he's a Bulls Fan and hence I do feel you could see a subtle backlash as has been seen in the past!*

* That could have been due to the Clubs camera mic directly above the Fans and you could hear some disparaging comments when watching the video of the Match and that video was also sent to the Refs the RFL and others.

They don't seem to have taken the defeat very well on the fax board. Very few comments about their performance, but plenty frothing at the mouth of us being IMGs pets or something!

Even after all this time, we are still living rent free in their heads.

One of them in particular can't cope with it at all. Lovely stuff

I've only watched the highlights on the halifax you tube channel but there's some belters on that.

Loving the thread on the Halifax board

Just had a read of that game thread on the Fax board, it would be funny but a couple of them genuinely believe what they are saying. To the point of being delusional. I mean we have our fair share like on those Facebook groups but wow.

They make my obsession with Wakefield look like normal behaviour.

There are some unhinged individuals on that thread. Even by the usual standards that's just.... wow

Come on, let's be fair, why should they talk or care about the performance of their team when IMG are conspiring to put Bradford (checks notes) 14th...

As a fan I never want to get to the stage where I'm more bothered about a rival than my own team. Genuinely think some of them would choose to see us relegated then see their own side win SL.

What's Mick Gledhill meant to have been caught saying in a group chat that was apparently recorded? Think it's been removed as it was very explicit apparently. The club were getting tagged in the post, saying they shouldn't be associated with him and they kept removing the tag.

Not a great deal tbf. Just ‘confirming’ his sexuality and how much he allegedly likes the male appendage. All things that were said on a private message and should never have been released to be fair. People who release confidential messages (unless what they are exposing is illegal) are scum.