And another thing for certain you don`t win nothing at the start of the season.As some silly jock once said"it`s a marathon not a sprint".Well played tonight enjoy it but remember we have a far bigger squad than you and we are full time and that will count in the on coming season.

You certainly did not look like a full time team compared to us, someone`s not earning thier crust.

We know we don't win anything at this stage of the season and I agree it's a marathon not a sprint.

You may have a bigger squad but is it any better than ours? I'm not sure.

As for being fulltime, the extra recovery time is bound to be a bonus to yourselves. What we've got is team spirit and a willingness to put bodies on the line for eachother....fulltime training can only develop that so far as it has to come from within.

you need to buy some new grapes mate. Yours appear to have gone sour!

I wouldn't say you haven't won anything yet. You've beaten us twice and your fans. certainly reacted like they had won a cup final!



In all honesty there was a real turning point tonight. After Thacks had scored you looked a little on the ropes. You were tiring and we made good ground every time we had the ball. Then Thompson lost the ball and Halifax were able to clear their lines! Had we scored I think we would have gone on to win.

Well done tonight though. Either team could have won and I think Halifax just did things that bit quicker to win the the game.

First 20 minutes - Fax dominated but failed to rack up the points and put the game beyond Widnes - partly due to our own errors and partly due to great defensive work. Once again we had great difficulty in keeping the ball and completing our sets, unlike Widnes who made very few errors. The rest of the game i thought was well controlled by Widnes who should have gone on to win the game. My problem with Widnes is that they look too steady - there's not much spark in attack, apart from Wildbore and Smith. Bloody fantastic support once again from you lot.

See you all again on the 31st July. Hat-trick for Fax?

or 3rd time lucky for Widnes

Thought Thackeray was their best player tonight, Smith has done nothing to make me fear him, Penky, and Beswick were better hookers than him last night, just as Gleeson was better than him 2 weeks ago. Kavanagh looked good for Widnes too, massive lad for his age.

You allowed to pass forward these days??

Unfortunatly they did not change that rule like the one recently changed where if you go for a short kick off and your allowed to challenge for it, knock the ball forward and the ref turns a blind eye rule and you get posession .

Funny how that one went unnoticed my mr silverfish..

Well, it was the linesman that gave the very forward, forward pass pass not "mr silverfish".

Anyone know when the cup draw is?

Let's face it, they're all a bunch of inconsistent incompetents.

tuesday

no our squad isn't better than yous Ben Black new that when he decded to stay at fax instead of signing for widnes when he had the chance

Speaking to my grandparents who sat in the Skircoat Stand said your disallowed try didn't look forward so that part was unlucky.


I think we just deserved to win but you played a lot better this time, we both had players out and it will be a real ding dong affair if we play each other full strength.

Even if you were sat in the section of skircoat stand nearest the south stand, you would still be quite a way behind the point that the ball was passed so would struggle to tell if it was forward or not.

Considering that the linesman himself was struggling desperately to keep up with play I would say that even he didn't have a good view of it... advantage should be given to the attacking side.

What is done is done though and nothing can change that now..

Over the last two games I think we have improved a little.. not sure that we saw anything new from Halifax (not that they needed to) but we are still way short of our potential.

One of the other posters from Halifax hit the nail on the head with his assessment that we didn't offer too much in attack but I'm certain this will change.

You can normally tell whether a decision is right by the reaction of the oppositions fans, didnt hear too many complaints when the ball was placed over the line.

It looked at times that all the officials struggled to keep up - specially Silverwood with the restarts for both teams - thought he would be used to the game being played at speed with him being a Superleague ref.

Don't know why some are questioning cullen he has only just come in u shud give him this season and next season cause these are not his players and 2nyt we showed signs of improvement and if we keep it up we will be at the HJ Stadium in october.

I have never understood this argument that the players are not "The Coach's Players".
We have a very good squad of players and it should not be too hard to form a winning team. If you look throughout the league we have probably the strongest squad along with Fax.
We have not been bullied by Halifax in either outing and if we had been better at converting possession into points then we would have won and probably comfortably.
Halifax defended well but they have so far only had to contend with 'the inside ball' or one of our forwards running straight into three defending forwards or the teasing and often disappointing kick through the line.
With the players we have at our disposal we should be offering more which I think will come.

Got to agree that your attack is not that good. In both games the options were just so predictable that it was easy for us to defend against but then again in Thackery and Duffy you have two `masters` of the inside ball so im guessing for most of your season thats how you will be attacking.
Also ive got to say that so far this season Fax`s attack has been very average to say the least and another performance like that on Thursday could easily see Baterlee cause an upset.