Fev 40 - FAX 18
Couldn't get to the game today due to amateur club commitments. Did we play badly or where fev just great?

We were starved of possession, a few factors as to why.... Ill discipline, fev did some cheeky ball steals at key moments and I might be biast but the referee gave us nowt. We were 12-10 up at ht without having any ball really. Fev scored 2 tries in the first 5 mins of the second half and that was that, our heads went and they had all the momentum. We are top of the league!

Just found out that it was george stokes so that explains that

Your discipline was appauling, you could have quite easily had double the penalties against you. (and players in the bin)

Really glad that Fev rose above the niggling and cheap shots, remained professional and stepped it up a gear in the second half.

Good vocal support for both teams and a cracking afternoon out.

One of those games - was always going to happen at one point - Karl will have them bouncing back though!

Good day today for championship rugby but I thought it would of been alot closer The turn out was great from both sets of supporters but I have to laugh when people singing we are top of the league Funny when your teams not at the top the league doesn't matter but when they are it's great Anyway we will be crossing paths again this season I would think more than once so you will probably even it up As we all no one game doesn't make a season

Better team won in second half. Just silly penalties, not all justified regardless of what is posted. We got crucified but also gave stokes and his line muppetts the opportunity to start with.

Our turn out was great, great atmosphere from both sets of fans. Proves that if/when our clubs ever get a shot in a new structure of leagues, we'll give the lesser super league teams a run.

Intense first half, blown away straight after half time but murrell was taken out during the try that killed it.

Showed we are a good side first half and sometimes games go like that in the second like us against Leigh. Play to potential next time for eighty mins and we'll be ok.

Today was Fevs day, would have still settled for this league table at the start of the year with one game left to The mid point.

With that amount of possession I actually thought our defence was good on the line. Bring on next week and start again.

Ouch that hurt, we did so well first half stuck at it when they had a lot of sets of six near our line and kicked well, Murrell was terrific that 40/20 was a great idea.
But second half we fell away they looked quicker and faster than us and my biggest disappointment was our pack got out muscled for once which I never expected. We got caned in the penalty count and some of it was ill discipline but some was that ginger tosspot going with the crowd.
We gave them some easy field position which hurt us big time, we need to learn to use the ball better get it wider in these kinds of games, thats how Sheffield did them in the GF, when it got tight we struggled today so big disappointment.
Great support from both fans today must have been 1K Fax fans, shame we did not even get a bonus point. Lets move on and this year we shall do them down the Shay - hopefully!

I really don't know what happened shortly before half time, but the ref Just changed and gave fev penalty after penalty. He totally ignored any infringement that fev did but penalised us off the field. Fair play to fev though they just played him and the game better. I don't know what the half time team talk was, but the second half just didn't have the passion, guile and skill of the first.

Come on throw us a bone we have just been smashed by our biggest rivals. What do you want us to sing? "we are 40 down say we are 40 down"

Barlow was a complete and utter liability, penalty machine would've been better with 12, most of the pack was anonymous after 25 mins and defensively we were ok 1st half but terrible 2nd half, they offloaded for fun.

Think fev showed if you stop murrell, you stop halifax

Nothing to do with stopping Murrell. We were just starved of possession from our own ill discipline.

We had no plan b" in attack, they read everything, especially in the 2nd half we allowed them to offload far too many times, we allowed them to steal the ball (unforgiveable)and our silly penalties just cost us in the end.

they shut him down, even when we had sets on their line we didn't look like scoring they gave murrell no time or space and handforth and thackeray aren't really creative enough to do it alone

That's just it though, we barely had a set on their line. We didnt create a platform for the halves to work off.