Sorry,phone issues so will answer here.Others on here may wish to correct me or elaborate.I would put the fax following at Fev at around 350 it is hard to judge with no segregation and not everyone wearing colours.The overall attendance of 1400 was dire.
The repeated chants of w@nky Halifax from the Fev numpties are unlikely to entice the 200 or so fax fans back who boycott POR for obvious reasons.
As for game 2 poor sides for 55 mins could have gone either way,once fev took the lead
they were far too good for us.Gamebreaking moment for me was on halftime we throw a stupid pass from dummyhalf(not the only one we did,don't know which hooker was responsible)fev scored to make it 12-16 when at 6-16 we may have been able to defend it.

Probably a bit harsh with the 2 poor sides comment. I thought it were a good game until our mistakes caught up with us between 2 of the top teams in the division. Its still painfully obvious the areas we are lacking though and we are still reaping the 'rewards' for Harrisons recruitment.

I see no reason to boycott Fev away, most are a good crowd.
I do find the chant rather offensive and can not understand why an announcement is not made when it starts. After all announcements are made before every game about this sort of behaviour. Perhaps Fev do it as a bit of a joke like those flat hats, after all every time we walked into a bar in Blackpool last time we met we were treated to the same chant.
On the other hand perhaps we are too touchy.
I do think it's ironic that the chants come from the " Community Club Stand" though.

Do agree it was entertaining for an hour.Each time i got excited when Fev coughed up possession,we seemed to do the same next six.Hard on sunday's evidence to see how we could turn it round if given another opportunity.

Yeah I agree. It frustrates the hell out of me than Fev have lost to some really poor teams and have this habit where they can slip up after looking so good one week but yet we simply do not seem to have the answers to beat them.

Sorry but never in a month of Sundays were there 350 of you, lucky if there was 200, as for the 1400 crowd what do you expect from a shared gate, remember the 2500 at the shay in 2009. As for the y fax chant come on man for gods sake they were teenagers singing that at you who the hells gona be intimidated by that. Agree with the 2 poor sides bit

Not sure what anti-aging cream they use in Fev but some of those teenagers looked about 50.

I don't know about "turning sunday's result around" - FFS we haven't beaten Leigh or Fev this season, get a grip, we aren't good enough.


I heard a story & i trust my source ( s ) that when they beat us at the Shay in the quarter of a million pound game, they were on a grand a man, cheques written & collectable from the paymaster on delivering the result. We got SHALLACKED !!!! on home turf, just like we did against Leigh....


When Fev won at Keighley in the FACEBOOK termed "£450K PARTY" a similar, yet very much trusted source informs me that their matchday players were on over £3K for the result that day. If these snippets of info are remotely correct, we aint ever gonna compete until mr Lottery winner rocks up feeling generous with naff all else to do on a wet summer's sunday afternoon.


Enjoy your rugby folks, i used to do....

Cheers Mr Hall.

I agree with your point about the crowd, no where near 350 Faxfans which I find very disappointing.
Any one who won't go again because of the chanting hasn't been there before.
BUT, I have said, I find the chanting unnecessary, and to say they are teenagers is a bit silly, if they were why were they allowed in every pub in Blackpool last time we met there.
I think a lot of this " I won't go to Fev because of past problems" should read " I won't go to Fev because we nearly always lose"
Try turning up Faxfans, it might encourage our team.

There is one main reason the following was poor.....The game meant nothing other than a week off and home advantage the following round. As we found out last year that stands for nowt. I go week in week out but couldn't get myself motivated to go to such a meaningless game. Stupid playoff system. Why did they change from the conventional top 6 system?

Losing is nowt to do with it HJ. We lose at other grounds but I always go. POR is the only RL ground I won't go to and until they sort out the morons who masquerade as fans and give the game a 'soccer' match experience I won't be going again. Apologies to all the genuine Rovers fans of whom there are many.

Agree with most of the previous posts, but had really some "sensible" and enjoyable discussions with Fev fans behind the posts during the game. No animosity at all, just friendly patter about the game.

Fev need to sort out the minority in the Community stand, as the chant we heard isn't what RL is all about?

I can't make the game on Sunday, but if that one goes our way, looking forward to (a more fruitful!) return to POR!!

MM you surprise me , this is a negative post , with negative views , I compare Fax fans to Leigh fans , as they are Loyal , Vocal , support their team no matter what ,and lov their Town and Team .Whatever Fev pay their players is up to them ,Fax were beating Fev at half time on Sunday and Keighley came very close to beating Fev ,money should not be used as an excuse .As for Fax losing to both Fev and Leigh this season ?Leigh performed the Great Escape at the Shay , and got out of jail , Fax murdered us in the first half , in the second Leigh got their game together and rode the wave of Adrenalin to earn a win .

MM to say you used to enjoy your Rugby amazes me ,Fax need your support as they do from all fans , im a Leigh fan first and formost , but im also a Rugby fan , and enjoy the Fax and Shay experience , the banter and wind-ups are part of this experience , I enjoy Fans fans company and views , don't give up on your team , give me Fax before Fev , London , and Bradford anytime , I have friends at Fev , but like Fax , I will be there on Sunday .Cmon MM , come and join me .

There's not enough in your reply to entice me in. I've watched that garbage for the whole of last season and a portion of this season. If i fall out of love with RL what business is it of your's ? I've been involved in RL at various levels for many years, none more satisfying than when i played the game. Props that only play for 20 minutes nowadays, a hooker that plays for the full 80 is a rarity FFS. Get real, the sport has gone stale as a spectacle.
And quite frankly, the Halifax club don't "need me" or any of the other stayaways, they need a committed sugar daddy that requires a new challenge in his/her life. The sport as a whole pays no respect to blokes like me who pay at the gate, the Wembley cup final empty seats was yet again an embarrassment to the sport, the world cup was bouyed by cheap tix, & only last week my daily Groupon offer was for a SL GF offer of half priced tickets of the face value £20. This is all beacuse people like me are no longer as interested as they used to be. These are hard facts.
By comparison, I've paid £31 for a seat for this saturday's Leeds Utd v Hudds Town league fixture. WHY, one might ask ? Simply because that's where i'd rather be than pay half that price at the rugby match at the Shay the following day. Disposable income only stretches so far and in fact our club chairman mr Bradshaw bellringer may very well recall a conversation we had during a reserves game last season about my returning to the Leeds Utd fixtures and my own disposable income ( the crux of it was the departure of Ken Bates who didn't respect the casual supporter of the club, amongst many others he disrespected ).

I don't know what it'll take to get me regularly watching Halifax RLFC fixtures again, but winning games might be a good way to start....

That also means a loss of revenue in other ways, I always buy a programme & golden gamble at home games & any remaining coinage then usually gets deposited in the "buckets", no more buying replica shirts, gym kit, raincoats & hoodies from the club shop. Multiply my loss of income by the drop in attendances, go on you do the sums, you're the one who seems more bothered about it ! But i am easily dispensible & replaced by a money man, sugar daddy. I just wish there were some rewards for the like of Messrs Croad, Abbott, Steele, Riley & McNamara, some of whom I know personally and respect. I guess their rewards will only come by the team being successful and in my harsh, crude manner, it's those people who do the interviewing, hiring & firing.

Fair do's like and that's your personal choice. But I guarantee that if fax were 3-0 in games this season v fev, there would have been significantly more fax fans there on Sunday with that "oh Ali ali" chant

This response is typical of the "Im a Victim ", fan ,MM im not bothered if you never go to Shay again , will you be missed ?A BIG NO is the answer , you go to Elland Road , pay whatever you like , as for watching a winning team ,if we all thought that way Leeds , Saints , and Wigan , would be the only teams watched , my Dad once said to me "Choose your team well ,Charlie , you ONLY ever support one team in your life ", I chose Leigh ,it doesn't matter whether they win or lose , or how they win or lose ,im there .Anyway theres no point discussing the matter , as for the rewards of Croad , Abbot , and company , you never become a Director, Sponser , or Official of any club for rewards , you do it because you LOVE the said club , I love Leigh Centurions , but I also love Rugby League and will be at the Shay on Sunday ,cheering Fax on ,and im looking forward to it .

He won't be missed Mr C .Boycotting fax games is bad enough but at the expense of another Town's FOOTBALL club=cardinal sin.

Great post Charlie, regretably I wont be there, will be up the Eiffel Tower, incidentally, twice the height of Blackpool Tower, but not as many clowns.
Enjoy your day, I don't think we will meet again this season.

I thought France was full of clowns.

No doubt you are correct RFF but me and 'lass and more than a few stalwart Fax fans I know of personally wouldn't have been amongst them, sadly.

Quote ="charlie caroli"This response is typical of the "Im a Victim ", fan ,MM im not bothered if you never go to Shay again , will you be missed ?A BIG NO is the answer , you go to Elland Road , pay whatever you like , as for watching a winning team ,if we all thought that way Leeds , Saints , and Wigan , would be the only teams watched , my Dad once said to me "Choose your team well ,Charlie , you ONLY ever support one team in your life ", I chose Leigh ,it doesn't matter whether they win or lose , or how they win or lose ,im there .Anyway theres no point discussing the matter , as for the rewards of Croad , Abbot , and company , you never become a Director, Sponser , or Official of any club for rewards , you do it because you LOVE the said club , I love Leigh Centurions , but I also love Rugby League and will be at the Shay on Sunday ,cheering Fax on ,and im looking forward to it .'" Victim ? Don't act the clown you silly old man. What are you talking about victim for, what do you mean ? You really are arguementative aren't you ? Your'e only going to the Shay on sunday 'cos you've got nothing else to do in reality. If you want a "victim" story i can give you one but it's only for the purpose of this discussion and has never ever bothered me in the slightest, because until the pathetic onfield performances this season & some terrible business decisions by our b.o.d. i've always been a proud Halifax RLFC person but if you insist, here goes: I was sacked off as a Colts/ A team player by the club as a 19 year old. My old man was made redundant by the club as a full time employee by mr Wood. I was discarded without any formal or informal notice as the club scholarship co-ordinator and talent i.d. only a few years ago when the scheme was disbanded, yet for some reason or other if you look at the official staff listings on the club website, I am still named in that role, that in itself tells me something about the running of the club ( in my opinion ) after the scholarship scheme has been inactive for around three or four years now !!! www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/club_infor ... club_staff My youngest son was released from the Academy at the end of last season after being with the club for about 5 years ( apart from 1 season at a local SL club inbetween ) Yet still, those personal/family setbacks from the club didn't affect my support for the club in any way, it was the players on the field & i might add some of their off-field performances that got me feeling this way. Enjoy your trip to Halifax on sunday.

Quote ="charlie caroli"This response is typical of the "Im a Victim ", fan ,MM im not bothered if you never go to Shay again , will you be missed ?A BIG NO is the answer , you go to Elland Road , pay whatever you like , as for watching a winning team ,if we all thought that way Leeds , Saints , and Wigan , would be the only teams watched , my Dad once said to me "Choose your team well ,Charlie , you ONLY ever support one team in your life ", I chose Leigh ,it doesn't matter whether they win or lose , or how they win or lose ,im there .Anyway theres no point discussing the matter , as for the rewards of Croad , Abbot , and company , you never become a Director, Sponser , or Official of any club for rewards , you do it because you LOVE the said club , I love Leigh Centurions , but I also love Rugby League and will be at the Shay on Sunday ,cheering Fax on ,and im looking forward to it .'" Victim ? Don't act the clown you silly old man. What are you talking about victim for, what do you mean ? You really are arguementative aren't you ? Your'e only going to the Shay on sunday 'cos you've got nothing else to do in reality. If you want a "victim" story i can give you one but it's only for the purpose of this discussion and has never ever bothered me in the slightest, because until the pathetic onfield performances this season & some terrible business decisions by our b.o.d. i've always been a proud Halifax RLFC person but if you insist, here goes: I was sacked off as a Colts/ A team player by the club as a 19 year old. My old man was made redundant by the club as a full time employee by mr Wood. I was discarded without any formal or informal notice as the club scholarship co-ordinator and talent i.d. only a few years ago when the scheme was disbanded, yet for some reason or other if you look at the official staff listings on the club website, I am still named in that role, that in itself tells me something about the running of the club ( in my opinion ) after the scholarship scheme has been inactive for around three or four years now !!! www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/club_infor ... club_staff My youngest son was released from the Academy at the end of last season after being with the club for about 5 years ( apart from 1 season at a local SL club inbetween ) Yet still, those personal/family setbacks from the club didn't affect my support for the club in any way, it was the players on the field & i might add some of their off-field performances that got me feeling this way. Enjoy your trip to Halifax on sunday.

Leeds is a city, take that straw out of your hair Hally, it's not "another Town" it's a city....

So, you're more than prepared to accept the support of "another Town's" RL supporters on sunday eh ? Hypocrite !!!!
I say "another Town" as you put it, more like a small suburb of Wigan really...


Good luck to the Fax & the Shayman this afternoon, 'cos i occassionally go to watch their home games too if that's permitted around here.

Open your eyes, there's a big wide world out there, but as always i'll bow to other people's greater knowledge & life experiences.

Quote ="marillion man"Victim ? Don't act the clown you silly old man. What are you talking about victim for, what do you mean ? You really are arguementative aren't you ? Your'e only going to the Shay on sunday 'cos you've got nothing else to do in reality. If you want a "victim" story i can give you one but it's only for the purpose of this discussion and has never ever bothered me in the slightest, because until the pathetic onfield performances this season & some terrible business decisions by our b.o.d. i've always been a proud Halifax RLFC person but if you insist, here goes: I was sacked off as a Colts/ A team player by the club as a 19 year old. My old man was made redundant by the club as a full time employee by mr Wood. I was discarded without any formal or informal notice as the club scholarship co-ordinator and talent i.d. only a few years ago when the scheme was disbanded, yet for some reason or other if you look at the official staff listings on the club website, I am still named in that role, that in itself tells me something about the running of the club ( in my opinion ) after the scholarship scheme has been inactive for around three or four years now !!! www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/club_infor ... club_staff My youngest son was released from the Academy at the end of last season after being with the club for about 5 years ( apart from 1 season at a local SL club inbetween ) Yet still, those personal/family setbacks from the club didn't affect my support for the club in any way, it was the players on the field & i might add some of their off-field performances that got me feeling this way. Enjoy your trip to Halifax on sunday.'" Well after reading this response , it proves me right MM , you seem to think that Halifax RLFC have some sort of Vindictive Vendetta against your Family , whatever the reasons were for Fax making the decisions you said , the Club must have thought at the time they were the right ones , and not for one minute am I saying they were as I don't know what happened , but I stand by my "Victim " statement as it seems you are certainly a bitter bloke , lighten up mate , we all have problems , but bearing grudges doesn't help . As for my visit to the Shay , I watch many RL games when my beloved Centurions are not playing as im a RL fan , I enjoy the Company and banter along with the Rugby ,and I WILL enjoy my visit , no doubt . Its not my fault you feel this way about Fax , whatever the Leigh BOM did to me , I would still follow the team , it doesn't matter how they play either , because they are MY team , obviously you don't feel the same , anyway I stand by my original post , and didn't mean to offend you by it , but if it did upset you , Tough .Charlie knows .

Quote ="marillion man"Victim ? Don't act the clown you silly old man. What are you talking about victim for, what do you mean ? You really are arguementative aren't you ? Your'e only going to the Shay on sunday 'cos you've got nothing else to do in reality. If you want a "victim" story i can give you one but it's only for the purpose of this discussion and has never ever bothered me in the slightest, because until the pathetic onfield performances this season & some terrible business decisions by our b.o.d. i've always been a proud Halifax RLFC person but if you insist, here goes: I was sacked off as a Colts/ A team player by the club as a 19 year old. My old man was made redundant by the club as a full time employee by mr Wood. I was discarded without any formal or informal notice as the club scholarship co-ordinator and talent i.d. only a few years ago when the scheme was disbanded, yet for some reason or other if you look at the official staff listings on the club website, I am still named in that role, that in itself tells me something about the running of the club ( in my opinion ) after the scholarship scheme has been inactive for around three or four years now !!! www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/club_infor ... club_staff My youngest son was released from the Academy at the end of last season after being with the club for about 5 years ( apart from 1 season at a local SL club inbetween ) Yet still, those personal/family setbacks from the club didn't affect my support for the club in any way, it was the players on the field & i might add some of their off-field performances that got me feeling this way. Enjoy your trip to Halifax on sunday.'" Well after reading this response , it proves me right MM , you seem to think that Halifax RLFC have some sort of Vindictive Vendetta against your Family , whatever the reasons were for Fax making the decisions you said , the Club must have thought at the time they were the right ones , and not for one minute am I saying they were as I don't know what happened , but I stand by my "Victim " statement as it seems you are certainly a bitter bloke , lighten up mate , we all have problems , but bearing grudges doesn't help . As for my visit to the Shay , I watch many RL games when my beloved Centurions are not playing as im a RL fan , I enjoy the Company and banter along with the Rugby ,and I WILL enjoy my visit , no doubt . Its not my fault you feel this way about Fax , whatever the Leigh BOM did to me , I would still follow the team , it doesn't matter how they play either , because they are MY team , obviously you don't feel the same , anyway I stand by my original post , and didn't mean to offend you by it , but if it did upset you , Tough .Charlie knows .

You quite clearly didn't read the response at all.