Quote: F.Slater "Just how did you expect the game to be reported on a FEATHERSTONE ROVERS website.
Of course it's going to be biased towards the Rovers as I am sure official Halifax reports will be towards Fax.
Just for the record, you will find that the majority of true Rovers fans including myself congratulate you on your great win. It was a truly fantastic comeback. We should have put the game to bed but Fax made us pay for that. At the game I honestly thought that we had been the better side in general, but having watched the game on tv I now feel that Fax dominated for the greater part of the game and fully deserved the win.
AND YES Halifax are the champions.
I do not agree for one minute with the play off format, I have always belived that the team finishing top of the league should be crowned champions and in my eyes the Rovers are just that.
However we knew the rules at the start of the season and history will show that Halifax are the 2010 champions. - Good enough for you ?
PS, sincere best wishes for next year, I hope it is a good a league has it has been this year.'"
Many thanks for your congratulations and best wishes, and may I add my commiserations on your team's loss. They played extremely well to soak up all the Halifax pressure and to score 22 unanswered points. Saxton had a blinder, and Hardaker will soon be taken off to SL.
I agree that the Fax website would probably show some bias in their review of the game, but to say by any other means that it was a nothing game with no promotion to be attained through winning is really very sour grapes, indeed. Did the £100000 prize money really mean nothing? As for the fax props having a rest during the 'incident', did not the entirety of both teams get a rest? The report is too one-eyed to be taken seriously, IMO.
I also agree that you should be crowned Champions if you finish top of the league, and without any play-offs.
I would also like to take the opportunity to wish you and your team well for 2011, but not against us.
