Do me a favour could you take this hook out of my mouth as I'm trying to drink a glass of red wine and it's going everywhere

lots more pics on the Club web site now. . . . see Gallery

Sadly not. After all, even Rotherham United are playing there now. The two big soccer grounds are too big and expensive and the others don't meet standards.

A lot of Eagles fans stay away from this competition becuase the club are effectively using it as pre-season trial games. Last year they managed to let London Skolars put 50 on them at Don Valley so don't get carried away.

And also the OTT pricing. £14 for adults, which is fair enough, but £10 for concessions and £7 for juniors? Call me a short armed long pocketed Yorkshire student but that seems a little pricey for me. Especially for that ground.

In terms of what was on the pitch, very satisfying winning there, but still some little nags. Where is David Wrench? Yes, Cherryholme does try his heart out but he doesn't have the same class and experience as Wrench, we know Wilson can do the job, he just needs more match fitness.

Penky and Gleeson were just on a class on their own today, along with other partners in crime Watene and Said. The play got even faster when both Gleeson and Penky were on, because if one made a darting run out of acting-half, the other was reading the script and was right up with him.

Black had a fairly ordinary game, maybe it was the condensed pitch but he didn't impose himself as much as usual and was throwing out some awful passes in some instances. Our defence was sound in general, yes they did score 18 points but its on a pitch they love.

anybody know who that nige is that text's the courier???,
he is off another planet, the goal kicking might cause us a prob, i know we force the ball a bit to much at times,but what he his saying is just a joke, look lost going forward






50 points fax but still look lost going forward and no goalkicker missing holroyd nige

You think he might be taking the piddle?

If you take it seriously, Steve Bowyer, Paul Beeby and Michael Hunt had great games for Fax yesterday according to Radio Leeds text-in

Good call Michael, "rubs off well on the other players".
I laughed heartily.

Is there any chance Said could get a call up to the France squad at somepoint if he continues his form? Certainly as good as Adel Fellous . . . and would do well for them in my opinion.

We said the same about him last year, but the call never came, but with their new highly intellectual coach - who knows?

Our coach last year Deakin described him as the best impact player outside SL and although I didn't agree with much Deaks said I think he was not far wide of the mark on this comment.

Pleased Said is going well for you guys, he is a real crowd pleaser and only knows one way to run, hard and straight and takes it out of the opposition.

I think had Deakin got the Frog Job Said would be guranteed a call up.

As for Best Impact Player Outside SL. Probably correct, Paired with Frank they can change the course of a game (Hunslet and Sheffield games changed when they entered the field)

Never heard a bad thing said about him while he was at Oldham (and I live in Oldham and speak to a few people about the Roughyeds as well as reading the Oldham Chron) and not heard a bad thing about him at Fax yet either.

He's already one of my Son's Favourites and I reckon many more will be taking that opinion.