Fair play to fev today. Would be nice if fev could have provided enough seating for all fax fans today. Know of several that couldn't sit in the allocated fax area. Not too impressed either with the antics of the goading ball boys, but hey ho, we still top of the league and proud of it!

It's just something supporters do when they are top of the league, it's called fun.
I promised To myself that I wouldn't mention this, but your comment has made me change my mind.
We payed £17 to sit in our "segregated" stand, there was no room so we were ushered to behind the posts.
We were a group of 10 adults and 7 children, as we walked in front of the Fev part of the Stand we were greeted with "y etc etc with the hand signs, nothing wrong with that you say, well actually there was, the only reason Fev fans would have known we were from Halifax was that all 7 children had Fax shirts on, none of us adults had.
Don't think "we are top of the league" compares.
Right that of my chest, well done Fev, won the forward battle, won the backs battle, no sour grapes, as I was leaving one of our fans said, " it was the fault of the ref and the touch judges"
Bol"ocks, we were out played.
Simple as that.
Good luck to Fev most of us wish you the best of luck, we just wish you could find a new song.

We got one but you took it off us

Have to agree with above regarding the seating

Earlier in the week i said what you have been allocated would have been enough, turns out it was well short

Think the next block along needed to halved and that would have been enough

Think i called the car parking arrangement - looked chaos before and after the game, the buses didnt help blocking the streets off, suprised they didnt drop and pick supporters up from the main road but we all know why that didnt happen

Should be back to normal next season

Not for long I fear,
But, hey, what an advert for Championship Rugby, 3600 and a bit.
Two very good sides,
Well played.
Mind you, my sporting weekend has been sheit, my local Rugby team lost yesterday afternoon, my grandson's under 9's lost this morning, need I go on.

The way Fax have been going this season could go up to the last game Hope we can carry on from here And improve Just need to win game in hand to keep close to you

If you win the game in hand I think Rovers go top on points diff, but when that happens being top won't mean anything again.

If the response is right todays result could be a good reminder of what level of play is needed against the better sides.

So Fax beat Sheffield, Sheffield beat Fev, now Fev beat Fax!

Cracking league at the top section.

Part quote. Have to agree with above regarding the seating.

I sat with the Fev lads who i know today and apart from
The result.
Every Fax pass being forward.
Every Fax tackle being high.
Fax being offside at every play the ball.
Half the Fax team should have been sin binned.
The ref being a bent Fax Cheating individual with dubious parentage until Rovers went in front it was a very enjoyable experience.

The top stand will sort out the seating problem and I can go back and sit on my own.

Our bench which has been so effective in recent games didn't have the same input.
Sams push on Finn and daft pass near our own line Andy Brachec knocked on with his first touch all had us going backwards, Ashy and Casey didn't have any effect.

At the end of the day though we were out gunned and out played as you say after the first 25 mins.

The first half was as good a first half of rugby I've seen in a couple of years. Full tilt blood n snot rugby from two teams committed to the game. I detected that Fax were starting to tire at the end of the half, but that could just have been my hyper-manic observations.
We scored two early on and left Fax playing catch up and with Fax's discipline being as it was yesterday, it was never going to happen. A great show from Fax fans who came in numbers.... fab atmos!
All in all a good afternoon from my perspective, less so from yours.
The Fev/Fax game nowadays has a little "edge" to it, that I don't mind really. It maintain's some interest does the rivalry. But all we got is 3 points and keeps Fax in sight. A loss yesterday would have almost certainly meant Fax were gone out of our site. Now there's nowt in the top 5!!

If you pick any of my posts out where I mention George Stokes is clear to see that I think he is the worst, most inconsistent ref in the league. He did little to change my mind yesterday and no team can expect to win a game against decent opposition on the back of the penalty count we had yesterday.

That wasnt the only thing that affected the outcome of the game though. Like has been mentioned we made a load of stupid errors like going 12-4 up and then Barlow trying to offload off the floor in a 3 man tackle, just pure stupidity. We didnt play that well in the first half but took the chances we had but it was clear we were tired and any team defending set after set for whatever reason on your own line is going to crack.

Positives we can take out of the game are that despite been so tired I think we actually defended well considering we probably made twice as many tackles as Fev during the game. Nobody really stood out but I guess thats credit to Fev but a few players didnt step up to the plate.

Back to ref and a lot of the penalties were justified, some were questionable but I think its the inconsistency that frustrates fans. Sat on the side it was clear both sets of players were offside on every defensive set yet it took him until the second half when we were under the cosh to pull out a penalty for it. Yes we were probably offside but we were the set before and the set before. As for the try where Murrell got mugged, theres not a chance that would have been a try if it had been a tv game. Unfortunately for us that was probably the game breaker.

Its a set back but if you only lose a couple of games during the season make sure its against top opposition and we are still in the driving seat for the top spot with plenty to work on and plenty of improvement in us. I think we would have taken that at the beginning of the season.

Thought that this was the game changing moment. We looked relatively in control until that stupid lack of discipline but Fev got two further quick penalties on the back of that and got over the line - and never looked back.

Good turn out but never 1k they gave you last 2 sections of the stand around 500 seats, there wernt another 500 scattered about