And long may Championship sides consider us to be 'very ordinary'!

In 26 years of watching, this was the worst ever home performance that springs to mind. Absolutely souless performance. I feel demoralised and cheated today.

Another whinge: £18 to watch this or any other championship rugby is a joke. Over £40 for a family to watch semi pro RL is unacceptable in times of a recession . You can watch premiership football for less..

What a wasted opportunity. The stand is fantastic, the band were excellent and a decent crowd turned up, but the team looked it just regressed 4 years. We had a real chance here to convince some of the floating fans to turn up against next week - now there's no chance.

Black didn't look fit and Penky simply isn't a half-back - Gene should have played there to tighten things up. There's a real lack of a rugby brain when Branighan isn't playing - the 2 cheap points given at the end of the second half just sum it up really.

I don't think Leigh were particularly brilliant, they just knew what was expected from each of them, were disciplined and had a game plan. Can't doubt the players efforts, but it's like watching headless chickens at the moment.

Time to get someone else in before the season runs away from us. I was looking forward to getting a big team in the cup (assuming we get past Swinton

) - now the thought of a Super League team coming to the Shay is not so palatable.

Stand looks great though

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The pensioners in your front row were battered off the park which left us in control for the majority of the game, we were the best team by a country mile.

Its down to many factors. Several half fit players out there who are obv not going to give 100% and then some players not putting in enough effort. Too many old men in the team and this is occasionally letting us down with lack of covering tackles e.g Wrench, Larder. Black is atm a total liability he is giving away more tries than he scores so he needs to have time out. Its a shame that we can't play out of form players in the u21s because some need to get some confidence back. Calland is not the man to take Halifax forward for me, the players are not professional enough under his leadership and this is unlikely to change so expect more highs and lows. AIt would be better to get a coach that has his team well drilled like Leigh but who would come in.

A little unfair in my opinion as they didn't need to be anything but ordinary because we didn't pose a challenge to them

Your pack was beaten senseless today and not a high shot in sight.
We softened you up then pulled away, at times I thought some of your forwards were going to throw up on the pitch.
Defence wins games and our defence today was awesome.
We ran at Frank and took his go forward away, Aizue was pooh at HKR, Gene is 106 next birthday - why dont you spend some money on your local kids instead of quick fixes.
Nine of that Leigh team played against you last year btw, what a difference a great coach makes.

Too true Maurice!!

Agreed Maurice with much of that especially the point about the coach.

Bit of a let down from start to finish in every aspects of the day. Little things not being done right across the board from the club build up to making us look a tad embarrasing. There's about as much proffesionalism in this club as there is in my little finger.

Firstly pre-match, people not being allowed in car parks, no hunger hill parking availalble again, one turnstile open for adult resulting in massive and needless queues. As Waddy said, some band (who technically were good btw, well played them) singing some tinpot song the club has adopted for 10 minutes (and btw, 'the fax IS on fire' implys the town of Halifax is physically on fire..the word you're looking for is ARE when applying to a club/organisation, but never mind)

The crowd itself, 3,050ish, sounds good? wrong. With 700-800 Lethyers there, that meant just 2,300 Halifax fans turned up to the first game with the new East Stand. Another amazing feat of advertsing and marketing going on there it would appear. Aslong as someone keep posting a random blog to 500 fans who ALREADY go down every week, im sure the attendances will grow...

The match, well, no one looked bothered and everyone was expecting everyone else to do the work (minus Rob W and Shad really) they obvioulsy sit in that changing room, look around and think Black, Gene, Royston, Aizue, Penywicz etc, we can't lose, we just have to turn up. No urgency or desire for some reason. Nothing in terms of plays and options it would seem either. On 60 minutes i thought if Leigh were slighlty dangerous, they'd be putting 70 on us, perhaps harsh on Leigh who were still a very good side (bizarre considering they were pish last year and should be in Champsionship one...just an observation, not sounding bitter, i'd rather Leigh and their fans were visiting us than Gatehead). Good coaches count for a lot. And i still find it funny that people seem to have some hatred to Robbie Paul who has been running rings round us and organising teams to beat us for 13 years now or whatever.

Problem with the club at the moment is everyone seems to rely on each other. The club rely on a good team to get the gates up, if that doesn't happen there's no plan B. The coach relies on his purchases to do the job so he doesnt look bad, still lack of game play, and the players think they're all too good and think if they dont try another 'superstar' with sort it out anyway.

I never said anything like this last year as, even through the rough patch at the end, it seemed to late and pointless to get on the players back and they had had a good year, but this year, we could well be getting a lot worse being we get better and something needs doing soon because for some reason, as good as the first 3 results were this year, Halifax appear to let one result get to them, and that's it for 3 months, that's why something needs doing soon.

*Thickest quote of the week alert*

Er No!