Aston was never going to be allowed to play against his own team, clauses of this type are pretty standard stuff but even without one we would have informed Sheffield of our intention to recall him early enough to avoid it and give him some training time to get back up to speed with all the plays again after being away.
As it turned out he was cover for LJ who I can only presume he either failed his HIA or had a vision problem after being poked in the eye?
Cory on the night had a close to mom performance with some quality plays especially when linking up with Joe Arundel which considering he hasn't played for us since early April isn't bad and it will be interesting to hear SG's comments and to see if he drops him as soon as LJ is back fit.
We are lucky to have 3 halves like them all offering something different.
On the game, pretty testing on the nerves in the first half with a number of basic errors being punished and leading to all of the Eagles scores.
Much better in the second forty and another important 2 points in the race for the third spot.

TBF, i reluctantly agree with you.

Up The Fax.

Problem now is after how well LJ and Joe Keyes have being playing together you would want them back together as soon as possible but tough to drop someone after such a good display.
Maybe have LJ at 1 as long as Woody is out?
I'm still not sure on that.
As I mentioned interesting hear from SG and how he works it out.

I reckon woodys one of them kids that used to pretend to be ill so he could skive off school , I was stood next to the dugout and he looked fine , no strapping . In all seriousness though it doesn’t look as bad as it did at first. Overall grixs’ coaching acumen will be tested to the full in the run in and playoffs with the squad close to full fitness and suspensions subsiding there’ll be some big decisions to make all over the park .

Great, isn't it? These are the problems/decisions coaches love to have. Simon has been hampered most of the season with players missing for one reason or another but just as the league season is nearing an end and with the play offs just around the corner we are approaching a full squad. Touching wood for Jouffret and JWH and hoping we've done with the disciplinary, things are looking good. Up The Fax!

I could not make it to this one but it sounds like Cory had a blinder. I wonder what dad had to say to him after the match?

I thought that was a really good win considering the first half performance. Nothing was going right for us and Salty's offload in the last minute which lead to another Sheffield try from the next set really summed our half up. Really, really good 2nd half though and we showed a lot of character to come back and win. Apparently Jouffret has a foot infection which stopped him playing but I thought Aston was the best player on the pitch for us and it says a lot about him, and a lot about our group of players, because that can't have been easy coming straight back in to the team against his dads team and recent team mates but to come up with a performance like that I feel deserves real credit.

On to the next game and I just have a feeling with these niggles and bans that come the end of the season we are going to head to the Fev game and then the play offs with a pretty fresh squad compared to others. For me we can still afford 1 loss to grab 3rd so the Widnes game is going to be huge.

Quote cowfax="cowfax"I could not make it to this one but it sounds like Cory had a blinder. I wonder what dad had to say to him after the match?'" https://twitter.com/halifaxpanthers/sta ... vvF-jR-Fpg Should be an entertaining Sunday dinner in the Aston household.

Quote cowfax="cowfax"I could not make it to this one but it sounds like Cory had a blinder. I wonder what dad had to say to him after the match?'" https://twitter.com/halifaxpanthers/sta ... vvF-jR-Fpg Should be an entertaining Sunday dinner in the Aston household.

Aston's display certainly shut me up! It must have been really strange for him but he did the job. Well done Cory!

I want to know who the guy is that was moaning at the fans forum ( he was questioning grixs’ team selection) he was stood next to me at the game moaning at the players , he’s about 2ft 2 and 7 stone , I thought Murray was gonna throw him over the fence , lol.

I know who you mean cant remember his name i try to avoid him he never stops moaning no idea why he has such a problem with Grix

He was saying to the players’ well this is rubbish isn’t it eh eh ?’ ‘ what’s grixy doing sitting up there for ?’ Should be down here in the dugout ‘ bloody useless’ sounded like something from a phoenix nights sketch , I had to chuckle, all these massive blokes being berated by the smallest man I’ve ever seen .