Apparently big nige is doing a sponsored walk from odsal to the shay tomorrow to help raise funds for the club , he was gonna run but the councils figured the damage to the pavements would outweigh the money raised from the run .

The bookies have given Fax 10 start which I suppose is just about right given our appalling record against the top 7 this season.

Out of the 13 games so far against the top 7, Fax have won just 1 (York at home) and the 12 defeats include just 1 where we managed to get within 1 score. We certainly belong where we are in the table!

Sweeeeeeeet ............................

Total relief. Yippee.

Oh hali hali , hali hali hali hali halifax

Aye, we've got one happy Hudd-Shay tonight!

After a season of rubbish that reminds me why i keep coming back for more - made my weekend!

Well done Fax. Took your chances. Larroyer had the best game I've seen from him in ages and I'm glad we've got Keyes next year as his kicking game was perfect.

Yep, think that might have been best game I've seen Larroyer play for a long time. Keyes kicked well, Salty and Woody both brought it out well from the back. Surprised Hursey came off when Kav and Gee were obviously blowing hard at the end of the game. Great ending to a difficult season.

Despite some recent talk about Gee's commitment, and the fact he is going to the bulls next year, I thought he was immense, he just kept taking it in hard every time and I think he did the full 80 playing in a central role (unless i missed him coming off in all the excitement).

Yeah I can see why we wanted him based on that performance.

If we had pulled that sort of performance out for a lot of the season we would likely have made the playoffs. Our pack handled Bradfords huge forwards very well and we know we have more quality in the backs which I thought really showed. Some massive individual performances in there amid one of the more bang average performances I have seen from an official who looked out of his depth and just a bizarre ending to the game made for great entertainment value.

I must admit I thought we did very well to keep the score at 10-8 down at half time, Bradford were bigger and stronger - Scurr and Souter in particular were a handful and Pele is a beast. And dare I say it, I've always rated Lilley who put in a lively performance.

For Fax, Larroyer was my MOM but the whole team was excellent, and the crowd the noisiest all season - a great atmosphere.

A strong post match interview from Finn. He referred to the turning point of the season being the Widnes/Batley games after getting rid of "dead wood and bad people" and also "a cancer and back stabbing". The only player I can see leaving round about this time was Lannon.

Greg Eden. Listen into his Radio Leeds interview too - he talks about the Bradford away game.

When Lannon came of against Widnes you could tell something was afoot.