full time
swinton 4
fax 56
tries
black 2 royston 2
branighan 2 roberts
penky bannister
tamghart
goals patterson 8

crowd 633.

The draw is on sunday. About 16:45

Much better performance! Solid in the first half - did what we had to do against the slope. Pulverised them in the second half down the hill. There were VERY FEW mistakes made tonight and Branighan really does steady the ship.

Stood on the bottom end terracing - you get close to the play. Boy it's really fast when you get close to the action. Quick passing and quick stepping - it's amazing just how fast the game is - even at this level.

Can't understand people parking their car in the ground though - BMW lost it's windscreen tonight from a kick into touch.

We lacked 'go forward' in the pack 1st half and the play of the ball was far too slow (ref should have done more).

Once we speeded up the ruck we blew them away. Particularly when big Frank and Said made their presence felt.

Worrincy was redundant in the 2nd half as we dominated so much down the middle.

Fax confidence should be sky high now, perfect preparation for a long cup run

Having been on Sedgley with well over 1,000 in attendance, I think 600 seems a little on the low side, personally. Good following from 'Fax, will be happy to see you bring as many as that to the LSV.

That crowd is very dissapointing. I blame myself entirely for my lack of attendance. I've let everyone down.

Didnt seem to 233 Swinton fans there I didnt even see 10

Credit to Swinton, thought they did all the basics right and kept us under control in the first half despite our lack of ideas. Second half was great, back to how we used to be scoring for fun, but in the first half if Branighan and Beswick weren't there we'd have been scuppered. But if we carry on like we did in that second half we should be ok... SHOULD.

So is it Holroyd who's going to have to ring auto-glass?

A mate who went said it was an awful game to watch especially first half. He felt Swinton gave everything in the first 40 but then were tired and lost confidence in the 2nd half. He though if Fax were playing one of the big sides we would have benn 20 points down at half time. Still not too convinced we have made the changes to challenge for honours this year. And I am still of the opinion Calland has taken the club as far as he can. We will see later in the year if he has changed things when we face Barrow, Fev, Widnes etc

We played smart rugby last night. Played up the hell of a slope inthe 1st half & did well to keep them down to 4pts. Cant remember them really having much chance of scoring.

2nd half we were back to something like we have been in the past. People pushing up, supporting, taking the chance when it was on. A big step in the right direction imo.

just as the man said, i agree with every word there