Not really I expected it to be a close game and it was , there will always be fickle fans , the nature of the league is that most games will be competitive .

I don’t think Halifax live in anyone’s shadow admittedly attendances have declined hence the rebrand .
Halifax have their own stadium suitable for the position where in with a good young squad with a combination of local talent and other exciting players , it’s two games in and I can already see a brand of rugby coming through.

I certainly rather support Halifax than Bradford you don’t even have your own ground and even if you went back to odsal it’s a toilet anyway, Bradford are stuck in the past you ll lose a couple of games and you’ll be crying for Kears head again.

Halifax are at least trying to be progressive and I think we’ll do ok this year , see you on the 1st of august .

Good to see our RagingBull doing his best to cement cordial relations between us.

i dont think he was biased towards you either just completely erratic and i said i dont think either of your players should of been sin binned

and thats the biggest problem for me we dont look like a team we used to have one of the best defences in the league now we are soft right through the middle of our side but if i am honest i do think we have a strong pack so why the soft centre it as got to be down to coaching for me i have seen nothing from our performances under simon grix to think that he can put it right the players have to have a good look at them selves too because defence is down to attitude how long will the directors of the club let this go on it might sound too soon to talk like this and i dont no what other surporters expectations are for this season but mine are pretty high

The boy Noble actually wasn't anything like how he used to be on the Toronto commentaries to be fair.

Hope he returns to the Tetley Stadium at some point so we can hear him talking about the boy Finn and the boy Sykes.

We do look something like a team when we stick to the game plan.
Why?
Because it’s what has been practised all week in the run up to the game.
We don’t look like a team when we go away from the game plan.
Why?
Because when someone (and it only takes one) starts doing things off the cuff and making it up as they go along then everyone else is playing off the cuff and making it up as they go along off the back of it.

If you don’t play as a team then you aren’t going to look like a team.

If this happened in training then it would produce the same headless chicken stuff, everything would quickly grind to a halt and the coaching staff and players get into a huddle, talk it through and start again.

Problem is when it happens during the game you can’t just stop and have a chat about it, the game goes on and before you know it in that 10 or 15 minute silly spell the opposition cash in on the drop ball, the loose pass, the silly penalty etc and your punished on the score board before you can get your hands back on the ball even though the coaching staff will be yelling out instructions.

It’s a young team with regards to how long they have been together so they are still gelling and SG will still be learning who he can really trust to do the job and from what I have heard if push comes to shove anyone not up to it over a reasonable period of time won’t be playing.

doesnt simon grix take any responsibility for these performances he signed these players and he coaches them it cant just be all put on the players the book stops with the coach and there cant be the usual slow start this season because i dont think we will catch up if thats the case he needs to get more out of what hes got playing wise and quick

We're out of the cup/cups and have a 1/1 start in the league, the league loss being to a very poor bulls team. Not exactly ripping it up, is it?

That's a fair post and when the emotion has died down you could say we lost by one point in a tight, and very entertaining, derby game. As you say Fax could quite possibly have taken the points with better game management but they didn't and that's two points gone already. What does surprise me is the lack of blame towards Mr Grant, the referee. Despite the large penalty count in Fax's favour early on the big decisions certainly didn't go our way. There were a few but the try by bull's winger on the left in the 2nd half was ridiculous. How far forward does it have to be to get pulled? That was one really poor call from the ref in a game we lost by one point. Don't blame the ref/swings and roundabouts/it'll even itself up over the season, aye I've heard 'em all but it still dosen't change Sundays result. Bring on Toulouse though and Up The Fax!

this is a very fair and decent post from you bull mania refreshing for these forums

the length of the field try did you see the space between the 3 defenders who tackled the bradford prop from the kick off and the next halifax defender it must have been about 15-20 meters i have rarely seen such a big hole in the defence lilly must not have been able to believe is eyes in the first 20 minutes we attacked the space which ever side of the pitch it was on but after that we seemed obsessed in the first half of going to the left when there was more space on the right and vice versa in the second half it made no sense to me