I was not happy with the board giving him a clause in is playing contract that when marshal left he would get the job not that that is Simon's fault but not a good place to start. Then i think he as shown clear favoritism towards is brother and other players over others he would say different but i have seen some poor performances get severely punished were others are guaranteed to be in the side regardless of how they play and it is happening again this season. And if you look at our performances since he took over there as been far more poor performances then good. I hope that what we saw on sunday from the team is a sign of things to come from the side for the rest of this year and nothing would please me more from a rugby perspective for simon to go on and have a very successful coaching career at halifax. If you would like to read a one sided love fest about simon go on the clubs facebook page if anyone dare say a bad word about him on there they have a fit.

We had a similar start last year but we will come good . I think there’s certainly a case made for a nepotism regarding his brother. I also think part of the rebrand was to attract more fans and part of that was to play attractive attacking rugby which Simon seems to be taking on board as part of his philosophy. Not really a Facebook user and certainly not involved in any click , just wanted an objective viewpoint.

I don't want you to think that i am having go at you far from it i am just giving you a honest answer for your question. And want to be clear that whatever i think about how simon got the job or the decisions he as made i will always support the club and contribute financial to the club as much as i can so that for me is supporting him.

Tbh the question wasn’t directed at anyone in particular just a generalisation. I followed fax from the late 80s as a child up until the late 90s and on and off since . I was looking for a new hobby to share with the Mrs ‘ and my parents have followed fax for 30 plus years. Obviously being new back one advantage is I don’t really have an opinion swayed either way but as a returning fan the style of rugby is decent and I think Grix will do well over the course of the season . Tbh I think if we had the same budget has fev and Leigh we would be genuine contenders .

Just watched the highlights back of the game. Three things:

1) What was Barber's yellow card for?

2) It appears Dan Murray gets the ball down under the posts what isn't given.

3) Walmsley drops the ball onto his foot for the intercept so should have been play on.

Didn't go to the game so can't say that there weren't moments that Fev should have benefited from a decision or two that went against them but its still frustrating to lose that one in the end.

I think the interpratation is that its a knock on as he didn't have prior control of the ball so its slightly different to someone carrying the ball and dropping it on to their foot. The Barber sinbinning is one of those annoying ones, Fev seemed to get a run of penalties around that point and we know players are offside all the game but the the Fev player drops the ball cold, I think barber was offside but it had no bearing on the ball been dropped and its one of those where the majority of the time the ref just gives the knock on. Its stupid by Barber to back chat but can see why he did it.

Match Stats in L/EX says he was sinbinned for "Persistent Offending"

Having watched the game back I think the female fev fan who can be heard parroting ‘ come on rovers’ in a shrill Norah batty style voice should receive a lifetime ban for persistently offending my ears .

For the barber incident i was watching the game and gale took the ball in and dropped it i was all excited about us getting a chance to attack fevs line and the next thing i see was the ref going to is back pocket to sin bin barber. I didn't see the ref make any signal as to why he made that call i presumed it was for backchat. Also when tangata got binned in the second half he didn't stop having a go at the ref while he was walking off i thought if he doesn't stop he will get sent off. And as greg says murray admitted in is post match interview that he dropped the ball trying to get it down. It is too late now but all that effort and nothing to show for it feels like 2 points lost that we should of won.

It's officially "International Women's Day" today!

Just watched the game on YouTube and Fax gave it a right go. Not a lot between the teams but we didn't get the rub of the green we might have done on another day. Neither did we get the best decisions by the man in the middle, the Barber incident was one which was particularly baffling. We are definitely getting there and we won't be losing many more if we keep that type of performance up and get some players back. We could quite easily be playing Fev twice in quick succession again later in the year. We'll see. Up The Fax!

Watched it back last night and got to say the Ref cancelled out quite a few Fev handling errors, there was 3 or 4 times Fev knocked on in their own half only for Fax to be given off-side, not surprised Barber got a little irate.

Absolutely, and each one of them decisions is a twelve tackle turnaround also. Plus it's not always how many penalties the ref gives, it's whereabouts on the pitch they are given.

Anyone know why tangata was sin binned ?