Its good to have other fans on the forum as it encourages discussion and it shouldnt be just stick to your own forum but unfortunately Fev have a couple of numpties who act like they are still at junior school(maybe they are, who knows).

they're on here because they know we are the only club that will beat them to any SL spot and ruin their big day on the big games.

KH 1st year of squad building has lacked consistency (as you would expect) so they are filling their boots with smarmy comments before the 2013 campaign

WATCH OUT THE FAX ARE COMING!

It's mainly down to their own insecurity. For all their success, they are still perceived to be a small village team. This creates a chip on both shoulders especially as we are considered by many people as the biggest club in the Championships and we have only won the NRC this season. It's good that they post on here, as long as they aren't threatening people it's all good.

Agreed, having spent some time reading through some old threads I can see we have contributors from various clubs, Fev, Leigh, Sheffield to name the 3 that stood out. There input seems to be constructive and even supportive of Halifax with the right amount of banter thrown in.

Shame a small minority feel the need to not only come on here and throw insults about, but seem insulted that I mentioned our seasons high points!!

No Chip. Neither do I consider my club to be the smaller of the two, not that I believes it matters either way.
There is some mileage in your other comments. Fax are considered our greatest rivals at this level. They have done us in 3 big games since 2010 - a period we have otherwise dominated in the league. The natural crowing from Fax fans after those victories as the well earned bragging rights belonged to Fax, stuck deep in the psyche of some at Fev.
So when Fax get evicted fromt he play offs in such gratuitous fashion, the Fev forum and facebook pages went into some elation. As did my texts to those Fax fans I know well enough who were at the game.
Engaging on another teams fans forum immediately after a big loss is a bit taboo to me. Especially if they're hurting. I didn't appreciate it when one of two came on the fev forum/fb page. - I suppose some felt they need to redress the balance.
It's a marker of respect I suppose. The one team we wanted to see beaten has been, so emphatically. We can now get on with planning for the final because that bit of suspicious de ja vu nonesense is now over with.

In addition. Leigh and Sheffield are considered this season to be a better team than Fax. Many hold this opinion based on different evidence base per viewpoint.
However, I would sooner play either in the final than Fax. - having the head free of that 'bloody fax nonesence' is worth 2 scores to me!!

Does that answer your question?

All just a bit of Banter imo. Dont come on here to put fax down or cause controversy.

My posts in this thread are actually in reply to comments from fax fans. When you beat us in the NRC I opened a thread congratulating you on your performance.

There were numerous posts on here before and after the NRC cup final calling us chokers etc.

lots and lots of posts about how fax always beat Fev in Big games.

yet when boots on other foot some fax fans dont like it.

Your more than welcome on here, and most of us can take the banter on the chin. Believe me it comes the other way on more occasions...

Of the signings

Ashall. Good at the start faded badly from the away game at cougars onwards didn't really deserve a place by the end
Robinson good signing as prop or 2nd row but not a 13 DIVORTY maybe but not Robbo
DIVORTY good signing injuries have hampered
Morrison ....fev did warn us we would be lucky to get him playing risk in signing him IMO
Naynn ...just plain unlucky this year
Handforth .....you can only back your mate for so long before it affects your credibility,keep but have another very contrasting option ie a line attacker
Tyrer. Yes better service and he could shine
Thacks ...okay but doesn't seem to get KHs support vote even on Sunday he worked very hard to try and get something and his partner went missing.
Rettie. Strong but not fast enough .Patto better as offers far more options
Casey. A neat player but needs a stone on at least upper body
manning ....the signing of the season well played.


Overall a very mixed bag . Some very unlucky injuries . Everyone fit and it's a very strong team everywhere bar questions at 6/7 and now 9

The decision to get rid of black and sign handforth was always a strange one for me. Black was always a player I feared when we played fax. Someone who could create something out of nothing. Handforth I was happy to so see the back of when at fev. Not good enough

Not strange at all. Handforth is Karl's mate, he had to find a place for him and he now has a job for life.

There was more to Powell's outburst when he became a "Blackpool donkey for a day" than meets the eye. A good friend of mine within the game at admin level told me that that mr Probiz thought Fev had a shoe-in into SL depending on several scenarios, one of them being the number of clubs on the edge financially in SL. Another was the lack of clubs who "tick the box", and the ones who are actually realistically going to apply for a licence if & when they do tick relevant boxes, one of them being NRC winners. Had Fev beaten Fax that glorious day, their own odds shortened drastically unless Fax could somehow make the GF.
Fev acknowledge that Fax are their biggest rivals on & off the pitch, having spoken to many people at their club over the last couple of years, including one of their playing staff. So for them to get out-witted on the day was only the icing on the cake really.
I'm sure although disappointed with the way Fax's season has ended our coach will be thinking that's year 1 out of the way, a SL box ticked, now to continue with the re-building plan on the field because that significant box ticked allows him to leave the off-field things to take care of themselves and concentrate on his own role.


Just for the record, I wouldn't dream of purchasing a season ticket unless the game's structure & fixture calendar is altered. I work shifts and cannot guarantee attending home games, it's as simple as that. What I will say is that for whatever reason the club award 2 year deals to so many players it may stop some supporters making a dash before deadline date to purchase unless it's suicidally cheap in a business sense as we've seen at other clubs, because as I understood things, new-signings were always drip fed to us to raise interest in the off-season.

Most of the people who know me through talking RL with me will know my feelings already but apart from the odd game I think our performances have been pretty frustrating all year long & I cannot put my finger on the reasons why, far too many and too often we've won games late on after not firing for long periods of the matches. I maybe old school but I think other sides have worked us out a lot of the time this season, I much prefer to watch flair players than this modern-structured, manufactured RL that most clubs play. I have hardly watched any SL games on tv all season, maybe I'm just losing interest at the game in general.

We finished the season very badly, and your performances on the field put you in a justified position as league leaders and in the Grand Final. My point was that "you had a couple o good games in an otherwise crap season pal we had a couple o bad ones in a fantastic season" translating to a 3-point gap in the table seems somewhat awry in its logic.

Make that 4 times we have beaten Fev in big games try the Play Off semi final win in 2009 too!
I admire Fev for your consistency, I keep wondering when things won't go as well for you one season like you seem to keep clear of long term injuries especially to your key players like Liam Finn, surely your luck will run out one year?
We need to learn from Fev, thats why our wins against the best team in our league feel so good, its like beating Man U in the Premiership, the only thing I don't see Fev being better than us is your ground and potential for SL, sorry to say but Feathersone is too small a place to sustain a SL team and the RFL will hold that against you, as we all know its nowt to do with on the field sadly its off it.Come on you have had 3 terrific seasons yet your support is still only around the 2,200 average mark this for a winning team (only 5 losses in the league in 3 years is it?)Not saying our support is great but I think we would have had bigger crowds if we had the same kind of consistency that Fev have had, we had a bad season last year and NRC win apart an average one this year really.