Let's see how the season unfolds. Yesterday may have been a blip but he does get through a hell of a lot of work normally. You need the "un-noticed" players. Players who do the hard graft in defence which often does go unappreciated.

Gene made one of the best tackles I have ever seen yesterday, chased that Ropati for a good 60 yards and stopped a certain try. Who cares about his age, as long as he can make plays like that. He also set Shads 2nd try.

When Stan the man was hitting Stringers arm, was that an offence? I thought Stringer holding onto Gene would have been the offence.

Yes, it is.

But, Stan could have been sent off for kicking out at the player when he was trying to get up. He was lucky to only give away a penalty.

But if the tackler had let go of his feet he wouldn't have needed to kick out. The rules say 'roll away'

remember miles getting a red card for so called kicking out, it was nowhere as bad as what stan did yesterday,i thought he was going to walk for that, but alls well that ends well,

STANLEY STANLEY STANLEY

You miss the point. He deliberately kicked out at the man which is foul play and can be deemed as dangerous play. Stan could have just struggled and earned a penalty for Halifax instead of kicking out.

Nothing says "get off me" quicker than a kick in the chops

I think you too miss the point. I don't think for one minute that Stanley kicked him on purpose, he kicked out to get out of the hands of the tackled, who did not let go. This happens many times, it was just unlucky that it caught the player.

I agree with Fax4Life, Aston has moulded a very good "team" who bust a gut for each other, see how they celebrated when they scored. Their downfall was that they run out of steam, they were knackered at the end, they even struggled to pack down quickly at the last scrum to stop the clock. Let's face it, how many players in the Fax team would you swap for Sheffield players? Very few, if any. Just shows what an excellent coach Aston is. Not saying Calland isn't, he is. But Aston has developed into one of the best, and I'm sure Calland will follow suit.

Aston can certainly spot a player - their centres and full back were excellent.

Aston is a thinker of the game and can read the game so well-likely this is why he was a very good halfback. Not knocking Matt Calland but having a coach who had to organize his side and did it well as Aston did does help in my opinion when coaching as well. I have long thought Aston is the best and most underrated British Coach in the game. For me I think he would do a good job in SL and should have been assistant to Smith not Mcnamara when Smith was England Coach.