Decent game last night and pretty exciting in parts really, slightly spoiled by a pedantic, often incompetent and spotlight-hogging official who was bad for both teams.
Obviously Halifax are going to be up there again this season. With the playing talent you have at your disposal, Calland would need to be the worlds worst coach not to achieve something with the squad you have.
FWIW, we're not really on the same planet as Fax in terms of the disparity between the playing budgets of our two clubs, so I'm more than happy to come away with a bonus point from last night.
Well done and thanks for bringing a good following, it will certainly have boosted our coffers nicely.

Plenty of worlds worst coaches for Leeds Rhinos then - prior to their recent successes.

Im sure Matt is acutely aware of the expectations and to be fair we are doing alright thus far!

What grounds are you assessing our assessing our playing budget as don't forget we lost a big sponsor in December with the demise of Link Telecom and a new 2 year deal

Don't be silly, Halifax's wage bill must be at least more than double that of Batley. I'd go as far to say that the trio of Penkywicz, Gene and Aizue will be on more money put together than the whole of Batley's squad over the course of a season.

My word dont some folk talk bollox and im from Batley

Aye but our incentives are probably higher than Batleys though. Im not suggesting we're rich, or even how our club is run, but it's a fair assumption that with the above fact and the players in our squad, our budget is clearly higher than Batleys would you not say?

Have u got a proper job with batley then? if so well done

Rob was just stupid and clumsy rather than anything dirty etc-but obviously some people like to create something out of nothing. Laughton the Clown pinged batley for everything first half-then seemed to stop doing it in the second then vice versa for fax! Thanks for ruining the game laughton-try and be a bit consistant!

branighan did well. Black did OK but is still not matchfit for me. Penky is a Jekyl and Hyde charactor who does some really excellent things and set up a couple of ties near to the line-then just has brainstorms like shoving people over which could easily see him in the bin. The players did not have a clue in defence due to one mr Laughton. Normally you can guess how long a ref will let you hold a man down-not with laughton! Must be really frustrating as a player. I think the offsides were pedantic. If Laughton bothered talking to players to step back etc then that would be better than blowing up all the time.

We won and we did not play that well. We let batley back in to the game which is disappointing but least we won. Hopefully with the better weather we can get to see us in a more flowing team

"it wasn't a malicious tackle" because it wasn't even a bluddy tackle! Rob just stood there and Campbell decided to leap for the ball over Rob's head .... land on Rob ... then fall awkwardly to the ground. Then we had all those brain dead morons in the corner squealling like lunatics to get Rob sent off! It shouldn't have even been a penalty, just "play on".

It was a Penalty for the reason that Worincy didnt challenge for the ball and thats what the ref said to him when he was talking to him. It was a pure accident the Batley player landing on his head but it really came about because it didnt look like Worrincy fancied it, he has a sneaky look and sees the full back running full pelt and basically pulled out.