Yep, if the RFL think RL is "expanding" by having ONE team in France, ONE team in Wales, ONE team in Scotland and ONE team in London giving it a national, even an international, flavour is totally absurd. For TRUE expansion you surely have to be looking at several teams in the aforementioned regions, otherwise it's a dead duck penalising those clubs who have an established fan base who are trying their best to get in. I mean ..... if England had one club, say based in Manchester, which was a member of the Scottish Caber Tossing Premier League, do you really think the entire country of England would all of a sudden be interested in caber tossing. Never mind England ... Manchester even? I don't think so!

cant we just discuss the heroic fax performance instead of it turning into a franchise thread.

We cant produce that week in week out.

Great stuff Halifax, why oh why wasn't this game televised!?

Can't help thinking why the game ended as a Golden Point though, surely 10mins of Extra Time and then more time/replay should have been in order.

Exactly.

We would find it hard in super league ourselves even after the showing today. The speed of Cas at the ruck was still a step up from us. They made good yards on their possessions. Plus the super league thing is done and we now have to look at 2011 as the next time we get a chance.

Fax have three things to win this year. First the NRC, then the league and then the Grand Final. Lets just do what we need to do to be in the running for super league and make them have a hard decision.

Well done today fax. Proud of all them. There was no single man of the match for me, it was the whole of HALIFAX RLFC!

I completly agree it is not fair that a team may not even get a set with ball in hand.

Yes we should have at least three French teams in SL. Then 3 to 4 French teams in Championship which would have 14 clubs. Both SL and the Championship would be fully professional competition with extended TV coverage in France and Britain.

The money will come from TV channels and increased sponsorship. I am confident for the attendance. It has increased in the recent years, and with better media coverage it will increase. Even if there are less travelling fans, there will be more home fans (for sure we can increase that!).

I understand the concern of some heartland fans, but I think that if the Europeanisation of the competition is successful we could have in 10 years a great European competition with two levels SL and SL2 and more than ten thousands of supporter for each match.

no offence pal but at the moment i think most of us are only bothered about Fax, Fax and .. Fax

Back to your performance, you did really great. I do not see which Championship side will beat you this year.

back on topic.

WELL DONE TO ALL THE PLAYERS, BACK ROOM STAFF, BOARD & US FANS

A massive effort & show of pride in the jumpers today. Best game we've had for nearly a decade. Shame about the ending, just one of those things. I didnt come away today sad we lost, just immensely proud to be a fax fan today.

Still only team unbeaten in a competative game during 80mins!

And Les Héros de Fax

Well it will be a long hard slog,how long has London been in Super League has their fan base increased from local support? I think not the last time I was down there it consisted of Aussie /Kiwi folk ,Northerners down there working and away fans the indigeneuos population are still watching Wendyball.

In the 1st half, Cas scored despite what fromthe railway end looked to be a forward pass, plus a knock on. The TJ's didnt offer any support to Ganson all night, so wondering if any fans saw this & was it a forward pass or knock on?

Ganson was his usual erratic self, he certainly appears to have put a little bit of timber on & for me, was struggling to keep up with a lot of the play.