Batley 20 Thunder 20.

Not a bad game to watch, mistakes a plenty & Simpson actually ran his weight (probably since that game over at Fev yrs ago) & scored a couple of good tries. Missed kicks cost Batley the win.

Overall, we shouldnt have any worries when we play Batley in a couple of weeks, our pack looks to be the strongest by far in the league & we have pace to burn.

ps... even for Batley it looked a very poor crowd.

Very poor crowd indeed!!!

A real shame as they did a stand opening tonight.

Yeh it is a shame and I dont think fax need to fear either sides.

J is a new player since he went to batley.

He got their "Man of steel" season before last.

Game was slow IMO.. Niether team gave or showed anything to worry about.

I notice a touch of arrogance emerging from some Halifax fans. Both teams gave their all tonight, there were several "lively" players and IMO would have ruffled a feather or 2 amongst the leagues so called elite. And Simpson looks 10 times fitter than when he played for us .... he's now lasting more than 2 runs!

Just thinking the same myself. Well said.

Let's get some respect back on this forum people - we aint won noffink yet.

He was very good on sunday at ours , seriously , he was

If it was a fast flowing, highly skilled game with rugby that I thought yeah they will go far I would have said so.

But..

It wasn't.. It was slow, full of errors and penalties and niether team looked like a top 4-5 team which I would expect us to beat.

It was still fairly entertaining with the Batley wingers and a couple other notable others and had a great tense finish but I wouldn't go saying it looked a great game etc..

how bad were you lot on sunday ????

Very

i cant remember his name but that gateshead centre looks a good player for them scored a couple of good tries.

anyone think of his name.

I agree, not showing arrogance, after all, being a Fax fan, we've been on the receiveing end of this far too many times, Im just confident more so than in previous years.

Nash... sounded like an Aussie from bit I heard him chipping away to the ref.

Id also like to compliment Merrick on his handling of tonights game. He communicated his decisions well to the players & actually showed consitency. Lets hope he continues onwards & upwards.




on the downside, he seemed to forget which tackle it was & kept having to ask Leahy what number it was..... we'll have to look out for a set of 10 tackles when he ref's us!)

looked a good player though.

I thought Batley was very lucky to get a draw out of this game. Their last try was from field position given from a ball steal. That should have been play on, but the ref gave a knock on with feed to Batley, which they scored from.

Swings and roundabouts?

Batley away is always a tough game because of the hill. Just remember last year. We only won it late on with a ben black piece of magic. At home in a couple of weeks then hopefully should be easier with the advantage of no slope to worry about.

So long as we show respect to our opposition in all the games we play then we should have a good chance to win them all.

Halifax often cause there own problems by trying to be too fancy from the start (intercepted tries and all) and not getting the base set in the first 20 mins to build from.

Should be a good season.

That said, How many games have we scored a try in the opening 3 minutes or so. I reckon 2 or 3.

Not complaining, it's good to watch at times.

Just when it's not coming off, we often maybe try too hard on the odd pass. It's often why we drop the ball. It's just when the game is close we could cause our own down fall.

I hope they keep it up as it's better to watch then up the jumper stuff for 80 minutes and often comes off for us. Just pick the right time and a place.

Even better this year is the fact that we've got a good strong defence. That will keep us in games even when we're not firing goign forward.

Jeez guys come on there is nowt wrong with a bit of confidence, come on we have the look of a good side this year and surely people can call things as they see it.
Why do our own fans have this 'fairness streak' too PC for me, say it as you see it, if me or anybody else don't like it well tough.

Exactley, Barrow are talking their team up, if we try and do the same out own fans accuse us of being cocky.

There's too much sniping at one another on here, Someone only has to fart loudly in the southstand and there will be a thread on it on here saying how its embarassing and you wouldn't expect it from other clubs in our league and it has no place in RL

Nahhhhhh, we'll have scored by then

It doesn't, especially SBDs, usually committed by the fairer gender.

Gateshead should get a lot stronger oncec the French season has finished as they will be adding 3 Aussies currently playing with SM pia