Interesting game this one they have picked up in form of late. Since the performance in the semi in the 1895 cup against fev even thou they lost it does seem to have given them a lift. And they have some ex fax players in there ranks in tyrer and grady who should both get a good reception on there return. I will go for a fax win 28-12.

I'd be very happy with that scoreline. Tyler and Grady were both top lads for Fax and will need watching for sure. Is Craven out injured? Hopefully home advantage will swing this one for us. Fax 26 v 16 Widnes.

We should have too much for them and are in pretty good form. We are going to score points against them and they will do well to a get a few themselves.

Amir Bourouh has got a one match ban for his late shoulder hit at Batley. Not sure if he will miss Widnes or the match after.

Game has gone mad. By banning him they are saying that should have been a sending off which it never is in a million years.

Correct. The 10 minutes was sufficient.

Should be the Match after

Fax to win

He won’t be available for the Whitehaven game. We will need him more against Widnes than Whitehaven so I suppose in that sense it has worked out OK for us. However the 1 match ban is just not necessary.

20 man squad out and it is good to see barber and rawsthorne return i would think that nick will replace mcgrath who will miss out due to the head knock against batley last week but will barber get back in mcomb as done a good job while he as been out maybe he will replace larroyer who is missing this week he could go in the second row with kavanagh moving in the middle personally i would play him in the or leave him out barber that is

If fully fit Ed Barber would be in my team every time. He will probably start off the bench though I would have thought.

If he's fit I'd replace Larroyer with Fairbank and slot Barber back in at centre, even though Mccomb has done a good job there. I think his size and handling skills make him a top notch centre at this level against being a decent second row.

Well that was nail biter. Well played lads. Kept going until the end. Another interception try given away but tue second half you dug in. We dominated their pack in the last 15/20. They looked like they had already lost the match with 5 to go. We never gave up and over the last few seasons we would given up. Top performance today and broke the Widnes hearts right at the last. No pints conceded in the second half. Up the Panthers

Good result against a decent team - first half thexweather severely hampered Fax's previously slick attacking play - as weather improved so did attack. The break he made seemed to galvanise Harris who went from being totally anonymous to a match winner.Not the best performance of the year, but great to get the win against a top 6 rival - individually thought Calcott is getting better each week and Salty had a typically totally committed display and took his tries really well. Hopefully next week we'll get back to better weather and a chance to get back to the sort of attacking form seen over last few weeks. Finally wish we'd start giving Amir more game time and stop using Brandon as a make weight 2nd row while he's on.

Close call but well done

Totally agree with your last point. Take Brandon off and replace with Amir. Don’t lose another big forward just to keep the captain on. He would understand the decision.

Good result that. I think the weather was a good leveller but in that first half we just were not smart enough, poor kicking game and seemed to be paniking when only 6-0 down. From 12-0 though barring the couple of gift penalties similar to the batley game we just ground them down and always looked the more likely to win the game. I we seem to be building something at the moment and if we can avoid a couple of shock results we should be in 3rd by time we play Bradford with that game going a long way to decide where we finish.

Different side seen from Fax today, that while not being as decisive in attack the resilience got them over the line in the end which I think they just about deserved.
Many of them are carrying knocks and injuries and shouldn’t really be playing so a lot of courage on show today.
Just need to get over Whitehaven next week with what we have left in the tank and then a couple of weeks to heal, rest and regroup before we go again.

Worth mentioning our defence again, Widnes tries came from a kick and an 80m interception. Other than that they didn't really look like scoring and we seem to have a great attitude in defence this year over the last few games. Thats reflected in us having a pretty good points difference.

Or take the captaincy off Brandon. I don't think that it has helped him, he's certainly not as effective as he was before being made captain.

Yesterday was certainly a different type of win for Fax. We really ground that one out and deservedly got the points with the last gasp dròp goal. Rarely have I seen a team look so out on their feet as Widnes were in the last 15 minutes. That is great credit to Fax and has been said if we can get past Whitehaven next week we'll have a break to get over some of the knocks the lads are obviously carrying. Up The Fax!

Yesterday’s highlights. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRheY4RgiMA

Yesterday’s highlights. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRheY4RgiMA

Brilliant work from Morris to get the quick PTB for the drop goal.

well yesterday was certainly a interesting day starting with the weather i thought the game might be off. And then the game itself my word they like to put us fans through it i thought last week was tense but this was up there too. We seem to take 40 minutes to get going over the past couple of games. I thought in the end all those goal line dropouts took there toll on widnes but to be fair they did defend pretty strongly for most part. We can blame the weather but i thought all our ball players had poor games yesterday neither of the halfbacks challenged the line in the first half and brandon moore didn't run enough from acting half it must of been about 25 minutes in before he had a scoot. And woody got caught out of position a couple of times in defence and that seemed to knock is confidence in attack. It makes it a lot harder to score out wide if those players aren't tying in the defence first. But credit to harris for stepping up more in the second half kicking the conversion from the touchline and putting in the kick for saltys try and finally nailing the drop goal to win the game.