Well games do not come much tougher then facing the saints. It is a long time since we have played them at home and hopefully fans from both sides will turn out for this Fridays game. They will have quite a few of there players unavailable either injured or banned but will still pose a massive challenge for us to compete with them. I would normally make a prediction for the game but i just hope we can give them one hell of a freight and see were it takes us. Wil the saints go marching on or will the panthers score a massive surprise.

Not seen how the bookies have this, most outside of Halifax will expect the Panthers to get a right mauling, but ‘ it’s a funny old game’ and the bounce of the ball with any luck will at least allow fax a good showing, and give us an idea where we are in the overall picture, if by some freakish happening we go back to Superleague status.
I dream of an upset on Friday, and will stay up to the wee small hours to at least listen if I can’t find a live stream.
Up the Fax.

I guess if we load them with cargo, it might slow them down a bit?

It's a bit of a drive from my house especially on a Friday night

Fax 19 Saints 18

We are bringing about 1200 fans over so should be a good attendance for a friday night.

That is good to hear the more the merrier we have sold just over 2500 tickets so far which means there could be about 4000 there which would be a very good turn out for us on a Friday night.

Not really looking at this game as a win/lose scenario as in all probability it’s a loss . Just going to enjoy it has an event in the same vein as the heady days of thrum hall when the Australian national team played us a couple of times. Hopefully we’ll give a good account for ourselves and remain relatively healthy.

Saints seem to have turned the corner since their slump after the WCC so I’m expecting them to win. Just hope our lads can give a really good account of themselves on the tv.

Certainly need the drummer and Barmy Army to be vocal throughout if we’re to have a chance of keeping close to them.

Class by Fax tonight. If we could defend like that in every game against Championship opposition we wouldnt lose many games. I also thought we created plenty of space against Saints and our attack looked decent with just the final pass letting us down. I don't rate Aaron Moore as a ref and he did nothing to change my mind tonight, it felt at times we were playing to a different set of rules for each team, just totally inconsistant with his decisions.

Great performance by Fax tonight. Going into the game I wasn’t expecting a win, hoping that we kept them within 30 points and came through unscathed. Big blow losing Keyes tonight - shoulder ligament injury could be long term. Just hope the efforts tonight don’t cost us next week against Batley!!

One if the most enjoyable games I've been to in years, great atmosphere with all 17 players playing as if their lives depended on it. Difficult to pick out individuals when all played so well - thought JWH just about deserved his Mom as he was faultless under huge pressure, especially number of high balls, Jouffret was excellent keeping the attack moving even without Keyes for 90% of the game; Brandon Moore tackled everything that moved for a full 80 minutes. Absolutely delighted when Fairbank got the try, for absolutely fearless commitment from the first minute no-one deserved it more. Finally thought Calcott had his best ever game. That'll do for now - I could easily run through the entire team, just hope it doesn't come at too big a cost with injuries .

The score line should have been closer. St first try was double movement. Why the video Ref didn’t look at all the angles I don’t know. I thought is was a double movement straight away. The VR look at 2 angles. Then as it was given the TV shows another
Angle (not used by VR) that clearly showed it was double movement. St second try came from a penalty against Fax for stripping the ball at the play the balL. The TV showed it was a clear knock on and he stopped the ball. I’m not saying we would have had these decisions gone the other way but it would have help our cause. They were not border line decisions They were decisions that fhe officials got totally wrong.
Well don the Panthers. Keys will be out for a while, maybe the season with a torn pectoral muscle. Hope this game want a game too far and will affect the rest of the season.

Very proud of the team after a effort like that. We lost Keyes early which didn't help but credit to young Tom for stepping up which also meant Brandon doing the full 80 against a pack like saints which takes some doing. And wasn't great to see the shay with a crowd like that inside it makes a world of difference with fans behind both posts. Joes injury didn't look good and Doro was struggling when he went off too and salty still seems for me to be troubled by his groin injury but hopefully none of these will be too serious. All in all a very good day for the club with hopefully more to come in the future.