we were poor in attack and 6 kicking points lost not a good day

How we didn't attack their left edge again and again with Murrell a passenger in defence I'll never know - even my 13 year old could see that, and Kear was out coached by a novice today.

That was poor.

congrats to fax though ... i wont pain myself looking on their board about how they beat the 'Dulls at Odsalum' ... in essence, they beat a side (just) because they managed better knowing our attack offers nothing. The rest of the season i just hope we 'have a go' throw the ball around more, take risks, and (god forbid) have runners anticipating a line break or even an (insert dirty word) offload.

Overall, very underwhelming performance. Yes, those conversion misses came back to haunt us and cost us the game but we lacked creativity in the crucial areas. 2 of our scores were from Fax errors where as Halifax looked liked they could pull a score off whenever they wanted.

Hard to believe that’s the same team that played Leeds last month. Losing Milnes is a hammer blow as well. Bad day at the office.

Hopefully Keyes back to cover Milnes, move Ryan back to wing and bring brown into fullback, not been funny but Ryan more affective on the wing for mine

Two more years of watching performances like that from Lilley. Absolutely stank the joint out today. Terrible kicking game, terrible passing game, terrible running game and now we can add a crap defensive read which cost us the game to that list.

And then he actually gets shortlisted for the motm! You can't make it up.

This Bulls side is the most abject attacking side I have seen in a long, long time. We are abysmal. And now we've just lost the only half with any creativity to a broken leg.

cant agree more about Ryan, his gift is finishing. Keyes will be a godsend if fit with hopefully no recurrence/sorted back problem

Well, that was just about to be expected. Well done Halifax.
Having watched most Bulls matches live throughout the season so far, and enjoyed this level of rugby, I have to say that today was the low point for me.
From a strong attacking start to the season, we appear to have become one dimensional, and dare I utter the words "we need good experienced halves".
God help us that today was a measure of where we are for the remainder of the season, as nobody will fear us with our 5 drives / high bomb style of play.
Minchella looks a shadow of the player he was at the start of the season, and we really are missing Ryan on the wing. Lilley tries hard, but he's not putting pressure on with his kicking game. Other than Peltier, I think our forwards are needing a good long rest, as they look to be out-enthused too often.
Lets hope JK doesn't put too many of todays players into the Barrow match, as we just might get turned over there too.

Poor stuff today. Kicking game was woeful and I can barely remember any good end of set plays. Can't argue with the result, Halifax played the better rugby.

I think this is a particularly harsh take. If it was true about Fax , then the scoreline would have been bigger than it was.

Close to the line generally (IMO) Fax never troubled our defence too much especially in the first half. They had to rely on some good play on the break further out but it was hardly scoring at will.

Our failure to capitalise when they had one in the bin ultimately cost us IMO even that early in the game.

Hard to disagree with the end result for sure, however had we nicked it at the end it would have been a total injustice either.

I'm not mad, just a bit disappointed!

Give it a rest Northus. If you're blaming Lilley for the defeat. How about the captains appalling read in defence yet again. Ryan was anonymous today. FB is almost as crucial as your HB in attack. If you think that's this is the most abysmal side you've seen you can't have been watching us long. Are we dull, yes. But we've made a quarter final, beaten Leeds and are a couple of points of the play-offs in our first year back. We're A frustrating side right now though and need to be better.

Our defence, particuarly around the middle is the biggest worry right now. How many times have Fax scored that type of try against us! Crossley again the culprit. Things need freshening up.

Well done Fax.