Surely Halafhi has to go at the end of the year?

He has played it a little before for loan/DR clubs. Not sure if he has for Widnes.

I think I'd rather leave Oscar there and Chamberlain on the wing and give Butterworth a chance in the halves than disturb everyone's positions again. Oh and the "Mendeika and Chamberlain with be partners on the other side" line needs changing too. Tit. Also, it's not "the most highly anticipated fixture of the weekend". That's likely 1 v 2 in Super League, Cas v Hull. Or 1 v 2 in Championship in Hull KR v London.

I see that Dan Murray is in Halifax's 19 man squad

I know Halifax have done nothing wrong...... BUT....Grrrrr

1st Fax try disallowed - thank you Mr Ref

Reiss Butterworth putting team to shame.

Oscar Thomas is absolutely hopeless.

14-0 at half time. Sounds like men vs boys

Please, could someone give a quick rundown of the match? Bloody big Typhoon here, so no BCB or internet working, ta

In previous games we did well in the first half but fell off in the second half and lost the game.

In this game we reversed our tactics, got nilled in the first half but outscored fax in the second-half - but the result was still the same.

Maybe the RFL should change the rules (again) so that you get a bonus point for winning one half

Exceptionally poor game yesterday. So much dropped ball from both sides. No real quality shown but some how we only lost by 2 points. Was very clear again how much we're lacking a creative spark when close to the opposition try line.

Agree with this. I thought the skill levels on show were very poor. Bradford looked like they could play all day without scoring in the 1st half and Halifax made it look like we were playing in wet weather with the amount of ball we put down. It was the standard I would expect from 2 teams at the lower end of the table.

Listening to BCB I got the impression we did compete for stretches, though without troubling the Fax defence.

I note that coach Toovey is quoted in the T&A saying that the last two tries just 'put a gloss on a poor result', but I'd question that, to be honest. It may be true that we were mostly outplayed during the game, but far too many times this season we've been in the same sort of position, 20-8 (or similar) down, late in a game, and it's been the opposition who have stormed in to score late points. This time it was us, and much as it was too little, too late, it must be some kind of positive.

Highlights now up. We were a bit unlucky with the second Fax try with Peltier turning his ankle directly in the PTB directly before it. Had he been in the line it might have been different. We looked a bit soft up the middle in the second half too where Fax scored the try that won it for them. In the positive side of things we didn't give up. Butterworth handled the step up alright. Had we started better we may have won this. Fax bombed a few chances of their own as well but not the hiding I was expecting.

Well we all know the reasons why we're so sh*t. What's Halifax's excuse?

You never know, Marshall might just be saying that for the benefit of the press. I expect he's under no illusions.