L'Estrange was the one that first sprung to mind too as the one always getting stuck in. It seems to me that the first 10 mins of each half we are there in numbers - 2/3 men in the tackle, then after that it drops off. Is it down to fitness? Surely not.
Technique seems to be off a lot of the time too. We found it nigh on impossible to put Worrincy down on Sunday, he was bouncing off tackles all over, but it looked like the defending players were all going in for the same tackle and getting in each others way. That must be down to the defensive coach.

Could be, but more likely it's some players are just better at it than others. Once we miss enough tackles and the score starts to blow out the heads then drop and we concede further and in the end we aren't in the tackle in numbers at all, everyone starts to play as an individual. The Salford game was a classic example. We started both halves ok with fairly solid defence but after a few mistakes it spiralled out of control and the defence went like Swiss cheese.



It probably does come down to coaching and looks to me again like the team not defending as a unit or communicating enough. A team that doesn't talk in defence is always asking for it. Whatever, the players don't seem to have confidence at the moment.

Would be interested in Worrincy's stats. He seemed to take 2 out of every 6 drives.

"Now this is the law of the Jungle-
as old and as true as the sky:
And the Wolf that shall keep it shall prosper,
but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk,
the Law runneth forward and back.
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf,
and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

Rudyard Kipling - Second Jungle Book.

When a team is pulling together, amazing things can happen.

Perhaps reading poetry to the team may help, it worked for Peter Fox!

L'Estrange isn't short on effort but his was the worst defensive error of the day.

That balls up was exactly what I had in mind. There was no communication, he just did his own thing.

what do you make of the shay thesedays bulls fans?

Looked good, nice little stadium, the pitch looked fantastic - would love to have a game on that!!

The Skircoat stand could do with some work, but I've been to worse stadia.

Would have been nice if Halifax fans turned up to watch the game, we must have outnumbered the fax fans 4-1

i like it that its in walking distance from wetherspoons



no seriously i think its a great stadium and well worthy of sl ... but fax fans really hate bradford , everywhere i went since arriving in fax on sunday dinnertime me and the girlfriend were chanted at , and when arriving at the ground it was the same crap down there fax fan's moaning like hell that we got a freebie but the best was stood in the south stand surrounded by p*ssed up fan's slagging us off , swearing like they had torret's , proper going off it when sibbet needed treating for a head injury .. even a old boy saying to us as we wait for a taxi ( good luck in the next round your going to f*cking need it ) .. tell me something i don't know !!

the chant half are you are halifax !!!! can someone please expain this to me as ive no idea what this is all about ???
but for one minute im not saying all fax fan's are like this but the one's i were around were ... ( how can i but it .. erh jerks )

Fax official blog says they outnumbered us. Also, they won the last game at Thrum
Hall 26-6.

i think you shouls take it with a pinch of salt. in the pubs beforehand people seemed to mingle pretty well

i dont think theres much genuine hate there.