Getting harder now though isn't it with all the players produced from the Fax area choosing Huddersfield over Bradford?

Nah. They usually come to our great academy first before heading to Hudds! Flanagan Jr the latest to wander off to the Giants. Although rumour has it, it is for a lovely bit of cash!

before we delve into the hand bags ... do we have an attendance figure for the game? my vpn didnt work trying to listen but it must have been an awesome game

Highlights on the Halifax facebook page, well worth a watch. Thought the man child commentator was going to cry at full time!

Didn't realise he was from the Fax area. Fingers crossed though you can keep producing, need something to eat in to that wall of debt.

One thing I did notice on the replay, clever play by England at the death to stop himself picking up the ball in an offisde position. At that point we were desperate to regain possession and his natural reaction would surely have been to dive on the loose ball.

Think both sides will watch the video back and believe some of those scores should have been defended much better. Great game though, will likely watch the full replay at some point this week.

Attendance was 4,717. Interesting to note that's about the same as Wakefield v Leeds last week.

Did they pull that number out of a hat? Felt like one of the worst attended games between the 2 teams in recent years.

The problem the Bulls have is that there are about 3000 season tickets sold. So that’s the baseline for any match. But it’s tricky to announce over 3000 fans when sometimes there are obviously fewer than that.

Oh aye. Tbf I wouldn’t say that was a major one but deffo one non the less.

A year before we had Naughton to Sydney Roosters if that counts!

Curtis Naughton. Whatever happened to him?

Went to Sydney. Came back to Hull FC. Then went back to Aus with his brother. Owns or runs a couple of cross fit gyms over there now.

My age group had a lot of very good players, some lost to the game now but Shaw Cross, Hunslet and Siddal were all a class above.

The Bulls at the time had: Curt Naughton (Hull FC & Roosters), Josh Moore, Josh Casey (Keighley), Josh Wardman-Cook, Alex Mellor, Oliver Roberts, Brad Adams, Emerson Whittel, Adam Brook, Sam Bates. Can’t remember the others but it was a bloody good side.

Then there was the likes of Scott Lee, Jordan Baldwinson, Jose Kenga, Mick Learmonth, Elliot Minchella (year below but played above), Liam Sutcliffe, Mason Tonks, Thomas Minns, Alex Foster, James Duckworth (all at Leeds).

Some real players from Yorkshire. Think over the Pennines they had the likes of George Williams, Oliver Gildart, Ryan Hampshire etc.