Your defence in the second half was great.Bucket collection for bradford raised £2.67pence well done to everyone .

Gutted we got so close without a better result. That was a great local derby.

Well done boys. Came away with nothing but pride, boll**ks to super league.

Nothing but praise for Keighley, you came with a plan and it didn't half work in shutting us down. Fair play to JD he's pulled together a very talented squad that made you look a division above us at times, your attack was well organised and sharp and your defence was solid. You guys will be well up there come the end of the season and I look forward to my trip to Cougar Park.

Damn , wish I could have gone to that.......sounded awesome !!

Well done Cougars

Thanks DARE kind words, very proud of the lads tonight even in defeat, we have a lot to look forward to.

Stealths post title sums tonight up so well ...we were fantastic and gave Halifax a real battle ..but I still came out of the Shay cursing our defeat ..

This was no go at our boys but more an indication of how far JD has taken us ...

The Cougar Army were yet again amazing , it was at times, Swinton all over again and praise must go to the vast majority of Fax fans who were happy to concede they had been in a real battle.

Watch out the Wire you have a right game on your hands..

Cougars were fantastic tonight.

The fans even more so. Cracking atmosphere.

Every respect for the cougars. You played a full part in what for me was a good but not great game. we (halifax) never looked fluent and whilst I felt there was a lot of laying on that went unpunished you had a game plan that very nearly did the job
Overall a very enjoyable evening and i think cougars will go well and suprise a few people along the way. Good luck to you and I'm looking forward to the return fixture especially with a few of Mr Taylor's brew thrown in

I have had my reservations about the bonus point system but it seems to be justified in games like that and the Fev game, When the team plays like that,even if they lose they deserve something, and, in fact, the bonus point we got today pushed us above Dewsbury and into 3rd place.

A fantastic performance last night. Who would have imagined us matching (if not bettering) the likes of Halifax 12 months ago? A real shame about the result, but great to take the bonus point.

Full credit to JD and the players, things are really coming together. We improve week on week and I think there's more to come.

Bring on the rebirth of Cougarmania!

The first half there was nothing between the two teams. 12 all was a fair result.

In the second half. I would say that Fax had about 90% of the ball.
The defence from the Cougars was outstanding. I have never seen a display like that from any Cougar team.
I cant think of many teams that would have been able to defend like that.
It shows how un-confident, Fax were about there chances of scoring a try. That they went for a drop goal. Mind you it did win them the game.

One thing that i was disappointed with. Was our kicking game in the second half. We seemed to be going for a up and under style of kick.
Yet we seemed to be camped in our half.

We should have been kicking for there in goal. Making them start from as far in there half as we could. Instead they were starting from half way, in there own half and just putting under pressure again.

I felt like i was at a game with the Bulls playing listening to Fax fans.
The amount of times they were shouting at the ref. I would say at least 3 times in the first half he gave a penalty, because of the crowd shouting and the Fax players shaking there heads and throwing there hands in the air.

I was glad to see he wise to it. In the end he was just telling the fax players to get up.

That was fantastic game , Cougar fans turned up in numbers and I believe contributed to the performance on the pitch. VERY VERY vocal from 1st minute til 80th. Not wanting to get giddy but if we perform like that next week Warrington will certainly know theyve been in a game.
One slight negative (or maybe it was just me !!!) Not many of the players came to applaud the fans after the game , JD seemed to congregate a fair few of them in the middle of the pitch and then they trooped off. Whether he was hacked off at losing narrowly, just plain knackered or what im not sure .. again purely an observation and not a gripe.
Again an awesome display all round .... take notice rugby world ... cougarmania could well be starting to brew again IN JD WE TRUST

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According to our local rag there was only 1 penalty awarded in the first half

As everyone has said - a great performance by the Cougars and a 13-13 draw would have been the fairest result.

However, my main gripe is the organisation of the Shay and the fact that, whichever team is playing, there are NO supporters at one end of the pitch! That, coupled with the fact that the north end of the stand appeared to be denied access didn't help