I attended the game yesterday, as I am sure many others did to see at least afew minutes game time from some of our new big name guys.Sadly I was dissapointed, what did we gain from yesterday? surely this ws the time to experiment with the movesand plays for the coming season, this is after all virtually a new team.
Halifax were aggressive in defense and attack, we were slow thinking short of aggression and ideas.

It was common knowledge that none of the overseas lads (new & existing) would be playing yesterday, so in that respect, I wasn't dissapointed.

Any guesses on attendance?

To be honest this seemed like a game Chester didn't want and the team that was chosen seemed to confirm that there was a couple of 17year olds playing majority of the 19s and a couple of fringe players I don't think we took Halifax lightly I just think it was an expected result what I saw was that Dixon is very fast Burke played well and was pleasantly surprised with the French hooker

Jason said almost 3,000 and was over the moon with the turnout.

With regards to Dixon he is a lot smaller than I remembered. No question he is very quick but light weight.
seem to recall brown brushing him off we ease at one point. Will be interesting how he goes next week.

He's not smaller, but Brown appears to have gained 2 stone since last time these 2 met.

Brown showed his strength (literally) and highlighted that weakness in Dixon's game in the March 2013 game at the Stoop, so that shouldn't be a big surprise. Dixon isn't a powerful player, but hopefully makes up for that in other ways.

Thinking back to the game and our dual reg with Halifax, it would be interesting to think how many of our 'second string' players that played on Sunday would actually get into that Halifax team. not many I would wager.

Id take Welham, no one else stood out imo.

what about young Matty Marsh who the local press reckon was running the show until his injury?