I see yesterday as a real missed opportunity, we have virtually a new team to gel together and a very limited time to do so. Our next 2 matches are against SL opposition and will be pretty rugged affairs so why wouldn’t Chester give his 1st team a run out yesterday.
Realistically what did we gain from that, I struggle to see a positive, Carlisle at 7? Will that ever happen, Playing our 2nd string everywhere else will give us an insight into how they play but unless they are in a team with other 1st teamers it doesn’t give a representative view.
For me we’d have been better playing our 1st team against a championship 1 team just to blow off the cobwebs and get some combinations going.

Maybe Chester does not want other super league teams to see how bad or how good the first team players are

Only positives i could see from the game was boudabza looked lively. I thought Greg Burke looked a useful player and matty marsh looked ok. Dixon looked Sharp and has some real pace about him.I thought the rest were average at most and got dominated by a team that came to take the game serious

Pretty much sums it up. For want of a better word Fax just looked hungrier than the Robins. For KR's youngsters it should have been a chance to say come and get me but Im struggling to think of any of them that got the better of their opposite number although I wouldnt mind Welham if any of our centres did get injured. A good indication of how eager Fax were was charging down about 3 kicks and the KR kickers not having chance to breathe when they got the ball. It were a chance to blow some cobwebs off but I think Chester will have been wanting to see a lot more than that from some of his players.

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.