Hey lads, why waste money on an expensive taxi? the franchise chip man lives in Sheffield, cadge a lift off him!
Only trying to be helpfull.

Team predictions? With QLT apparently making a miraculous recovery but Hirst and Turner out, I'd go for:

QLT

Taulapapa
Yere
Straugheir
Morrison

Walker
Brambani

Howieson
Henderson
Stringer

Knowles
Armstrong

Szostak

Davey
Garside/McDonald (is Dane fit?)
Green/Roche
Higgins

Armstrong will surely be in the centres? I expect your line up to be pretty close anyway And just for Halifax John, here is the pristine pitch from the game I was referring to! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhYCW4GXLjw

Armstrong will surely be in the centres? I expect your line up to be pretty close anyway And just for Halifax John, here is the pristine pitch from the game I was referring to! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhYCW4GXLjw

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Your reply appears to me to be a reflection of the disappointmnt of how badly your team played - true you beat us we gave you plenty of opportunity with the amount of penalties but lets face it after three friendlies, your guys really didn't seem to know where the line was.

As for you moaning about the absence of away support - for a team that has super league ambitions a few hundred home fans for the openning game of the season is not good! Theres no way you're going anywhere, except maybe down, for a year or 10! Now go away and try to wind up your next opponents and we'll see you at our place - better game maybe!

Oh, halifaxjohn, we don't need to be wasting all these precious cash resources by winning all these games when we can just as easily win the Championship from eighth.

After all, we're not a rich club like Fax with all those supporters chipping into the gate money pot.

TBF on Halifax i thought it was a tremendous effort regarding the crowd,Not many spaces spare,Fancy dress could be a winner really,All those Halifax fans dressed up as blue seats,Looked really good on TV.

I hate the attendance debate but I actually think halifaxjohn has a point, that following was pitiful even by our standards. To say we won the Championship last year, too. The Fax fans weren't much better, think they counted everyone twice to get to 1500. Atmosphere was as flat as the game too.

Thought defensively we were excellent, Fax should've been out of sight with all the possession they had on our line. Attacking wise we looked largely clueless, especially on the 5th. Lost count of the amount of times we didn't kick and lost possession.

The pitch was a disgrace too. Definitely resembled a ploughed field more than a rugby surface.

Take the failure point and move on.

That's the friendly out of the way anyway, the real stuff starts next week!

I keep saying it but the season's too long. We shouldn't be starting in January. Everybody said the Northern Rail games were poorly attended because the format was wrong. I'm tipping February attendances won't be that much better this year.

My view is the season should run from March through to November.

I thought we did Okay last night,Defence was excellent but we wouldnt have to had been that good if we wern't constantly giving penalties,knockons,missed touch once with our own penalty,All these in our own half gifting Halifax territory,A few tweaks here and there and we could have won that last night,Shows how far weve come when a 6 out of 10 performance could easily have been turned into a win against one of the strongest in the competition away and without having a friendly.

Yeah, you're right. But that would have to include the international season so the domestic season would have to end mid-October at the latest.

Quite a few regulars either couldn't get out of work early and some watched it on tv. Judging by the amount of space we had on the terrace I suspect some Fax supporters did the same.

Good defence by us, shame we did so much of it though. Not the best start but not a disaster.