Nice to see we're all getting along.

Just to confirm fieldhouse didnt score tyrer x2 tries and x2 goals and rettie with a try

Conditions at the game today were awful. Both sides defended well although Halifax were a bit slow up to meet the Skolars. Skolars played their hearts out whereas Fax looked as if they thought they only had to turn up to win! Skolars scored from their opportunities. Fax were not clinical enough to put away quite a few breaks. The Skolars tackling caused Fax to be held up over the line 5 or 6 times. Skolars deserved more respect and were unlucky not to win and they were gutted. This was the first game I have managed to see Fax live this season and I was disappointed by the lacklustre display. When the chips were down in the last 10 minutes we finally saw a bit of what we can do. Only just in time though!!!
Congratulations to Skolars on a fine performance. I hope this gives Fax a needed kick up the backside and we can go on to rip teams apart in the league. Rhino will have less hair than me if Fax play like this again. After he has greeted the team for training this week I expect them to come out breathing fire next week and look forward to a much better performance.

must have been muddy to confuse it.

It was muddy, wet, cold. Skolars can take a lot from todays game. They knew what they had to do and did it well. Their defence on their line was strong and denied us 5 - 6 times holding us up on the line. It seems that despite the number of new signings this team is still able to get themselves out of a hole when they have to - whether they deserve it or not.

Heaton was sin binned during the second half. someone mentioned that earlier. And one of our players was put on report I think for gouging. Not sure who though. Just what we need when he have 2 up at Red Hall on Tuesday!

Unlucky today Skolars.

thought it was one of the Skolars players on report

Absolute rubbish I'm afraid Chris. Yes we were below par, yes things didn't quite work for us, yes it was a bad day at the office but absolutely not lazy. We weren't happy to be down and every Skolars mistake was met by 6 Fax lads forming a scrum as quick as we could. we were rushing things in the second half and trying too hard to force things. Rather than giving the players a bollocking for being lazy, I suspect Rhino will bollock the players for deviating from gameplan and rushing things. Penky knocked on more than once at dummy half, Reittie spilled two passes that he really should have taken, Rob never got a ball with any chance to run. All things you won't see again all season. We were collectively poor today but things just didn't work. I reckon this week and last could be the two results that make our season.

you lot on here really get my goat. . it seems that none of you bothered to go today but you all have an opinion!!! We had 6 tries disallowed. .5 for "held up" over the line, Rob had one for offside.

Yes we werent good but I at least was there. . it was cold wet and a poor game. . Skolars defended well on a small pitch. . we tried to play down the middle too much. . .the linesman disallowed a try for held up from 30 yards away when the referee was no more than a yard from the action. .the same touch judge disallowed another try for offside but gave Skolars a try on the sixth tackle after they has dropped the ball forward.

Not our best display but we won. . . Featherstone didnt!!!

Ive said it before you lot on here must never go to a game, just sit in your bedrooms moaning about games and no radio coverage and teams you never see.

To be a real moaner you ought at least go to an ocassional match

I may be wrong. I thought one of their players complained and the ref was telling Penky it was going on report. Whoever it was, we'll find out soon cos it's a serious allegation.

I don't see anyone moaning about the 83mins playing time. How much difference a week makes when your desperate for a win.....

it was penky that the ref put on report. he came 3rd man into a tackle, grappled the skolars player to the ground, and the game continued. i noticed their winger complaining to the touch judge pointing to his face, and the next break in play it went on report. looked nothing from the stands, we will see.

on a brighter note the following from fax was awesome!!!!

- would say over 350!

"We were lucky" is an understatement!

it was a game we never looked like controling, the weather was a massive leveller, and fax leaving their legs on the coach was a major factor.

not to take anything away from london though, their defence was supurb, a very commitied team with a couple of huge strong props, they will win afew this year for sure.

loads of knock ons made for a stop start afair, Fax had two tries dissallowed (both clearly tries) and must have been held up over the line 4 times (great defence!)

as for fax, get out of jail card played! i would not like to be a fax player in training this week!!!!!

London Skolars - a lovely little club that i hope to do really well!



as for Fax , we won, we're in the quarters,

this is a new team that put a massive amount in vs Fev and just lost....the fev game will surley have taken alot from the boys.

anyone who went to london would have seen a frustrating game more than anything, one we could/should have won by alot more - be it referee decisions//london playing as well as they are likely to do for a while.

the fact is the boys came up with the goods when we needed it. fair play to them.

onwards and upwards.

Had a good weekend down in the 'smoke' and recommend the excellent Grand Central train service.
As for the match well it was a freezing cold and wet day with a strong wind blowing down the pitch so not the best day for a game of RL (same for both sides I know), there was a small crowd and mostly Fax fans with very little to get the blood flowing through the veins, so very little atmosphere and yes the lads played badly, very badly.
London Skolars played very well and are not the easy beats they were although we did as others have said have two good tries disallowed which would have given us the lead and probably taken the wind out of their sails, but they had the lead most of the match and in the conditions defended it well.
We only looked like winning the game in the last ten minutes when we did turn the screw to be fair and went to the hooter so good on them its a win.
As for the Skolars yer a decent little club but it is shocking to see so few people at their games, less this time than the last two occassions I was there, sadly it aint bringing in the fans.

i was ok with the comments until the last bit. look at the crowd number and then the others game played and I think we got the 5 biggest of the day better than some Championship teams at home. Also not far off several others above us including a cumbrian derby. Given the weather was so bad the crowd was pretty good.

Its the same old story I am afraid the Skolars probably count all tickets issued whether those who get them turn up or not as the RFL allow you to do, its a stupid rule to inflate crowds you aint the only ones that do it, why not only count those who attend games like sports clubs always did for over 100 years? I know why cos the crwods would be cr%p thats why.
Do you really believe there was that many there? Really be honest take those rose tinted RFL type specs off?
Come on I walked into the back of the stand at kick off and saw about 350 fans at a best and realistic guess absolute tops. The reason I say this is because you must agree that three quarters of the crowd were Fax fans and I know there was a coach from Halifax plus people like me and my party down for the weekend plus a few southern Fax fans so 200 to 250 Halifax fans at best plus the few Skolars fans of around 100?

No way was there that 'official' crowd, anybody got any crowd photos to prove my point??

Why does it matter?

I agree

It matters because people like him use the 'crowd' figures to say how good their club is by the fact they think they have support that has been inflated in other words like he said we are bigger and better than X club because we had a bigger crowd.
It distorts the truth, yet the RFL live in this world of fiction and encourage it to say how healthy the game is as we get crowds of X yet in the 'old' days and mostly in football the crowd figure is the number of people who come through the turnstiles.
Lots of RL attendances aint the truth thats what annoys me its a pack of lies really.
Its like the big games the crowd is made up of cheap tickets and BOGOF offers etc... which is good marketing in a way but its sad to see that its the only way they can get a decent crowd. I went to see England v Australia at Elland Road only after my mate got a £10 ticket after he got a ticket for the Wembley game which included a free shirt for £30 or £35. This is the biggest international game in the sport for goodness sake.
Its buying crowds!

you are wrong mate. thats all i need to say. the stand holds 1250 and room for 100 at the front. The stand was about half full. End off

oh and it wasnt mostly fax fans either. however the fax support was a lot and it was quality. there are some great people involved at your club.

I agree 100%. I am continually arguing this point with a mate at work who is a Bulls supporter. They sell about 10,000 Season Tickets at about £60 each (the cost of 3 games which is an offer you can't refuse) and the RFL allow them to include these in every gate which means that every match looks like they are fighting to get into the ground. The reality, however, is a different matter.

The worrying thing is that the supporters start to believe their own spin which is unbelievable.

The problem with selling ST's so cheaply is that supporters are not so reluctant to miss games as they are when they have paid £200.

So if I am wrong Halifax took over 400 fans down to London for a NRC group game in early March then??? Wow we have better support than I thought according to you.
I know I am right actually as you are talking a load of rubbish the stand was about 1/4 full at best, because of the rain nobody used the front rows right back to 2/3 of the way back and nobody sat at the side bits.
Spin, spin, spin like Kylie says you can keep spinning around but the fact is that crowd was never 600+

what ever

And no surprise no recognition of the truth just the usual yer whatever, like some teenager.
I am used to this, like I said the RFL have made people like you believe in ANYTHING.
More fool you.
Anyway good luck for the rest of the season you have a decent team there if they can keep that work rate going all season you should be nearer the top than bottom.