Unfortunately can't make this one but a repeat of last year's meeting would be very nice. I don't think it will be as easy this time but we should be full of confidence after recent results/performances and I see a score along the lines of Newcastle 10 v 18 Fax. Everyone going up enjoy, a trip to the toon is always a good do. Up The Fax!

Should be an easy win for us. Perfect pitch for us and Newcastle have a lot of players missing and a thin squad. Beat them and Sheffield next and we won't drop out of the top 5 the rest of the season.

Let’s not do what we did against Whitehaven in the 1st half , we need to be switched on from minute 1 and take nothing for granted. Expansive rugby is fine in a controlled way , no need for hot potato rugby till the game is at least won.

I see Newcastle have brought in a few players on loan one from fev and 2 from wakey. Jack croft played against us last week for barrow and the other 2 to bolster there pack. We could have to make a couple of changes ourselves with jacob banned and woody going off injured last week i still think we will have enough to win this one 14-30 to fax.

Woody just coming into some form would be a frustrating loss if he doesn’t make it with LJ likely going to 1 and Aston coming into the halves and if we are replacing Bob from within a choice between Tangata or Laroyer to 13 and Calcott or Morris completing the pack.
We need to sort out the left hand side edge defense then the biggest threat will be how many of the 80 minutes we play with our heads on, anything close to our best and we should rack up some points and have enough to take it.

We shouldn't be changing the half backs. There's plenty of other options at fb if JWH isn't fit.

Just going on what SG has gone with in the past when JWH was injured and that has been either LJ or Joe Martin at 1.
Hopefully Woody will be fit enough.

Wont change the halfs this week as its working well would bring joe in as thats what he is signed up for

Fax win .

Well Cory aston is in the Huddersfield reserves so he won’t feature, that lends itself to if woodys fit he’ll play if not it’ll be Martin at fb. As mentioned before either calcott or Morris will step in with either tangata or larroyer moving to 13.

Great 1st half performance with some great tries and a good solid all round performance, unfortunately the 2nd half was a bit flat and disjointed. Overall with the travel I would have taken the score beforehand and a wins a win . After the two week break we’re going to have to turn it up a notch with two important and tough games against Sheffield and York .

Game of two halves with the attack looking dangerous with some good link ups for a couple of the length of the field efforts with the odd lapse in concentration for the solitary poorly conceded try.
Oddly enough the left hand edge looks both good in the attack and poor in defence in equal measures lately, not sure why.
Second half I expected us to weather the Thunder storm for the first 10 or 15 and then for us to kick on but it didn't happen and we didn't look like we were on the same page at times, strange but in the end another vital 2 points.

Like has been said, really good first half but second half just looked like a team going through the motions wanting to get the game done with so they could get out on the slash. A win is a win but playing a bunch of kids I don't think we showed them enough respect in the second half.

Well, we couldn't make this one so I am awaiting highlights but I would have taken that scoreline all day long this time yesterday. Up The Fax!

Just to repeat what as already been said we looked in the first half like we were carrying on from last week. We were creating plenty of chances all over the pitch and took the majority of them to give ourselves a comfortable half time lead. And i was hoping we would really put newcastle to the sword but we seemed to go to sleep in the second half with a very all-round disjointed performance which you can get away with in a game like yesterdays but we need to develop a more ruthless side to our play for future games. And our left side defense was again a week spot which needs to be put right as soon as possible. Tibbs did seem to hurt his knee early doors when we scored our first try and to be fair he looked a threat in attack but missed a number of one on one tackles i think he would be best on the wing. Like as been said i would of probably of taken that score before a ball was kicked but when you are 24-6 up at halftime i would of expected a far better second half then that. And finally thanks for small mercy's for durham services i was springing a leak when i got there and set a 100 meters personal best sprinting from the car to the toilets.

Not a bad predication.