for those of you unfortunate enough not to have been at the game, and to cover bbcs blushes, highlights of saturdays epic encounter are here:

[urlhttp://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/VIDEO-Castleford-35-Halifax-34.5254982.jp[/url


enjoy

Good video but is it me or have some sound affects been added to the crowd.

think its you. not gloating but our support was amazing, and hopefully the cas fans back us up on that

The first try Fax scored in the 2nd half is stunning. People may argue the defence was poor, but credit to the attack, some of the off loads and passing in the lead up to that try is brilliant. Best try I've seen so far this season.

Great link.

Backed up

Top match, the BBC dropped abit of a clanger not putting this as the Sunday game.

True but no one probably expected it to be an epic either.

It wasn't.

Defense looked very poor from both sides.

As it was played on Saturday would it have just been a blank screen on Sunday

Or was it the attacking play was so good? Hmmmm

what we got on sunday was effectively a blank screen anyway

Fair point

Crowd sounded like that of a PSii game from 2001 [size=59(can we borrow the CD)[/size
Agree with the poster regarding the 2nd Fax try.....very good off-loading!

we score tries like this nearly every week. Matt has got them playing entertaining rugby. Allowing them to take risks. He's on record as saying he doesnt want to be a 5 drives & a kick coach.

Some top quality rugby there from Fax, defense maybe was an issue but at the end of the day most of them lads are part time players so '/it was only to be expected, had Fax been a full time team would the result have been different? On this evidence and on the games i've seen Fax play on TV they must be odds on favourites for the Championship, very entertaining brand of rugby and a full credit to Matt Calland who also employed the same style of rugby at amateurs Rochdale Mayfield.

So, in your avatar - the Broncos score - 72-8 against Wakefield. Forget the prowess of a masterful attacking performance - do we just put it all down to bad defence from Wakefield?

Yes. When a scoreline is that one-sided it has to be.

It's a bit different at 35 - 34. When you've got 2 teams playing fast open rugby you're bound to get defensive lapses. The alternative is to watch 2 teams who concentrate primarily on defense, score 1 or 2 tries in a game between them and bore the fans to death. I prefer to be entertained, thanks.

Yes and players fighting between themselves on the way down to the match. Good old Jules O'Neill!

And you would be correct, great game but it was only made that way because of the cringe worthy defense from both sides. Most SL sides would have destroyed both sides imho