Just watched it.

The wife picked one up for me this morning when she went to get my NRC match tickets (I knew she'd come in handy one day). I have to say that Ronnie Laughton did his damdest to give that game to Halifax. All three of their 2nd half trys would've been chalked off had there been a video ref.

The first 2nd half try came after a clear knock on by Gleeson. It hit his upper arm and went forward, he was on the run so he ran over the ball and then went back to retrieve it, picked it up and played on and Shad Royston goes in.

The next try came from blatant crossing, when a dummy runner took out Duffy and knocked him 2 feet backwards as Black came flying through and went in. Black was well covered otherwise.


The last try was one that I didn't notice while at the game. The ball was kicked up and Doddy caught the ball, but he had it immediately reefed away, in a two man tackle by Royston, who then went under.


I knew that Widnes were the better side, even before I watched this game, but we were even better than I thought they were. Other than a 15 - 20 minute period in the 2nd half, Widnes pretty much dominated the game.


Well done lads, you should've beaten them by 3 trys!!!!!!

Prepare for the yorskshire mafia



Bet you the last try looked mint eh Pepe?


Got my tickets today too.

Such a calming influence.







I think I just heard a few Fax fans spontaneously combust.

They all did!

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I think there's a picture of that on the website of the halifax courier.. certainly looked exactly as you mentioned it.

anywhere i can buy online?

Quote ="Gremlin"anywhere i can buy online?'" Cant get it online from Widnes Grem but Halifax do them for a fiver, you just specify on checkout. www.halifaxrlfc-store.co.uk/shop ... cts_id=293

Quote ="Gremlin"anywhere i can buy online?'" Cant get it online from Widnes Grem but Halifax do them for a fiver, you just specify on checkout. www.halifaxrlfc-store.co.uk/shop ... cts_id=293

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I thought our 2nd and 3rd try of the half were v.suspect at the time, especially the last try, infact i remember shouting (cos he got pulled for it vs Barrow) 'ffs Shad dont tackle him in the air....yeeeeeeeessssssss!!!! (obviously not caring at this point

) and this picture shows it was also 2 on 1...as does the video i suppose.

Still think the Ref could have given us a few more penalties (as he should have you probably, plus no one knows why Tamghart wasnt sent off for his headbutt haha) but if our game was the one on thursday imo 1 out of 4 of you tries wouldn't have been given, but 3 our 4 of our wouldn't have either. Both a set of cheating b@stards in conclusion

Fair play to you, Tommy. (not a pun, honest) I actually thought there wouldn't be a single Halifax fan on this thread, particularly not one admitting that you actually got the rub of the green.

There were quite a few strange decisions, including one when Dodd knocked on under your posts, and Fax threw the ball to the 20 metre line and took a quick tap while Widnes were hesding forward to form the scrum. Laughton called play on

and you made 15 metre's. It's lucky we had a couple of players in the right position to tackle or that would've been a certain try.

There was also what looked suspiciously like a voluntary tackle by Greenwood, but I'll let that go.




Ronnie Laughton eh?

What a w**ker!

I think you're being unduly harsh there. He didn't have that bad a game. Look, just get over it will you !!!

Cheeky little b*gger. Even you were at it last night.

It wer ' Smashing '

"Richard, get off will ya. I've got a headache. Use your blow up sheep and leave me alone".

Indeed, definately dropped a ball or two in this game.....oh no, that was Blacky wasn't it

No, after watching it again, that was definitely the hand of god.



I always thought he was on our side.


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Foookin' hell, tell me about it...

You are hilarious Pepe, no you really are. Ahem.

Oh, btw, you are also a homo' of the highest order.

I stand by everything I said. We were close to being cheated out of that game. If Black hadn't dropped that ball and scored that try, and you had won the game, it would have been a complete travesty.



I'm not a 'homo' but my boyfriend is.

Just shows how poo the officials were, no matter wat the result one side was destined to be cheesed off. also shows wat a quality game of rl it was u cant tell me hudds/sheff v salford is a more entertaining prospect!!!

Quote ="-VIKINGMAN-"Cant get it online from Widnes Grem but Halifax do them for a fiver, you just specify on checkout. www.halifaxrlfc-store.co.uk/shop ... cts_id=293'" Ive sorted out my dvd ordered one today its in the post to me

Quote ="-VIKINGMAN-"Cant get it online from Widnes Grem but Halifax do them for a fiver, you just specify on checkout. www.halifaxrlfc-store.co.uk/shop ... cts_id=293'" Ive sorted out my dvd ordered one today its in the post to me

i still cant understand how he dropped it, it was one of those moments that happens once in a players career he could have done it against Gateshead this weekend instead though.

no i still maintain cullan was running down the sideline with a bb gun and shot the ball out of Blackys hand bring him in for questioning

ahh sorry mate, I never got round to thanking you for the sig pal.

I had an awful feeling that was gonna haunt me but there we are. You truly did on job on us to be fair and your error count seemed to be very low.

We dropped the ball, made bad decisions, fannied about and it cost us. The ref' in my opinion made some awful errors but if as Pepe says, the DVD proof cannot lie then so be it on a number of plays.

In the end, I hope you win the Cup and not that bunch of sheep worriers up in the far corner.

See you at yours for what should be a humdinger eh?

gracious in defeat, here's hoping to lift the cup in a couple of weeks time, and yes see you at the stobart, i am sure ben black will want to make up for the drop ball when he meets us again!