Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:24 am  

used to think gannon gave away lots of penalties when at widnes. but finnegan is excelling even his numbers. good for fax.

Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:14 am  

Nice touch from the Fax lads to run to South Stand at the end, as always lead by Miles and Rob. Interesting that Frank, Rob and Whitey were interviewed by Pete Emmett on the field too.

Strange that the Widnes players didn't come over to acknowledge their fans. The fans which had travelled over, on a thursday night, in appalling weather, when they could have stayed home and watched on SKY TV. The Widnes fans were in very good voice all evening so why not make the effort to actually come over to thank them??
Maybe due to a large number of their players knowing they won't be playing for them next season? Maybe not.
Either way, to just briefly applaud the fans from halfway line is not right.

Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:32 am  

The widnes players did come all the way over to applaud there fans in the south stand.

Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:39 am  

sir HaRoLd FaCey wrote:

The widnes players did come all the way over to applaud there fans in the south stand.

At what point did they come all the way down to the in goal area?
I left after Pete had spoken with Rob etc and it looked like the Widnes players were heading into the dressing rooms??

Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:07 pm  

Standidge wrote:

Nice touch from the Fax lads to run to South Stand at the end, as always lead by Miles and Rob. Interesting that Frank, Rob and Whitey were interviewed by Pete Emmett on the field too.

Strange that the Widnes players didn't come over to acknowledge their fans. The fans which had travelled over, on a thursday night, in appalling weather, when they could have stayed home and watched on SKY TV. The Widnes fans were in very good voice all evening so why not make the effort to actually come over to thank them??
Maybe due to a large number of their players knowing they won't be playing for them next season? Maybe not.
Either way, to just briefly applaud the fans from halfway line is not right.

Not sure which game you were at... the Widnes players made their way over to the fans as they always do.
Never known them to not to that to be honest.

It's always pleasing to get a win but I was quite amused at the reaction of the Fax players and fans to be honest. I was half expecting a trophy to be presented and a lap of honour.
Still nice to see that the RFL managed to pacify your masses with a referee gained victory.

Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:10 pm  

Chris B wrote:

Not sure which game you were at... the Widnes players made their way over to the fans as they always do.
Never known them to not to that to be honest.

It's always pleasing to get a win but I was quite amused at the reaction of the Fax players and fans to be honest. I was half expecting a trophy to be presented and a lap of honour.
Still nice to see that the RFL managed to pacify your masses with a referee gained victory.

You just gotta love it......

I know we all watch with our own team coloured glasses on, but come on Widnes first try was a clear forward pass and their third had 2 forward passes in the play........

Sheer grit and determination won that game..

Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:15 pm  

Standidge wrote:

At what point did they come all the way down to the in goal area?
I left after Pete had spoken with Rob etc and it looked like the Widnes players were heading into the dressing rooms??

Didn't come right down but came most of the way, no issues at all they were all gutted too. Also lads without contracts ATM Tyrer, Varks, Hulme prob our best players!

Gutted after yesterday we seem to struggle with pens second half and don't think it's fitness either. Look like we had but didn't kill game off again unfortunately. Lot of credit to Fax for coming back though!

Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:16 pm  

The Widnes players all came over to applaud us at the end and if you think otherwise you were clearly watching a different game. They don't have to come past the ingoal area to acknowledge us, iirc Paddy Flynn was the last to applaud us and he was stood between the try line and 10 metre line

Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:27 pm  

Tony Fax wrote:

Not at all, the game was "not" meaningless as we still had league positions to play for and there's still the "momentum factor" regarding the end of season run in for the GF, regardless of the SL franchice bow locks which may have preceeded. That was a very poor effort by the scouse fans tonight, the worst turn out I can remember. And I've always been suspicious of their "3,300 attendence claims" when I've seen them on the box. Hmmmm .....

Really?

Re: Halifax beat Widnes : Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:58 pm  

Viva La Vikings!! wrote:

The Widnes players all came over to applaud us at the end and if you think otherwise you were clearly watching a different game. They don't have to come past the ingoal area to acknowledge us, iirc Paddy Flynn was the last to applaud us and he was stood between the try line and 10 metre line

I wasn't watching a different game, I was merely saying what I saw after the match. It was commented on by a few people near me also. They didn't sm to come over to the fans, they never made it into the 20m area. If I'm wrong then fine, just having a discussion, not starting an argument.
Yes your players were gutted, and understandably, your fans must have been gutted too.
Personally I think the Widnes fans were a credit to their club last night, some good banter. Especially liked the "forward" shouts in first half. Very amusing. Think you might get to do that again at Leeds next year, their South Stand is worse than ours at calling "forward" for every pass.