: Sun May 10, 2009 2:19 pm  

Just thinking about the start of the game yesterday.

For the 1st time we started with all our main players fromt he kick off: Black, Penky, Beswick, Smith, Gleese.

Can you imagine the damage they will cause Championship teams if Matt decides to start with these in future (as he said in yesterdays Courier, he didnt want to be behind early in the game as we were last year against the Giants)

: Sun May 10, 2009 2:27 pm  

griffax wrote:

As we were the team the BBC were following during our progress, hopefully they will show a piece about us before the TV game this afternoon.

well they showed Sherwin's try & missed conversion, then his drop goal. No real mention about us, but it looked magnificent seeing all the Fax fans at the Railway End.

Days like yesterday make you proud

: Sun May 10, 2009 3:20 pm  

Well done to your team from a sad widnes fan. .Serious you and barrow are the top teams and i am disappointed we did not keep beswick and noone.Instead we bring crap in like lee doran.

: Sun May 10, 2009 3:47 pm  

Top game sorry i missed it our fitness must be top notch now to stay the full 80 against a full-time outfit.Beswick looks to have settled in now.

: Sun May 10, 2009 4:37 pm  

First class all round!!

Team performance and the incredible Blue & White support!

A big shout also to messrs Clay, Steele, Riley, the coaching team, the office staff all the other back room personnel and our many volunteers, not just for last night, but for the way the club has been transformed, both on and off the field in recent months.

We are now a real force to be reckoned with, and judging by the many comments on here from supporters of other clubs, we have made others sit up and take notice.

It is a pleasure to follow the club at the moment and real team efforts like last night make it all worthwhile.

There were people on the terraces last night that I haven't seen for years, lets hope that all the hard work put in so far is enough to encourage them to be regular visitors to the Shay again, both in the coming weeks and the coming seasons!

Well done one and all...and keep it up!

: Sun May 10, 2009 5:14 pm  

Fantastc effort ive never been more proud in my life well done Fax

: Sun May 10, 2009 5:28 pm  

i think our defense was awful and our pack didn't play anything like they have been, but Fax deserved that yesterday, your willingness and eagerness to get the win was amazing, fast strong and powerful play, your offloading skills and runs from dummy half were just too quick for us to handle yesterday, forget forward passes and knock on from both teams, thats all gone now, be proud of your team who will go far, be proud of your fans who turned out and made the sort of noise all but 2 Super League teams could only dream of.

: Sun May 10, 2009 5:31 pm  

Superb effort boys.



We are all a little gutted but you mixed it with a good SL team, deserved to win and proved how good you are.

Just be sure you keep it up and get us to a final or two now. You deserve all the plaudits but we aint won owt yet either.

BRILLIANT EFFORT EVERYONE FROM MC ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO THE TRAVELLING FANS.

: Sun May 10, 2009 6:11 pm  

Birstalltiger wrote:

Every Super league defends like this you must not watch Super league matchs on TV because they been bang in on about all season

Not so Birstalltiger. I watch all rugby league games on SKY and some do hold down. I have just watched Saints vs Frogs and even though Catalan Dragons are famed for holding down and slowing the play of the ball it was still only a max of 4 seconds between hitting the floor and playing the ball, and at that length of time the ref was telling them to be quicker.

well done fax : Sun May 10, 2009 6:17 pm  

another Leyther saying very well done to fax wish you could have done it