From a fax perspective it's a 50/50 game , bradford have recruited well and you would have expected a flying start from them , biggest difference for fax is a new pack from lasts year game with dixon , Douglas and calcott all playing plus tangata who is now in the second row with mccarron,  hanson so far has had more freedom with our pack not been dominated and woody at 6 as meant more solid.  If I was bradford I would be targeting jouffret salty and tibbs under the high bombs who have been shaky in them scenarios. 

I'm going with this...... We won against the (formally) unbeaten top of the league at their ground. They had confidence and belief (as their fans did) that they were going to win. But we won.

I know we looked far from stellar, but this was always going to be a hard game. Their defence didn't leave much room for creativity but we had enough. The players grafted today, with our defense seeing us through.... Meadows gets a lot of grief (and some of the stuff he does is at times bewildering and infuriating) But hats off, that try was superb, so credit where its due.... It doesn't get any easier does? Oldham away..... Hopefully a bit more fluidity in our game for a more asthetically pleasing display? Don't hold your breath.

I?m going to take the positives there. Overall, with the available squad they had, I think that was Halifax more or less as good as they could be. They threw everything they had at us, especially in the first half and our goal line defence was equal to it. 


On the other hand, in attack, we were patchy, errors, 3kicks out on the full, dropped balls, passes in front of runners and behind runners. For the last 5 minutes of the first half, it came together and we cut them open 3 times in 5 minutes. 


The point is, we won and we have a lot of improvement in us still. Halifax were missing a couple of players, but their performance was basically maxed out. 


Let?s get to Oldham

Weird. Where did the ? come from?

Probably can cut the side a bit of slack especially when they dig in for a defensive effort like today. Still a relatively new 6/7 partnership and Tom Holmes missing at FB - although Hooley was rock solid there today.


I genuinely thought it was going to be one of those days where we invited them back into the game in the final few minutes with another poor kick out on the full. In honesty, on another day we might have lost so it really needs tightening up.


But we've beaten the form team on their own patch without playing particularly well with the ball so I am also taking that as a positive at the moment. The Meadows try was a beauty!

Looks like just is and Barrow picking up wins in the top half of the league.