Just as bad as Laughton last week, but if we keep giving the refs the opportunity to penalise against us then that is our own fault. We must tighten up and take it away from them and then we would demolish teams we come up against.

Lots of ground is lost by stupid penalties and that has been how teams have got to our line and took advantage. Gateshead took their chances very well today and thoroughly deserved their half time score.

A better second half from Fax showed what we are capable of.


Footnote to Matt.................Please give the team a roasting BEFORE the game on Friday, don't wait for half time!!!!!!!!!

the ref cannot be blamed for our 1st half shambles

just got back, totally dejected first half performance really looked to be not trying at all in defence at times with a couple of esay wingers tries. Gateshead played brilliant in that half and made few errors, good kicking game and looked a real force. However 2nd half they made as many errors as we did first and we started to look like we could score everytime we got near their line. If there was ever a game of two halfs

could have sneaked a draw at the end with more composure but would have been underserved a few forwards got us close. Ah well bring on Leigh think we will get back up for it after a great 2nd half.

You miss Ben Black too much.

Its as simple as that for me, it was commented on many times by Widnes fans last week that if you were to take Ben Black out of your team you would become quiet ordinary. Im not going to join the stupid slanging matches about Webster/Black, i would take black in a heartbeat. Reminds me this season of what Webster did to Widnes in Hull KR's promotion season.

But without him?

If Black stays fit you have a damned good chance to win this division, If he picks up and injury i dont see you making the final. And this is not intended as a daft dig, i was shocked when i saw Gateshead racking up points without reply from Fax. I came here, noted Black was missing and had a feeling you wouldnt be able to claw it back. ( you did better than i expected to be fair )

I wouldnt say it was meltdown yet but anything but a win next week against Leigh? and you should probably get concerned.

christ we've only lost 2 games you'd think we were now in mid table

can concentrate fully on the league from now on, always thought today was going to be tough anyway.

Its not about the league position its about confidence, before your coach declared you " the best team outside of SL by a Country mile" or words to that extent. I didnt see you as getting beaten by anyone, you looked stronger, faster and more confident than any other team i had watched. As the defeats mount you lose confidence, which is one of the main ingredients of a outstanding team. Not only that but now your the Team to beat in this division and you are marked as the big game for the small clubs.

I still think you will Win the GF, but im no where near as confident as i was 5 weeks ago.

you wouldnt have thought that after half time once our players had woken up

We shouldn't have been in a position to need to come back from 32 nil down.

maybe not but we were and we came back further than i think any other team in the league would have.

I fully agree with this I really wanted us to make the final at Blackpool and was biterly disapointed we missed out again. Hope you guys enjoy Blackpool.
As for Todays game the 1st half was the worst ive seen in 19 years of following Fax, However lets look at the positives We came back to get a bonus point which Barrow didnt manage so we are now top of the league by a point with a game in hand so we have the chance to bounce back with lttle damage done. We just cant seem to get over the hangovers from the big cup games.

I agree, we are top of the league with a game in hand.

At no point have we or the club said we would go through the season unbeaten. Christ, being a Fax supporter you have to be a realist, but please allow us to gloat a little! It's been a long time between drinks.... with the business end of the season still to come!