: Wed May 06, 2009 8:56 am
I think it'll be a tough game for the most part, but we should win it comfortably in the last 20 minutes. Halifax have plenty of confidence at the moment and they'll carry that into the game and take it to us early on.
As fast as they play in NL1, Halifax will need to slow the game down to be able to cope with the speed of our play and with the referee being Steve Ganson, they could well be punished for doing this.
The telling factor is going to be on how we rise above any attempts to slow the game down. If we let ourselves get dragged into a scrap, anything could happen (Harlequins at home is the prime example here); play our own game and it should be a comfortable win, without us ever really getting up to full speed.
There should be a decent crowd too, although it probably won't include me due to the switch to Saturday evening - I currently have other commitments.