fevnut's musings 2024/#25: Halifax, A Strange Triangle and Sport Overload

    

Halifax

Last Sunday, a league double completed over Halifax for 2024. Nothing unusual about that in recent times. We had a blip against Halifax last year losing to them at the Shay in the league match and at home in the Challenge Cup. Those two followed on from a run of 9 successive victories.

As our regular readers will be aware, we usually publish our overall record against our next opposition and also our record in the ‘Summer Era’. There is a big difference in the results between Fev and Fax before and after 1996.

In the Summer Era our win percentage is 61% but in the Winter Era was much lower at only 43%.

Last Sunday’s match was strange, a classic match of two halves. Halifax played so much better in the second half and we felt our defence did really well to only concede the one try.

So, we were pleased with result and our defence, but we still have disciplinary problems that urgently need to be addressed.

 

Fev v Whitehaven v Toulouse

We wonder what start the bookies gave Whitehaven in their match last week.

Two weeks before, Fev had lost to Toulouse 20-0 and then, the following week Fev inflicted a 66-0 demolition of Whitehaven.

During the Whitehaven match against Toulouse we went on to the web to check the score only to be greeted with the unbelievable score line of Whitehaven 18 Toulouse 0. Obviously a mistake, we thought, but it wasn’t.

It was probably inevitable that Toulouse would mount a comeback and eventually ran out winners by 34-24 but Haven supporters must have been delighted with their improvement.

How unpredictable the Championship is and how exciting that makes it!

 

Sport Overload

Last week was crazy! We go through the winter having not much sport that we would like to watch on television and then along comes some mad weeks in the summer.

And last week we found ourselves channel hopping.

Of course, there were all the super league matches, not that we wanted to watch all six of them.

Our second love is cricket. We do enjoy watching T20 matches but we find Test matches far more enthralling so when a Test Match comes a long and, as it was to be Jimmy Anderson’s last one, we didn’t want to miss any of the time when England were bowling. He joins our long list of favourite England bowlers that have been very special to watch, stretching back to Jim Laker and Fred Trueman.

And, as if the rugby league and the Test Match weren’t enough, we also had Wimbledon and the Euros. We dipped in and out of those because we do tend to get a bit bored with long spells of either of those sports.

There was also some rugby union internationals and some horse racing but those are sports we never bother with!

Time to relax this week? Oh no, there’s another Test Match!

If only there was the opportunity to watch Championship matches on television. We would love to have been able to record the match between Toulouse and Wakefield and then spent time at Post Office Road on Saturday trying to avoid getting information about the score in France before going home to watch it.