But perhaps it could be understandable as it's Halifax's first club game against Australian opposition since Brisbane came to Thrum Hall in the World Club Championship in August 1997.
That was a televised game on a Monday night which attracted just 3,200, but to fair Fax were going through a shocking spell which had started in May before the team went to Australia and would carry on to the end of the season.
And results in the other matches all pointed towards a canter for the Broncos.
A final score of 54-10 perhaps represented form therefore for a shellshocked Halifax side which Andrew Hardcastle remembers as Kevin O'Loughlin, John Bentley, Daio Powell, David Bouveng, Freddie Tuilagi, Martin Pearson, Craig Dean, Karl Harrison, Paul Rowley, Alan Boothroyd, Michael Jackson, Paul Highton and Simon Baldwin with Lee Hanlan, Richard Marshall, Carl Gillespie and James Rushforth starting on the bench.
Mike Umaga, Asa Amone, Marty Moana, Kelvin Skerrett and Chris Chester were all notable absentees and as the club was feeling the pinch financially, it is noticeable that one or two unfamiliar names had been brought in.
Alan Boothroyd had arrived from Bradford to bolster things upfront.
He had played at Odsal alongside football manager David Hobbs who had tried to sign him the previous season and came to the club in mid July. His son Andrew has of course played for the club more recently.
Hanlan had come from Wakefield, where he was surplus to requirements, at the same time and signed after he had played for Ireland under Fax Alliance coach Mick Slicker who went on to recommend him to John Pendlebury.
Their short termness was obvious when neither was offered terms for 1998 a few weeks later when Pendlebury and Hobbs began to restructure the playing staff.
That pair had had higher hopes of O'Loughlin, especially Pendlebury who had played with his father at Wigan and who had paid St Helens £20,000 for his transfer in June.
He was going to be an integral part of the newly fashioned side but never really fulfilled his coach's faith and was packed off to Widnes in May 1998 as part of the Jamie Bloem deal after a little bit of trouble during an overnight stay in London….
Dean was another whose days were numbered whilst Highton was freed as an economy measure and Jackson preferred to sign for Sheffield with money also being a factor.
It was also one of Pearson's last games at standoff. In 1998 he would be employed in the threequarters with Bentley the man to drop out of the line-up.
Poor old "Bentos" was shattered anyway.
He had played back to back rugby since 1994 having spent the summer of 1995 in Australia with Balmain and, when rugby league switched to summer, moved to union with Newcastle Falcons then toured South Africa with the British Lions.
He only played a handful of games in 1998 before bowing out quietly and going to Huddersfield.
A sad finale for a man who had thrilled so many over the previous five years.