If nothing else, it looks better if you've achieved your club record score against a professional team rather than an amateur side in the Challenge Cup.

An analysis of the times that Halifax have scored 70 or more points in living memory shows that the record could have been broken or extended several times before.

The only thing preventing that was the lack of goals kicked in most cases although it has to be said that an awful lot of tries – as we shall see – in these games are scored by outside backs with the conversion attempts being made from the touchline.

The record for many years was of the course the 76-8 Yorkshire Cup victory over Hunslet at Parkside in August 1972.

What sort of side the home team fielded that sunny night is unknown but they let in 16 tries with Bruce Burton kicking 14 goals.

You have to remember of course that a try was only worth three points in those days.

An extra 16 points would mean that the score today would have been 92-something!

When Halifax butchered Nottingham 72-20 in October 1989 (despite having Dick Fairbank sent off for butting early in the second half and losing hooker Jason Ramshaw with a badly broken jaw) they scored 13 tries with Tony Anderson accounting for four of them and Colin Whitfield adding 10 goals.

The next massacre was against Runcorn who leaked 82 points at Thrum Hall in October 1990. There were 14 tries and 13 goals from Alan Platt that day.

When Hull KR let in 14 tries on the same ground a year later Greg Pearce only added 10 goals to 14 tries but nine of those came from Greg Austin and Mark Preston to prove the point.

John Schuster only kicked 10 goals when Fax won at Doncaster in 1994 as the team scored 13 tries and then added 11 conversions to the same number of touchdowns when Workington leaked 74 at Thrum Hall in 1996.

The two biggest scores recently had been against amateur opposition in the cup.

Lock Lane let in 14 tries three years ago but Danny Jones and Wayne Corcoran only improved 10 of them and when Eccles conceded 16 a year ago James Haley and Jones missed five goals shots between them which would have hitched the score up to 96.

The one that really got away was against long suffering Nottingham City and took place on Sunday November 8, 1992 in the Regal Trophy.

The game actually became slightly disrespectful.

The final result was 76-8 but Fax strolled in for 16 tries and only kicked six goals. Another 20 available points would have made it 96!

Paul Bishop managed three, Graeme Hallas a couple and John Bentley his only career goal for the club.

City, who featured former Thrum Haller Kenny Isaacs, saw Austin (5), Hallas (3), Preston (2), Karl Harrison (2), Gary Divorty, John Fieldhouse, David Cooper and Mike McLean all cross their line and the situation became so farcical towards the end that whoever was scoring a try was trying to kick the goal!