That was for a play-off game against St Helens on Friday, October 9, 1998.
Sadly, the Blue Sox lost 37-30 which was a low key way to round off the sort of season we can only dream about these days.
That of course was the campaign in which Halifax finished third in Super League with 36 points from their 23 fixtures.
To put things in perspective, Saints had been seven points behind in fourth place and Bradford a whopping 12 points worse off in fifth.
John Pendlebury's team that night was Martin Pearson, Daio Powell, Damian Gibson, Jamie Bloem, David Bouveng, Chris Chester, Gavin Clinch, Karl Harrison, Paul Rowley, Kelvin Skerrett, Gary Mercer, Carl Gillespie and Marty Moana with Des Clark, Simon Baldwin, Richard Marshall and Martin Hall starting in those cramped Shay dugouts.
And we didn't realise at the time how many of those lads were making their farewell appearance in a Halifax shirt.
Ten years on and Baldwin has retired.
He was a player who had come to Thrum Hall as a rough diamond of a teenager and had rapidly become a gem of a player.
There were rites of passage along the way such as being thrown into the canal outside a pub in Leigh after a game at Wigan to "celebrate" his 21st birthday.
And surreal experiences like finding himself in the middle of an altercation at breakfast in a Cardiff hotel between his England colleagues and some Welsh "gangsters" following his international debut!
But when he left the Shay dressing room and turned left and then right for the short walk down what passed for a tunnel there he presumably had no idea that it was to be for the last time.
Ditto Martin Pearson and Daio Powell who would be Sheffield players with him by the end of the season.
That was the close knit season in which Pendlebury only used 23 players but seven of whom were ever-present and of which the likes of Craig Dean, Andy Hobson, Oliver Marns and Kevin O'Loughlin only made a handful of sub appearances between them.
And legends like John Bentley (only six games all season and the last of them in mid July after coming back from rugby union a shattered ghost of his former self) and Fereti Tuilagi were not on the pitch against Saints to take a bow, the latter was already bound for Knowsley Road.
At least "Freddie" knew his fate.
The Fax side was captained by Karl Harrison in his 203rd appearance for the club.
It has taken the same gap of 10 years for another player to hit that landmark in Damian Gibson.
But 'Rhino' was unaware a decision about his future had already been made and it didn't involve him remaining at the Shay.
With Pendlebury on holiday in Florida with conditioner Steve Walsh and their families the skipper only learnt his fate in a chance (and unfortunate) conversation with the football manager a couple of weeks later.