The rest is history. Justin Morgan's Rovers went on to dominate National League One, beating Widnes in a one-sided Grand Final the following October.
Yesterday, Matt Calland's Fax brought delicious symmetry to the record books, setting new benchmarks for the club's highest ever score and biggest winning margin in a performance brimming with just as much lethal intent as Rovers' was back in '06.

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Only time will tell whether this victory heralds the kind of stellar season the team from East Hull went on to enjoy, especially given the advantages enjoyed by the full timers of Salford, Widnes and Celtic Crusaders.
But it is increasingly obvious that Calland is nurturing something potentially very special.
All the ingredients seem to be in place: a big, go forward pack; a playmaker supreme in Graham Holroyd; and a staggering array of attacking firepower behind the scrum.
Most of all, they look a team in the purest sense of the word.
Calland spoke afterwards of Holroyd being "different class" so far this season, and it was easy to see his point.
The crafty old stand off set up half a dozen of his side's 16 tries, scored one himself and kicked 12 conversions for a personal tally of 28 points, leaving him agonisingly short of two more notable records, Bruce Burton's goals in a game mark, 14 against Hunslet way back in 1972, and John Schuster's points-in-a-match benchmark, 32 at Doncaster in 1994.
Sadly, there are no records for influencing a match; if there were, Holroyd would have smashed them.
And while Town were undoubtedly flawed, they were made to look a good deal more so by a Fax side being swept along on a tidal wave of confidence.
You could also argue that this result was as significant because of who didn't play as who did, with an enviable array of talent - Jon Goddard, Andy Smith, Lee Greenwood, Mick Govin, Paul Southern, Danny Heaton, David Wrench and David Larder - kicking their heels in the stands as Calland pursues a Mourinho-esque policy of squad rotation
But that would be churlish on the players who tore up the record books, some of whom, notably two-try centre James Haley, considerably enhanced their claims for inclusion ahead of next weekend's third round Challenge Cup clash at York.
Against Keighley last Tuesday, it had taken Fax all of 20 minutes to end the game as a contest.
Yesterday they halved that with a blistering opening salvo that yielded four tries in the opening 10 minutes - two to Shad Royston and one each to wingers Lee Patterson and Damian Gibson - with Holroyd's three conversions giving them a 22-0 lead before Town had really touched the ball.
After that, it was simply a matter of how much punishment Fax would inflict on Dave Rotheram's team.
Miles Greenwood, operating in the unfamiliar half back role in the absence of Mick Govin, scored from Holroyd's kick, before Patterson, a player almost unrecognisable from the one signed from Rochdale midway through last season, applied a scorching finish to some more scintillating approach play.
Haley then swept in from Sean Penkywicz's pass, Holroyd's goal bringing up the 40-point mark.
Royston might have had his hat trick immediately afterwards, Holroyd's kick just eluding him, before Town enjoyed their first, and as it turned out only, respite of the afternoon, Franco Kmet scoring on the left for Carl Forber to convert.
Fax then added their eighth try on the stroke of half time, Holroyd kicking into space and Patterson being hauled back as he waited to pounce, leaving referee Craig Halloran with no choice but to award the penalty try.
At 46-6, the only question was whether Fax would be able to go on with the job.
They did.
It took them seven untidy second half minutes to get revved up again, but once they did - centre Mike Ratu blasting over from Holroyd's pass - they didn't stop.
What would have been a brilliant Gibson touchdown was chalked off straight from the restart for a forward pass, but Patterson soon made amends on the other flank, taking Ratu's pass to score.
Penkywicz then forced his way over from dummy half, before Holroyd popped up in midfield to reel in Paul Smith's pass and gallop in from close to the half way line.
That made it 68-6 with 61 minutes gone, before Haley came up with some classic centre play to put Gibson in for his second. and break the 70-point barrier.
Ratu's second, and some powerful support play from Richard Varkulis, accounted for Fax's 14th and 15th tries, before Haley secured the team's place in history, surging clear through the middle after Penkywicz had prised open a leg-weary defence from a scrum.

STARMAN
When Lee Patterson joined Halifax from Rochdale last season, he looked a solid, but perhaps unspectacular, buy.
That impression remained as the pacy threequarter struggled to break into Martin Hall's side when the play offs came around in September.
This year, the opposite is true: Patterson has started the season on fire.
Two tries against Workington on the opening day set the tone and the former Warrington junior hasn't looked back, getting better and better with each appearance.
Yesterday, he bagged another double, made a hatful of metres in midfield and, when Town made a rare break late in the game, was still committed enough to chase back and make the crucial tackle.
A complete display of wing play, earning Patterson three points in the season-long Star Man competition.
The boos for Graham Holroyd are now strictly ironic.
After almost a decade of terrace abuse whenever he faced his hometown club, Holroyd is now firmly established as the team's talisman.
Yesterday, playing behind a dominant pack, he directed operations with typical poise, scoring one try, setting up half a dozen more and generally barking out the orders.
And only when he narrowly missed a touchline conversion late in the game did the comedy jeers erupt.
The final point goes to James Haley, who finally looks to be on the way back to his best.
The young centre had a miserable 2007, but showed signs yesterday of the swerve and footwork that made him such a handful until a crippling knee injury wrecked his year.
Haley ran great lines, scored two tries himself, laid on a couple for Damian Gibson and generally looked a class act.

PLAYER POINTS
Andy Smith 7, Graham Holroyd 5, Sean Penkywicz 4, Jon Goddard 3, Mike Ratu 3, Lee Patterson 3, Craig Kopczak 2, Paul Smith 2, Mick Govin 2, Paul Southern 2, Shad Royston 2, James Haley 1

MATCH FACTS
Halifax: Shad Royston; Lee Patterson, James Haley, Mike Ratu, Damian Gibson; Graham Holroyd, Miles Greenwood; Dana Wilson, Sean Penkywicz, Craig Kopczak, Andy Gorski, Richard Varkulis, Paul Smith. Subs: Damian Ball, Matthew Bottom, James Fairbank, Frank Watene.
Tries: Royston (2), Patterson (4), Haley (2), Ratu (2), Gibson (2), Holroyd, Greenwood, Penkywicz, Varkulis
Goals: Holroyd (12)
Workington: Mark McCully; Andrew Todd, Iain Marsh, Jason Mossop, Martin Wilson; Tyrone Dalton, Carl Forber; Dean Burgess, Shaun Lunt, Jamie Beaumont, Franco Kmet, Ryan Campbell, Rob Lunt. Subs: Scott Gorman, Peter Dobson,Kris Coward, Taani Lavulavu.
Try: Kmet
Goal: Forber
Attendance: 1,323
Referee: Craig Halloran (Dewsbury)

YOU SAID
Efficient, clinical, entertaining. Lacking some first teamers but still broke scoring record. Workington rubbish but Fax made them look it. Well done lads ANDYL
The bandwagon rolls on. Looking forward to some sterner tests when the league campaign starts. JOHN B
Great display Fax. Keep it up for the rest of the season.
ALAN AND MICKEY

STAT ATTACK
Halifax
First half
Completions: 20
Penalties: 7
Percentage possession: 67
Second half
Completions: 12
Penalties: 0
Percentage possession: 64

Workington
First half
Completions: 9
Penalties: 4
Percentage possession: 33
Second half
Completions: 5
Penalties: 1
Percentage possession: 36

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