Marns was brutally honest in his post-match assessment where he added that it was the players responsibility to put things right and that everybody had been forced to accept that it had been a poor performance.

All the points came in the first half with Halifax showing more steel in the second period following the introductions of game-hungry players such as Ian Spence, Martin Smith, Adam Blades and Craig Emmerson.

But even they were unable to turn the deficit around which left Halifax nursing a second consecutive defeat.

"I don't think anybody can dress up a performance like that," said Marns.

"It was very disappointing

"Having said that we are only two games in so there is plenty of time to turn things round.

"We either work to do that or we give up and as far as I am concerned there is no option - we just get on with it."

Halifax could be accused of suffering a hangover from a difficult season last time out with the same old errors hindering any progress.

But Marns firmly believes it is up to the players to get the basics right after which he feels the victories will start to come.

"We all know what we're not doing. You can probably identify a dozen parts of the game that we have not got right as players," added Marns "From that point of view we have lots to work on.

"It would be worse if we were losing and not be able to identify where things were going wrong.

"Those areas we need to work on are fairly basic - keeping hold of the ball, passing to hand, catching, tackling - they should not be difficult things to grasp.

"There isn't much more that Rhys or Harry can do. They don't send us out to lose games.

"To me the buck stops with us, although invariably it stops with the coach.

"But to my mind there was nobody else responsible for that performance but us, the players.

"You could argue that last year we were making more errors because we were under the pressure of being in a higher league.

"This year we shouldn't have those excuses. Okay, there are new faces in the squad and this is still a good league with good players and good teams.

"Huddersfield showed that by putting us under a lot of pressure and making us panic.

"But we should be able to cope with it. There are plenty of players here who have played National Two and at this level.

"I do know that, as a squad, we have to work through these problems and we have to do it as a team.

"Once we do that then I feel we will be okay because we certainly have the talent on board to do well in this league."