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Halifax RLFC - Fax to come out fighting
HALIFAX will not let their form nosedive in the wake of last weekend's Northern Rail Cup semi-final defeat by Widnes.
That was the pledge from in-form full back Miles Greenwood today ahead of Sunday's Championship trip to Gateshead Thunder.
Fax's number one insists the club learned a lesson from their last cup loss - the golden point cliffhanger at Castleford last month - and the league reverse against Sheffield that followed seven days later.
"What happened after Cas taught us something as a team," said Greenwood.
"After a game like that or Widnes, you can either sit back and think the world has ended or you can kick on and come back stronger, which is what we are going to do.
"To lose on Sunday would make what happened last weekend twice as bad.
"I just hate losing, full stop, and that's the attitude through the whole camp.
"It's a dangerous game: Gateshead are a better side than their league position suggests and everyone raises their performance against us anyway.
"But we will turn it round this week."
Greenwood's own description of the emotions in the home dressing room last weekend - "the feeling was just horrible" - underlined the size of the mental challenge facing Fax, but he insisted the real focus was on eradicating the errors that proved so costly against the Vikings.
"We certainly need to be smarter and more clinical," said Greenwood.
"It was the way we lost that hurt, as much as anything.
"We are a very, very good team but we did not do the small things right against Widnes and you cannot afford to do that when you get to that stage of a competition.
"We lost the ball far too many times and they capitalised on that.
"That's something that has to be addressed."
Widnes have extended the loans of Warrington pair Kevin Penny and Steve Pickersgill after their initial one-month spell. The Wolves will have right to recall both players at any time.
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