Many of the players will have to work through the day, get home and changed, travel to either the Shay or the pick-up point at the "White Bear" at Tingley roundabout just off the M62 and then play!
But it has to be done this week in what may well be the sternest test to date of Fax's championship credentials.
Their first ever trip to the Don Valley came on a Friday night but that was on September 11 1992.
Incidentally it was in the Yorkshire Cup, the last time that Halifax were involved in the historic competition which was scrapped the following summer in the name of progress.
And it was a classic example of complacency leading to humiliation.
Halifax were top of the league, albeit after two fixtures.
They had a shedful of new signings, including Paul Bishop, John Bentley and Gary Divorty.
The previous Sunday had seen them destroy Leeds 26-8 in the sunshine at Thrum Hall in front of over 10,000 fans. The previous season had been one of consolidating Division One status but now the time to move to another level had arrived.
Or so we thought as we went to play a newly promoted team in the Eagles.
It went according to plan when Bentley scored early on.
But the fragile partnership of him in the centre and Henry Sharp on the wing was then to be sadly exposed by Garry Jack and David Plange for Sheffield who romped home 34-14.
Plange had a vigorous playing style and gave Sharp a torrid time
It was a chastened team that Roger Millward took back up the M1.
Even the pub the team stopped at on the return journey was the roughest in South Yorkshire and full of bikers!
Sharp had the last laugh though.
When the teams met again at the same venue the following January, Plange tried to sledge him in the tunnel before the game.
"Hello Henry! You still playing? Thought you'd have had enough last time," and so on.
But Sharp scored as Fax won 26-10!
Post match wasn't as pleasant for the other Sunday's Shay guest though.
Sharp got in the lift from the ground floor dressing area to the player's bar alongside Bentley and one or two others.
"Bentos" started jumping up and down, the lift stuck and help had to be summoned but not before Sharp, a claustrophobia sufferer, had gone decidedly pale.

Janan Billings has had a harder job than most this season in having to partially fill the boots of the injured Sean Penkywicz.
But he did it literally the other Sunday against Dewsbury when his display earned him this newspaper's man of the match award.
That's because the Rochdale based hooker had his boots and other effects stolen on the night before the game.
He turned up with Matt Calland on the day of the match looking to borrow a pair - and bagman "Ned" Kelly promptly produced the injured "Penky's" size nines from the skip!