And it was good to see old faces like Carl Gillespie, Des Clark and Dave Busfield.
At one stage the conversation turned to a cup tie versus the old foe from Fartown which took place at Thrum Hall on Valentines Day 1982 and which Fax won.
Those were roller coaster days for Fax in the times of the four up/four down promotion and relegation system as they became something of a yo-yo team.
The 1981/82 season was spent in Division Two and the rump of the Maurice Bamford teams of the turn of the decade still provided the spine of the side.
Thus we find familiar names like Mick Blacker, Mick O'Byrne, Dave Cholmondeley, Keith Waites, Graham Garrod, George Standidge, Dave Callon and Kenny Loxton as regular members of the home dressing room.
It was a team too good for one league and just that little bit wanting in another.
There were relative newcomers though.
A young lad called Paul Moses was beginning to nose his way into the team.
He had turned up at Thrum Hall when Halifax and Keighley had merged their Colts team and to this day is still known as "Young Moses" around the place.
And there had been two big money acquisitions in the 1981 off season, two record signings at the time in fact.
You suspect that the board were spending the fees (rumoured to be nudging £30,000 for Mick Scott and £20,000 for Jimmy Birts) that had been received from Wigan where Bamford had just been installed as manager.
Both were well worth the money paid out though as Dewsbury received £15,000 for Malcolm Agar and then Bramley pocketed £20,000 for Steve Bond.
They got five good seasons out of Bond whose last game for the club was actually the 1986 Premiership Final against Warrington at Elland Road.
And Agar kicked his way into record books as the side gained promotion, amassing 269 points from 16 tries, 102 goals and no fewer than 17 drop goals in an era of tighter results where one pointers were often crucial.
Not that there weren't local connections in the Huddersfield squad.
Bob Hirst, Tom Davies and Dave Potts had all played for Fax at one time or another and scrum-half Alan Greenwood had been signed from the Mixenden amateur club.
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How times change….
We all thought the attendance at the Shay on Sunday of nearly 4,000 was respectable.
It's a far cry though from the 64,250 people who went to Odsal in 1949 to watch the two teams play in the Challenge cup semi-final!
Or the 27,435 at Fartown and 21,951 at Thrum Hall when the two teams played a two-legged first round tie (which Fax won 18-10 on aggregate) in 1952.
Even 40 years ago, in February 1968, a second round tie which Huddersfield won at Thrum Hall attracted 8,317.
Let's put matters in perspective though.
Sunday's gate was a massive improvement on the 2,800 who were at the Shay when the two sides had last met in a competitive match a couple of seasons ago.