You are missing the point - Halifax have found themselves in this situation because the RFL moved the goalposts. A year ago the plan was to create a championship u21s, so Fax quite rightly scrapped their reserves to move towards this new set up. now the rfl have scrapped that idea and stuck with the old reserve system. That means Fax would now have to follow the super league model and create an u20s and u18s and play against super league teams. Widnes to their credit have done that but they have a chairman who pumped a million quid into the club just do it could break even!!! why can't championship clubs have their own u18 competition with players on basic match terms of say £50 a win. Games could be played as curtain raisers to first team games.

Which one do you mean ?

Hopefully you mean Nosey Parker. I think we are lucky to have two good journalists at the Courier. James for the rugby and Dave for the football. I think we are also lucky to still have a daily, local newspaper.

I have to agree with you Bubba, shame it isn't still printed in town though

Sorry, the bit I meant was the bit in bold but I guess it doesn't show up very well. Yes I meant Nosey Parker, I quite enjoy all the Courier articles espcially Dave Fleming's nostaglic pieces.

Few Local Papers are, Huddersfield Examiner is printed in Oldham.

The Big modern printing presses are far cheaper to print on than the small ones that local newspapers used to have in their offices (Courier for example) and the cost of new ones is too much for the local papers who are generally now owned by bigger companies (Johnston Press own courier, I think the Examiner is under the mirror group now) so they go for the bigger regionalised presses.