Having a chat today with my East Stand buddies , IMO he is the best and most complete player for Fax POST Super League, what is the general opinion?

We were all shouting for a stand-off last year and I have to say we've damn well got one and a good one at that. Cops a lot from the opposition teams but keeps going - hope we keep him next year he's been our best player this time round.

Agree - player of the year for me. Been a fantastic singing for us.

Why would we not keep him, i thought he was on a 2 year deal

He's been the best 'Fax player for years, bloody nice bloke as well.

The sort of player that makes you think - what would we do without him. Plays his heart out each game, for example today not only did he put a great kick in, he was the only one chasing it down and he ended up dropping the Batley player behind his own sticks. Just a class act.

Ive got to agree , some australian players come over for a holiday but you cant say that about branno, he has put 110% in all year.

I said it on another post and i think the fact he isnt a new player this year is acting as a negative for him but for me shad has been absolutely fantastic this season, he will be a massive loss and would stroll into any team in this league.

last year we all wanted a player like him and MH and MC got us the best.

Agree 100%, best signing since Ben Fisher,

Nah he is okay but the best player since SL was Ben Fisher, top bloke that.

Spoke to Luke after the game and he is on a 1 yr deal, hasn't been offerred anything for next year and sadly even confessed he doubted he would be here next year

- Same apparently goes for a number of the first team squad due to finances and yes even those on 2 year deals. we will be looking to consolidate financially ala 2003.

Once again Chris Smith pops up with his super positive posts. Just like last time when you spoke to a player in the bar who said training was cr@p, the sky was falling down etc; We finished 2nd.

Not negative just posting what I was was told. Said player was Stanley Gene in the South Stand lounge after the Hunslet game and he is no longer at the club for allegedly shouting his mouth off a few too many times.

Get a grip Nat it is a message for FFS.

I spoke to ALL the players last night at Hartshead Services. They said that the club have told them if they step foot in the Shay stadium after October 4th they'll all be shot dead with a special single bullet.

Next year the club are going after yoof. They've signed up a selection of primary school children.

We'll still beat Widnes though.

Thats all that matters!!!

What does? Shooting the squad, having a yoof team or beating Widnes?

...............or coming on here with your shoe shine Johnny revelations? Just enjoy the season ffs.

I don't remember saying in my last post I wasn't enjoying the season??

Just get a grip man . . . . . . I posted something on a message board which a player openly disgussed in front of half a dozen supporters. Because it mentions something that none of us like to hear I get lambasted!!

I think many on here need to get a grip......Its not negative its just the life and times of Halifax RLFC and the rollercoaster we all ride each week.

I suppose Shad saying over the microphone that he desperatley needs a knee op but the club can't afford to get him one is breaching this boards disciplinary procedures and he is being too negative??

Get a grip man.

We've been here before. Listen mate, i don't know you from Adam - you may have a cheery disposition outside of this message board but a quick stroll through your previous posts suggest that you're one hell of a "glass is half empty" kinda troll. You're what's known as a "washer woman" and you wear the tag well. Maybe the demise of the Launderama is our gain on here - if indeed you can call it a gain.

You talk about the rollercoaster - but you only come on here when we're at the bottom of the track. I guess you're too busy holding your breath when we're at the brow of the top dip.

Doom merchant.

Whatever!!



Yet again a board "regular" tries to make someone feel inferior due to a difference of opinion or indeed the demeanor of a post. I would sincerely love to meet up with a few people on here (face to face) to talk rugby but like most posters they hide behind a computer.

If negativity is posting what players have openly talked about in a public bar then I'm guilty.

Doesn't make me any less of a supporter then you or anybody on here. So why do you and others on try to shoot others down? - Its a form of bullying in my opinion and some of the mods even get involved.

Disgraceful. - At the end of the day its a topic, a conversation and open to discussion and interpretation.

The same guy told me we are signing Sonny Bill Williams



IMO it is a toss up between Fisher, Penky, Black and Shad for our best player since SL but Branighan is certainly a class act at this level who I reckon is better than a few other SL half-backs.

I hope we do hold onto him though, remember how much we missed Holroyd last year after he went?

I do hope we can sign him up for next season and beyond. The partnership between Luke and Ben has been great this year.

But it's all you ever do on here. You only have to look back at your posts to see what you're all about. If you think my replies are tantamount to bullying then you need to "man up". If you don't like people's response to your gossiping then don't post it.

As an ex member of HM forces telling me to "Man Up" now that I do find offensive. I suggest many on here should do the same and get from behind their computer screens.

My interpretation of the bullying on here is based around how "regular" posters (and I include you in that) basically utilise their presence on here to ridicule and ostricise any other posters on here whose opinions differ. You may not like what I put but I don't post pure make believe, I don't hide behind a username and I certainly say it as I see it. You see it has negative, I see it has another viewpoint and as a fan I am entitled to that. I do not ask for insults or personal attacks.

For the record I'm passionate about the club (like you wouldn't believe) as rightly you point out "you don't know me". I don't wear rose tinted glasses and I certainly won't ever stop loving my club. I will and have got a sick feeling that all that we have enjoyed in the last 3 seasons (highs and lows) and have come to expect will be taken away from us by some silly administrational errors and the RFL moving goal posts and I have been told numerous things that I certainly won't post on here. I will enjoy whats left of this season and then keep my fingers crossed that things don't happen in the off season that I have been told will. Another disaster will undo all the hard work of the last 5 years to improve the clubs profile.

Branigan is class and he gets stuck in too, not afraid of getting smashed.

Been away all weekend so i couldnt attend the game but for me Luke could step right into SL and not look out of his depth. Class act and i just hope we can keep him for next year!