According to their thread " Morally Wrong " we have settled out of court !! anyone know anything on this ?.

If true it’s not a surprise. Aston wouldn't want the threats he allegedly made repeated in public.

in the courier today, fax say sorry over barlow, and eagles get out of court cash settlement

Not on the site yet but that is no suprise!, I hope Aston never gets anywhere in his career and thats not a nice thing to say, but there you go.

Not that surprising, still means I won't be going to Sheffield next year, not giving them any more money after the way they have behaved over all of this.

Thats the same for me too. Not going to Bramall lane next year, even if we get them in any cup tie.

I also made my mind up after the GF, I will not be paying anything to Featherstone or Sheffield !!

Simples, Wont hurt me in the slightest.

hope fax did not pay them too much.

£5k for Barlow. ( no idea what the amount was, Just for illustration purposes).

Barlow + HRLFC = £100k

So by my calcualtion, £95k profit, Thanks Mr Pie Man

It's only a couple of weeks since you were all saying that Barlow made no difference to the result so why all the fuss.



The result of the game wasn't the issue. It was the breaking of an agreement.

Agreement My

. £100k Minus 500 Pork Pies equals alot of money !!!

OK - you don't get it. Better leave it at that before people begin to think you're an idiot.

Should there be a boycott of away games at Sheffield and Featherstone next season?

On the grounds that you cheated and got found out ?

thats down to personal choice isn't it, I will be at neither, I would prefer to give the money directly to the club by putting the gate fee into the sponsorship. That is exactly what i will do, If others did the same then it would help the club out no end. 100 people boycott and give gate fee to club = £1500.
Better than giving them a penny IMO.

Cheated? Post a link to the rfl rules we broke will you?

IMHO, the RFL could have nipped this in the bud by telling Halifax to keep to their side of the bargain, instead of hiding behind their rule book. They've been absolutely gutless.

So Fax haven't broken and RFL rules? Thought as much. So they havent cheated then have they?

Surely Halifax fans should just accept wrong doing on this FFS? Rather than goading it about as your just giving a bad name as Champions across board really.

On pitch for Halifax it's been superp off the pitch it has been one hell of a mess and that can't be denied unfortunately and the worst thing you can do is rub stuff in other fans faces especially when your club has admitted they were wrong surely?

Great that it has been settled out of court as keeps game off front pages now let's just move on and get back to rugby?

Sorry but I don't understand some of the posts on this thread. Halifax have apologised for ignoring the written agreement (cheating?) which they obviously knew about, and you are all berating Aston and Sheffield...strange. Your board or whoever has cost your club money, which could have been spent retaining or signing a decent player. Think you are berating the wrong people here. How much have your club paid in fines and lost over the Challenge cup debacle.

I have a good contact if you want to teach them how to read rules and contracts, oh and Employment Law too. Will your board put all this on your 'CV' in application for SL. Come on guys, ok you won the GF but your board have seriously embarrassed your club this season.

As I said on another forum, fans don't care about anything but on-the-field performance.

Most of them can never appreciate how important this action has been to the game. Rival coaches generally have a good relationship with each other which could have been destroyed.

Ignorance is bliss on this message board.

I dont understand why we have paid Sheffield anything they should just stand up to Bullies like Mark Aston.

As Halifax have decided not to put this on their site perhaps you haven't seen it!

Statement from Halifax RLFC and Sheffield Eagles: We are pleased to announce that following Halifax playing Sam Barlow in the play off match on 16th September in breach of a signed contract between Sam and Sheffield Eagles, the two clubs have reached an out of court financial settlement and the matter is now closed as far as both clubs are concerned.
Michael Steele, chairman of Halifax RLFC, has sent a letter of apology to Sheffield Eagles in which he acknowledges that [uthe judgement of Halifax RLFC to play Sam was morally[/u wrong and Sheffield has accepted that apology.

So what? I was one who said he shouldn't play, but we should have given them nak all, which is exactly what I will be giving Sheffield next season.