Martin Hall must spend quite a lot of time defending his buddy and reminding people he played for Wigan and coached Wales.
Time is surely up on this now.
If his job is to allow Matt to get on with the coaching side of things he has failed monumentally, and for goodness sake even a pub dominoes team would know what cup tied means..
If we get booted out now, which could well happen the money to get rid of those 2 will be insignificant compared to lost revenue and damage to reputation.
ARGHHHHHHHH! What are you doing to our Club.

That doesnt really make a difference, he was still registered to Rochdale and played for them in the challenge cup.

stop dashing our hope VM, were just trying to find reasons why we wont be dumped out of the cup

They should kick us out of the competition. We have cheated.

IMO - nothing to do with Calland, but the directors of the clubs responsibility. They employed him, sorted contracts, and are supposed to know the ins and outs of the RFL legislation.

A very very sad day for the fans of the club.

I have no sympathy for any of the directors, it's your mess, sort it and walk. Take Ostick with you too.

What a sad and embarrassing scenario

The only punishment i can see is expulsion, i think if you had a realistic chance of lifting the trophy it might have been a big fine (progression to the next round, more money in the pot was certainly a possibility) and been allowed to continue like Hull were

However the big picture is - what damage will this episode do to your super league application?

It will make us face up to the fact that things have not been and are not right down there, well meaning maybe, but currently unrealistic and with some issues that need urgently addressing.

Shambles.

Best thing is its over a player we didnt need to sign tbh, in my opinion, the club was not short of props.

Absolute farce by the way, the player is thicker than a whale's tongue not to mention that he hasn't played in the CC already, but someone's head must roll for that.

Responsibilty as in the outside world must lay with the employer to ensure there employees are eligible, just as with Makali, we are not being managed, coached or directed properly, it would appear..

Not for me it didn't

Tried ringing you as soon as I found out.

I don't think he's the only person to lie about their CV sotospeak.

Maybe that's why Clay and Posner went? Fleeing before the sheet hit the fan?

Got to be Halls fault for me

What a knob

His job is to take away stuff like this from coach and players and allow them to concentrate on playing

Resign now Hall

Do tell more Haighy

Well I'm pretty sure in most applications for most jobs, applicants stretch the truth in order to get the job, maybe that is what Ostick did.

Ahh get you now. But normaly the employer checks on the details and deals with it accordingly! Obviously not in our case.

He wasn't even around!! - The club allowed him to swan off for a month to sort his house out in France, not even sure he is back yet!!! - Thats how a professional outfit is run isn't it!!

So who signed him then? Who is at fault for letting him play?

Hall wasn't around for the Swinton game is what I was alluding to. Irrespective of who signed him the club is at complete fault for this shambles and collectively they have put the whole existence of the club on the line. He was even named in the squad for today!!!!! - A part of me has died today with this happening and we're the laughing stock of the RL World - They tightened the laws up after Hull so will completely throw the book at Fax.

Me neither! I couldn't face the prospect of the Man Utd or Chelsea overkill on the TV so ventured down to The Shay for an RL fix only to be told ,by a Giants fan, the game was off! Crusaders v Catalans it is then.

Nor for me - a wasted 60 mile round trip!

I don't think I'm going to bother coming over any more to be honest - this is the last straw - the club is no longer worth wasting my time and money on.....and this after watching the Fax for 40 years on and off and for 22 years home and away on a regular basis.

I was surprised to see Ostick playing at Swinton as I believed him, at that time, to be cup-tied but assumed that the club knew and thought differently with good cause. My original assumption about Ostick appears to have been correct and my assumption about the the club's knowledge to have been totally misplaced.

Thought it was Swintons job to object and nobody elses ,they didnt and with the amount of ex Fax players in their mist surely Smithy and Watto as coaches new he played for Rochdale and let it go.

Cheer up guys. If you do get expelled, it means that you will be able to come over to Leigh on 30th May, instead of a replay of last season's fiasco of 'When shall we play it'?!

Serious question.....

Do you think it would ever have come out if this thread hadn't been started?