How can you blame the RFL for this, its not their responsibility to check your team selection...its your own get real looking to blame everyone else the fault is down to your club, and also is the player so frickin thick that he did not think for one second it would be an issue.
Do you think the RFL should employ someone full time to check on mistakes like this by incompetent buffoons at the clubs. We all know the RFL have their faults and plenty of them, but this is a club issue. admittedly the RFL should have been aware of this without having to get the news from a fans forum !!

The resignation of Clay and Posner may have been something to do with this but surely it would have been made public much earlier.

They are obviously washing their hands of it which seems a shame as they have helped turn the club around, but are maybe taking the blame for the real fools here which I believe are Hall, Calland and Ostick.

Blame the coach & player simple as & pretty stupid this is a semi proffesional rugby club not under 7's

sorry to the Fax fans that have to endure this though

Most people arent blaming the RFL for the club playing the player - where the RFL fall down is not finding out about this and taking action sooner rather than 3 hours before a game, after finding out via a fans message board.

its all VIKINGMANs fault!

To all the trolls...

I dont think I have read a post from a halifax fan that blames the RFL for OUR cock up; on the contrary, we have lambasted our own club left right and centre, and rightly so. Calling for the head of thoose accountable, rightly so. Black cat said so himself. Fax should be expelled from the CCup for this oversight/cheating, which ever it is.

However, also to the trolls absolving the rfl of any blame...

It is their fault that the game was cancelled at 12pm. What sort of a system is it that situations like this only get back to them, evidently, due to a thread raised on THIS forum. Do their operation systems not include any sort of algorythms to detect duplications such as these? It is a sad indicement that the only detection policy is word of mouth...would this have ever been picked up had a Halifax fan not raised it (and a widnes fan 'grassed')...probably not until the rothmans yearbook was penned.

This should have been detected sooner. They cannot have draconian punishments in place when their own policy of detection is such a disgrace.

Halifax are to blame for Ostick playing, and should be thrown out.

No doubt.

RFL are to blame for the game being postponed at a ridiculously late hour, meaning the guy from the north east, the guy from romford, and my sister from southampton, had wasted journies at great expense.

Really was he the culprit?

Don't we blame him for everything?

That's like saying of someone that robbed and beat your gran "it's ok, cos it's taken over two years to detect and convict you we'll not punish you!! Nonesense! - not that I want to see Fax punished. Believe that or not - I ain't bothered either way!




The RFL maybe to blame - BUT FAX SCREWED UP! deflecting the blame onto the RFL to expose their shortcomings is ridiculous! Address the issue, accept it, - move on!!
Just because I disagree entirely with you post makes me a Troll????? aye, if you like!!!

Exactly pbw... the whole episode stinks of numpties steering the ship into a series of rocks. Its too late now, we have to try and rebuild yet a F* gain, things were looking sooo promising, but it flattered to decieve, you cant have such incompetence and idiot behaviour at the heart of a club. Its not rocket science "Hello mate, we fancy giving you a run out in the CC, are you cup tied?" one conversation is all it took. But when you cant string a sentence together I guess it proves a little tricky :S

Reconstruction.....Thursday night in Halifax nightclub

CALLAND.......Ostick your starting tomorrow tonight at swinton
OSTICK.......OK boss I had better get home then as its 2am and almost chucking out time
CALLAND ....Ok will you help carry penky home he was laid out unconscious in the VIP room
OSTICK...Actually I think I played for Rochdale in the Cup against that french team...can you check ?
CALLAND....2 more bottles of Bud love for me and Hally
CALLAND...See you tomorrow OSTY..dont forget your boots
HALL......make that four love and a couple of sambuka shots
CALLAND ...OSTY said he thinks he played in the cup for rochdale
HALL.... so f***ing what, get that down your neck
CALLAND....yeah F**k IT i cant be d either.
HALL.....and if we get to the Quarters I am going in for a pay rise
CALLAND... yeah me too...do you think i will get another contract extention Hally ?
HALL.....Get me another shot and pick your contract term ...HA ha ha
CALLAND....HA ha HA
HALL....hey up look who is over there with Penky...his old mate Jamie Thackray
CALLAND...there goes another dumb f**ker, remember when he played for Hull and had already
played in the cup for another team, and Hull got a £100k fine, what a set of F**kin
idiots they must be at that club !!!
HALL...... yeah can you believe they would come up with an almighty F**k up like that, the club
should have sacked the lot of em !! I tell you some poeple that run these clubs are a joke
and here's me and you...we should be in Super League !!

I wish the game could have been played and then a concrete decision made tomorrow about what becomes of the situation. Too many wasted journey and too much embarrassment already without the need to call it off at such short notice
SURREAL!!! How can we not notice this


what will this do to our future finances we could be jeopardising our future let alone the season

I see there is no getting through to you lad, so I'll not bother. Get back down your coal mine lad.

Comedy Gold!!!
Thats one of best comments I've read since ShelfSox did the imaginary post-game interviews with Calland!!

Nice work

But the robber wouldnt have mailed the police with full details, signing his name & address would he? Thats what Fax did when the details were passed to the RFL.

FWIW though I think that as much as the club is to blame for this farce, the RFL are at fault for not taking action sooner.

the whole game is at fault for been unprofessional, we have been far too slack for far too long. The RFL are mugs just look at the Crusaders, Gateshead and Wigan farce over last decade a total joke establishment although they are not fully to blame they should still act sooner to avoid the farce of late postponement

your reposte speaks far more about you than anything else!
Just because I (and many others on here) don't particularly agree with you??? Aye, owt tha sez lad!!

My journey to Sedgley Park looks like it was a waste of time. Wouldn't mind my £13 and fuel costs returned from the club. That smashed Merc Windscreen was all in vain too.

After the Northern Rail Cup exit and now this, I think the money will run dry. The wage bill is probably one of the highest in the league.
All we need now is to be placed into administration and League 1, unless we win the Championship, its our only hope from overcoming total disaster.

Heads must roll this time. Its gone too far!

It took you a while to go on thesaurus.com and reference an eloquent term for 'reply', didn't it. Be honest. You wanted to feel erudite and worthy of my company. Well I will humour you.

Firstly, whats my gran got to do with it? Use better analogies.

Secondly, If it took more than two years to find who did mug my gran (i've just seen her an hour ago, she seemed alright, I'll ring and check though), then I would say the police were useless. Are you agreeing with my point?

Your heart is in the right place. But you're not that bright. A bit like my gran really.

and that would help the club greatly! btw it was a BMW and it was worth it

statement from Fax site:
"Today's game has been called off as te RLF are investigating the alleged inclusion of an ineligable player in the 4th round of the Challenge Cup"

RLF?

And we can't even correctly spell what we're accused of!

Attention all passengers on the HRLFC gravy train, would mesyrs Calland and Hall please exit the carriage immediatley at the next station, your ticket is no longer valid.

Im reminded of Mr Fax's letter saying its not all as doom and gloom as some might think, hmmmm!? Did the Glazers try to buy us this week or something?

Not sure I agree. The club should not be making financial assumptions about reaching certain stages of knockout competitions as it is recipe for disaster. The money will only run dry if a) the RFL fine the club or b) the club did make daft assumptions.

They've already made at least one they assumed Ostick could play at Swinton. And we all know what assume does... Makes an Ass of U and Me

Hahaha I like it. Did you go on the same ridiculous management course as I?

Probably