The boys had to do it tough on the big stage, spewing far too much possession up throughout the whole of the match. The attacking quality is evident but playing without the ball for long periods they had too much defending to do on this occassion unfortunately. Match report below: www.pitchero.com/clubs/calderdal ... official=0

The boys had to do it tough on the big stage, spewing far too much possession up throughout the whole of the match. The attacking quality is evident but playing without the ball for long periods they had too much defending to do on this occassion unfortunately. Match report below: www.pitchero.com/clubs/calderdal ... official=0

Good luck to FOUR of the current Halifax RLFC U/20's who have made it into the England colleges team to play against the regional academies team at Cas Panthers tomorrow afternoon. Ryan Kelsey & Brad Hill ( son of Brendan ) start in the pack & Callum Dunne & son No.2 Jake Smith are both on the bench. Recently released from Halifax Dom Horn starts at centre & former Siddal junior Tom Garrett also starts at prop. A decent representation of the local district & some very proud families, just another excuse for me to miss a Halifax match I suppose

Very best wishes to Jake tomorrow you've got two good Rugby sons, if I wasn't riding (not walking) to Dewsbury I would go and watch.
Colin the news you gave me today, could you please pass my thoughts on to Duncan.
Best wishes.

Will do mate.

Colin / John...

I hope that's not Duncan Illingworth your talking about?? Please let me know.

No it's not Chris.

Oh good!! I'll climb back in my box box now very relieved.

Colin, how did they do?
Did Jake get a game, I know you said he is carrying an injury.
Why was Dom Horn released?
We had a conversation earlier this season about Danny Fletcher, man of the match a few weeks ago for Batley, is he another who his slipped through our net?

Danny Fleming, John. As far as I'm aware he's contracted to Cas but plays at Batley. IIRC he made his senior Welsh international debut before playing a full SL game or something like that. He was on Fax's books a couple of years ago for a couple of years, looking at his progress he's probably just a late developer, certainly physically, he's a big lad nowadays. He certainly had a bright future and his talent is un-questionable when he was at KXP in their junior system & best of luck to the kid. All this "slipped through the net" always baffles me, there's lads in every club throughout the country from out of town as we call it. If a coach of a team doesn't like an individuals contribution, wage packet, attitude or whatever he'll just allow him to move on somewhere else, some other coach will come along & see if he can mould a bloke into something he wants, it's no real drama with me nowadays.
I did smile the other week when Ryan Rocky Hampshire debuted for Wigan on tv at Widnes, he's been at Wigan for a few years although still only 18 but he's most definately a Normanton kid, how must Cas, Fev, & Wakey feel about him slipping the net ? Still, he'll always be remembered as one of Shaun Wane's youngsters of 2013....
If they hadn't so many injuries, would he have got a go so soon though ? Albeit, he's been an international for the last 2 or 3 years at academy level.

Jake got on at about 20mins mark, played dummy half, scored a try continued there until HT. Played the whole of the 2nd half at stand off & went very well as did the rest of the Fax lads. He's unavailable tonight for the reserves with an ongoing injury that is being treat by the club.
Dom Horn is currently training with Siddal open age & ex-Fax forward Richard Mervill ( you might have seen him in the gym we both use ) also turned out for them on saturday.

Yes Colin meant Danny Fleming, was with you when his dad played for Greetland, your son number 1 got man of the match.

You are correct HJ

Well done to both Calderdale college sides on reaching the Yorks cup semi's for the second consecutive season with quarter final wins last week. I think they've drawn each other in the semi final so that should be interesting ! I watched the 1st team beat Kirklees last week in muddy conditions down at Heath RUFC & the lads were in control until the HT break when our old friend and match referee for the day Ian McGregor came over to chat with me during the break then the 2nd half performance slipped slightly with some slack defence & a few unnecessary penalties.
Ben Black was coaching the visiting team too.
Good luck for the semi's & final to both teams.

Well done to everyone involved, great effort ! Push on & win/retain the Yorks cup lads & then it's into the national cup as quarter finalists again. Credit to Lee G & his staff too BTW. www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/news/artic ... -teams-top

Well done to everyone involved, great effort ! Push on & win/retain the Yorks cup lads & then it's into the national cup as quarter finalists again. Credit to Lee G & his staff too BTW. www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/news/artic ... -teams-top

Well done again lads & coaching team on retaining the Yorkshire colleges cup yesterday. Match report linked: www.pitchero.com/clubs/calderdal ... /0-2208295

Well done again lads & coaching team on retaining the Yorkshire colleges cup yesterday. Match report linked: www.pitchero.com/clubs/calderdal ... /0-2208295

well done to both calderdale teams on what achieved so far this season.

well done lads. great stuff

Mike has posted a few photo's on the club website, top bloke Mike taking time out to go & support the lads again. halifaxrlfc.smugmug.com/Fax-Phot ... &k=Lf9D54c

Mike has posted a few photo's on the club website, top bloke Mike taking time out to go & support the lads again. halifaxrlfc.smugmug.com/Fax-Phot ... &k=Lf9D54c

BUMP ! Into the national cup semi finals now boys, good luck. www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/news/artic ... tch-report

BUMP ! Into the national cup semi finals now boys, good luck. www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/news/artic ... tch-report

Dan Fleming was a dr last season at batley but not this season, good solid prop.

Blimey Bat Lad your two months behind on this post.

Yes Dan was dual reg last year, and yes he is now back at Cas full time.
Incidentally, Dan is a top man, he is helping out at Faxfit with Luke Ambler and Adam Robinson, I keep telling Dan, one day he might play for a right club, Halifax his home town.

Well done to everyone concerned in winning today's national cup semi final over at UCLAN against a college from down south ( Gloucester i think, 44-4 ) and qualifying for the national colleges cup final for the second year running.
Anyone still fancy questioning the coaching capabilities of KH's No.2 Lee Greenwood ( only a winger, eh ? ) after winning the Yorkshire cup two years running & reaching the national final ?
Well done Greeny & lads, Good luck in the final , finish the job off in style.

well done again to the lads, good luck in final.

On another thread someone said that Karl could only coach forwards and we needed a back coach.
I said that is what Lee Greenwood and Rickie Sheriffe are there for, the reply, they are wingers, we need someone to coach how to get the ball to the wingers.
You couldn't make it up.
Well done Lee and the team.
Where and when is the final?

The Final is at Featherstone Rovers Wed 2nd April k/o 5pm v Hopwood Hall

Matt Calland's lot ?