wouldnt the player actually know whether he had played for another club a month or two before in the cup ?

1-Well did they take such action against (i think it was) Hull when they did it.

2-Who ever is at fault for this really should look at their position.

Don't you have a Guilotine (sp) in Halifax. Maybe this is the perfect opportunity to bring it back in to use!

wow.............complete incompatence !! asolutely no excuse whatsoever in getting this wrong.....very very amateurish..............unfortunately somebody will have to be held accountacble for this !!!

I wouldnt put it past the RFL to give the all clear and then change their mind later but this is Halifax RLFC we are talking about...



What was Hull's fine? 100k?

I imagine they will offer you the option of an enormous fine OR expulsion from the cup.

Er where do we start, orgys in brothels, p up in brewery, they all take blame for this, team selectors take the brunt though. Football director and Coach must really look at themselves and accept they ARE NOT DOING THERE JOB.

Its clear that we have been so stupid its not true, AGAIN, how many times do we have to continually mess things up before we accept we can do much much better.

INCOMPETANT AND AMATEURISH dosent even cover it. Is this the real reason why Posner and Clay resigned ??

Really peed off .what an awful season so far. First of all the weather disrupting the early part of the season , then the hunslet debacle and now this. It really does make me very disillusioned with everything rl

Surely the RFL have to take some blame here as well. They should have spotted this sooner.

A Gibbet actually

They should - no doubt - but i just cant believe that someone at the club didnt spot the fact that we have signed a player from a club that has played in the last round of the club. I cant believe that the player did think - "oh hang on", and let the club know he played in the previous round. Losing all faith in Fax tbh.

What the f... is happening.

Club of the year 2 years ago and now a total laughing stock and disgrace.

I'm too angry to go on - bloody amateurs

Superleague bid

Apparently, Batley are furious that the game has been called of by the RFL. They wanted it to go ahead.

Is this because that if we are found guilty and kicked out they will have to play Swinton as they should rightly be playing Batley today and they might slip against them, and if the game went ahead today and we beat Batley and then were to be found guilty that they would be through to the quarter finals without having to play Swinton?

OR BOTH

In some ways a part of me thinks 'Finally! its going to be out in the open at just how poorly some aspects of our club are being run'

Michael Steele has a hell of a job to sort this mess out, its clear his footballing management HAVE NOT GOT A CLUE.

Even if they RFL slap our wrists, we should have known, should have ok'd it, should have told them, it should never have come to this, what an absolute joke...

The SL bid was a waste of time and money anyway. The bigger worry is that the club is clearly being run by incompetents at all levels. We won't even be a Championship side soon if the slide isn't halted quickly

Are you suggesting the referee who the teamsheet was submitted to should have spotted it???

I am sure you are right that it should have been spotted earlier and very definitely not just before the next round is about to be played, but the outcome for Fax will be the same - expelled from the Cup.

The level of fine and whether or not Swinton take Fax's place, are another matter (which I agree should have been done very quickly).

If they do fine you, would the directors be liable in terms of paying up?????? Makes you wonder......

Liable? What do you mean?

Would it be up to them to pay up? Silly question maybe, but might explain a couple of recent departures.

I think there should be some monitoring over who is playing. With the Hull FC debacle with Thackeray I would have thought that the RFL would have been monitoring this pro-actively. Not awaiting internet forum users to email the RFL...

Aren't team sheets supposed to be submitted to the RFL before the fixture takes place?

Teamsheets are submitted to the ref before the game, who sends them off afterwards.

I agree that at a subsequent point, the RFL should have spotted this, but it would retrospective and changes nothing.

The onus and responsibility is 100% on the club to ensure players are eligible.