I didn't speak to the "engaged tone", I spoke to a real living person. I was so lucky wasn't I.

Totally numb today.
What a huge let down, and like everybody else I am angry.
Angry with the club for making what seems to be such a basic error (typical of the amateurish way things are run at Halifax RLFC, ask the sponsors why I say this).
Angry with the RFL for leaving it so late to get the game called off and why was this not picked up straight after the Swinton game by them???

Worried as this will hit the club very hard, loss of a good pay day today and potential pay day in the next round plus money for progressing if we had played and won today. This could affect us big time, players have to be paid for today and we have no income from the match.
Loss of fans and sponsors confidence in the club.
This has made us look a joke and will not put us in a good light with the rest of the RL world and may affect our SL application.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

Maybe we need a new broom to clear out some of the dead wood at the club, trouble is who will come in and replace them??? There is always somebody though, look at Rochdale they were dead but came back, same at Donny.
Whatever happens the club MUST tighten things up and make sure that we are run more professionally, no more slack attitudes. Get TOUGH, show some leadership Board.
If the club needs some help ask us the fans, but be specific with what help you need, we may just be able to help out.

RL is a micky mouse game in reality, look at this weekends TV cup games, one a no contest the other a no crowd!

What did they say? " read the posters"

It was difficult to actually see the posters from my end of the 'phone conversation, but I see where you're coming from

I told about 3 people as well.

I keep getting e-mails from the club re the Blog etc.

When one would have been really useful ie to say that the game was off, thereby saving me a wasted 60 mile round trip, nothing appeared. A one line statement taking moments to compile would have sufficed and, at the press of one key, could have been sent to all listed e-mail contacts of the club.

I was also galled that, having got to the ground, there was no official from the club present to explain what was happening.

Another PR shambles! Or should that be 'another shambles'.......that seems to sum up Fax nowadays.

Wonder if Nigel Wood wants to purchase all the wasted food by the various caterers at the ground to fill his fridge for a week. Bet he has one of those american style ones.

Good post-And i still cant forgive how we surrended Super League but thats for a different day.
Watching Crusaders and Catalans yesterday, i believe we could have the measure of these two every time.

The club did announce the postponement on their website...it was the story that couldn't get the 3 initials of the game's governing body in the right order and littered with spelling/grammatical errors including the alleged offence itself.

How ironic that the RLF is a fellowship scheme for professional writers! You couldn't make it up....

FC Halifax Town's pre season cannot come soon enough

When will it all end?

the lot of `em!

Spot on!

Correct, but we have been saying this for years (Time we got more proffesional) and STILL it happens.

There is going to be a few apologies flying around to the club/MC/MH if we get cleared of any wrong doing..

I dont care. One midseason signing we have made. If we had done the [islightest[/i bit of homework, he would have been nowhere near the teamsheet at Swinton.

If we had made 4-5 or more midseason signings then idve still been angy, but this just takes the p***

So if the club are vindicated by being cleared and us taking up our 5th round tie against Batley you would still be unhappy at the club? Go figure



Am not for 1 minute defending anyone here but innocent until proven guilty in my book and we aint been proven guilty. Yet.

aye there is! But I would guess that's as likely as me being mistaken for Johnny Depp in the car park at Fev!!

Look - if you played Wire in the last round, got beaten and were out of the cup - you'd have accepted that and moved on. This isn't armageddon. The world isn't ending anytime soon.
you will probably get expelled from this years comp. C'est la vie, move on.
Yes you'll miss out on a big pay day - but if your draw in the cup was a harsher one - a la fev, you would have been out anyway and onl in the same position as you are now without all the sheeite!!!

Take it on the chin, 'front it out' for a couple of days then it'll all be history.
Some of the personel at your club need a serious looking at tho - can't quite understand how this has happened. The internal inquiry ought to be far more reaching than owt the RFL will do!

Stand firm - your club needs you more than owt now! Barrow next up!

I have been lucky enough to have seen fax since i was a 10, back in 1984; on the whole its been a good ride, but hell fire this is a schoolboy error, it will haunt the club for months / years to come.

I just cant fathom how anyone can be so stupid as to make a simple mistake; Someone in the club, put your hand up, explain the mistake, take appropriate actions against those who have damaged the club again.

SL? Never! why would they let an such a shoddy bunch into the top flight of the professional game;

I travel 1hr 30 mins to every home game, further to the away games. Maybe I may save a bit of petrol money until I have calmed down!!!!

Its not just the cup ffs, yes that is upsetting and financially painful, not just because of the gates, but the publicity for the club, the good feeling it would have generated had we got past Batley, but since we are trying to put together a strong case for involvement in SL it ruins our case, fme, if I was making the decision, I wouldnt let us in for one second, and they wont either!! Thats the cause of the ill feeling and hurt on the board, its not just about 1 CC game at all.

And Parsnip.. can you really see a situation where we are NOT to blame for this? Every position I put the pieces of the puzzle in the finger still points firmly at the shay! I understand your sentiment for sure, but we did it, we are not going to be apologising to anyone, the reverse is the case.

I know it looks bad and I reiterate that I am not defending anyone but in my opinion and I know there won't be much support for my opinion the club are innocent until the RFL prove otherwise and for that reason I will reserve my judgement until due course.

A position of class and decorum mr Raddish! I tip my hat to you

ok, I can see you're p!zzed off, but looking from outside in, I honestly think there's some over reaction here.

A balls up has occurred- big style. I don't think it is deliberate or 'cheating' per se, it's a balls up. One which will effect the 'feelgood' theme and the publicity for owt like this is never good - but it dies down. It did with Hull! Visagate went away with the crusaders and Salary cap breeches and points deductions have gone away! Fax have endured much worse than some dozy @rse at your club not being on the ball!

For me this years SL application is a non-starter for Fax anyway. Almost all the Championship clubs chairmen will privately acknowledge that Widnes are a shoe-in anyway.

It's a balls up - but get it into some perspective. Bigger sheeite has gone down at other clubs and it's not had the massive impact of earth imploding catalismic proportions some are suggesting on here!

But, should you wish to believe that all is doomed, it's your club I suppose. Up to you. Just offering insight from a neutral.

In which case it seems to me that this incident on its own would not be sufficient to have two directors resigning.................

Which is why we need answers as to what is going on at the club because it seems the Ostick situation is not the only thing going on.