agree, how can anyone blame him.

If the club believe that Calland knew the situation, and played ostick anyway, then they are right to suspend him and perhaps dismiss him.

However, if the club are making a scapegoat out of calland for their own incompetence, then that is rubbish. That is no better than what the rfl have done - throwing the book at the little guy to save face over their own inadequacies.

TBH, the amount of hassle I had getting hold of my season ticket, it doesn't surprise me one bit how incompentent the admin lot are at the club.

Good idea Sean, Think you should take on that responsibility and get right under Halicat's skin and find out the truth.

Sunday seems a good day to crawl right inside that suit and don't forget to get inside his head as well!!!

Has someone hacked into Tony Fax's computer and started posting negatives comments about the club? After 8 years and 5800+ posts, there are negative vibes being attributed to his username, doesn't feel right.

I haven't read all the posts, but I would say that Matt is 100% right in Defending him self. He's the coach, not the recruiter.

I like both Matt and Martin Hall, but I would guess that this blunder lands at Martins feet as Football Director. If Martin has somebody who he delegates to do this kind of investigation, then responsibility topples down to them, but he is ultimately responsible. Everybody is entitled to make a mistake every now and again, though this is a massive one (whoever is to blame).

Matt has only been suspended pending investigation, not sacked, but I do hope that he's not held 100% accountable as that would be just unfair.

I wonder if the RFL should consider a "Player Passport", registering what Cup games they've played in and which can be transferred between clubs as they travel?

Having said that, I'm sure there's some point in the Cup games where players can play for one club and then play for another within the same Cup, but not sure if it's below Championship 1 level - moving to above eg going from Siddal to Fax.

Yob

The RFL can't cope with the current paperwork scrutinising team sheets they have had for three weeks let alone introducing more.

Nigel Wood couldn't organise a bun fight in a cake shop.

There's such an obvious reply to this post.........

Nigel Wood doesnt strike me as the kind of person to waste food, hes a growing lad, so your probably right.
I wish i had his club card points.

For those of you like me, cant get the courier because of location...

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I mentioned on another post that I hope the squad are united, however I fear we have a problem

I wonder why? Is that because Calland normally gets the shots in after first few post-training beers?

Re being dissapointed that is.

I'm slightly concerned with these words in the courier "who left the ground without training"

we have one of our most important games of the season and the players haven't trained. I'm sure all the guys are well up for the game on sunday and want to win, but surely they should have trained, with only 3 days to go before a huge game?

Nowt surprises me at the club anymore. Sounds like it's one big jolly boys outing.

also : " while director of football Martin Hall is in Spain on business, and has been since before Ostick joined the club at Easter."

question is what the hell is Martin Hall supposed to be doing for OUR club ? is he getting paid still while he's away ?

If Calland is made the scapegoat for all of this and gets the boot instead of anyone else, it would be extremely unjust.

A few big errors have been made, but if you look at MC's overall record as our coach he hardly deserves such stick. Perhaps he wishes we hadn't had such an amazing first half season last year, to curb the levels of (perhaps over) optimism that it created

Looks like he's staying.

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So Hall has resigned then



Hopefully this will now be the end of it!

Now that Calland doesn't have to defend himself, any chance he can use his time productively and show his players how to defend on the pitch?

All I seem to read on here now is rallying calls for the team, doesn't that tell a story. Didnt someone post a stat a month ago that shows since a certain date last year we have only won 55% of games or something, was on those lines I remember, only a month ago it was posted. I also noticed a post made in last hour on here with someone making a rallying call and saying "to the large sector of fans that want Calland out", so it's not a small section then, again does that tell a story.

Interesting on boots n all last night Eddie agreed with me in that the player must surely have known and Calland should have asked him and checked anyhow, in training perhaps.

See what happens Sunday.

Read my post at the top of page 2. It was obvious, though I think this could have been sorted out without anybody having to be kicked out or resigning.

Phil Clarke also said last night that he'd heard that Ostick had said he thought the Swinton match was a league game and they were in our division! If true, who said props are stupid?

lol that was rubbish, I've been playing for 20 years and knew when it was a cup game every time, it gets mentioned weeks prior, in training, on the day, during the game.

I agree. Prehaps the player was under the impression that the club must have known he had played in the previous round (which they should have been) and they were ok to pick him.