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It says it all.

It's now okay for a businessman or men who have clearly stated" The Rugby club Out" and tries a cheap pitch based bribe to achieve this.

The pitch is not part of the Shay estate even though that is why the two clubs are there in the first place and is where the council get most of the revenue from at the moment.

It's now not a public asset and is best used to serve and I'm being generous less than 2000 Calderdale residents.

This person / persons can conduct their business in secret with no details being released until the agreement is water tight.

I could go on and in view of all that has transpired concerning the Shay this must be an all time low in it's history.

Ten years of nowt still comes to nowt!

So they're gonna come up with around £400k up front to take over the pitch and then try to run the stadium on their own? Don't be so bloody stupid!

All this appears to have come from that dip Flea. I take it "The Consortium" confided in him before proceeding, after all they really need the advice of a Tesco shelf filler (allegedly).

so fax will not have to pay anything if their rent paid in advance. or mean equal to?

Don't worry, it's a load of rubbish and a no goer even if a bid has been made (which I doubt.)

Rumour has it that the bid has been put together worse than our SL bid.

Beware a Bubba in sheep's clothing.

Massive Fax fan Bubba.

I'm sure in a couple of months the pitch will be reet again. We can over old ground on the rent again then, and Reactiv Media.

Once upon a time.

Everybody is skint.

The stadium will slowly but surely rot and will become a pariah for the Town.

As this happens the health, safety and welfare implications will kick in and the council will start to close parts of it down and or become under greater pressure to get shut.

The pitch during winter will be at the mercy of the elements.

? are you out with Huddshay.



Halifaxjohntowers Yorkshire Tea 0%.
Mmmmmmmmm.

Blimey faxcar, I was on Yorkshire Tea 0% Mmmmmmm, see above, now after your post I am so depressed I think I will go for a touch of the hard stuff.
Yorkshire Tea, 0% Mmmmmm but no milk or sugar.

The Council are moving more staff down to the Shay within the next couple of weeks. The stadium is now more used for non-sporting events than for football/rugby. There are other plans in the pipeline to be announced shortly which will further reduce the subsidy.

I agree HJ. It was going through my mind as I typed it, I just can't see a way out.

If you look deeper and linking the stadium and the Town, sporting wise it's a dark place at the moment.

Lets get through the next few weeks, have some sun come out and with a bit of grass on it and the pitch will be transformed as nature takes it's course but the stadium is starting to look a bit of a dump in places.

To put it all into context though like a fool I watched the news again and had a reminder of what is going on in the big wide world and realised that although I love my sport it is just a game.

Good.
It could hardly have been used for less non sporting events and the council have been largely responsible or irresponsible for this.

It remains to be seen how much these other income streams will reduce the overheads by, there is a long way to go to get into the black and even if they did manage it, would it be reinvested in the ground?

It does not take long if something is not maintained before it starts to decay and their past performance and current "we will not be spending anymore money on it" still leaves room for a big doubt.

I love that bit, sport is just a game,
It doesn't affect our life.
We win, we lose, but tomorrow will be just the same

John try to stay on thread ,we are discussing the Fax pitch here,I've just finished watching the highlights of the Dewsbury game and think with the rutted furrows in your pitch ,if you plant early this spring your yield of spuds with be very good.

Don't let the council here about that, any money making scheme in a storm.

good job not say draw line in sand.

Come on you and we all know this is much more a Town fans thing than Fax fans big time, I know as I have a relative who wishes nothing more than for Fax to die altogether and guess what, he is a Town fan!
Take a look on the Town fans forum and compare to on here, I rest my case.
I agree with you though anyway.

Well obviously town fans are more bitter given the Crap thrown at them by fax in the past. Quite straight forward.

Nah I am a fan of both and I know like you do there is a simmering resentment towards the rugby club by a big chunk of Town fans from the days even before Fax moved down the Shay I can remember it back then I think it was petty jealousy as the rugby had always been more successful in its own sport compared to Town, but when the rugby moved in most Town fans felt they had been 'invaded' and still to this day despite the original Halifax Town AFC going bust and the new club starting plus the ground now being owned by the Council many Town fans still call Fax the 'egg chasing squatters' but hey you keep pinning this on the rugby that's up to you, not saying Fax have been squeaky clean in this but its just a fact a lot of Town fans hate Halifax RLFC, sad very sad and quite frankly I am sick of it we are all Halifax and many are fans of both clubs like me, I am more rugby these days I admit and some of this is down to some of the numpties at Town games in the South stand who even give Neil Aspin some stick when things don't go right like they did with Chris Wylder.

Even the Courier in the report for last nights game is having ago, complaining that Sunday's game ruined the pitch.
How many home games have we played and how many have Wendy played.

I think the rutted furrows running the length of the pitch are where they laid the new soak away drainage pipes.