The shock, but I agree with my old buddy TF2.

Nice to hear from you Starbug , are you back from your sabatical?

Posting mostly on the VT, my old ' hunting ground ' not contributing to the Leigh board or watching, I'm hoping the new Chairperson of the RFL will be on the phone to offer me the new ' Director of Championship ' position when he/she is appointed, 60 K a year salary and a million budget and I'd think about it

Well, as it apears we are about to replace the Dulls in Super League

we will need a new Chief Exec `so if the RFL don`t come knocking you could always apply for the post.

Luke Ambler is a legend!

been keeping up with this all day, and the free publicity is great, keep it coming.

We're not ready for SL YET, but if we keep building as we are doing and can attract more sponsors/fans whie continuing on the pitch we might be in afew years.

Also with The Bulls struggling and Hudds putting up the season tickets next year there might well be afew floating 'fans' we can attract down the Shay.

Stunts like this can only help the club! Great work Luke (by accident or not haha)

I heard that a freak gust of wind ripped through red hall, disturbing all the papers from the licence applications. Nigel hurriedly gathered the papers together while holding his breath, but with his eyes already streaming put Bradford’s financial report in the Halifax folder and Halifax’s financial report in Bradford’s. He has apologised and promised to lay off the greens so this sort of thing never happens again.

Well if a team is just plonked in the I am finished with this sport. This is a chance to promote the best team at the end of the season if Bradford are getting the boot

put thi dummy back in and get thi sen back down to the LSV ya miserbale git!!

It's the team with the best license application that will be accepted. You can win as many trophies and titles as you like but you can only tick the box once.

Big Man. If it were licensing a re-application process should take place, since rules would be different to last time.

Anyway, seems it was Luke Ambler messing about on Twitter yesterday. You would think an employee would have more sense in this week of all weeks

Whether Luke acted independently or not Martin, Fax certainly got their profile raised albeit for a short period of time. It has people discussing the merits of Fax to SL and promoting Fax positively.

Fair play for me - even if he was just bug-gerin about!

Don't worry Ovo, the whole SL / RFL shabang will implode pretty soon and we will all have to start again from scratch.

Agree with that mate

I think it could be news that Halifax (like Fev and more recently Leigh) will be launching a “destination Super league” promotion soon.

There is no truth in the rumour of a Super League place for 2012. Our focus is on the Championship and the Northern Rail Cup.

Adam Robinson re-signing is our news for today. One year extension on an excellent player.

For a moment there i thought you were referring to the post above yours.

Blimey, saw Luke's tweet yesterday but I didn't realise it had triggered all of these rumours!



Anyway, at the moment I don't want us anywhere near Super League. One, we're not ready and we need time to really organise everything and prepare, secondly I blooming like this division and like others have said we don't want to get smashed week in week out like Widnes. However, whatever happens I'll still be supporting the club! Up the Fax!

HA HA HA, just like Cas have raised their own profile this week by falling out with their moneybags sponsor, rejecting a top players transfer request ( who's on a 5 year contract ) dropping their blue riband player for last weekend's game, tapping up one of the Championship's best forwards & upsetting the applecart.
Yep, marketing has no boundaries......


There is no honour in the game anymore it's an absolute shambles.

It's a tough one. But people saying we need a backer... that is precisely what is wrong with Super League. No clubs are living within their means and all are relying on one man to fund them. If the RFL want to put us in we'll go in, but i would be quite happy if the club continued to work on the same business philosophy that is currently serving us well and keep building up the profits that will inevitably come with that. Sure we might get a few hammerings but ultimately in order to get ourselves ready for super league i think we need to be in there and just suck it up and take a few beatings for a couple of years.

Is Mr Probiz the bloke who came up with the "image rights" brainwave ?

Would you think the same if it was Fev who faced that scenario? For me I dont want really Fax to go in to SL as things currently stand as SL is a joke competition on and off the field thats badly run. I dont think Fax would benefit much from being there the way things are in SL and at Halifax. Least we stand a chance of making profit and a good chance of winning silverware. SL is not the golden dream and for me would probably ruin Fax due to the way SL is run.


We often moan that our game and clubs are not given enough exposure. I feel Luke was very clever as he is still a Leeds player and obviously had heard Jamie Peacock would retire. He also knew Adam Robinson had signed an extention to his contract. He knew the bulls was going in to Administration this week.He used a bit of poetic licence on Twitter and got people talking about the game and Halifax far more than ever. I doubt Halifax have had so much exposure since the licence farce/procedure last year. The talk got beyond the usual Rugby League circles as well. Luke advertized and promoted Halifax and it cost the club not one cent. I think thats excellent thinking and I like to see people who think outside the box.

up the Fax! Ambler for mayor!

very clever marketing for me.

or just complete luck?!





hopefully the exposure will have added afew more onto the crowd on Thurs, the ones that were umming and ahhing may well now turn up.

As i hear that there will be another 'rather large' announcment on game day.

Not missing the watching Robin , enjoying sorting out the garden , hopefully will be able to get the Ford Pop home before winter and then that will keep my busy for a while

As most regular readers will know, I am not the brightest of people, so it would be helpful to me if someone could explain how we turn a turnover which gave us a profit of £20,000 last season (well done to the board) into a turnover that gives us a profit in Super League. I read that Bradford =#0000FFNorthern's wage bill is £200.000 a month.
I said Northern on purpose because I heard that when they are forgiven and only given a 4 point reduction, part of the deal is that they return to their old name. The Bulls mascot will change to an old bloke in a flat cap, a scarf and a fag in his mouth releasing pigeons at half time.

So they're gonna be called Fev then ?