Also it has been announced Muzza is the assistant coach.


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Halifax Rugby League Club

@Halifax_RLFC
Oct 18

Congratulations to @Ben_kavanagh_17 who has made the 22-man squad for @scotlandrl's @RLWC2021 Qualifiers this Autumn!

@scottmurrell85 will be Assistant Coach

End.

I read this as assistant coach to Scotland...

You are correct !!

Experienced coaching set up we’ve got there...

Absolutemont lol!

Muzza is the assistant coach of Scotland

So we've binned the reserves because of financial reasons, but we've kept the coaches on and we've brought in another assistant coach in Sheriffe. And the previous reserve players are still on contracts with the club.

I don't see where we've saved money here other than coach hire, stewards and game bonus payments.

As the board have said as well as the cost, which would be substantial with a squad of at least 22, finding players of sufficient quality to compete with super league teams is likely impossible. Many of them have large full time squads already so a bunch of young lads could be playing against full time internationals as well as the cream of the young players from their academies.

The board needs to ensure the club survives and not go bust again and are it seems being realistic about the reserves.

The player pool is small and will be unless the game keeps expanding from the traditional areas as well as working at keeping schools offering the game in counties where the game is already fairly strong.

Not to mention that we announced Muzza as assistant coach last season. I guess that’s not happening now. The reality is it probably won’t save the club any money as the drop in funding as people no longer put money in will see to that.

It’s not only about money which everyone knows is tight and will no doubt get tighter when Super Greed take even more of the central funding, the clubs that cut their cloth accordingly now will be better placed when that happens.

An alternative analysis could be.

After much thought and careful scrutiny of how the club currently stands, problems with player availability and the potential welfare of those who are available and with the need for the first team squad to be as competitive as possible it is with great reluctance that at this point in time HRLFC have taken the difficult decision not to run a reserve team in the 2020 season until further notice.

Welcome aboard Rikki.

Back on topic. Keyes won't be joining us, he's one of five bulls signed by HKR who are in a DR arrangement with Dewsbury whose chairman has just bought a stake in the bulls alongside Batley's chairman.

So they will all play for the Bulls via DR to a club who will then loan them out to another club. That makes sense

Re-signing tonight and new signing tomorrow(Let's hope this one happens...)
Stuck for who re-signing could be....Will Calcott..?

Back on board, well done Will.

Pretty sure Kevin Nicholas isn't involved, have you mixed him up with Ottawas president



Very fishy deal though, reminds me of when Leeds bailed out Keighley and took Powell, Fleary etc

No, it's been reported in the RL press KN has taken a minor share in the bulls.

Crikey how can this be not corruption/conflict of interest ?

New signing Scott Grix-thought that was old news and already discussed.
Needs to step up next year.Seems he came with the attitude that it would be easy having stepped down from the corruption league.

Not a new signing and watching him play last season didn’t really enhance the team at all on the pitch. I hope his brother gives him a royal kick up the aris so he gives the best he has.

Mick, it quite obviously is but this is Rugby League 2019, corrupt to the hilt. As for Fax we've yet to get season tickets. I keep trying to find out if we are having DR, if so with who. What s happening with Tangata, how many assistant coaches we're having? The whole job is a mess and drains you of enthusiasm for the game. We can just wait to see what occurs. See you in December?

Some of our signings havnt filled me with much optimism for 2020 hope im proved wrong looking fwd to seeing you in Dec

Very underwhelming signings. Players I deemed not good enough last year have been re-signed, new signings not getting game time at their old clubs
Marketing aimed at existing fans and not new fans,
no news on 2020 kit, so we'll struggle next year. Sheriffe might be head coach sooner than envisaged!

As previously stated I would have preferred a longer term solution in a key position.
Scot is backing himself to keep playing for another year in the face of a good alternative and so will I.
I just hope it’s not a season too far like with GH.

KN has recently stated that his only involvement was through offering legal advice [urlhttps://www.thepressnews.co.uk/sportsnews/sawyer-defends-role-in-bradford-takeover[/url

Probably wrong thread but since when has 24.99% been giving advice, smells like the usual Bull .