Agreed and that would mean Cory being dropped after he has played well which raises a few more questions.
How do you think he would feel?
Whilst he might be our third choice he is certainly good enough to be first or second choice and (with all other things being equal) a certain starter at another club such as Sheffield.

If you were playing and you had a choice which option would you choose, be third choice and not play or be loaned out or move on with the second scenario?

We will just have to wait and see.

What has no logic is a couple of weeks ago you couldn't understand why Cory had been recalled from Sheffield and now you can't understand why he would be going back

Yep as I posted going with just 2 halves would be risking it and SG knows full well the benefits of having players with the utility value.
Kyle has been a bit or maybe more than a bit underwhelming imho and wouldn't be surprised if an agreement could be reached for him to move on if we could find a replacement.
On the other hand if Kyle stays and if we are left with just JK and LJ, KW could cover the 7 spot as well as 9 certainly for a short term injury.

Regarding the 6,7 and 9 options I was hoping that we could have got Tom Holmes which obviously hasn't happened.

The main obstacle and lack of logic to signing Lilley as a third choice half is the amount of money he is reportably on at Bradford and I can't see us wanting to match that or him take a pay cut.
Just have to wait and see.

If Kyle wood is moving on I wouldn’t be massively disappointed as he’s been ok but not set the world alight ( played better in recent games) I’d love to have bourouh back , he hasn’t featured much for Salford ( not sure on his injury status ) and he provided quality impact from the bench both in attack and defence, obviously local too . I’m sure a lot of the recruitment is down to funds etc which I’m not sure where we are at after the fans forum at the shay seemed to imply we weren’t quite hitting the mark attendance wise which may have an effect on recruitment quality. This leads me on to my next question to you greg florimos boots , me and my old man were chatting about a previous post you put up a while ago to do with a consortium that wanted to get involved with the club , there was some dialogue between Lawrence turner and someone in the crowd at the fans forum ( think the 2019/20 one before the rebrand) just wondered if you knew anything about it and if it was in anyway related to the recent new shareholders cc holdings ltd .

Now then I think you must have misread me somewhere although I don't know where. As I understand it, Aston is going back to Sheffield and that is something I would be quite o.k. with. I don't think he is an improvement on say, Wood. One swallow doesn't make a summer and I would say thank you for helping us to the win at Sheffield and off you go back to the Eagles. Now if we could somehow get Amir back permanently that would definitely boost us up a level. We'll see. Up The Fax!

Only got one year at Bradford left on is contract and fax have offered a 3 year deal he is looking to expand his gym business so has other things to think about.

Here it is Hudds.

faxcar wrote:
Yep as could the Cory Aston back to Eagles with Holmes moving to Bulls and Thacks not getting any younger they will be looking to recruit in the halves.
Still speculation but some logic behind it, just wait and see.


To which you replied.
Codswallop!
Which I presume with Holmes to Bradford being a done deal must have been about Cory going back to Sheffield as Codswallop but now as you stated above you understand he is going back

Agree about Bourough, I would love to see him back, reminds me very much of Paul Rowley so in that sense he couldn't be in a much better place to learn from a top quality hooker but Id have him back in a flash. On the consortium, I would be very surprised if it were the same people. I know one of them used to post on here quite a bit a while back so maybe he could shed some light on it. I had a look at companies house after your post but the shareholders and trying to work out who owns what is quite cloudy. I believe LT is one of the majority owners and was asking people to buy him out which I found a little bit funny as I believe he got gifted a lot of his shares by Jennifer Pearson.

Yep as far as Lilley personally is concerned he has a one year left on his current Bradford contract and you can see why for business reasons he would want to stay local.

From a Fax perspective they won't be too interested in his gym business, for every signing it's all about improving on what you currently have and doing a job on the pitch and there are questions marks against him on doing that imho.

The biggest question against the proposed Fax deal you mention is Fax never offer 3 year deals (which would tie up a significant amount of funding) at a time when there is still a lot of uncertainty about the structure of the game and financial distributions especially to a player that will have to prove himself and play well beyond his current form and performance levels and is very likely to be behind JK and LJ and be a third choice sit at home or loanee.

Another point is when I used to have a bit of insider information Fax had a policy of keeping it in house, externally they couldn't stop it but internally they didn't like, condone or sanction leaks, they wanted to be the ones who broke the news at strategic times during the close season to generate interest .

So can I ask is the person / persons who you are getting it from happy with this, do the club know about it and are they happy with it?

Cheers , I don’t want to over speculate and heard some grumblings from the board regarding this but it is on public record so here goes , on the Halifax rlfc confirmation statement it shows dated 08/04/2022 it shows a new shareholder cc holdings who have 75000 shares ( the 2nd largest shareholders behind Michael steel) cc holdings is part owned by one of our sponsors, Deliveree who have recently come on board . The recent fans forum confused me as it almost felt like we weren’t flush , it made me think how much physical investment the likes of especially Deliveree and to a lesser extent stage freight, eclipse energy had considering our current squad wouldn’t come cheap .
I even speculated that the sudden arrival of our resident oracle Craig David may be distantly affiliated with these guys who at a guess fit the same age demographic. Anyway just thinking out loud I guess .

And as you know apart from share holding and direct cash injections some of those you mentioned have (apparently) been (rumoured) to have provided all fully legal and above board work opportunities to some of the recent signings as part of the deal.

To clarify. I thought you meant there was logic behind Lilley coming to Fax, that's where my codswallop comment was aimed. It would appear that we both are agreed that this should not and will not happen. To say this is a nothing thread it's done well though.

I don’t no if they no I put it on here they havent said owt

Thank goodness for that. I thought we were going to have to get Craig_David in to mediate!

Now there's a thought, us 3 in a room trying to make sense that others or even we would understand would be interesting and a thumbs better than a finger.

The good , the bad and the ugly , not sure who’s who , I can hear the spaghetti western whistle though. Craig David’s definitely a cowboy .

I can see 3 scenarios with the JL rumour.
Either it’s true, CD has been miss informing us or his sources have been miss informing him.
Time will tell.

From Mark Dunning's quote in League Express today, it doesn't appear that he's aware that Lilley won't be fulfilling his 2023 commitment either

The 3 year deal blows any credibility of this out of the water for me. I’d say we’d be offering him a 1 year at best and he’d have to prove his fitness so he’d be better off at the Bulls IMHO.

That's the funny thing, its been known for people to directly mislead some so they out themselves in the way that CD has possibly done and now some people are having a good laugh at his expense while all the time keeping the real signings all hush hush.

I’ll ask him.
So then CD are you or your sources having a laugh or part of a cunning plan of miss direction?

It’s just that for example the “game changer” signing post of a couple of weeks back turned out to be Will Calcott, who with the greatest of respect to him and although being a good lad with a bright future wouldn’t really fit that description.
Also a 3 year deal for Lilley doesn’t sound plausible.

I arent saying owt anymore cos of all the abuse I av gotten so you’ll just have to wait for the announcement



That want the signing I was talking about it wasnt announced and i dont no if its actually happening or not not spoken to them about it

That’s fair enough.
Wednesday seems to be the day for signing news so might be something tomorrow.

Rumour on Barrow forum that Worthington has signed for them - while we obviously can't keep everyone and still bring in new players would still be sorry to see him go. Arundel starting to play better after a very slow start and already signed up for next year plus Tibbs and Mccomb to cover centre, but this season Worthington would definitely have been one of my starting centres