er, pardon?

If we have some financial issues it will be a case of cutting our cloth according I would guess so as to preserve the long term future of the club.
Next season we will have Hull KR or a relegated sl team; Tolouse;London; Toronto; Bradford all full time(as I would guess there will be a reprieve at the death for them); plus Fev;-5 full time and one consistently strong part time/DR side.
Going to be even harder next season to get into the top 4 I'm afraid with our current circumstances.
Still have my support win lose or draw.

If as people say 'Fax are in a financial mess, when and how will it bottom out?
Do not rely on RFL to help us out, when we were relegated from S/L no parachute payment was made to help the club, if I recall Halifax were the only club not to get this payment. We all know that a S/L licence should have been granted a couple of times, the infrastructure was in place, the team possibly could have competed and grown over the three years. however Red Hall and certain members therein( one of whom was on our board) do not like Fax, and would do almost anything to keep them down.
Although it should not affect the players, rumors and uncertainty will always have a knock on effect, although if I was a player in those circumstances I would sure try my best to shop window myself!
I am sure RM is doing his best, although some tinkering has been surprising, but we as fans do not get to know the ins and outs, were there internal discipline matters? that rightly so have been kept in house.
I would like to see Halifax RLFC back in the big time where I feel they belong, but at present with the present circumstances and the possible reintroduction of S/L franchising, not a snowball in hell chance.

Long live Fax, and if it goes belly up, do it in a blaze of glory.

We definitely need a scrum half with the ability to take us around the park and take some of the pressure off Muzza - the only thing Johnno has done consistently this season is prove that he has not got the ability to do this.

This season could have so easily been a disaster following on from last season - both on and off the field. On the field, the lads have knuckled down and proved a lot of folk wrong. Many expecting us to be relgation fodder.

Off field departures in the close season, mainly people who seemed more interested in self promotion and undermining the incumbent board, could so easily have left the club in a mess. Mark Moore and Stuart Ramsey seem to have brought a more professional approach to things behind the scenes. Yes - money may be tight, but with a bit of sensible investment in the right areas, some more commercial activity to bring in a bit more cash, we won't be a million miles away.

Looking at the squad as a whole - we seem to have a lot of players who have been at Fax for a number of years. Maybe it is time for a refresh in the off season, and start to build the club up again.

While I sat watching us getting beat by Toulouse last week I had the terrifying thought that I was looking at the very future of RL with a team with no fans playing us and beating us fairly easily who have somebody obviously pumping money in which we just cannot compete with and as you say next season we will also have Toronto joining them along with London so there will be some games with hardly any fans there apart from 'neutrals' yet the RFL think this is better than clubs like us who actually do take fans okay not as many as we used to but you wonder why when we are getting pushed further down the pecking order!!!
I felt sad I really did imagine a SL with a top 4 of Toronto, Toulouse, London and Catalans or a Challenge Cup Final with 2 of those 4, probably won't happen but what if it did???

Toulouse do have fans, go to a home match and see them.

There is no one person 'pumping' money in; It's no different to many clubs in the division with an owner but Toulouse does have a strong ring of businesses supporting it . It's called good management, something many clubs need to look at maybe ?

Spot on. Unfortunately there are some who would love to see that scenario.

I feel that we should be more concerned about improving our own support not relying on away supporters. Role reversal if the majority of sides were based in the South of France how many of us would be willing or able to travel there every other week ?

What can we change? I would say not a lot, if Richard can spot a couple of players not giving it what's needed at our level, can ship em out and get in one decent honest player, and bring through a reserve, that makes perfect sense to me.
And if the people running the club think we have fringe players not worth keeping then so be it.
It's got nothing to do with what other clubs do, away fans, or the RFL, as long as we are doing what we can, then so be it, its going to take time, but maybe next year or the year after that, things will fall into place.
I would call for less paranoia, scaremongering and more confidence and support in the new back room regime, and we wont get a better coach with our finances.

Well said jtbf

It's looking like the dulls forum with all the people commenting on things with out what appears not to be true.

The Toulouse game was far from a disgrace against a full time team.

Look at the results we have had :

Lost to Toulouse at home with some questionable decisions
Lost to Fev at home in last minutes
Lost to Fev in challenge cup great defence not so good in attack but to lose by so little with the possession we had not too shabby
KR away great effort against full time near super league team

Connor Robinson and Gareth Moore gone so what. Connor never seemed to cut it and Moore was only any good when he could be bothered. Luke left from what i can see for other commitments outside of Rugby which no one can fault for what he is doing. Great cause.

Lets get behind the team instead of moaning we are 5th .....still a chance to get in top 4.

Sorry for any typos or crap grammar too many shandys on the garden

Oh and dont forget the reserves...well worth the investment look at the players we have in the 1st team Brandon moore elliot morris and Woodburn hall. Hopefully more to come through including punchard who may be our new number 7.

Shame we lost rawsthorne looking good at Hull

Top post. Nice to see some perspective on where we are at and the decision making process. We simply are not close enough to what has gone on re player retention etc. I honestly thought we would be mid table , maybe even lower, so putting up a spirited attempt to get into the top 4 is to be commended.

That's right. If we're honest, we all expected to be with the also-rans in mid-table, and maybe even getting drawn into a relegation battle. The 7 match winning run has put us in a better place than we imagined, but now that we're there we want more!

We have a very tough end to the season, but if we can win at least two of the games against the current top 4, then we have to be in with a chance of making the 4 ourselves. Remember, they have to play each other as well.

It would be good if we could show some more attacking flair, but we've got to where we are with a strong defence, and that's just what might see us through.

To be fair some of us expected us to be challenging for the top 4 like we are. Far too much talent at the club for us not to be. I thought anyone predicting relegation battles for us was just downright delusional.

Correct.

If we can consistently get our best 17 fully fit and on the field at the same time, we'll challenge anybody in this league

I think folk are forgetting how we all felt after the Batley game.

A lot of teams could say that.

Strength in depth - or lack of it - if a common problem in our division.

Agreed, and that's why, much as we all dislike it, that we have to utilise DR.

How did we manage without it?

A lot better, as a matter of fact.

Too true

An extract from the L/Exp match Report v London "Halifax were made to look what results suggest they are-a decent team who fall just short of top standard in this League" How true we are where we are not quite good enough and have never looked like being Champions since relegation.








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Sad but true.