The RFL will have no alternative other than to disqualify Halifax from the competition. They know that a championship club could not stand a huge fine, so disqaulification looks as though the RFL are being hard, whilst also not imposing a huge fine the club could not afford and send them down the tubes.
The second issue is do they simply let Batley through to the next round or give Swinton a game against Batley ?
Personally I think Batley will be sent through and a nice little cheque sent to Swinton from the Halifax fine....

Quote ="seanfax"rlf veiw www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... lifax.html'" FFS - whats to investigate? RFL "Ostick, did you play for Roachdale in the Challenge cup?" - Ostick "yes". Investigation over -

Quote ="seanfax"rlf veiw www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... lifax.html'" FFS - whats to investigate? RFL "Ostick, did you play for Roachdale in the Challenge cup?" - Ostick "yes". Investigation over -

We (the club!) are a complete laughing stock & deserve everything that happens.

I too am quickly losing any faith in them.... sure watching them on a Sunday is great & I will support them, however the club have to take responsibility & start getting things right OFF THE FIELD!!!!

Its now time for the blub to come out with a clear apology to not only the rfl & batley, but more importantly to us fans who pay at the gates week in week out.

The board of directors are only custodians of the club, they will come & go but we will remain.

This is an absolute disgrace and shows that our club is run by incompetent buffoons.

This will have cost us an absolute fortune, which we can ill afford. We will have already arranged and paid for the "family fun day" events, the hospitality events etc. We will now not get any of the gate receipts and we are more than likely to be expelled from the competition and hit with a fine we can not afford.

No doubt there are many fans who still are unaware of this, who may be in pubs etc in Halifax, both Batley and Halifax fans.

This is a bebacle of the highest order.

It also makes you wonder if Posner and Clay knew this was coming, hence the "jumping ship"

what is discusting on the RFL's part is that it has only just come to light 2 hours before kick off !!

The players didnt know about this till an hour ago either. You get the feeling that the RFL didnt have a clue about this and it only came to light because of THAT thread.

It's not up to the referee to decide who is/isn't elligible to play in a match. He only has to check that they are filled out correctly and is responsible for getting them to the RFL on time after the game.

With this and the Hunslet cup knock out I suspect Fax are at breaking point finance wise. Or at the very least it's knocked us for six income wise, it's not just the income from this game lost but IF we had won a glamour tie to a big team, this and the Arriva cup and cancelled pre season games will have knocked a large chunk from the income.

Getting more angry the more I think about this... what a complete farce!

Not only have the club lost out on a potential money spinning quater final, they could well have hindered any potential sponsorships deals to replace HBOS next year. Would you want to be associated with a shambles like this?

Iam ashamed to be a fax fan


This has really kicked the legs out from underneath our season

With the embarrasment that was caused last time, it wouldn't be beyond the wit of man to get each team to submit a 21 man sqad which the RFL can check the eligibility of a player to play in that match. I would have thought this would be common practice.

To have a system where a referee gets a team list half an hour before the game and after the game forwards this to the RFL is abysmal. There is no check in place. Basically, we could have fielded anyone and the consequences are sorted out if anyone notices?

Halifax's only defence against expulsion from the competition is to prove 'no fault or negligence' but my God, the governing body must take some responsibility for this.

Moot point maybe but is it up to the club to ask the player, on signing him, whether he is cup-tied or is the onus on the player to declare it?

The RFL are a set of incompetant muppets who should be all sacked! Why did nobody notice before now? Why is the game cancelled 3 hours before kick off? Fax have made a massive mistake and heads should roll. But the RFL Should have known sooner and sorted this out days after the last round. Now the day for thousands of players, fans, sponsors etc has been ruined! Thank you RFL for once again showing how useless you are at running the game!! The sooner the animals from the Zoo take over the RFL and the game in general the better. Why bother following the game?

We have had one mid season signing Mr Ostick. How difficult is it to check if he is "cup tied" fffs. Surely it is a question you ask, or am I being wise after the event. Either way it is a major inditement of how our club is run.

Yep, no excuses, finally people must realise, people like me that have been worried, may just have had good reason.

After the RFL phone call I think the next one will be the BANK MANAGER!

This game and possibly the next was going to pull us out of a hole...

It will take a couple years to recover from this, fully expect a few player departures to balance the devatsted books from this debacle.

SUMMARY DISMISSAL for person accountable please, lets start the rebuild from a clean slate.

Lowest Feeling as a fax fan ever (little lad is still wiping away his tears)

SHOCKING!
Makali cock up as well... RIP 2010!

Bunkum!

The fault lies entirely with Fax! It is their responsibility to know the eligibility of who they select - no-one elses.

The RFL only get involved after the fact, i.e. take action if a breach has occurred. They should, of course, spotted this earlier, but it doesn't alter the fact that Fax are 100% at fault for playing a "wrong 'un".

I dont think anyone thinks that its anyone else's fault but Fax's. However, why does it take a thread on a fans message board for this to be brought to the RFL's attention a couple of hours before kick off? Can you answer that?

I thought 2003's final league table was embarrassing...

I think its time we knew for certain how our club is being run, a Question Time style night between the fans and sponsors and the people who run our club because as the last week has shown, there is something SERIOUSLY wrong at our club and we have a right to know what the chuff is going on.

The problem is the people in charge of the club don't know what the chuff is going on!! - Points I have been alluding to for a long time with a few others only to be repeateadly shot down in flames by Tony Fax and Co. Where is he now?? - My / Our club is a joke from the bottom up and I think this could be the death knell for us. God I hope not

Look you Moron Fax made the mistake and nobody is denying it. But the RFL run the game. The same thing happened a few years ago at Hull. So the RFL SHOULD have made sure that any mistakes could not happen again in future. The RFL SHOULD have known sooner than now about it and also made a decision way before 2 hours before kick off to postpone the game. So the idiots at the RFL are just as guilty for ruining the day for thousands of people as fax. The sooner the RFL is cleared of the idiots ruining our game the better.

What was the cock up with Aizue?

If Clay & Posner did know, then the concern for me is that the club have then tried to deliberately conceal this. In that case i expect the punishment will be even more severe.

VISAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

OR THE CLUB.S ATTENTION