..........and you've just dragged yourself down to the same level. Intelligent.

I sympathise with all Fax fans--what a way to go out of the Cup.

Whilst there are obvious deficencies in the admin at the club I believe that the player should also have realised. Perhaps he should be renamed Michael Isthick.

Chins up--you will be challenging at the end of the season and as bad as it seems at the moment--it will blow over quickly.

I has taken me over 48 hours to muster enough enthusiasm to post on this subject....and I am still struggling.

Totally deflated!

A massive, massive opportunity for the club to not on ly progress in the cup and pick up some more prize money, but also to get more bums on seats for the rest of the season.

I would have couple questions:

Were our actions a result of being devious or a result of sheer incompetence?
Calland has got the bullet...is he responsible, or a convenient scapegoat?

Its like a freakin soap opera!

Let's give Barrow a hiding on Sunday and get some of this angst out of our system!!!

Come on fax!

Agree .... but when I flagged this up a couple of days ago I got shot down. It beggars belief. Ostick .... for gods sake you should have known. He can't play for us again, he'll get slaughtered by the fans. And it's OK folk claiming none of us realised either, other than Shayfax .... well I know we can't field more than 13 players but it doesn't mean I count them at the beginning of each match. This is so slack and bad I really can't believe it.

Lay off Ostick until its proved or not that he didnt tell them, even if he didnt we should have checked and thats that. Stick it in your pipe


Its just as daft to think not one person in the club raised this also, so lets see what happens now. I wouldnt be too surprised if someone didnt have an idea.

Hard luck.

rather hypocritical of you this post....

Why's that then, '87?

sacking Ostick is not consistent with your previous posts relating to MC and the BODs.

Maybe he did TF?

I dont have a problem with Ostick playing for us again - he has been good for us.

Fair enough lets take this on the chin LEARN from it and move on.
I also hope that the RFL also learn from this and I hope no other club and their fans ever has to go through what we all went through on Sunday ever again, diabolical both club and especially RFL leaving it until the day of the game.

Still don't understand!

then you never will.

i am sure ostick will have mentioned it to someone at the club.

so do I, I suspect someone chose to overlook the fact though (it'll be reyt)

What gets me though ROCHDALE is on MCs doorstep, he must know so many people at that club.

do those rules also relate to the northern rail cup?

Lets not go there!

You make it sound like there's a lot of folk actually left at that club !

What the hell is it being on his doorstep got to do with all of this ?

Joking aside I'm not all that happy about your troubles at the moment. It's good to laugh and joke when things go awry on the pitch but I've supported a club when the board and the people in charge seem to be either headless chickens or self serving egotists and it's not good.

Whoever is to blame for this the club itself can't come out of this all that well. You really need proper scrutiny for the squad you put out.

What annoys me is those people who justify the differing punishments you and Hull recieved by saying "there were no rules in place when Hull did it". There weren't any in place to fine Hull either, they made a decision there and then to do it so they could have thrown them out if they had the balls to do it. One set of rules for one team, one for another.

Still, chins up, you're still in the league with lots of rugby left.

That's not what you've put on the Widnes board Dalton!

"The wheels have come off a carraige that was going nowhere" is what you've put



Little tinker!

already out of that cup and would love to have gone there to the final.
but lets see if anyone been breaking rules there too.

my shovel out AND READY TO START DIGGING.

Could be worse you could support Melbourne

But we'd have had a hell of a ride before the sledge smashed into the wall.

We're all entitled to have our fun.