I just find the whole thing a bit sad really. Typical Halifax, we finally find a new revenue stream in the East Stand, something we've been waiting for years, then we go an cock up it up elsewhere. Incompetence on the field gets us knocked out of the NL and ruins our moment in the sun when we get trounced by Leigh, incompetence off the field ruins the best chance we have all year to get a SL side at home and give us something to really celebrate. Yes the RFL should have picked this up earlier, but it isn't their fault, it's obvious from Posner and Clay leaving that the club were aware of this that they've tried to hide this all week, hoping that it would be brushed under the carpet, or that the game would go ahead before it was picked up. I don't blame them for walking, it's a complete shambles.

I do worry about the short-term future of the club, surely the revenue from this and the subsequent game (should we have gone though) would have made up for the NR disaster and more, instead I think the unlucky few of us are going to have to watch us struggle through to the end of year, completely disillusioned as possible.

I don't think I've felt this flat since the 2003 season. A dark day for Halifax indeed. Complete and utter incompetence.


P.S. Safe journey home to the bloke who had travelled down from Northumberland to watch the game. Visibly pi-ssed off when he heard the news at the 3 Pigeons.

Perhaps we could get in touch with Swinton Lions and ask to borrow their stocks.

After home games last season, a Swinton player was put in the stocks and fans were invited to throw wet sponges at them. I think it was done on a rota basis. At the final game of the season against the Skolars it was Martin Moana's turn.

At the Fax, though, we would have no need for a rota. The victims are already known by virtue of their actions / inactions and, bar one maybe, they are not the players.

Sadly this whole episode is an indictment of the game in general. It is the best game in the world run by complete idiots and I include the RFL and the majority of BOD's at almost every club in that statement. The sooner the game is professionally run the better IMO. I'm not Fax's biggest fan by any means but I do feel you supporters in this fiasco.

was one guy in the car park that had just arrived from london for the game,,

I just hope we can bring a good solicitor in to try and sort the whole mess out and maybe save us from exclusion.

As much as I blame Fax board for this mess, I have to agree with Karl Harrison who said on Radio Leeds that surely someone from the RFL should have noticed that we'd played an illegible player as it's been over 3 weeks since the Swinton game. To call a game off with less than 3hrs notice is appaling.

A Good club would contact this chap and make a personal apology and offer some sort of red carpet treatment for next match.

A lot of fans bridge building required but not holding my breath!

If it was a televised SL game I think the game wouldn't have been called off!

Give me 3 reasons to support championship rugby because all enjoyment has slipped away

Who said any publicity is good publicity????? Feel embarassed to be a Fax fan today & god knows there have been enough opportunities for me to feel that way in the past!

Reconstruction.......
CALLAND...you are playing in the team tonight Ostick
(OSTICK LOOKS A BIT BEWILDERED)
OSTICK....I think I've played in this competition before Matt;
CALLAND...are you sure?
OSTICK...no not really :
CALLAND... o k get your boots on.

Don't blame the RFL/HALIFAX put the blame at the door of the player.

How can you blame the RFL for this, its not their responsibility to check your team selection...its your own get real looking to blame everyone else the fault is down to your club, and also is the player so frickin thick that he did not think for one second it would be an issue.
Do you think the RFL should employ someone full time to check on mistakes like this by incompetent buffoons at the clubs. We all know the RFL have their faults and plenty of them, but this is a club issue. admittedly the RFL should have been aware of this without having to get the news from a fans forum !!

The resignation of Clay and Posner may have been something to do with this but surely it would have been made public much earlier.

They are obviously washing their hands of it which seems a shame as they have helped turn the club around, but are maybe taking the blame for the real fools here which I believe are Hall, Calland and Ostick.

Blame the coach & player simple as & pretty stupid this is a semi proffesional rugby club not under 7's

sorry to the Fax fans that have to endure this though

Most people arent blaming the RFL for the club playing the player - where the RFL fall down is not finding out about this and taking action sooner rather than 3 hours before a game, after finding out via a fans message board.

its all VIKINGMANs fault!

To all the trolls...

I dont think I have read a post from a halifax fan that blames the RFL for OUR cock up; on the contrary, we have lambasted our own club left right and centre, and rightly so. Calling for the head of thoose accountable, rightly so. Black cat said so himself. Fax should be expelled from the CCup for this oversight/cheating, which ever it is.

However, also to the trolls absolving the rfl of any blame...

It is their fault that the game was cancelled at 12pm. What sort of a system is it that situations like this only get back to them, evidently, due to a thread raised on THIS forum. Do their operation systems not include any sort of algorythms to detect duplications such as these? It is a sad indicement that the only detection policy is word of mouth...would this have ever been picked up had a Halifax fan not raised it (and a widnes fan 'grassed')...probably not until the rothmans yearbook was penned.

This should have been detected sooner. They cannot have draconian punishments in place when their own policy of detection is such a disgrace.

Halifax are to blame for Ostick playing, and should be thrown out.

No doubt.

RFL are to blame for the game being postponed at a ridiculously late hour, meaning the guy from the north east, the guy from romford, and my sister from southampton, had wasted journies at great expense.

Really was he the culprit?

Don't we blame him for everything?

That's like saying of someone that robbed and beat your gran "it's ok, cos it's taken over two years to detect and convict you we'll not punish you!! Nonesense! - not that I want to see Fax punished. Believe that or not - I ain't bothered either way!




The RFL maybe to blame - BUT FAX SCREWED UP! deflecting the blame onto the RFL to expose their shortcomings is ridiculous! Address the issue, accept it, - move on!!
Just because I disagree entirely with you post makes me a Troll????? aye, if you like!!!

Exactly pbw... the whole episode stinks of numpties steering the ship into a series of rocks. Its too late now, we have to try and rebuild yet a F* gain, things were looking sooo promising, but it flattered to decieve, you cant have such incompetence and idiot behaviour at the heart of a club. Its not rocket science "Hello mate, we fancy giving you a run out in the CC, are you cup tied?" one conversation is all it took. But when you cant string a sentence together I guess it proves a little tricky :S

Reconstruction.....Thursday night in Halifax nightclub

CALLAND.......Ostick your starting tomorrow tonight at swinton
OSTICK.......OK boss I had better get home then as its 2am and almost chucking out time
CALLAND ....Ok will you help carry penky home he was laid out unconscious in the VIP room
OSTICK...Actually I think I played for Rochdale in the Cup against that french team...can you check ?
CALLAND....2 more bottles of Bud love for me and Hally
CALLAND...See you tomorrow OSTY..dont forget your boots
HALL......make that four love and a couple of sambuka shots
CALLAND ...OSTY said he thinks he played in the cup for rochdale
HALL.... so f***ing what, get that down your neck
CALLAND....yeah F**k IT i cant be d either.
HALL.....and if we get to the Quarters I am going in for a pay rise
CALLAND... yeah me too...do you think i will get another contract extention Hally ?
HALL.....Get me another shot and pick your contract term ...HA ha ha
CALLAND....HA ha HA
HALL....hey up look who is over there with Penky...his old mate Jamie Thackray
CALLAND...there goes another dumb f**ker, remember when he played for Hull and had already
played in the cup for another team, and Hull got a £100k fine, what a set of F**kin
idiots they must be at that club !!!
HALL...... yeah can you believe they would come up with an almighty F**k up like that, the club
should have sacked the lot of em !! I tell you some poeple that run these clubs are a joke
and here's me and you...we should be in Super League !!

I wish the game could have been played and then a concrete decision made tomorrow about what becomes of the situation. Too many wasted journey and too much embarrassment already without the need to call it off at such short notice
SURREAL!!! How can we not notice this


what will this do to our future finances we could be jeopardising our future let alone the season

I see there is no getting through to you lad, so I'll not bother. Get back down your coal mine lad.

Comedy Gold!!!
Thats one of best comments I've read since ShelfSox did the imaginary post-game interviews with Calland!!

Nice work

But the robber wouldnt have mailed the police with full details, signing his name & address would he? Thats what Fax did when the details were passed to the RFL.

FWIW though I think that as much as the club is to blame for this farce, the RFL are at fault for not taking action sooner.

the whole game is at fault for been unprofessional, we have been far too slack for far too long. The RFL are mugs just look at the Crusaders, Gateshead and Wigan farce over last decade a total joke establishment although they are not fully to blame they should still act sooner to avoid the farce of late postponement