main points of interest:-
1.new signing to be announced soon- a big one-probably a hooker.
2.possibly a further 2 to come hopefully before Karls impending holiday.
3.will be a change at halfback.
4.Morrison wont be fit for start of next season
5.Bracek injured at moment and could be a lengthy one.

FFS! Why do we continually sign players who are knackered?

Fax to announce a new major sponsor...... BUPA!

Great evening the Board, Karl and Martin were all very open and honest the main message being that Halifax RLFC are to remain a stand alone club and will not be a feeder club to any SL club but this comes at a price, it costs money to run an U19 and U23 team so they need our help to raise the cash!
My message to the many of you on here that complain, where were you last night???
It was a Trust meeting but we did open it to all yet only about 20 turned out, if you want to find out what is going on then this is the best place to get to know, so get yourself to future meetings when we will have players and coaching staff as guest speakers over the year.
Oh and by the way Fev and Sheffield are also staying as stand alone clubs but Leigh will be a feeder club to Wigan! That means other clubs can have up to 5 SL players and also coaching staff from their 'parent' club! SL clubs will not be running U23s teams, that is a terrible move based on cost cutting, there will be nowhere for a 20 year old plus player who does not make the first team to play in future, how bad is that?

He got an injury in training 3 weeks ago after he had signed, what can you do about that???
Get to the meetings if you can in future then you can have a go at Karl in person!

Bracek hurt his knee v Rochdale on Aug 19th and hasn't played since, so got injured before we signed him actually!!

I went to the meeting last night, the first one I have been to, and I joined the trust as well

I would urge any fan that cares about the club to get down and join the trust if you can. There is a core of very passionate fans, and think that if more people made the effort to join the Trust, attend the meetings and assist, then the club will be in a much stronger position. One thing I did pick up on last night was that the Directors and Coach are prepared to listen to what fans have to say.

The ambition and passion that the board and coaching staff have for Halifax RLFC was clear to see last night. Karl, Ian and Martin spoke very well about the plans for the future, the new strip, signings, communication with fans etc.

It is sad when the RFL is letting a whole age range of young talent dissappear from the game. There is no set up for anyone between 19 and 23 at SL level as the clubs have voted to scrap the teams at that age range as a cost cutting measure, they would rather pay out thousands on over-rated over the hill Aussies rather than develop home grown talent.

What are the club's views on the SL link ups? Did they say?

The wheels are certainly falling for the Licencing Brigade. When it was introduced, we were told it was to raise standard of facilities, hello cas and wakefield! Then, when it became obvious that wasnt happening it was that licencing would prevent clubs overspending - hello Bulls, salford, cas, wakey, london when hughes goes. So it must be that licencing will reduce the number of overseas players, er... So then it must be that licencing will improve player development and participation - some SL clubs will soon have less junior development in place than championship clubs, and rely on championship clubs to develop their players.

What a gentlemans club it is.

I just wish from the outset that theyd been honest and said "We want cursaders, and possibly some other clubs from outside the heartlands to be in SL so we will introduce licencing, where we decide who plays where!"

I know where I'd rather Fax be at the moment!

Personally i didn't see any advertisement of this evening until late Monday, you might get more people if it is advertised earlier.

i knew about it but could not make the meeting. i think the problem is letting fans know, with the courier now weekly i think the club are taking a massive hit on the advertising side. not sure what can be done other than what they are doing via facebook etc.

Morrison has tweeted Bracek on 2 occassions in past 1.5months about lift sharing with Fielden, so if thats anything to go by...
But then I thought Fielden still lived here?

Virtually everyone has access to the internet these days and the first POC for Fax related news should be the Official Website and not the Courier one.

It was only announced on the Official Fax Site on Monday and I already had other arrangements for Wednesday evening as I'm sure other people had.

.... and regarding injuries, we all know what a physical game RL is and injuries are par for the course but, for years now, not just under Karl but also under Matt Calland, we seem to have half the team injured before the season even starts. Perhaps it's time to start taking a player's history into consideration before signing him.

Morro for example. We all know what a great player he is but how many games has he actually played in the last 2-3 years?

(I think?) I am a new member of the Supporters Trust which was paid for via shirt name a couple of weeks ago but have not received any further communication yet. Knew about last nights' meeting through this forum but unfortunately wasn't able to attend.

Presumably the club have forwarded the details of any new members to the Trust.

I'm affraid i was informed by Mike Reilly a while ago on here that due to The Halifac Courier being their Media Partner that all news would be on there first as was part of the deal, Whether this is still the same now with it being a weekly paper i dont know.

Ditto.

That was my understanding too but surely, as you say, with the Courier now being a weekly edition that agreement should have been renegotiated.

Thanks for those who attended the meeting last night and sorry about the late communication on this occasion but as soon as we heard Karl could make the meeting it went on here ,club website and on Facebook.One of the reasons behind trying to recruit new members and people to join the Committee is to try and address this and other things we are trying to do but we just do not have enough people to do everything.We are all volunteers and we would love to do more that will benifit the Club but with the best will in the world unfortunatly we are just unable to do more without a little bit more help. To start we could all try to persuade our friends/ family to either join the Trust or put your name on the shirt as this will help enormously and try to help out or contribute to any other functions we may be organising.We are not asking anyone to contribute anything they cannot afford so if money is tight can you help in other ways?
I have been amazed at our fans these last couple of years as to raise £45,000 in two years is phenominal but this year two teams will cost more and we have to do our best and back the Club in supporting youth in our Club.It`s not just our Trust Committee that are astounded at what Fax fans have achieved these last two years either last week we had a call from a fundraising supporter of a Super League club wondering how the heck so few fans can raise so much money .Then yesterday a message from a supporter at Penrith Panthers asking for info` re ` Trust eg ideals , and fundraising.There is an easy answer really," we have the best supporters" who always dig deep but now we arn`t just asking for money we need help with other things too.

As you know Linda I am willing to help even if I dont live in the UK. This likely limits much of what I can do but if there is anything I can help you or anybody at the Trust or club with then you know where I am. We have discussed recently on Facebook a few things. Wish I could be of more help

I appreciate not everybody can or wants to attend meetings of the Trust but it would be great to get more fans to our meetings especially when we have players, coaches and members of the Board attending.
My messag to fans is if you can afford it get your name on the shirt as the £25 will go towards the target for next years U19s and U23s via the Trust.

I ditto what was said above. I spent £25 a couple of weeks ago. I am not sure if I am supposed to receive a membership card to the trust or if they just have a lust of names?

I will send an email to the club to find out.

When I spoke to Mike recently, he is looking at ideas and happy to listen to ideas on how to communicate with the none-forum user / none-Social networker.

The Courier once a week paper is a HUGE issue for both HRLFC and Halifax Town I suspect.

If every Fax fan put £1 into a Fax Builder bucket at each home game they went to, that would be at least £15k.

Two years ago when we first launched Faxbuilder this is just one of several ideas that people came up with and we had people who pledged to pop their pledge pound in at every match.We promised to those who pledged we would collect them at every match and those people are still popping in their pledge money as it`s ideal for those who don`t want to attend functions and events.
Times are difficult but you are so right if you could just pop a pound in every match the differance made to the Club would be immense.

Yep that's right. I pledged and paid at all games and under 23's as well. I have paid my £25 and I will continue with my quid a game.