I agree with Hudds' & his feelings re- D/R.

I stopped watching the team last season on the basis of the lack of entertainment being served up, it was the only way i saw fit, to vote with my feet, in protest if you like. I noted my feelings to half of our b.o.d. I warned them of the falling gates & revenue stream & made those comments based on what other previously long-time loyal supporters were saying to me. Let's face it, we weren't wrong !!
Now we must move on & look to the future, it goes without saying, but D/R is wrong, the whole moral/ethic of it is wrong. I don't really know what the new coach can do other than investigate all avenues & credit to him for laying his cards on the table so early in the piece with this topic refusing to go away it looks to me like it will happen one way or another.

What i do find sad is the comments criticising Hudd's for standing up for what he believes in on an online forum, or of anyone else for that matter. If clubs continue to lose support from the terraces like ours have over the last decade or so, because of whatever reason, i see no future because it's possible there'll be no club to support potentially.

Let's look at another scenario, let's say we all packed up & stopped following Halifax RLFC, yet a Dr Koucash type figure emerged from somewhere to plough in millions of pounds because he found himself a new weekend pass-time. Let's say, on the back of all his wealthy input, the team under-performed, achieved no noteworthy success to celebrate and recorded losses of let's say
£ 5 million in it's annual reports. Would that type of supporting our team still have the same proud feeling for those who remained ? You know, having been successful in your own lifetime supporting them, almost perennial yo-yo relegation - promotion candidates, boom & bust, have to leave your traditional home and move into a different stadium, team managers/coaches by the boat load etc etc etc

I think we should be careful what we wish for, but from what i'm hearing, the style of play that is being currently coached & practiced by Halifax is radfically & tactically different from the garbage that kept the likes of me away for over half of last season so hopefully entertainment will be there for us again rather than blind loyalty.

Yorkshire tea 0%, got a night shift to work later today, not MMMMM....

Fair enough but we Should have complete control of everything to do with our own team/club surely. It is so belittling to accept owt else. At the end of the day there are some people who may, grudgingly, accept our use of DR for a short period if it benefits us. I haven't met, or heard of anyone who actually wants us to use it or who even think it is morraly right, and I think that says it all. Percy's Moorhouses Santa's Spell 4.0 % Mmm!

Did we? Blimey I didn't know that.

But you have no nead to worry, you won't be there.
Bacardi and coke, dual Reg, 37.5 Mmmmm,

Of course we did, we played in challenge cup finals & won a championship with them amongst other things in the mid-late 80's, Hudd's point is that they weren't on dual/reg from Canterbury Bankstown or some other Aussie club, the were Halifax players for that period and only Halifax players.


I think the safest thing to do in Mr Marshall's situation now is to seek out "season-long" loan deals rather than dual-reg any players he's lining up from SL clubs if they're unable to sign permanent Halifax contracts. Who would that harm ? It's just a different title for the agreement between all parties concerned. Let's imagine the RFL ( or more to the point the greedy SL clubs ) drop the dual-reg system, it'd be termed "loan" deal anyway, just like in the past.

Well said, MM.