Just realised that he's been named in the squad for Sunday.

Halifax (from): Royston, White, Goddard, Paterson, Worrincy, Haley, Nash, Bowman, Branighan, Black, Watene, Tamghart, Wrench, Larder, Ostick, Roberts, Gene, Beswick, Penkywicz

Is he eligible to play having played in the 3rd round for Rochdale?

Would hate something like this to damage our prospects in the Cup!

Like Hull did with Thackery

He played against Swinton for us, so if there was a problem it would have been picked up then.

www.skysports.com/rugbyleague/ma ... 90,00.html He definitely played for Rochdale as well. Isn't there two cut-off points for registration for the Challenge Cup, maybe we signed him before then.

www.skysports.com/rugbyleague/ma ... 90,00.html He definitely played for Rochdale as well. Isn't there two cut-off points for registration for the Challenge Cup, maybe we signed him before then.

Naughty Fax

The Rugby Football League>
Section B4: Challenge Cup Competition Rules
B4:10 A player who plays for one Member Club in the Cup cannot, in that same Season, play for
another Club in the Cup. In this respect a Dual Registered player may play for either his Super
League Club or his Championship Club but having played for one may not then play for the
other.


[urlhttp://www.therfl.co.uk/clientdocs/Part%202_Section%20B.pdf[/url

Bugg@r! Get this topic removed mods!

Did he play in the 3rd round for Rochdale?

I tell you what if this does blow up, should our fixture even go ahead tomorrow, i mean how can we pay to watch a game which bears no relavance to anything. It might drum up some cash but we want to see games that mean something. I would suggest the Club makes a statement before this gets out of hand. Can we win this tie, and should Swinton be playing Batley mid week to make amends?

Yes he did
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and for us against Swinton:
[urlhttp://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/halifax-rlfc/Swinton-Lions-4-Halifax-RLFC.6236110.jp[/url

This thread needs removing...

IF we have broken the rules, I suppose it's better that we've been caught now rather than after we've won the final...

I tell you what if they announce after the game they knew we could not go through but took our money anyway, i will be absolutely livid, if this is true this may go some way to explaining the radio silence from the camp and what happened last weekend out of the blue, someone should speak up now or lose some serious respect, i sincerely hope this can be explained or is wrong, if its true and we have broke the rules we should kicked out and someone should be sacked, we would have screwed up in 2 cups and be out of the top four in the league.
Boy do i hope this is wrong.... please tell me theres a clause and we got permission to play him or that the hornets report is a misprint.. maybe the lager went to my head and he didnt play at Swinton, HELP!

was Posner and Clay responsible for checking registration



The RFL would have acted by now if we breached rules, I am not worried.

Would you want this statement before or after the one about Clay and Posner? FFS get a grip - if the club have made a mistake - then the RFL would have picked up on it when we played Swinton? Dont you think?

Do you want them to make a statement on everything that might happen?

Its called communication, its really not that difficult

Just emailed the rfl now

another box ticked!

They have a Widnes Junk mail filter. Most of them are weekly yoof updates from SOC. The rest are from you.

This is what the RDL said after the Jamie Thackeray incident for Hull:

"An RFL statement read: “The RFL board of directors have considered the matter of the Hull FC club fielding an ineligible player in the Carnegie Challenge Cup 2008 and view it very seriously.

“However, the RFL operational rules covering this do not prescribe a specific penalty for playing an ineligible player.

“It is, however, clear that playing an ineligible player is a serious breach of the operational rules and the board has referred the matter to the RFL compliance manager to deal with under the misconduct rules.”

The RFL have also said they will undertake a review of operational rules to decide whether such an offence should lead to mandatory expulsion from the cup in the future."

In the same way that they picked up on the Jamie Thackeray business as soon as he had played for Hull against Rochdale, rather than only after he had played against Widnes as well?

Oh, wait ... this is the RFL we are talking about isn't it?

Maybe we should ban the idiot that started it, then?

they even let hull carry on, bet no such luck for fax.

i think we should give the people in charge at the club a little credit and assume that everything is above board and he is elligible to play. If he isnt and someone is at fault, then by all means we should question the club as to what is going on - but for now there seems to be nothing in this, so lets just get behind the side tomorrow and smash Batley.

The rules CLEARLY state that a player can not play for a club in the Challenge Cup if he has played for another club in a previous round. Cup-tied. There's no error margin here, its written in stone. Tomorrows game should not go ahead until the situation is clarified, its that simple.

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