Can't remember when it was exactly but the off field Fax machine was going great guns by that point. It even surpassed the pre match entertainment of an all ladies pillow fight in 97.

It was while I was involved with BISA, so it must have been some time around then. And you're right af, it was an opposition fan that alerted us to it (on this very forum iirc).

To be fair to the Fax chairman, he sincerely apologised for it and said himself it was unacceptable. Think the programme was checked a lot more closely after that.

My favourite programme oversight was in one of our early Grand Finals, where a pen picture of Stuart Cummings described him as fat, lazy and blind. Tounge firmly in cheek of course but I believe he wasn't too happy and lodged an official complaint

And so he should. He certainly wasn't blind.

Neil Cowie wrote that didn't he?

Went at about 2 pm today, no queue. Straight in and out.

I'm glad I didn't rush to queue in the morning!

Was that the one that ended with the line "even his kids hate him?"

Yes! I couldn't believe it was allowed to be printed

That was the following year 2001.

That was the 1999 grand final.

Got my shift schedule from work and I can't make the game, which I'm gutted about. Lucky it's on TV

Ah, so not the last time we played them there in the cup then. 2001 saw us score 60+ points against them at there place, but it was a round earlier. We did win there in 2000 as well by a similar margin.

The great tickertape cup game.

Remember it well with Robbie Paul and Withers in scintillating form.

The result in 2000 was 28 - 18 in the quater finals.

Fair enough - I was going off wiki and vague memory

Edit: Although needless to say the bagpipes were before the 2000 effort. Otherwise it would have just been wierd!

bit against the spirit off the offer to now be trying to ebay said tickets and make a profit for yourself dont you think

Agree. Poor show

Has Bradford sold out it's allocation?

Still some seats left.

Any idea how many some is?

Will ask Stuart Duffy on Facebook Chat.

There were a few posters up at todays Fax game advertising the challenge cup match. Which said there were only 300 tickets left for the south stand. Dunno how many more were sold during the game and it didn't mention how many were left in east stand. Have u sold your allocation of tickets???

As at Thursday 5th May:

"Members are still able to claim their FREE tickets to Sunday's game from the Bulls Ticket Office. Free Entry to The Shay will not permitted unless Member's collect one of the tickets. The Ticket Office is open 9:30am-5pm, today and tomorrow"

Halifax really haven't helped themselves in the customer service department the past 72 hours and I'm pretty certain a complaint is going to be heading to the Shay.

Why? What have we done now?