Can't believe nobody can see whats happened here. Hall is loaded anyway so won't miss the wage he was pulling for doing knack all (and yes he was getting paid). He's taken full blame for something he knew nothing about as he wasn't here, just so his drinking buddy can keep his job.

Surely as Director of Football he should have known about it and ignorance is not an excuse. So the buck stops with HIM

A forum member for over 4 years and this one is your seventh post. What a great contribution, nice appropriate name you use, by the way.

For one uplifting moment I thought you were talking about Wood and Lewis

The only way you could separate those two is by surgery

Mixed feelings, whilst like most we want 'blood' for the huge mess up its not nice when we lose somebody who has done some good work for the club and Martin Hall has proved time after time he has the contacts to get good players to Halifax, remember who we had playing for us before he came! thing is he is not around enough to do his job anymore by the sound of it so I guess he would have gone anyway.
Yes Martin Hall is the Football Director and has 'fallen on his sword' but that is only the half of it, what did the statement say again:-
'That investigation has shown that the breakdown in the Club’s procedures arose as a consequence of the absence of the Football Director Martin Hall at material times both relating to the signing and playing of the Player concerned and a failure to ensure that compliance was properly managed in his absence by others'.

So what is happening with them?
Its the coach that picks the team not the football director surely and also Matt Calland must have known Ostick from being from that 'neck of the woods' so how can he let Martin Hall take all the blame, a nice contract with 2 more years to go maybe???

The problem now is that we have no football director and a coach that a large majority of fans no longer have any faith in.

If he does manage to get us to the Grand Final and win it then I will eat my words BUT if we get nowhere near the GF then he must go, thing is can we afford to wait until then???

Just let it go Jon, move on, in a nice way of course.

Our club needs us, WE are the lifeblood of the club, let's do the right thing and support the team.

The relevant decisions have been made, it's rugby time again, drama over.

Rather bold statement there????

Surely you mean a few on here????

I agree with MM, get on with supporting the team.

Of course we must get back to supporting the team on Sunday, but, whilst I do not agree with everything that Fax4Life has said, I too still have some concerns about the administrative side of the club.

For example, the Board knew that Martin Hall wasn't around as much as, perhaps, he should have been to fulfil his role properly. Did they take adequate steps to make sure that, in his absence, other people were covering his duties? Evidently not. If they didn't, why not? Who should have taken this in hand?

The Board, in my opinion, seem to hold the view that with Martin Hall's resignation there is nothing further that needs to be done. But, surely, this should not be the case. Any good organisation has contingency plans in place for the eventuality that a key member of staff is unavailable for whatever reason. Fax don't appear to have had any such plan or, if they did, somebody other than Martin Hall did not do what he was supposed to do.

By closing their investigations, are the Board attempting to sweep the issue under the carpet and, in so doing, thereby covering up unresolved issues?

On-field and off-field are two separate matters. The team will get my full and total support on Sunday and I have every confidence in them to perform to the best of their collective ability, but the administrative side of the club sadly does not fill me with such confidence.

I wouldn't worry too much about the administrative side of things now pal, surely after last week that will be the first thing the club sorts out

You only have to listen on the terraces and the majority of folk I speak to stood around me and in the SSL want rid of Calland, as do I.

How can a man who had very little in the signing or the run of events in the weeks up to last wek take blame for what has happened? Calland took the training sessions, Calland picks the team, Calland speaks to his squad . . . . I just don't see how Hall can shoulder the blame other than deflect the firing squad from Calland. The events of the last week or so have hurt our club in more ways than one and I for one think the BOD took the easy, cheap option. Then again we are touching cloth when it comes to cash flow and hovering precariously close to the wall!!

All in All (No pun!!) the decision being made was purely on a monetry basis rather than what is best for the club long term in my opinion.

Having said the above I will still be cheering the boys on tomorow, as we all do as fans of the club.