If you want to know why the clubs pay different rents, their is a foi on it. Which your favourite poster bubba has posted several times on Facebook. It shows that the rugby club rent considerably more floor space within the shay than the football club does. Things like the laundry rooms, gym etc are used by the rugby club are not used by the football club. The rent paid isn't just a flat rate, it's itemised and done by the floor space used.

Hope this helps.

Fax dont have a gym at the ground. Its also worth noting one of the extra floor spaces that we have is the club shop. As far as I am aware Halifax Town decided not to have a shop at the Shay, Town get around this by using other means at the Shay to sell their merchandise, something which seems to be lost on the council.

I think the club should pay the rent as this just fuels the Town fans and is not good publicity for the club at all.
But Calderdale Council cannot justify charging one of the Shay's tenants more than the other. especially when Town play more games at the Shay than the rugby.

From what I was told earlier today. This really is a non story. People that think the club are behind with the rent don't know that facts. I'm not going to get into all of them on here. But the club isn't behind with but it is in a dispute with the council over money owed to the club over the last 3/4 years and are currently been advised by solicitor and the rfl. The football club work fromthe old offices at the corner of the south stand and all sell club merchandise from their, despite the fact they don't have a license to sell any merchandise from the shay as that is part of their rent agreement and part of the reason it's lower than the rugby clubs.

But they do.
They open up the floor space next door to the Fax shop and sell from in there on match days.
They just keep it looking like a building site so it's not finished.

Not wanting to get embroiled in this again but if Town don't want to rent space for merchandising then surely they should not be allowed to run a pop-up stall in pedestrian walkways to flog their wares. Is this not a health and safety issue let alone extracting the urine from their tenancy agreement.

Pity the two clubs didn't work closer together and shared the facilities to halve the costs-the shop for example could sell for both clubs -open more and have half the staff/overhead costs. The stadium's main asset is the pitch -that's reason for it being there and how Town and Fax make their living- by playing. If we are using it less than the football then why are we paying more rent?That would seem to be the crux of the matter to me and why the club are in dispute.

They should get health and safety in to inspect Town's offices.

The usual poo stirring from the Pubteam lot. This issue has been going on for years. IF it was such a huge issue as the Pubteam/Courier are making out, then I very much doubt we would be able to use The Shay. As per normal, its just the jealous pubteam lot looking to cause problems at the start of the Rugby season and dont like it that we have sponsors/people prepared to help us with a electronic scoreboard-one that was promised by the Council by the way. They do not like it that our players trained in Portugal. Just ignore the trolls.
The fact is, the Pubteam use The Shay, far more than we do and use just as much facilities and utilities as us, if not more. As usual, FC Pubteam are trying to cut corners and not pay for things. If they choose not to have a proper shop and run a jumble sale service, thats not the Councils problem. Each club should pay the same and if they choose not to use certain facilities, then that is the problem of the club. Maybe if the Pubteam lot did not cry so much the pitch would be dry and would not need so much work doing on the drainage.

As I have said on a few occasions before, when Malcolm ran the club shop he offered (very kindly) to stock Towns merchandise and sell it on their behalf. No proceeds going to Fax or cost to Town. They refused.
That I think sums up just one of their many complexes.

I love it.