Fair play to Harry, he had an interview lined up with Wood, and he bottled it, so gave the pleasure of public speaking to his erand boy Ralph Rimmer.

"oh you do it Ralph!!! pleeeeeease, i dont want to face big bad Harry!"

you can imagine it happening!

iv been following Harrys twitter, and he said he was going to ask some probing questions for Fax fans, which i thought he did..

[sizewell done Harry![/size good try, but still no answers as to why we didnt get in before a club thats already nearly been bust this year with below par facilities.

you cant put it simpler than

"what is the reason why Halifax didnt get in?"

silence from Rimmer, embarassing!

He kept saying he couldnt say until he had informed the club of the reasons but earlier in the interview said that he had already done this. Buffoons the lot of them.

Credit to Harry Gration, preety much slagged Wood off for backing out and said a lot of positives about Fax on his Twitter on in the show.

Nothing more Harry could have done. It's clear the RFL are all over the place and just remaining tight lipped.

Ralph probably hasn't been told what to say yet.....and it differs from day to day.

Franchising is dead today, everything we suspected is confirmed, the criteria and process does not exist. They make it up.

" so are you saying that Halifax are not good enough?"

classic!!! if i wasnt so angry i think i would have wet myself!

even to that, silence......or some BS about informing the club before they go public. Well whatever they have told the club it doesnt seem to have washed with our chairman looking at hi statement!

a discrase to the thousands of no nonence, hard as nails, under payed RL players from the sports history!

very good interview from Harry - nailed Rimmer good and proper

Similar to the nailing Ralph Rimming took earlier from Mr Wood allegedly!!

will this be repeated or is it viewable online?

Not viewable to after the watershed i'm afraid

we should have gone over with Harry,

taken Aizue over feeding him on raw meat and realeased him on Rimmer!

Available here soon. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... (Yorkshire)_26_07_2011/

Available here soon. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... (Yorkshire)_26_07_2011/

I was actualy quite surprised with Harry tonight. Rimmer definitely uncomfortable wasn't he ?

too right, i didnt think Harry had it in him!

squirming wasnt he, still what good is it, unless we can continue with the public airing of what a complete shambles the RFL have made RL in this country!

Uncomfortable and evasive. Just what you'd expect from the RFL

You were robbed today people. It'll be interesting to hear what the RFL's reasons are for their decision.

"Halifax have a long and proud tradition in the sport of Rugby League. In the last round of franchises Halifax were told to improve their youth system and improve their stadium facilities as well as continuing to operate a sound financial business. We aplaud Halifax for doing all that was asked of them and succeeding in these areas but unfortunatley this time their application was unsuccesful. We have advised Halifax of the areas they need to improve for next time which include continuing to develop their youth system, improving their ability to say jump whenever the RFL ask them to, developing more young players to donate to the current SL clubs and also lending the Shay stadium to any SL club that wishes to use it when ever they please. A small donation will also be required for the expand RL fund to get the Crusaders back where they belong. On top of that all of the board members will be required to bend over in front of Nigel Wood and Richard Lewis when they attend the Shay so that they can screw them good and proper. As a good will gesture the two will allow the use of lube if said members so desire"