time to step in rfl,, o sorry u aint bradford Salford City Reds have been issued with a winding up Petition from the HMRC, less than a year after moving into their new stadium. www.loverugbyleague.com/news_104 ... ition.html

time to step in rfl,, o sorry u aint bradford Salford City Reds have been issued with a winding up Petition from the HMRC, less than a year after moving into their new stadium. www.loverugbyleague.com/news_104 ... ition.html

SL just gets better and better
but not from HMRC

The RFL will surely step in to save the "iconic" City of Salford stadium and the "geographically important" City Reds though wont they? Wont they?

I dont know if im missing something here but why are they all struggling (Bradford, Salford, Cas, Wakey etc)? Simple = 1.2 million to spend on everything (or something like that) so keep under the budget. What is this obsession with foreign players and staff?

Get shut of the Aussies etc and bring in the British guys and play them for a fraction of the price, that should solve it.....oh sorry....if your between the ages of 19 - 23 and involved in the British youth set up SL dont want you!

RFL = laughing stock of sport in this country!

If it wasn't for my two sons still actively playing RL & my long-standing support of Halifax RLFC i'd be gone for good out of rugby league. Maybe i'm not too far from it....

I could never turn my back on the RFL. Looking forward to their up coming home nations thingy. It's gonna be massive. You don't go training in South Africa if it int gonna be massive.


Salford are also on the cusp of a massive investment deal. Bound to be Peel Holdings. They're going to build a cable car ride between trafford centre and Sale's stadium (which Salford play in)

That is a real sad statement, but i know exactly what you mean. Shame on the clowns running the game. But....Up The Fax and keep the faith!

Colin despite all the things that are wrong Rugby League is still the greatest game on earth and supporting Halifax and local Rugby is what we look forward to week after week.
Don't give up mate.

John, it's knacked at all levels mate. Local RL is no exception, I understand that three or four players at one of our district's Conference club are signing for a Pennine division 3 club, that's technically division5 including Premier, Championship, 1,2 & 3. How right can this be ? If the names I'm hearing are correct, all of these lads regularly played Conference rugby this last season, one of them even playing representative rugby. Surely they have more ambition than division 3 ( or 5 in old money ). Look at it this way, if the club they're moving to only has minimal number of players and some of their loyal lads over the last few seasons suddenly find themselves without a game 'cos of these new signings, then they could be lost to the game. Let's take it a step further & I suggest the team gets promoted at the end of the season and the new lads go back to playing conference rugby, or even impress a pro club enough to get some reserve team rugby, what happens to the short-sighted amateur team that gets promoted but loses a couple of regular lads AND their recent signings, I'll tell you what, they'll start forfeiting games like they did at the beginning of this season 'cos they'll be unable to raise a side.
This comes on the back of the decision to make the Conference a summer comp to fall in line with the pro game, some Conference clubs actually said they felt "bullied into" the summer switch.
If this was junior RL it'd be governed by the number of signings a club can register from other clubs, it's known as "super-team-building".


Just out of interest, all of us who have any sort of affiliation to the amateur game, either RL or RU and know the lads who play at local clubs or are involved in the running of the clubs locally, how many people directly from these local clubs do you know who either sponsor at Halifax RLFC, pay at the gate, go to many matches at all following their local club, or as I suspect, just turn out for the big finals ?
I know very few who, unless they have kids playing the game, don't give their local club a second thought with regards to actually going to the matches nowadays. A long way since the days when we used to bump into lads at the sunday afternoon match & discuss the previous day's amateur fixtures.
The whole sport has been turned upside down in my opinion and has come out of it worse for wear.
Greetland All-Rounders v Selby Warriors tomorrow ? Aye if I can be ar$ed.....

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Colin
Might see you there, looks like the best local fixture, Siddal away, Park at West Bowling ,I know it's not far but I get a nose bleed every time I pass "The ground that time forgot".
So it looks like Greetland, incidentally I played for Greetland under 17's under 19's and open age, was poached by Dunc to go to St Mary's, which became Park Am's and then on to Old Brods.
Got sent off whilst playing for The Halifax BS, guess why? Duncan knows.

Take it thats Elland players going to Stainland, better them staying in league than all going to play union like they did last year. Does get a bit silly thouggh was talking to a fella from the league last week and he said there was nothing to stop Siddal registering all their 1st teamers to play in their pennine league side. Ovenden players are scattered between Boothtown, Illingworth and Irish. All a bit silly really. I almost walked away from the game last year when I played against Thornhills 2nd team in Division 7 they had a few Shaw Cross lads playing for them, some had even played at Dewsbury and its was farcical.

The thing is Leon, when we go on our coaching courses we learn the reasons why youngsters are only permitted to play so many minutes per day or per week to protect them in their years of physical development etc etc but my lad played Conference rugby for Siddal at 16 year old last season on the saturday & U18's rugby on the sunday morning a mere 20 hours or so later. Now I wasn't going to stand in his way, proud as punch I was to be honest that he was considered good enough, but playing so much & to such a high competetive standard & then having the opportunity to play for college midweek and U18's & U23's with his local pro club during the summer is a fantastic opportunity, but the pre-season for them commenced around end Oct-start of Nov so it's quite a lot to commit to, plus college/working part-time too.
I'd prefer the local lads had a break at some point in the calendar year whether they play RL or RU, it just cannot be good for the mind or the body.
As an example of how different Championship clubs are allowed to operate versus SL clubs, I stand to be corrected but I believe & I trust the person who gave me the info, SL clubs are permitted for their academy lads to train up to three times a week plus play competetive game/s but my man tells me that Championship clubs such as Halifax are only permitted to train their U18's once per week under RFL guidelines, exactly why, wasn't explained to me and quite possibly this will change again with the re-structuring of the junior set ups. By comparison, when my lad was an U16 scholar at a local SL club a couple of seasons ago, they were in twice every week & around gamedays they were in twice training, once more for a match prep session the night before a game and then play the following day. The monday session after the game was termed "video review session" which apparently consisted of a brief run through of the weekend's game, then into a training session & the players had their own password to review their individual positives/negatives on a website on returning home.
How level a playing field is that unless your in SL ?

Because the governing body are attempting to bring all formats into summer, it's the same lads who are being stretched across the 12 months in the year, all-year-round rugby. By transforming the mini-mod into summer a few years ago, by the time those kids filter into open age it'll be a natural progression & I'm all for that so long as they abolish the all year round playing.
Greetland 2nds yet again got cancelled yesterday 'cos either of the two sides didn't have enough players. Ridiculously, one of the sides involved will get fined, thrown out of the league & that'll be lads lost to the game somewhere down the line. On a smaller scale proving that expansion is failing.
There are some unusual names in the Pennine league nowadays, I'm wondering if Ponty S & C really are a reformed Chequerfield as is what i hear, the league want their heads looking at if that's the case.

There are some unusual names in the Pennine league nowadays, I'm wondering if Ponty S & C really are a reformed Chequerfield as is what i hear, the league want their heads looking at if that's the case.'"

no they were a delightful bunch weren't they. Only had the pleasure of playing against them twice and both games were abandonned.