If fax didn't exist I would be lost to RL before I supported a different team, I was bitten young and wouldn't be interested in anyone else. My Aussie teams have been Canterbury and Melbourne purely for CA but I'm not really bothered about either of them in the same way that I am Fax.

That said in football, I support Liverpool from my armchair and have done since I was 8, have a passing interest in Coventry City as I lived there for a short time but not as a serious thing. I also have Scottish and Spanish teams based purely on superb (IMO) names but don't actually have any interest in them other than did they win this weekend. I don't support Town because Liverpool are my team but I do occasionally pay to watch them which I rarely have done for Liverpool just because I come from Halifax and I'm just not that interested in football.

halifax is my town of birth so support my home town teams
halifax rlfc/town
then...
yorkshire
england
great britain.

not interested in supporting any other teams.

Like Bentleyman, not lived in Halifax (though born and brought up there) for around 40 years but still consider Fax as my one and only RL team and have supported them since around 1958 (as a kid) and will continue to support them 'til the end.

I did occasionally follow Town, but not with any real conviction. Since 1971, if I do have a football side, it has to be my new 'home' team Burnley.

Fax, though, are my only real sporting love.

If youre a diehard fan i think its pretty much impossible to fully switch allegiences.

I moved out here five years ago and have tried to align myself with an NRL club, but every time i go to a game i keep longing for it to be Fax (yeah, despite all the ups and downs). Parramatta, Manly and the Roosters have all had my fleeting favour from time to time, but in the end its just too hard to bond. I still love the game, but have become a floating supporter.

Atmosphere is very different for a start and despite attendances being much smaller at the Shay, the South Stand (and previously the Scratching Shed) have an electricity i have never found anywhere else. Maybe im just an old fart and stuck in my ways, but its Fax for me any day.

Fax fan from birth till the end. If for whatever reason Fax ceased to exist I'd be a neutral, or emigrate to Aus and follow the Bulldogs

I'd always supported my ex at Rugby Union but having gone to Thrum Hall to watch Fax play Australia many years ago I was completely hooked and never looked back. I wouldn't dream of switching ends. I watch other teams of course on the telly just like everyone else but would never "support" them like my home town team. I think if your a loyal fan then you support your club through good and bad times.

I think thats what the people upstairs dont understand when they start talking of merging teams in local proximity to each other. Can you imagine Bradfax or Huddfax I don't think so, do you!!!!!

Has to be the Wests Tigers if we're going to Aussie land.

Fax fan through thick and thin. We may not be in SL ever again but I will always support Fax before anybody else. I like the Storm, Broncos and Cowboys but not to the same degree as Fax. My Dad took me when I was 7 and then went to many games throughout my childhood-even though my Dad is a sportsfan rather than a League fan.

As for the game I love the game just as much as Fax. I like to see the game grow but not at all costs. I want to see the development of the game properly throughout the world. Why should this great game be confined to just a few people?

Soccer-Hate it with its money, Spoilt brat players, and the way people have jumped on the Bandwagon for the WC. The hype it gets is ridculous. I was the first person to be born in Halifax or even Yorkshire in my Family, I went to the odd Town game as a youngster but found it boring and never got in to Town or soccer. I feel I have no alliegance to Town, just because I was born in Halifax. I support no other Soccer team and do not even watch the WC.

Union-I was banned before 1996. I know others who had records from their time in Union erased. I have seen Union people try and stop League taking off around the UK and Europe. I remember the French Union bribing Town Officials so the French RL could not find a stadium to play in. I hate the Sport both because of its History towards League and also the way the Media overhype it and the old Schools connection help them out-RBS sponsoring the sick Nations for 20 Million a day before it said it needed help for example. I also find it boring as hell. Its either stuck under a load of forwards or hoofed anywhere. No Skill, No Flair. I hope Union Clubs struggle due to what they have done to League. Bitter? Probably but then I feel what Union has done in the past and even now a disgrace.So if the local Union clubs struggle I do not care

Interesting topic Jonnie, well posted! Dont think i could ever truely support any team if Fax were not around but i do have a soft spot for Batley having worked there for 5 years. I also like Cas to do well as i think they are similar to us in the sense that its usually only people from that area that support them where as you always see fickle folk with Bradford, Leeds and Wigan shirts on . I currently work in Bradford and get no end of stick for being a Fax fan. Not really interested in football but i always want Town to win.

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When Germany invaded France in 1940 the French Vichy Government at the behest of the FRU made Rugby League illegal as a "corrupter of youth". Nice people not

Littlerich has.

What about when word was we were to merge with Huddersfield (that is, they would have taken our players to the then McAlpine)? I have to admit, I did consider having to move my alligence. If such a thing were to happen now I'd probably go and watch an amatuer team.

I have seen Union people stop people playing in a League game 2 minutes before Kick Off by threatening to Ban them for life from ever playing Union again. I know the Irish had problems with Union people a couple of years ago saying to its players that Rugby League does not have proper insurance and is an illegal Sport. I know France has seen major problems from Unionites. In Wales,the former Welsh Union Forward Mark Ring told me that Union threaten youngsters, by saying if they play League, they will not be ever to play for Wales in Union. This is all verbal so as not to break any laws.Serbia, Germany, Ireland, Wales etc have all and still suffer from Union. There are decent people in Union but its the people running Clubs and Union in Nations that are the problem.

Correct, he's also made the jump from Yorkshire to Lancashire, he was heartbroken at first but has seen the light since, he would never go back to 'last of the summer wine land now'.

I think he has got used to the fast and furious big city living by now.