It is.

I know your involved at batley so im never going to argue with you,in fact i'd love to sit down and chat with you about what goes on inside a club,i bet it would be a real eye opener.

Would the coach at a club like fax need to be more involved in the day to day running of the club?

give Neil Aspin the in job

It has changed the way I watch rugby for sure. I am not sure that MC is more involved at Fax than Karl at Batley I can only go on how busy the Mrs is (physio). I would imagine it would be the same at all clubs at this level.

As for the chat, get a cold beer involved and always up for a beer n chat!

I am not weighing in with any arguments about wether to sack Calland and move Karl in as that is for others to decide who are better placed than I but one thing I can comment on and that is Karl is a very differant kind of man than is Tony Anderson .

Who the hell is he? Never heard of him.

Plays football on the Moor on Saturdays I think

Maybe but TA was a hero to the Fax fans and was welcomed as a near messiah when he joined in 2002, less than 18 months later he was villified. Harrison is even more of a hero to Fax fans, if he doesn't deliver to our somewhat fickle fans then he could receive the same unfair treatment.

I too have not called for Calland to go, that is for others to decide, but to call the fans fickle is a little unfair after we have played 5 and lost 5 and the manner if the losses?

Karl is big enough and ugly enough (sorry Karl) to know this much more than most and Barrow is not the only club he has turned down since starting his own building company. I repeat Harrison is nothing like Anderson.

At the moment Matt Calland's hands are tied by the Super League franchise bid.
How can he sign quality Championship players when in 3 months time Halifax could be successful with the Super League bid and have to do the same as Widnes and start releasing the players who are not good enough for Super League and start signing Super League players.
Matt Calland should be judged when the Super League Franchise bid is sorted out.
Karl Harrison is a good Championship level Coach but has stated he does not want a full time coaching role so would be no good for a team with Super League ambitions.
My bet for the Halifax job would be somebody to take Halifax into the Super League and who can work full time Brian Noble,Barry Eaton ,Francis Cummins,Willie Poaching, John Kear,an Australian etc.

Harrison's former club Salford got trounced 60-0 today AT HOME!

There's always someone worse off . . . . . .

He works for 'virtually nowt', or even for absolutely free, as was posted earlier? Where are you getting this tripe from?! Do you think he spends hours a week coaching us as some kind of favour?

Many people do voluntary work. I spent a summer working on a National Trust site and it was thouroughly invigorating. You get a sense of contributing - putting something back into the community. Karl is simply embracing DC's Big Society. Where better to do that than Batley.