I got an e-mail today and will be booking 2 dining tickets for Sunday, hope to see lots of happy faces!

I have had a season ticket for the South stand for the last 15years or so and have only ever received a handful of e-mails in that time. I guess because I'm a season ticket holder they just presume that I will attend home games but a bit of advertising never goes a miss!

What's all this about putting a banner on't Punch Bowl. We have literally got a football fields length of free advertising space on Skircoat Road passed by thousands of people daily. Put up a LARGE advertising billboard there. It's not really rocket science or indeed expensive. Percy's, Yeastie Boys Tea Leaf IPA 6. 5 % Mmm!

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You need planning permission!!

How hard would that be? The council own the land! There's already a half-hearted advertising board there.

Heard yesterday that Alex Simmons has left Halifax, would explain why its been quiet if true.

Would say that is a no brainer Brew. After all his excitement on twitter about Fax and implementing all he learnt at the Roosters, nothing. Not even a mention of the club. Lots about the bulls though.

I reckon he went ages ago.

It's all a bit suspect. Ever since "rentgate" the club has been quiet, even Mr Abbott not making comments. Either we have the worst commercial set up or we truly are in a bit if a mess

Nothing on Tony Abbot's twitter account about Halifax since December 2013.

We're just rumbling along. I think we have a decent team on the pitch but I think getting into Super League is far far away from the intentions of the club. Next year when 4 other clubs have over £600k to spend they'll snap up the best 80 players in the division. That's when the free fall will occur.

That's the current outlook based on the last three months of this 'new era'. A lot can change in the next three months. You only have to look at Leigh to believe that there is hope. Basket cases one minute; Super League newcomers the next. That's what spin can do in a short space of time.

A fine line between brutal honesty and just enough spin to keep the fans coming back. If you can't manage that best to say nothing! I believe Mr Abbott just wanted the Shay.

Which would you prefer Rich, honesty or spin?

Honesty - everytime. Problem is, saying nothing is just fuelling apathy. The biggest thing stopping ambition is the fact that Super League itself is broken. You've got a club like Widnes breaking it's balls to do everything to get a break-even audience but they're only getting five and a half thousand - after the start they've had!! Which club owner would want to land themselves with that headache especially as The Shay brings in little income under its current set up? That's why Abbot's gone quiet. You can't make it in SL without the commercial firepower of owned stadium facilities.

Absolutely agree LR but this is what I've been getting at for the last few months. Granted things on the pitch have improved but the way we're just bumbling along worries me. How can you expects new and old punters to be excited or interested when the club look totally disinterested..... Personally think we need new blood to help the club either as a takeover or an addition to the board. They're all currently retired or have busy businesses to run... That sugar daddy that bank rolls us sadly isht about to turn up on his white horse... But it's what we need.