Yes, I would rather have any of the above than Karl Harrison. That is how little confidence I have in him. Does anyone really think he is going to coach a part time team to an upset over one of 8 full time teams next year. Take away the bonus point his year and we are looking up at Dewsbury and Doncaster. At Batley he took them up to fifth/sixth place. At Halifax he has taken us down to fifth/sixth place.

Seriously maybe Charlie could throw in a Name for you ,Andy Gregory you may laugh , but this guy has done it all in Rugby , knows the inside out , has plenty of Success as a Coach at all levels and still watches the Game .

He is a very good friend of mine ,has started to watch Leigh on a regular basis and is very impressed , he came to the Fax v Leigh game , you could do far worse .Charlie knows .

A part time club with much less money available than the current top 2 in this years Championship and even less than those who will be joining it next year sadly that's what we are.

It could easily get worse for us now if we miss out on a top 4 spot next year and thus the play off's with the bottom SL clubs which seems a real possibility.
With the above in mind who could we bring in that we would be confident in before the event?
Would any coaching set up be able to get us good enough because we are not at the moment.
Is it too late?

Trying to be upbeat but very concerned as we will have all the current on and off the field issues and probably a few more as well.

Personally, i think it's a little bit dis-respectful to be discussing such a topic while the coaching staff are currently employed by the club. They've been employed to do their jobs & i presume signed contracts for a fixed term, whatever we think as fans or sponsors they should be allowed to concentrate on their roles without being criticised in this format. We've been down this path many times over & i know from talking to some of the players at that time the "sack Faz" campaign was hurtful to the squad & staff around them, i'm sure this will be the case now. I'm always open about how i see the rugby club but i'm sure i try not to put into writing anything that is personal or pinpoint individuals, that's unfair and after-all they're all in it together, that's where you build a team spirit from. It's a fact i'm not happy with the performances i've witnessed over the last 18 months or so but why do people think coaching Halifax RLFC would be such an attraction to the likes of Andrew Dunneman or Danny Orr, given the roles they already do ?
See the season out & see what that brings i say, i emailed some of the directors earlier this season & in one of the replies i received, i was asked to make my judgements at the end of the season, that is as good an answer as i could have wished for in reality, so that's what i will do.

If you ignore the rumours, Harrison's deal expires at the end of the season doesn't it? So this is an entirely reasonable conversation to have.

The rumours i've heard means this a pointless topic in that case Nat ! But i get your point mate.

I also heard a rumour that the rumoured new deal was dependant on finishing second this year, which is why it wasn't announced. Rumours are rumours though....

Didn't Karl say at the pre season do at the Shay that it was unlikely we would make the top two given the money the other two could spend?
Nobby was at yesterday's game.

unless i misheard he also suggested the cap being broken.I really hope one of them is stupid enough to do so.

What does it matter? The points will be taken off next year once they already have their money.

This year we lost to Batley, Drew with Workington, Lost to Crusaders, Lost to Dewsbury and Drew with Batley. All of those teams I gaurentee will be spending less than us. If Harrison wants to use this excuse then it works the other way too. Featherstone have massively underperformed for the amount of money they are allegedly spending, yet they have still beaten us twice and are going to finish above us in the league. Give over giving excuses for him mate, we have been shocking this season and everyone knows it.

Its not going to get any better with Harrison and even less money, it can only get worse. The only hope we have is for our coach to improve cheaper players and retain enough of them so we can compete at the top. I struggle to think of a player that has got better under Harrison, probably only Ambler (and he had to open his own gym to do it). Glen Morrison and Paul Cooke are great examples of coaches that have gotten more out of 'cheaper' players. Harrison appears to be doing the opposite.

Really ?? so you could cheat to get 500k safe in knowledge that any penalty
would not affect this season's standings...surely not even the RFL are that stupid.....oh hang on.

They do two audits, one half way through season, one after the season has finished. Featherstone have signed how many players since half way through the season? In fact, in Nabahoo's own words they were going to sign Gareth Carvel before the RFL warned them about the salary cap.

Our chairman was working closely with the RFL when Nabahoo was trying to sign these so called players because he probably knew we couldn't afford them and he told us all at the last fans forum
As far as I am aware we have only signed Blackmore and possibly Kent and got Annakin and Trout on DR with a view to keeping them if all goes well there has been other loan players but they all went as soon as Probiz and Poskitt went and we have played better without them to be honest It has also allowed two of our 19 to move up as you saw yesterday