For those of you like me, cant get the courier because of location...

rlhttp://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/39Ostickgate39-claims-boss-Calland-suspended.6286867.jprl





I mentioned on another post that I hope the squad are united, however I fear we have a problem

I wonder why? Is that because Calland normally gets the shots in after first few post-training beers?

I'm slightly concerned with these words in the courier "who left the ground without training"

we have one of our most important games of the season and the players haven't trained. I'm sure all the guys are well up for the game on sunday and want to win, but surely they should have trained, with only 3 days to go before a huge game?

Nowt surprises me at the club anymore. Sounds like it's one big jolly boys outing.

also : " while director of football Martin Hall is in Spain on business, and has been since before Ostick joined the club at Easter."

question is what the hell is Martin Hall supposed to be doing for OUR club ? is he getting paid still while he's away ?

If Calland is made the scapegoat for all of this and gets the boot instead of anyone else, it would be extremely unjust.

A few big errors have been made, but if you look at MC's overall record as our coach he hardly deserves such stick. Perhaps he wishes we hadn't had such an amazing first half season last year, to curb the levels of (perhaps over) optimism that it created

Looks like he's staying.

rlhttp://www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/article.php?id

So Hall has resigned then

Hopefully this will now be the end of it!

Now that Calland doesn't have to defend himself, any chance he can use his time productively and show his players how to defend on the pitch?

All I seem to read on here now is rallying calls for the team, doesn't that tell a story. Didnt someone post a stat a month ago that shows since a certain date last year we have only won 55% of games or something, was on those lines I remember, only a month ago it was posted. I also noticed a post made in last hour on here with someone making a rallying call and saying "to the large sector of fans that want Calland out", so it's not a small section then, again does that tell a story.

Interesting on boots n all last night Eddie agreed with me in that the player must surely have known and Calland should have asked him and checked anyhow, in training perhaps.

See what happens Sunday.

Phil Clarke also said last night that he'd heard that Ostick had said he thought the Swinton match was a league game and they were in our division! If true, who said props are stupid?

lol that was rubbish, I've been playing for 20 years and knew when it was a cup game every time, it gets mentioned weeks prior, in training, on the day, during the game.

I agree. Prehaps the player was under the impression that the club must have known he had played in the previous round (which they should have been) and they were ok to pick him.