Maybe another reason we are going down this route is that the current coach hasn’t had much choice in the make up of the squad or our new signings and there won’t be the cash left to make any of his own. Therefore, he may believe we might not be strong enough and this could be the only way of having sufficient cover.

I believe Chris Chester is still a season ticket holder at your club. I'm sure he has your interests at heart. What he, Richard Marshall and Stanley Gene do will hopefully benefit all three clubs. Chris knows them both well having played at Halifax with Richard and spent many years with Stanley at KR.
Some on here, although I have never visited before, seem to have delusions of grandeur. A touch of realism is required. Non of our three clubs tore up any trees last year. Bearing in mind where your club is at the present time the dismissive attitude in some quarters towards our players seems to say more about the contributors than it does about player quality. Leeds or Wigan would be more acceptable to some I am sure but then would those clubs want to be associated with Halifax. We all find our own level, maybe Halifax have found theirs.

Isn't this partnership more about off field strategies? We don't have to take any players of HKR unless we want to and they're available, exactly the same situation we are in with any other club. If we took a player from Leeds for example, we loan him, if we take one from HKR he's on Dual Reg. Same principle different terminology.

All we seem to be doing is linking up with a club who has managed to establish itself as a SL club to try and tap into the strategies to see if they can help us do the same. Why have we chose HKR, well why not, they have Chris Chester in charge, who knows our club, and they have Willie Poaching who knows our coach.

The club needs something like this to compete, but if your against it and believe it's a good reason to stop attending games then that is your right, but should this work and HRLFC gain promotion to SL, I would hope you could swallow your pride and start re-attending games again, because regardless of who the club is in partnership with, it will always need loyal, supportive fans, paying at the turn styles.

Bit of a shame really. I always thought Halifax were a big enough club to stand on their/our own. I don't like DR as it is and saying this agreement is better because we get to select players from a different team to play in ours doesn't really make me warm to the idea. I'm sure I read recently that Halifax aren't running an under 20's next year, if that is correct then what message does that send out to local teams that Halifax as a professional club would rather develop other clubs' younger talent from miles away than our own local talent?
I was feeling pretty excited for next season with a very promising coach and an influx of new players, all capped off with a traditional jersey. What gives Hull KR players the right to wear our traditional colours just to benefit themselves and their own club? Perhaps I'm being over dramatic and maybe even missing a point or two, but I feel a tad let down by all this.

They get the right to wear the colours if they are picked by your coach to play in your team. They will only be picked if your coach believes the player is better than what is available in your own squad. Yes this benefits the player and so also benefits Rovers. If he is better than what you have surely that also benefits your team. Taking someone on loan from another club has the same immediate benefit. The tie-up between the three clubs goes beyond this however and the off-field liaison hopefully will have long term benefits for all.

Well, I thought that, but see post 1 of the thread.

Admittedly posted by dazednconfused.

Do we get use of Scott Murrell as & when required?

You must be in some real sheeite to do this, your gaffer was so anti DR a position I applauded him for a couple of years ago
Marshall came through wires coaching ranks who have abused DR for a few years so it is probably no big deal for him but as a fan I know how it felt when we had it, so here's some advice

Bend low bite hard and try not to cry between thrusts

When DR first came out I was dead against it, thin end of the edge and all that. Since then I think a lot of clubs have learnt the hard way regarding DR and maybe some lessons have been learned.

Just over 3 months ago this club was a rudderless shell and maybe today's decision is the consequence of last seasons debacle. I have nothing but praise for the BOD and the club in how they have gone about their business since then and today's decision has been made with the head and not the hart.

Richards inherited a team that whilst fills me with confidence is still a bit raw and thin in places. Why would you want to Richard to work with one hand tied behind his back should things not go to plan in terms of injuries etc. This club needs to squeeze every last drop out of every opportunity if we're going to make that top 4 and give full time squads a bloodied nose, hopefully we've dropped the stubbornness of the last 3 years.

The BODs actions in the last 3 months and willingness to reach out to the fans in my opinion entitles them to be cut them some slack on this one and let's see how it goes.

I have total faith in Richard who will do whatever it takes to get us where we want to be. He will do what's best for Halifax RLFC which 3 months ago was looking down the barrel. Added to that HKRs coach is a good friend of the club as well.

Up the Fax

Bend low bite hard and try not to cry between thrusts'"

No problem at all with this decision.
We have the core of a side and a promising coach, we're not talking about building the spine of the team from SL rejects or players coming back from injury.
We're talking about bolstering positions in the forwards and backs, positions where in the past few years we have struggled.
If we can give some game time to some promising players, or have full time players cover in the forwards or outside backs I really done see a problem at all.
We have some good players to begin with, it may well be disheartening to one week have a player run in 3 tries and win us a game only to lose him to the KR 1st team the following week, I see it as a game won though.
I strongly agree with the posts about being realistic about where we are as a club. I am not too stubborn or proud to deny us an opportunity to try this. If it doesn't work what have we lost, and if it does work it may well be a kick to start to bigger and better things for everyone connected with Halifax RLFC. Chris Chester and Richard Marshall should be given a chance on this.
Get your voices ready, keep your Sundays free and look forward to a cracking season, oh, and never run with scissors in your hand.

Happy with this decision.

I felt the squad was far too small last season and thought there were players on the field that shouldn't have been in terms of injuries.

We get the chance to have a pool of players to pull from to cover injuries - quicker recovery times, not risking players rushing back. This also keeps the pressure on performances with players fighting for there shirts. The club sound like they will manage this carefully.

If we had been boosted back end of last season like Featherstone with becoming dual reg, think the race to second may have been a little closer.