Here it is Hudds.

faxcar wroteYep as could the Cory Aston back to Eagles with Holmes moving to Bulls and Thacks not getting any younger they will be looking to recruit in the halves.
Still speculation but some logic behind it, just wait and see.


To which you replied.
Codswallop!
Which I presume with Holmes to Bradford being a done deal must have been about Cory going back to Sheffield as Codswallop but now as you stated above you understand he is going back

Agree about Bourough, I would love to see him back, reminds me very much of Paul Rowley so in that sense he couldn't be in a much better place to learn from a top quality hooker but Id have him back in a flash. On the consortium, I would be very surprised if it were the same people. I know one of them used to post on here quite a bit a while back so maybe he could shed some light on it. I had a look at companies house after your post but the shareholders and trying to work out who owns what is quite cloudy. I believe LT is one of the majority owners and was asking people to buy him out which I found a little bit funny as I believe he got gifted a lot of his shares by Jennifer Pearson.

Yep as far as Lilley personally is concerned he has a one year left on his current Bradford contract and you can see why for business reasons he would want to stay local.

From a Fax perspective they won't be too interested in his gym business, for every signing it's all about improving on what you currently have and doing a job on the pitch and there are questions marks against him on doing that imho.

The biggest question against the proposed Fax deal you mention is Fax never offer 3 year deals (which would tie up a significant amount of funding) at a time when there is still a lot of uncertainty about the structure of the game and financial distributions especially to a player that will have to prove himself and play well beyond his current form and performance levels and is very likely to be behind JK and LJ and be a third choice sit at home or loanee.

Another point is when I used to have a bit of insider information Fax had a policy of keeping it in house, externally they couldn't stop it but internally they didn't like, condone or sanction leaks, they wanted to be the ones who broke the news at strategic times during the close season to generate interest .

So can I ask is the person / persons who you are getting it from happy with this, do the club know about it and are they happy with it?

Cheers , I don’t want to over speculate and heard some grumblings from the board regarding this but it is on public record so here goes , on the Halifax rlfc confirmation statement it shows dated 08/04/2022 it shows a new shareholder cc holdings who have 75000 shares ( the 2nd largest shareholders behind Michael steel) cc holdings is part owned by one of our sponsors, Deliveree who have recently come on board . The recent fans forum confused me as it almost felt like we weren’t flush , it made me think how much physical investment the likes of especially Deliveree and to a lesser extent stage freight, eclipse energy had considering our current squad wouldn’t come cheap .
I even speculated that the sudden arrival of our resident oracle Craig David may be distantly affiliated with these guys who at a guess fit the same age demographic. Anyway just thinking out loud I guess .

And as you know apart from share holding and direct cash injections some of those you mentioned have (apparently) been (rumoured) to have provided all fully legal and above board work opportunities to some of the recent signings as part of the deal.

I don’t no if they no I put it on here they havent said owt

I can see 3 scenarios with the JL rumour.
Either it’s true, CD has been miss informing us or his sources have been miss informing him.
Time will tell.

From Mark Dunning's quote in League Express today, it doesn't appear that he's aware that Lilley won't be fulfilling his 2023 commitment either

The 3 year deal blows any credibility of this out of the water for me. I’d say we’d be offering him a 1 year at best and he’d have to prove his fitness so he’d be better off at the Bulls IMHO.