I have it on good authority that Hall actually spends most of his time in Portugal now and flies back for weekends. If this was part of a Shameless script you wouldn't believe it!!!

If so many people on this forum actually knew Ostick was ineligible why the hell didn't they tell the club BEFORE he played ?
Phoned MC when the team was announced...chanted from the bloody stand or something. So many people here think it was so obvious why didn't they say anything until now?

You and I know it was the job of the Club but isn't everyone here saying that the Club is incompetent? They need a rocket up the a55 from the supporters BEFORE they mess up not afterwards!!!!!

Best start concentrating on Barrow. The team need the fans behind them after this mess not slagging them off. Only one thing to concentrate on now this season and that is winning the league.

I was at the Swinton Game and didn't know he had played for Rochdale in the previous round.

Me neither.

I didn't either but there seem to be a lot on here who did!

Hardly the fans jobs to tell the club such info?

I completely agree not the fans job but if you are a fan and you KNOW about it surely you would tell. If I had an idea about it and saw it happening I would! I just had no idea. I also wouldn't have put a question about it on the forum here...I would have contacted the club. "I don't like to mention this but do you know........:"

In my case, I thought that Ostick might be ineligible to play at Swinton, but when I heard that he was playing I assumed that the 'professionals' at the club had cleared him, by whatever means, to play (I had not at that time seen the actual rules and was just going on what I had read about the 'cup-tied' rule). If I had rung the club about my suspicions, I would have expected to have been given short shrift and probably been advised to keep my nose out of matters which did not concern me and out of matters which were the responsibility of 'professionals' employed by the club who had deemed him eligible to play.

I would probably take the same view again if a similar situation arose.

With the resources available to him I'm not surprised this is his current record.

What we will get is a former England coach who has won this league and arriva cup (albeit with professional outfit) and then kept Salford in Super League for 3 seasons and achieved a Play-Off appearance (prob one and only time ever). More importantly we'll get a guy with blue and white running through his veins (as per his interview last week) and someone who respects and appreciates the supporters and the history of our club, something that the current coaching staff don't have.

He also has made more than 1 substitute appearance for England so will command respect from the players and finally give more kudos to the Courier's 'former England international' quote that is attached to any mention of our existing coach.

Don`t forget his Great Britain caps ,he played against the Aussies when they used to beat them.

There's a funny story about Rhino when he was captain at 'Fax & they were faced with going to play at Wigan and had a sratch side due to injuries in the squad and some fringe players had to play. In one of his rousing motivational chats, Rhino announced that he'd played at Wigan & won there previously. After a while of trying to work out when it might have been, Paul Rowley ( I think ) asked him when it was.......

















Rhino had to admit that it was while representing Great Britain