Sorry mate, I just don't buy that at all. Surely he would want to come beacause of the coaching and the set up if he was truly interested? - To say reading a forum was the basis of his decision to not join the club is a little poor from you in my opinion.

I can just hear it now . . . "So you signing Mr player x?" - "Actually I think you are a super coach, your playing staff looks good on paper for 2010 and the money is right but I saw several posters on your unofficial forum slating recent performances so Halifax is not the club for me" . . . I don't think so.

Even if thats true, which i very much doubt, im glad such a pu$$y wouldnt sign

Lol I agree, highly doubt it would sway a players decision.

What a crap day yesterday turned out to be. Our in-play kicking is woeful, our kick to touch from a penalty is laughable, in the first half black took one and the players didnt even have to move forward ready for the tap. Our passing is poor, we used to be able to string 3 passes together to get from wing to wing, now we can't even pass from the base of the scrum ( 1st minute on our own line) the player had to dive to collect the pass, and as for that kick to touch in the 2nd half that just dribbled 5 metres forward, well!

I watched it last night on tv when I got back and heard Bazza say we only made 11 metres from 4 drives, thats woefully poor BUT I agree with the posts on here that Barrows tackling was awsome, it was.

Ballard made a break in the first half, fell over and we still didnt catch him! Barrow off loaded at will and at times it was like touch and pass.

It all looked like it was gonna go sour when we kick on the 2/3rd in the first few minutes then on the 2nd tackle defending we give a penalty away and end up back down where we came from a few moments before.

Our go forward is and has been non existent the last 3 months, no wonder the halves look like headless chickens, this was mentioned many times on sky, at times it looked like men against boys in the collission, players falling off tacklees, not wrapping the ball up etc.

I agree also, Penky is a hooker ffs play him there. I also noticed Haley pushes Worrnicy into field when its the last ready for the high ball, least Calland has fixed that problem.

Heres hoping for next Thursday, we've blown 3 chances of something special this season (cup semi, finishing top, last night ) we have 1 chance left, I just hope we don't finish the season with nothing after having it all in our our destiny for 3/4 of the season.

You were correct, agreed at the time however the thread was locked before i got chance to post on it.

I assume you are going to go out collecting tonight then to pay Matt Calland out of his contract or perhaps donate the money to the club now? What a load of nonsense.

Of course all this affects players, THEY ARE HUMAN. You all want Shad Royston to stay, do you think he wants to now? Probably not. If last night everyone had come on here saying hard luck we need to do the job on Thursday do you think he might? More probably yes.

We will end up becoming one of those clubs who are regarded as having whining, moaning, fickle fans. If a player had two identical offers on the table then which would you choose, one with fans who get behind you in the hard times or one where the fans have got a reputation for getting very personal about certain individuals and doing a lot of moaning. I know which I would choose.

Hi Leon.
Thank heavens we`ve got some good proper rugby with the Irish, SIDDAL and Elland. All is not lost!]

I think the people who have played the game know the score chinaman

I havent played the game and I know the score.

It was 35 - 12

Do we have to waste anymore time further discovering what we already know!? people get shot down on here for telling the truth, we all see the results and we all see some peoples attitude to the job at hand. We now need some strength at board level, a bit of backbone.
I will once again state that if you look down the table this year, nearly all of the clubs have made some final apart from us, 'Where is this progression'?
The only thing thats going up at this rate is sales of Export Lager and certain peopls ego's.
Even if we win Thursday night im still gonna feel the same, it will only paper over the cracks unless the board set it out straight to our coaching staff that its not good enough.

From being a team that was feared 2 months ago to being a cast-iron "easybeat"http://www.totalrl.com/index.php?showtopic

I rest my case!

I'm going to see what happens Thursday but seems thats what most of us have been saying for the past 10 weeks. It also worries me when Callands post match comments are the same week in week out yet nothings changed or improved, that's why people are worried.

Why did we keep putting up high balls direct down Broadbents throat when we know he's never dropped a bloody high ball in his life. Might as well have just passed over the ball to Barrow. It's things like this that gets me.

P.S Haley is class, player of the year for me.

I must admit I have had my doubts aout Calland for a while now, other teams have sussed us out and there is no plan B.

How many poor games do certain players have to play before they get dropped? I know we haven't the biggest squad in the league, but surely dropping one player, where we have adequate cover, is manageable

Look at the big crucial games we have played this year, apart from the Cas game in the cup, how many of these have the players looked 'up' for? Surely he has to get them motivated for next Thursday???

If not, I think it is time for him to go. At least then we have a coach in place for the off season, and he has a chance to bring some of his own players in, rather than waiting til the middle of next season, then having 'it's not my team' as a reason for underperforming