HALIFAX RUFC have withdrawn from the National League set up and will start next season in Yorkshire Six – the lowest level of league rugby in the county. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/H ... 5360164.jp

HALIFAX RUFC have withdrawn from the National League set up and will start next season in Yorkshire Six – the lowest level of league rugby in the county. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/H ... 5360164.jp

The David Brook effect

Its a sad situation really. I always want Halifax teams of any sport or description to do well, even kick and clap...good luck to HRUFC.

Very sad news for them, I allways liked to see them do well. Wish them all the best for the future.

Fcuk em.

I've never liked them since they tried to claim our Yorkshire Cup wins as their own.

Snobs, not like the likes at places like Brods who are normal guys.

I assume this is tongue in cheek. Especially when you cosider the amount of Ex-Halifax players currently at Brods.

How many

dont think many of the other local clubs will have much sympathy for them.

No they won't.

Why not?
sad news I hope they can bounce back and rise back up the leagues.
I like ALL teams in Halifax to do well.

'Cos a lot of RU clubs are stuck in their snotty nosed history, that's why.

True but we can rise above that...cos we are rugby league men!!!!

You obviously don't know Halifax RUFc - they are down to earth, okay they have a few middle class chaps but they always made us welcome when we have ever been.

Anybody else banned from entering the Union clubhouse because of having played League?

And you obviously haven't helped to run junior RL teams at RU clubs in this district. We'll leave it at that I reckon.

i know them well, agree with Colin!

I agree even people like swinger have been a success at union and he's a free loading snob now

Seems to have worked ok King Cross for a few years ?

And long may it continue, now that the under 8's & 9's are playing summer rugby league on a sunday morning it is even better for the junior side of RL clubs, keeping the premises in use more frequently.

I wasn't meaning the Old Crocs with my original point, I used to coach a junior RL side up at Halifax Vandals, who were previously Sowerby Bridge Robins/Rangers. The RU officials insisted on a name change to their name. After the Vandals RU officials kicked them out onto the streets with no home, over 100 kids and their families, they then moved onto a Halifax RL amateur club and they are now at a different Halifax RL amateur club. This act of throwing the juniors out was instigated by a couple of sad old snobs who couldn't see the benefits of their club being used as a dual code sports club, yet they used the junior section to get massive grants for their new abode after selling their old delapidated one on for housing, along with the grants they qualified via the juniors of huge rates reductions amongst other financial benefits. I hope they enjoy their loss of revenue on sunday lunchtimes when the junior RL set up hosted up to six fixtures per weekend and all the easy over the bar cash that goes with it. Their proposed junior set up that supposedly prompted the "throwing out" didn't really materialise in the end.

Sad news indeed, but they won't be gloating their greatness to lower rugby union clubs in Halifax anymore. All other union clubs in the area supported them, but they never gave anything back in return. A well known quote, "Be good to people on your way up because you'll need them on the way down"

Bit of a difference between a slow decline, and a vertical drop,

So the U21s and Service area never used to play at Ovenden Park then?
You are tarring Halifax RUFC with the same brush as the Vandals not fair really.

Of course they've helped out with their facilities previously. They also played a well known Halifax RL player when he was banned sine die from the amateur game prior to his signing pro, but so what ?

Only because David Brook was there and also they needed the money to fund the pro team they ran!