Quote: Aldy "Halifax Blue Soxs were amongst the original teams in Super League other teams that have since slipped into lower divisions are Oldham Bears, Sheffield Eagles and Workington Town plus Paris folded.'"
Quite. The club went bust several years into SL, sadly. The idea that they were forced out is rubbish.
The play off game vs them in 1998 was one of the more heart-stopping moments we had under Graham Murray. At half time in that game we had gone 120 minutes without scoring against them, after the nilling the previous week. Fortunately we turned it around but going to Thrum Hall, later the Shay, was always daunting, even in their ill-fated final SL season when, moderately humourously, they had the two points they actually won on the field deducted for a salary cap breach. Who could forget the furore over Francis Cummins' innocuously raking his boot across the face of some prone 'Fax player?