Been confirmed. www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=17640

Been confirmed. www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=17640

a very sorry affair. they would have beaten swinton quite easily without Ostick. I hope they avoid further punishment.

This just smacks of one rule for one and another rule for the RFL’s mates in Hull. If “The rules governing player eligibility in the Carnegie Challenge Cup clearly state that when a team is found to have fielded an ineligible player they will be disqualified from that year’s tournament why were Hull allowed to stay in the CC last year after fielding an ineligible player, a very poor show of double standards from the RFL, Shocking.

Calland has been suspended by Fax directors too..

wasn't that rule brought in after the hull cheating last year?

I think it was in last year.

I bow to superior knowledge.

Year before last. They're next game was against us and they knocked us out on a wet Saturday (I think) Afternoon in front of about 150 fans.

They eventually reached the final but lost to Saints. They played Wakefield in the Semi Final at Doncaster IIRC.

What a balls up by Fax.

Said in Sadler's rag that the cockup was only first noted by a fan "on an online fans forum". You can safely assume t wasn't his forum given the lack of namecheck. Was it us?

The rule is that if it shafts Bradford it's ok. Then you change the rules for when it shafts someone else.

i don't think it's something against bradford. If the rules were in place for Hull offended then they would have been kicked out too.

yeah I believe it was RFLfans it wa mentioned, there's a thread if you go hunting for it, it was a Halifax fan who spotted it but then 2 people emailed the RFL on the back if that, if the thread is correct.

yeah it was a poster on Fax RLfans board. thread title is michael ostick. Was quite amusing saturday night watching all the posts screaming for mods to remove the thread. Think cat was too far out of bag at that stage, Plus a widnes fan posted and said he'd emailed the RFL re the thread.