Bubba wrote:
1) I am sure your club will be investigating every avenue to come up with further excuses as to why it shouldn't pay more rent than Town.
2) Why do you keep bringing up stewards? Each club pays for their own match day stewards!!!!!!
3) Of course you want both clubs to be on the same rate. Its like living in a house worth £500,000 and your neighbours is worth only £350,000 yet wanting to pay the same as them.
4) All these FOIs? I have done 1! One! Un! Uno!!!!!!! Slurs on the Halifax RLFC board? OK, show me when I have said anything almost slanderous (which is verbal by the way!) about them? Show me where I have written anything libel (which is written) about them? I stick to the truth which is backed up by the FOIs.
5) Halifax Town Supporters' Trust has about 10 members, about £11k in the bank and are in a semi-dormant state. We are up to date with our FCA obligations and I keep in regular touch with Supporters Direct and have always, personally, had a good relationship with the staff there. But feel free to do a FOI although I don't think they would fall under the scope of organisations who have to abide by FOI requests.
Linda, I am not trying to represent anyone and haven't since the successful Asset of Community Value application. Someone summed it up perfectly on theshaymen.net "They seem to think that this is about Halifax Town supporters justifying why Halifax RLFC are paying a higher rent. It isn't; it's about countering the outright lies thrown out by Steele and others involved with the rugby club. When they're out there justifying their non-payment by reference to what Halifax Town pays, it's only right that their "justification" is shown up for what it is - complete and utter bo11ocks."
Have a pleasant day.
Doh they 'live in the same house' its called the Shay and yet again you skip over the points that you don't want to reply to cos you know I have a valid point namely how much more it costs to run the stadium for Town games as they play in the Autumn and Winter when the floodlights are on and for a long time too!
You have put the knife into the Halifax RLFC Board with your words on here saying somebody is lying is strong stuff and the level of your comments is unjustified, the fact is both clubs use the Shay, I agree the rugby club should have paid their rent and argued their case for equality at the same time.
If you split hairs like the way we are all doing it gets plain daft remember this one point this is a COMMUNITY STADIUM owned by the PEOPLE OF CALDERDALE and it should be run that way but we all know there is a vendetta by the staff at the Shay against the rugby club cos they are mostly Town fans end of story. Again Town fans would not be happy if this was the other way around just admit it. Again this is all about the hatred of all things rugby by some Town fans. I like many who are fans of both clubs are sick if the vitriol, some forget it was the rugby fans who paid to kit out the South Stand bar (money from the old Taverners club at Thrum Hall) it was the rugby club (John Pendlebury) who built and kitted out the gym under the South Stand, it was mainly the rugby fans (John Burnett) who did the Raise the roof campaign to get the roof on the South stand (not sure it was for the North as well?), it was a rugby fans majority along with some Town fans who tidied up on Skircoat Road first time around which started the successful later campaign to get the Council to do something with the Shay and it was through one of the rugby club Board members (Michael Steele) that the Rotary Club have done further the tidying up along Skircoat Road, which looks great by the way.
Same rent for both and all this silliness will end what's up with that???
Oh and by the way Town played 29 games at the Shay over the 2013/14 season which included WRCC and Friendly games. Oh and they played an U19 game the other week too is that counted as one???
