Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:42 pm  

faxcar wrote:

And that's all you can say isn't it, like a clockwork toy stuck on the skirting board with nowhere to go.

Get some tea shirts with "We saved the Shay" on them and wear them in public if your so proud of what you have done.

Have you got the guts to come out from behind your keyboard, after all surely you would like all them people from the community you have saved to thank you properly.

Ha ha I've added more to my last post now actually!!



Looking forward to hearing all about your missionary work within the community in the name of Halifax RLFC. After all, that's the purpose of the club isn't it?

Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:51 pm  

Never_Shay_Die wrote:

Yes that's right.

This thread was started to acknowledge the council's decision to call off the potentially illegal and undervalued sale of an asset to the Town. As asset that costs less to run and has more potential than the library, theatre and swimming baths. A sale that would have threatened the future of the two clubs by placing unecessary risk on the stadium.

A great decision by the council following the actions of the football supporters. A decision which may have saved your club from extinction or, at least, losing their home.

In contrast you narrow-minded Abbot worshipers were blinded by nothing but love for the man and would happily sell your bodies to him if he spun the right words.

We don't expect a thank you but how can you hate your club so much?

I also look forward to Abbott's sponsorship of an FCHT game in the near future, now that the sale is off.

Completely delusional. ..

I thought it was bubba in front, but your so far up your own.

The stadium will eventually be sold, at a lot less when it's left to decay, why should they upkeep northanand west stands when not used

Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:52 pm  

Never_Shay_Die wrote:

Ha ha I've added more to my last post now actually!!



Looking forward to hearing all about your missionary work within the community in the name of Halifax RLFC. After all, that's the purpose of the club isn't it?

No tea shirts then. Cluck, Cluck, Cluck.

Chicken for tea anyone, there's plenty of it.

Kentucky fried NSD, the headless version.

Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:01 pm  

faxcar wrote:

No tea shirts then. Cluck, Cluck, Cluck.

Chicken for tea anyone, there's plenty of it.

Kentucky fried NSD, the headless version.

Ah yes, make a crap joke and ignore the point. You all over.

There's plenty of mutton available; not so sure about chicken.

Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:13 pm  

faxcar wrote:

Have you got the guts to come out from behind your keyboard, after all surely you would like all them people from the community you have saved to thank you properly.

Ah the Irony of, yes you guessed it, this being posted from behind a keyboard.

Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:22 pm  

The Shay was full yetserday proving what an asset it is to the community....It reaffirms that the stadium is a community asset.

The Shay was nowhere near full because the stadium has substandard toilets which dont work properly and seating and steps that are damaged and are against health and safety rules. The luddites that follow Halifax Town might fing such things acceptable but most normal people dont. Comments included that people felt the Stadium was in a poor state due to dmamaged seats and poor toilets. Great way to advertize the Stadium and Halifax with such facilities to potential new fans and visitors to the town and stadium
And how is holding a Rugby League game making the Shay a communnity stadium? The Stadium is not a community asset and less than 3% of the local population even use the Shay except for yesterday. The Shay stadium is a decaying wreck that is only going to get worse. The sad little luddites who follow Halifax Town are happy to accept watching in sub standands and live in the past. Meanwhile the rest of us look to the future

You should be thanking us, espeically our supreme leader Bubba, as we may have just saved your club.... the football supporters have saved your club....Your paranoid spouting of political nonsense....Still, you lot are no strangers to hypocrisy.

Saved our club? No just basically condemned The Shay has your glorious Luddite leader Bubba. As said you luddites maybe quite happy watching sport in a dirty, broken capacity reduced stadium. Most others are not. Your Luddite leader and his little set of nothings like you are the ones spouting political nonsense and being hypocritical. Who was doing all the moaning last year about the Council and its job of looking after the stadium and pitch? The lies and slanderous comments on the luddites forum including from Bubba himself show what type of neanderthals you lot are. The Calderdale area has been allowed to become a backwater because people like Bubba and yourself that are frightened to embrace the future and are happy living in the past.

Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:30 pm  

The Lucky Black Cat wrote:

The Shay was nowhere near full because the stadium has substandard toilets which dont work properly and seating and steps that are damaged and are against health and safety rules. The luddites that follow Halifax Town might fing such things acceptable but most normal people dont. Comments included that people felt the Stadium was in a poor state due to dmamaged seats and poor toilets. Great way to advertize the Stadium and Halifax with such facilities to potential new fans and visitors to the town and stadium
And how is holding a Rugby League game making the Shay a communnity stadium? The Stadium is not a community asset and less than 3% of the local population even use the Shay except for yesterday. The Shay stadium is a decaying wreck that is only going to get worse. The sad little luddites who follow Halifax Town are happy to accept watching in sub standands and live in the past. Meanwhile the rest of us look to the future


Saved our club? No just basically condemned The Shay has your glorious Luddite leader Bubba. As said you luddites maybe quite happy watching sport in a dirty, broken capacity reduced stadium. Most others are not. Your Luddite leader and his lille set of nothings like you are the ones spouting political nonsense and being hypocritical. Who was doing all the moaning last year about the Council and its job of looking after the stadium and pitch? The lies and slanderous comments on the luddites forum including from Bubba himself show what type of neanderthals you lot are. The Calderdale area has been allowed to become a backwater because people like Bubba and yourself that are frightened to embrace the future and are happy living in the past.

The seating and toilets are simply maintenance issues which cold easily be fixed and I'm sure the council will now have been alerted to this. It still appears that you want the Shay to be a venue which holds 20,000 and becomes a white elephant in the same way that Darlington has, and completely empty, similar to the fortune of StadiumMK. As thing stand we have two of the largest terraces in the country and a new stand which cost £6 million, a lot of which was from the council. The rest being from the football club. Not a penny was put into the ground by the rugby club, so if we're blaming anyone for the "state" that the ground is in then why not the Rugby?

You've never owned the ground in the same way that the football haven't, but it never stopped us putting money into it to make it what the club needed for the level it had ambitions to play in.

Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:06 pm  

Wheres the money coming from to fix these "Simple maintenance issues"? We are not just talking a couple of grand here. And there are other issues that need addressing properly not just hoping the cheapest option is good enough.
And once again you fail to see the benefits that TAs plans would have. 20,000 for example would be ideal to host representative games/Cup semi/semi finals. And under TAs plan the Stadium would be in use 7 days a week so it wouldne be a white elephant only in use once or twice a week. Many people would be using it to work in as well and use other facilities. I fail to see how that would make it a white elephant.

Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:33 pm  

The Lucky Black Cat wrote:

Wheres the money coming from to fix these "Simple maintenance issues"? We are not just talking a couple of grand here. And there are other issues that need addressing properly not just hoping the cheapest option is good enough.
And once again you fail to see the benefits that TAs plans would have. 20,000 for example would be ideal to host representative games/Cup semi/semi finals. And under TAs plan the Stadium would be in use 7 days a week so it wouldne be a white elephant only in use once or twice a week. Many people would be using it to work in as well and use other facilities. I fail to see how that would make it a white elephant.

To fix the seats and add toilets? If you think that will be more than a few grand then you're being ripped off, even hypothetically speaking.

If neither club needs 20,000 what is the point? To allow the towns folk to all com out of the woodwork every time a world cup game comes to the Shay? Remind me what the crowd was for the Northern Rail Cup final was? It seems the ground was deemed good enough as t is for that game, really unsure as to what else you'd like to see? You clearly didn't hear Andrew Voss yesterday saying that the town and its clubs could be proud of the magnificent stadium that they had.

Tony Abbott, if he so desires, would have no football opposition if he were to use the South-East annex for Reactiv Offices, that would get the ground in use and allow the extra jobs which he wants to create. Everyone is a winner.

Re: council statement. : Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:52 pm  

The Lucky Black Cat wrote:

The Stadium is not a community asset and less than 3% of the local population even use the Shay except for yesterday. The Shay stadium is a decaying wreck that is only going to get worse. The sad little luddites who follow Halifax Town are happy to accept watching in sub standands and live in the past. Meanwhile the rest of us look to the future.

Oh really. 3% that's your argument? I wonder if that was the argument you were lobbying the council with 7 years ago when you were marching on the Town Hall trying to stop them selling The Shay.

You must really hate your club.

It doesn't hold water anyway. What exactly are you basing that on? The average weekly attendances of the two clubs? What about the bigger crowds that turn up for the bigger games? What about the functions at The Shay? What about the 5-a-side pitch, the kids who play tournaments and finals on the pitch? The Staff at The Shay, both employed by the two clubs and the council? All people who have an interest in some form.

How many are regulars are there or those who might only use it once a year, for example?

Now how does this compare to the library, for example, which cost 8x as much to run? How many people use that regularly or in any capacity at all? What potential does it have, especially in today's digital age?

What about the swimming baths? Or theatre?

It's nothing but a lame attempt to try to explain how the 'future' lies in the hands of your god and saviour; the deceitful spin doctor. Let him get it on the cheap, mortgage it, set up a bunch of businesses and cross our fingers. If it all goes wrong then the club's are fecked but TA has a massive asset to fall back on. Brilliant.

But you don't need to worry because FCHT fans will always do what's best for the stadium and therefore your club.