Rotherham Fev Fan wrote:
Good post and good analytical - tho definition of what makes a 'big club' is ambiguous, but either way Fax would compare on most facets.
Your comments about directors and their activity is key.
Craig Poskitt the CEO, Paul Taylor the Marketing gadgy, Mark Campbell, Daryl etc are never out of the media.
Whilst the YEP article and 'leaks' on social media/forums etc might have attracted some derision from some fans of other clubs (maybe with some concern because they see another club attracting significant opportunities?? - I know I would if it was roles reversed!!), - Nevertheless, Fev is hardly out of the media.
It directors and staff bang the drum at every opportunity 'bigging up' Fev whenever they can. It appears to be paying considerable dividend.
Are Fax's BoD/staff as prominent? Would you swap places - genuine question?
Of course we might well just not get a licence and Fax might get one. In which case I'll sulk and mornge for a month or so, bang on about the injustice of it all then prep for another game in the CC!!!!
Paul Taylor is never out of the clubs & pubs of the Fev/Cas/Ponte district darts and doms league either according to his midweek evening postings on FB LOL.
Listen, if Fev or any other club outside of SL ( including our beloved blue & whites of Halifax ) can make a fist of it & have a go in the promised land why shouldn't they ?
Good luck to them if it all comes off & they do get hoisted and can sustain it. I won't decry the work our club have done on or off the field over the last few years, cos the people involved who I know & know well have worked their backsides off for the cause despite many many knockbacks & post-moving exercises by the RFL.
I honestly believe that the SL era hasn't been good to Halifax RLFC & I base it on three major factors:
1. The fact that we had to leave Thrum Hall & time has proved to me that we had to go along with that decision, like it or not but it cost us a lot of our fanbase combined with the summertime schedule of matches.
2.
Previous people running our club making some horrendous business decisions.
3. The bitter taste in all of our mouths at Halifax & it's connections at the rejection and let down we felt at being booted out of SL.
My third point is echoed in almost every topic we discuss on this forum with our jibes at the RFL or some of it's individuals personally, their actions, lack of support for us ( the points deduction was a genuine pi$$ take in my opinion ) but their insistance on retaining certain other SL member clubs at any cost, literally. The fact that we were bullied into leaving Thrum Hall while other clubs have hung in there with stadia that to this day are in worse nick than what a decent amount of stadia outside SL operate & function at is ridiculous, we all know which current grounds are rubbish. The expansion mantra will be shown to be the sick joke that it has always been if another West Yorkshire club were to be admitted, but as I say good luck to anyone who can crack the code to the thing that we called the "drawbridge". That thing that was going to be non-admittance to all outsiders which we all believed was what was going to be. BUT, if Fev do get in, & I believe they will at some point sooner rather than later
( maybe we'll go with them, who knows ? ) won't that give further hope for the ambitious clubs amongst us who remain ? Let's put it this way, the stories we all hear & discuss about SL clubs' financial situations, either there would have to be some form of re-structure or the RFL will end up buying all of the stricken clubs' stadiums & saving their asses to remain elite & we all know that isn't going to happen cos they can't run their own house nevermind everyone elses !
