No they don't. They get decent hone crowds but what do they bring when they play over here? For me you could include a team in south Africa and get the same result.

A few Questions I have-



- What is the aim of the trust these days? Its certainly shifted from the original plans when it was set up.



- How independent is the trust? No website anymore, a google search for "Halifax RLFC Supporters Trust" brings up a page on the official website



- Reading the "Supporters Direct Membership Policy" parts a) and b)







This protest/campaign does neither IMO



- I understand no one from the Fax Trust has been to the Quarterly Meetings held by Supporters Direct for RL Trusts for a while.







I feel that the interests of the Trust should stop with the club, a wider campaign such as this is not an activity the trust should be used as a vehicle to support, and is perhaps something that the supporters club should be running, if they did choose to involve themselves.



The Trust has done great work over the years, and this past year along has been very good by been able to fund the u23s, but Supporters Trust's are not fundraising vehicles,thats the job of a Supporters Club or Association.

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they take as many fans away as many champ clubs take away. And whilst at home they get more than most super league clubs. Head into perpignan on a game day...the whole town shuts down whilst the game is on. But I suppose they are French.

As an original founder of The Trust I have to say Brew that you are very wrong on a number of fronts.



Also we are totally independent and are not just looking to represent fans of Halifax but all RL fans.



Let me ask another question...... How many on here who have voiced an opinion are members of the trust? We have about 120 members of which about 6 turn up regularly to our meetings. Ideally we need 500 fans and we will have a much stronger voice but this will take time

Brew you ask how independant is the Trust and I will ask you how independant do you think the Supporters Direct is ? The last meeting I went to I was aghast to tell you the truth and the Championship reps were somewhat put in our place by Rimmer , the only one to speak up for us was the Colne Valley MP.

I have challenged this since and was told that the Supporters Direct are part funded by the RFL and the meeting came across as purely and simply a PR excercise for the RFL.

Laura Harrison has done sterling work in this area for Supporters Direct and works really hard but I think it is a conflict of interest when an organisation born out of supposadly representing fans of the game are reliant on the very organisation they should be challenging.

If fundraising for the Club is not the job of the Trust but a Supporters Club then who is going to funrdaise for the Club as we don`t have a Supporters Club.

Supporters Direct does have its issues and politics, I understand the Premier League withdrew their funding after been challenged over something.



As for Fundraising, I see Warrington Wolves supporters Trust run the "Squadbuilder" as a sub section of the trust, Fax trust runs the "Fax Builder" whereas for instance, at York, the club themselves run a Squadbuilder fund. I see no issue with that but what other aims does the trust have currently?



I understand that the intention is to do this not just for Halifax Fans but all RL Fans, but if thats the case should it be the Halifax Supporters Trust doing this, or a newly formed group perhaps incorporating fans of other clubs as well?

Come to the meeting Brew on Monday and we can give everyone more info. We want to kick start the campaign but the intention is for it to grow into much bigger than just us. Think your thinking too literally about the trust. I suggest you read and digest the whole press release again.

The supporters trust have already raised 25k for the fax fund builder this season and as proved how important it is to the club and its supporters through hard work and determination there for I am delighted they have decided to try challenge the RFL over the disgusting way our beautiful game is run. You saw how angry I am about what happened with my speech in the south stand bar on saturday I was trying to get people to fight back and now the supporters trust as given us the chance to do this. Well done Linda, Chris and co I am 100% behind you.

isn't this exactly what the new group is trying to do?

I agree with Brew on that point, If indeed it is for the whole of RL then you certainly should not have the club name in the title of that particular supporters trust, Perhaps a Championship Supporters trust or something along those lines.



Put it this way when its on Sky with the " HATE THE RFL " banners and t-shirts the only people who are going to look silly are those wearing them and the club will also be made to look stupid. It sound like a child who doesn't want to play anymore and is coming accross more that way than any other. In one of Chris Smiths posts earlier in the thread he wrote, something along the lines of i understand what people are saying " BUT I HATE THE RFL" for what they have done, from someone outside looking in it looks more like the voice of the people is more about getting his point accross than listening to the majority of what people are saying, Hate is far too strong a word. ( Do we hate the RFL and the Benovolent fund that helps players who have had the misfortune of needing it, i dont think so) I dont hate everything RFL far from it but the way this licensing went about i certainly am begrieved



If its worded properly then i would buy t-shirts and wear them to the games as a protest but anything with the word Hate on and i want nothing to do with it and when it tarnishes the club the blame will be solely down to that wording.