bantambuff
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Most of my friends think that I am tempermental. That's 90% temper and 10% mental
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Post by bantambuff on May 14, 2008 13:04:04 GMT
I remember Bradford City fans donating money to our club in our 'hour of need' a few years back, helping raise £250k to keep our club going. Giving future generations of Bantams a team to follow, and a place to congregate on a Saturday afternoon.
I only have to look at Halifax's terrible demise and think it could have been us. Wherever you may end up 'Fax', Good Luck. Keep the faith, and one day you will return. Look at Aldershot.
I'm proud to be a Bantam, however low things might get, I'm glad I can still call myself a City fan.
CTID
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Post by Bismarck on May 14, 2008 14:26:04 GMT
I agree....anyone can support Man Utd etc.....it takes a lot more out of you supporting teams like Halifax........and Wrexham!
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Post by arover on May 15, 2008 15:05:58 GMT
Not sure what's happened to them, have they gone bust?
Remember playing them in the old 3rd division and going to the away game at The Shay.
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bantambuff
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Post by bantambuff on May 16, 2008 7:55:04 GMT
Football Conference board expels Halifax Town.
THE consortium are to be informed that a Halifax club will not be playing in the Conference next season. The Football Conference board has expelled the club.
"We feel that Halifax do not qualify," said conference general manager Dennis Strudwick.
"There will be correspondence to the club hopefully today or tomorrow."
Mr Strudwick said he had heard nothing from the administrators running the club since Friday when efforts to reach agreement with creditors failed.
He said a Halifax club would now have to be reformed from scratch and seek approval from the Football Association and then be allocated a league to play in.
Mike Appleby, league manager for the FA, said there would be a place for a Halifax team but the issue would be at what entry level.
"We will accommodate Halifax. We are not going to let football die in Halifax," he said.
The consortium and the Halifax Town Supporters' Trust have both indicated they were interested in running a club.
"We have had notice of intent but not the detail," said Mr Appleby.
The detail will now have to be worked up speedily but confusion surrounds the consortium's intent as it has been working behind the scenes leaving fans in the dark.
The trust is now split with some wanting to back the consortium - with its financial standing and business expertise - and others want the trust to run a members' club.
Mr Appleby said whichever group came forward to form a team it would have to prove security of lease.
A team playing at the Shay can expect to compete in the fourth tier of non-league football in the Northern Premier League Division One North (Unibond).
If games are not played at the Shay then the fifth tier Northern Counties East Football League is the likely scenario.
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Post by Bismarck on May 16, 2008 11:23:36 GMT
It's very sad......There but for the Grace of God...go I..
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Post by likeasharkinafunnyhat on May 16, 2008 15:16:12 GMT
Like Aldershot, i hope they return. One very lucky team... Altrincham!
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Post by Tyler on May 16, 2008 19:59:04 GMT
So are they out for the count then?
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bantambuff
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Post by bantambuff on May 22, 2008 10:05:20 GMT
It is difficult to see a way out of the hole in which Halifax find themselves. If they re-emerge, it will be as a very different club operating at a very basic level.
The tabloids are full of the usual transfer tittle-tattle. Petr Cech wants £90,000 a week, Michael Owen is still raking in £120,000, Real Madrid are willing to throw £100million at Manchester United to steal Cristiano Ronaldo.
Even a boot boy at Birmingham has been handed the keys of a top-of-the-range Merc for scrubbing the boots of a relegated foreign midfielder.
Yet there is no mention of a little club in Yorkshire heading towards oblivion. Halifax simply do not figure in the bigger picture.
But they do exist, just as much as Chelsea, United or Arsenal. To a small section of West Yorkshire, they matter far more.
And for a bit of Premier League loose change, they could have been saved.
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