: Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:27 am  

Leon Ashton wrote:

OK the Blue part fair enough but Sox??? Could have gone with Blues Brothers :shock:

That is seriously weird. Sitting at my PC with iTunes on shuffle as usual and at the very second I read your post what comes on? The Blues Brothers - I'm Looking For A Fox.

Re: Halifax Blue Sox makes my teeth grind : Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:03 am  

Tony Fax wrote:

Nigel Wood was the Gordon Brown of Rugby League .... totally incompetent but still thought he was good and that it was everyone else who were the clueless 'nob 'eds. But despite everything still had his supporters (eg Office Boy). The state of the club now compared to the state of the club when Mr Full of Sh!te Clown was around just says it all ... no argument needed ... discussion "N/A". Dark days indeed.

It always reminded me of the well known fairy story " The Kings New Clothes" there were a few around him that believed it but when he was exposed to the masses "he was in the alltogether".

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:30 am  

Fax Machine wrote:

That is seriously weird. Sitting at my PC with iTunes on shuffle as usual and at the very second I read your post what comes on? The Blues Brothers - I'm Looking For A Fox.

Its a sign

Re: Halifax Blue Sox makes my teeth grind : Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:26 pm  

Tony Fax wrote:

Nigel Wood was the Gordon Brown of Rugby League .... totally incompetent but still thought he was good and that it was everyone else who were the clueless 'nob 'eds. But despite everything still had his supporters (eg Office Boy). The state of the club now compared to the state of the club when Mr Full of Sh!te Clown was around just says it all ... no argument needed ... discussion "N/A". Dark days indeed.

AGREED!!! I have met him on a couple of occassions. Decent enough bloke but simply he has little idea of the real world. I blame him for a few things that went wrong but then there were many who should shoulder the blame which saw us heavily in debt and having to make very poor decisions- the way TH was sold and the way many people were not happy and vowed never to go to The Shay etc and money going in to a black Hole, Stupid Name that was very hard to Market. There are many questions about this time that simply will never be answered for example.

Having somebody who is incompetant as I feel Nigel Wood was as CEO alongside others at Fax at that time made life a struggle forever more. How could he and the Board for example let us get over 1 Million in debt? Why the name "Blue Sox" that had no real connection with the Sport or the local area and that annoyed many fans?

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:52 pm  

Remember the ill fated Huddersfield Barracudas in the 80s!

: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:44 pm  

jeffvickers wrote:

Remember the ill fated Huddersfield Barracudas in the 80s!

Does anyone remember Huddersfield in the '80's ???????????

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:20 am  

nigel wood is like clive woodward was when he was southampton manager out of his depth.

who remembers doncaster lakers.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:37 pm  

Leon Ashton wrote:

OK the Blue part fair enough but Sox??? Could have gone with Blues Brothers

We wear blue 'socks'. As I said before, wrong sport, wrong country.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:20 pm  

Haighy wrote:

We wear blue 'socks'. As I said before, wrong sport, wrong country.

They were trying to be different, which it was. But it still sounded lame.

Jumping the gun, but if we did make it into the Super League would we have to come up with a new name?

I always fancied "Halifax bombers" until I realised it would sound a bit like "Halifax bummers" in chants on the terraces.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:38 pm  

Hull & St Helens don't