Halifax Town Expelled From Conference

[STFC_Gazzza]

Thrown out of the conference altogether and unlikely to be allowed to play in the Unibond Premier Division North.

http://www.accrington.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=109721

[Rich Pullen]

Sad news for Halifax fans.

I blame Gareth Whalley.

[Bedford Red]

It is sad news for them, feel for the fans, i would hate it if that was us.

[STFC_Gazzza]

A story from the local rag



http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/halifaxtown/Football-Conference-board-expels-Halifax.4089855.jp

THE consortium are to be informed that a Halifax club will not be playing in the Conference next season.
As predicted on our website earlier today 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.

[Reg Smeeton]

I've never quite forgiven Halifax for coming back from 3-0 down at  The Shay, with 20mins to go and winning 4-3, with 2 in the last 3 mins.....this was 62  I can still picture reading about it in The Pink with a stunned sense of disbelief...some fella called Tait scored a hat trick in about 15 mins.

   I suppose they did sell us Ray McHale for about 8K, so maybe I should let go?

[suttonred]

Thank god you haven't got vigilante inclinations, time to let go i think

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Bloody hell the conference like kicking out teams now. It's a shame really. I remember when Halifax were in the football league not so long ago. Still i won't be complaining if they chuck the scum out  

[flammableBen]

I think the conference have decided to get strict before the rot from the lower football league kicks in. Understandably so to be fair. If there was a big football league bankruptcy fallout then it could leave the conference a bit fucked.

[Dazzza]

I think the conference have decided to get strict before the rot from the lower football league kicks in. Understandably so to be fair. If there was a big football league bankruptcy fallout then it could leave the conference a bit fucked.

Spot on and there's a lot of healthy non-league teams running a tight ship or being bankrolled along nicely without the weight of old league debts crippling them.

It would end up like a nursing home for old and rotting league clubs to see out their days if they didn't grip the spanner by the horns.

[Lumps]

There's a load of long standing pub football triva questions changing this season if we're not careful, the clubs with an X in their name are pretty bloody thin on the ground now, and the largest city never to have a top flight team might have to be reconsidered soon too.

[jayohaitchenn]

There's a load of long standing pub football triva questions changing this season if we're not careful, the clubs with an X in their name are pretty bloody thin on the ground now, and the largest city never to have a top flight team might have to be reconsidered soon too.

Milton Keynes?  

[pauld]

There's a load of long standing pub football triva questions changing this season if we're not careful, the clubs with an X in their name are pretty bloody thin on the ground now, and the largest city never to have a top flight team might have to be reconsidered soon too.

Milton Keynes?  

Salisbury.

[Ardiles]

Sadly, I think you are correct.  I was actually pondering this one the other day when I realised that one of my favourite pieces of football trivia was about to change.  (Hull City, by the way, is also the only club of the 92 that you can't colour any of its letter in.)

After Milton Keynes, I'd have thought other contenders for largest city never to have been represented by a top flight team would be Southend, Basingstoke and Gloucester...of which the latter two have not even been represented by league teams at all.

[pauld]

Sadly, I think you are correct.  I was actually pondering this one the other day when I realised that one of my favourite pieces of football trivia was about to change.  (Hull City, by the way, is also the only club of the 92 that you can't colour any of its letter in.)

After Milton Keynes, I'd have thought other contenders for largest city never to have been represented by a top flight team would be Southend, Basingstoke and Gloucester...of which the latter two have not even been represented by league teams at all.

Basingstoke's a city??  :shock:

[Ardiles]

No - thank God.  I meant town/city.

And for the record - Milton Keynes isn't a city either, even though many of its inhabitants seem to think it is.  (It's not really a town either...more of 1960s planning accident constructed entirely of plastic and concrete.)