The Championship has provided some vintage underdog tales in recent years. Halifax were the first to gain the affection of Rugby League supporters. In 2015 they surged to a top four spot and rallied incredibly to earn an eye-watering £787,000 of central distribution funding with a sixth-place finish. Sadly, there was no fairytale ending to their initial feel-good story. 2016…
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Halifax have completed the signing of Wakefield Trinity hooker Mikey Sio. The Samoan international has joined the club on an initial month-long loan and is set to make his debut in Halifax’s huge clash with Toulouse Olympique on Saturday. He joined Trinity in 2015 from Queensland Cup side Mackay Cutters and made 52 appearances for the Super League outfit in…
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Halifax head coach Richard Marshall believes their Summer Bash opponents, Toulouse, have performed like a Super League team so far this season. The two clubs will clash at the Summer Bash in a pivotal game in the race to make the Qualifiers. Both sides are currently level on points along with London Broncos in the race to make the top…
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Rugby League, as a sport, boasts some proud and fierce rivalries. But perhaps one of the lesser documented rivalries is between two towns in West Yorkshire. Featherstone and Halifax have been going to battle right since the Rovers were founded in 1902. However, since 2010 the two teams have engaged in a competitive and quite often hostile environment that has…
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Hull Kingston Rovers (1st): A Heading into the season, the Robins couldn’t really win. Everyone expected them to take the Championship by storm, so their current position at the top of the league is no real surprise to anybody. But their efforts so far this season should not be underestimated. The Robins haven’t had it easy in games with London,…
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This article first appeared in the April 17th edition of League Express. For articles like this every week, buy League Express every Monday in stores or online at totalrl.com/le. Richard Marshall was so determined to maintain a reserve team at Halifax this season that he set about helping to fund it himself. Fax are one of a small handful of…
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Halifax head coach Richard Marshall believes their Good Friday derby with Bradford is ‘more important’ for the Bulls. The two local rivals lock horns for the first time this season as they renew their rivalry at the beginning of a hectic Easter schedule. Bradford could move off the bottom of the Championship with a victory that would move them to…
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Halifax coach Richard Marshall is hoping that hooker Brandon Moore will make his long-awaited comeback against Dewsbury this weekend. The former Castleford junior has been sidelined for almost three months with a broken hand sustained in pre-season. Marshall said: “He probably needs another full week of training and that will take him to twelve weeks since the injury. “He’s trained…
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Halifax head coach Richard Marshall has heaped praise on Simon Grix for his influence on the club. The former Warrington forward has been an ever-present in Halifax’s Championship campaign so far and was a star performer in their recent victory over Swinton Lions. The Halifax-born star has endured a torrid number of years from both a professional and personal standpoint.…
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Halifax’s hooker crisis has deepened after Connor Robinson was ruled out with a broken hand. The 22-year-old played throughout the club’s 12-10 defeat to Toulouse on Sunday with the injury, only to wake up on Sunday morning with heavy swelling. An x-ray confirmed a hairline fracture, which will leave him on the sidelines for a number of weeks. It leaves…
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