Head Coach: Simon Grix
Simon Grix is
in his first job as a head coach having taken over from Richard Marshall in
April 2019, initially in a caretaker role but was appointed on a permanent
basis a few weeks later.
His playing career began with Halifax (where he was born)
in 2003. He was signed by Warrington in 2005 but missed out on the whole of his
first year because of injury. He returned to Halifax in 2016 both as a player
and as a member of the coaching staff. Although he has played for Fax this year
he has only made one appearance since taking over as head coach.
Simon is what one would describe as a utility having
played at fullback, centre, stand-off, scrum-half, second row and loose
forward! He is an Ireland international.
Captain: Brandon
Moore
Brandon Moore started his career with Castleford in 2015 and moved to Halifax in 2016. When the Championship was shut down during the pandemic in 2020 he played four games for Huddersfield Giants.
He has now played 161 games for Halifax.
Dual Registration and Loans
Halifax do not currently have any players on loan and, as
far as we know, they haven't entered into a dual-reg agreement.
The Fev
Connection
There are 77 players that we know of who have played for both Fev and Halifax, 60 of whom have played in the 'Summer Era'.
In the current Halifax squad
the only player who has previously played for Fev is Frenchman, Louis Jouffret, who we
signed from Batley for the 2020 season but was only able to play 5 games for us
before the pandemic closed down the Championship season.
There are three players in the current Rovers squad who have previously played for Halifax: Dan Fleming, Craig Kopczak and Gadwin Springer.
Amongst those 77 players who
have played for both clubs are Fred Gill, Karl Harrison and Martin Pearson.
We can say with certainty that there won’t be any fans at the match who saw Fred Gill make his Fev début! It was in Fev’s first professional season (1921-22). He didn’t play in the very first match but he was brought into the team for our 6th game in the Northern Rugby League and stayed for 3 seasons before moving to Halifax and later to Bramley. At various times he wore all the shirt numbers from 1 to 7.
Bramley also featured in the career of Karl Harrison for that is where he began before moving to Fev at the age of 21 in 1985. Unusually for a prop forward, Karl scored a hat trick for Rovers against Barrow in 1987. After 4 seasons he moved to Hull FC where he had two spells with 6 years at Halifax between them. He played 14 times for Great Britain and 6 for England. He is, of course, the father of James Harrison who was at Fev from 2019 to 2021.
Martin Pearson made his Fev début at the age of 17 in 1989 and went on to play 166
matches for Rovers, scoring 101 tries, 464 goals and 6 drop goals for a total
of 1,338 points. When he left Fev he went onto play for Halifax, Sheffield and
Wakefield as well as playing rugby union for Pau in France. Martin still holds
the record for the highest points total in a match for Fev when in 1995 he
scored 40 (4 tries and 12 goals) when we beat Whitehaven 60-10.
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