That doesn't stop you disagreeing with it though.
In Calland's case, his target is Salford coach Shaun McRae.
Mine is former Fax boss turned radio pundit Peter Roe.
Roe is a regular contributor to the local BBC station and was sounding forth on Sunday evening about the relative merits of the contenders for a Super League licence in 2009.
And the man who took Fax to promotion from the old Second Division in 1990/91, with a rag tag and bobtail team assembled virtually from scratch a matter of days before the season kicked off, before being told he would need to reapply for his job the following year, reckons Celtic Crusaders ought to be getting the nod over his former club.
Given the amount of backing there seems to be for the Bridgend-based house of cards in the higher echelons of the game and certain sections of the media, Roe is probably not alone in holding that view.
It was his justification that made me choke on the jelly baby I was eating while raking over the literary ashes of the Fax v Whitehaven match.
First up was the Shay's East Stand.
No change there then, because we all know it's a big problem.
But Roe's Dickensian descriptions of decaying changing rooms and waterlogged tunnel areas were a little over the top, to say the least.
If you want to find some peeling paint and crumbling concrete in rugby league, you don't have to look very hard.
Has Peter never been to Wheldon Road? The Willows? Knowsley Road?
To be blunt, the Shay, even in its current arrangement, is far from the worst offender in that regard.
And for the record, I've never had to pull on a pair of waders when I've gone in search of post-match interviews.
The second point was Fax's financial history, which Roe quite correctly pointed out was a little chequered.
Celtic, apparently, have an unblemished record as far as their bank balance goes.
But then again, they would, wouldn't they, considering they've only been in business for two and a half years.
Show me a rugby league club that hasn't had money troubles and I'll show you, er, Celtic Crusaders.
Just about everyone else, from Huddersfield to Wigan to Bradford to Hull to Wakefield to Castleford, has run aground on a financial iceberg at some point in their long and illustrious history.
Some survived and are currently prospering, others are still recovering.
They've all been there though and no doubt some of them will be there again at some point.
Life's like that. Cyclical.
And to suggest that Fax ought to be discounted on the basis that they actually have a heritage was, to be frank, utter tosh.