Re: If We Did Go Down : Mon May 30, 2022 6:37 pm  

[quote="wrencat1873"]Rather than have to battle to try and gain promotion, we need to throw all that we have into staying up.

Running a FT squad in the Championship, capable of gaining promotion doesnt come cheap and IIRC, the monies given to Championship clubs will be massively reduced from next season.

It looks highly likely that either Fev or Leigh will be promoted this time around, both of whom looked better in the 1895 cup that we do currently, plus maybe York.
A couple or few seasons in the Championship would be horrendous for the club.

Attendances would likely drop to 2-2500 which doesn't seem enough to fund a promotion chasing side ?[/quote



Seems to be working at Featherstone on such gates, wren, as you allude to in an earlier sentence in your post.

Re: If We Did Go Down : Tue May 31, 2022 11:13 am  

[quote="Redscat"]

Who is bankrolling their current spending ?

Re: If We Did Go Down : Tue May 31, 2022 3:45 pm  

I would imagine it’s Mark Campbell the chairman bankrolling Fev

Re: If We Did Go Down : Tue May 31, 2022 4:04 pm  

Normycat1 wrote:

I would imagine it’s Mark Campbell the chairman bankrolling Fev

He can't do it forever.

If they don't get up this season, it could look like another Bradford Bulls.

Re: If We Did Go Down : Wed Jun 01, 2022 7:26 am  

dboy wrote:

He can't do it forever.

If they don't get up this season, it could look like another Bradford Bulls.

Both Fev and Leigh are spending loads this season and one of them is going to be very disappointed.

Re: If We Did Go Down : Wed Jun 01, 2022 7:59 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Both Fev and Leigh are spending loads this season and one of them is going to be very disappointed.

Unless they both go up?!

Re: If We Did Go Down : Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:03 am  

I've generally thought Fev was the better of the two favourites but after watching the cup final at the weekend they suddenley look second best.

Re: If We Did Go Down : Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:57 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

I've generally thought Fev was the better of the two favourites but after watching the cup final at the weekend they suddenley look second best.

I agree with that. I don’t think there’s too much in the backs between them but the forwards are where Leigh have the better of Fev. Leigh have a relatively young, big and mobile set of forwards. Fev have a lot of older heads in the forwards who can probably be great on a given day.

Hard to see past these two for the final anyway.

Re: If We Did Go Down : Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:08 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Unless they both go up?!

How would that work?

Re: If We Did Go Down : Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:15 am  

chissitt wrote:

How would that work?

No relegation & expand to 14 teams.