David Shepherd

Whereas brand new facilities like Salford’s has a definite air of poo about it. Who’s idea was it to build it right next to an enormous sewage plant?

Good to see them starting to assemble a mid-table championship squad. Shows excellent vision.

Mrs Shepherd didn’t. In fact she got booted out of the three brewers for vaping in the beer garden (which is bizarrely illegal, but smoking weed on the street is fine )

Not that I don’t think it’s a shame we’ve lost Toronto. Best match day experience I’ve ever had. Lovely city too.

What did you want them to do? We'd all lost our collective minds over a nasty cold and the future was extremely uncertain. It wasn't even clear that international travel would ever get back to normal. The financial future looked very scary, they'd have been pretty stupid if they didn't circle the wagons.

Keep going. A yearly fixture against England is a must. Yes they'll get a shellacking for the foreseeable future, but it doesn't seem to worry Italy in the other version. There are more French lads than ever playing in SL and the championship, they'll improve with time but not if we relegate them to playing second tier nations. Despite the one sided nature of the game, I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday. Even if I did end up stood with a couple of Cas fans (luckily my jabs are up to date).

Thought he was poor when Fev played up at Keighley. But he was playing behind a well beaten pack.

Never going to happen. SL teams provide the content that Sky pay for. Only right that they keep the majority of the cash.

Not even a top 10 championship half. Pretty desperate if true.

I think a vet with a bolt gun needs to be called.

Most Inner London boroughs are third world sh!tholes. I wouldn't be surprised if even WF7 had more disposable income per head that them.

If you were from Lancashire, would you shout about it? Also, Lancashire has been butchered and is a shadow of it's former self.

How’d that work out?

Quite accurate as it turned out

Not sure Halifax's advert is family friendly

Roughly half the entrants at the end of round 2?

Axiom are never going to part with cash (it’s not really clear that they even have finance in place at this stage) until they’re well into the build and have tenants signed up. Cas must know this. Getting planning permission is only the first step. It’ll be years before Cas see any money. Wakefield’s experience is a cautionary tale…. Edit. LTS beat me to it

Don’t think it was ever the case that all that was needed was planning permission. As far as I’ve ever read, Cas get the money when shovels are in the ground.

Say we do get promoted this year (something wrong if we don’t). Everything is stacked against us next year. We get last choice on available players, the other 11 SL clubs having snapped up the pick of the available players months before our final. Let’s assume that every other aspect of the club is performing well. Crowds are up, money is rolling in, foundation are in more schools than ever before. Social media engagement is through the roof. We’ve invested that WMDC £2m wisely. Do we really want a season of misery followed by immediate relegation? We’ve spent 15 years and millions of pounds to get to the promised land. Everything else is brilliant, yet we’re back down and fighting for another go at getting up. This is why I support the new way of doing things.

Attendances are just one small part of the overall score. We would also get a small bonus for winning the championship. Look at our foundation, it's absolutely fantastic at what it does. Certainly more active than Wakey or Cas and worth more than the difference between 12th in SL and 1st in Championship. I get that I'm an outlier among Fev fans. I've spent way too much time looking at this scheme and I can't help but like what I see. It's rational and fair and I honestly don't think we've anything at all to fear. Anyway, must do some work. The boss (Mrs Shepherd) is giving me some right grief.

Wakey are a financial basket case. We are always looking at new ways to make revenue from our big asset. we've proved we can still field an expensive squad despite a massive drop in TV money. Fandom isn't just attendances, it's social media engagement, getting more fans in (Cas probably have hit their ceiling, we have much more room to grow). Stadium - It's the best in the area. We have no reason to fear this system

I don't believe it will be a closed shop. I'm happy to trust that IMG know their onions.

I'm willing to give the process a chance. IMG are no idiots, this could be transformational for the sport. I just don't see them putting their names to a stitch up like the last attempt at licensing.

And that trend will no doubt be reversed next season. They're pretty much relegated and we look likely to finally get promoted. Next year matters too.

Club statement. Would have voted yes but for one minor detail https://www.featherstonerovers.co.uk/news/board-statement-img-vote-gA3Nh/