Championship squads

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

11 minutes ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

In reality it's all down to one match Toulouse v Wakefield Trinity i think

Will still be a great league though

Maybe two matches if Toulouse win the league game? 

[DEANO]

On 12/12/2023 at 20:09, Wollo Wollo Wayoo said:

Maybe two matches if Toulouse win the league game? 

Why

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

1 minute ago, DEANO said:

Why

Could give them home advantage in the same fixture play off final.

[DEANO]

Just now, Wollo Wollo Wayoo said:

Could give them home advantage in the same fixture play off final.

Still a one off game

[dealwithit]

York a chance of taking a top 12 grading if they win the comp?

[The Blues Ox]

29 minutes ago, dealwithit said:

York a chance of taking a top 12 grading if they win the comp?

No. We know Wakefield provisonally going on what has been said should be comfortably in so that leaves Toulouse who could be somewhere near and although points for winning the competition are tiny, those extra points could see them sneak in there. The only other team on paper anywhere near is Bradford but there seems to be a lot of talk that they are near to their ceiling and their points could reduce rather than improve when it comes to the official rankings. 13 points is likley to be the lowest amount that will get you in and could be a touch higher so York would have to make up 3 points and doing that in the Championship is going to be very hard to do.

[Bulls2487]

2 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:

No. We know Wakefield provisonally going on what has been said should be comfortably in so that leaves Toulouse who could be somewhere near and although points for winning the competition are tiny, those extra points could see them sneak in there. The only other team on paper anywhere near is Bradford but there seems to be a lot of talk that they are near to their ceiling and their points could reduce rather than improve when it comes to the official rankings. 13 points is likley to be the lowest amount that will get you in and could be a touch higher so York would have to make up 3 points and doing that in the Championship is going to be very hard to do.

Be interesting to see where you think Bulls will lose points from?

 

[The Blues Ox]

2 hours ago, Bulls2487 said:

Be interesting to see where you think Bulls will lose points from?

 

0.5 from attandances would be the obvious one as they dip under the 3k average as it will be judged by number of people of actually in attendance. That would leave them about 1.5 points short of being in the mix, going through the gradings I'm struggling to see how they get near that.

[DEANO]

Pathetic in it

[Bulls2487]

3 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:

0.5 from attandances would be the obvious one as they dip under the 3k average as it will be judged by number of people of actually in attendance. That would leave them about 1.5 points short of being in the mix, going through the gradings I'm struggling to see how they get near that.

So your saying the Bulls included fans who didn't attend? Any evidence?

[The Blues Ox]

2 minutes ago, Bulls2487 said:

So your saying the Bulls included fans who didn't attend? Any evidence?

Yeah theres pictures posted about on this forum, you will have to do a search for them though. Other people have said similar as well but I think I might be the only one who posted the evidence. FWIW I don't think the Bulls are alone in this by any stretch its just that theirs are picked out because they are the most obvious.

[Bring back GB]

8 minutes ago, Bulls2487 said:

So your saying the Bulls included fans who didn't attend? Any evidence?

From the crowd photos I saw this year it was glaringly obvious the attendances were grossly exaggerated, presumably just to pinch IMG points!

[Bulls2487]

23 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:

Yeah theres pictures posted about on this forum, you will have to do a search for them though. Other people have said similar as well but I think I might be the only one who posted the evidence. FWIW I don't think the Bulls are alone in this by any stretch its just that theirs are picked out because they are the most obvious.

So no actual evidence except a picture?  

 

[The Blues Ox]

3 hours ago, Bulls2487 said:

So no actual evidence except a picture?  

 

Yeah you are right, there may have been 2k fans all went to the toilets around the same time. What more evidence do you want other than crowd pics when a game is ongoing.

Edited December 17, 2023 by The Blues Ox

[TrueBull]

8 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:

Yeah you are right, there may have been 2k fans all went to the toilets around the same time. What more evidence do you want other than crowd pics when a game is ongoing.

We could always pick up a half point by turning the pitch 90 degrees, thereby picking up the point for having corporate opposite the halfway line. The pitch is basically square anyway so it makes no difference…..

[Tubby]

On 06/12/2023 at 10:06, The Phantom Horseman said:

In Bullseye-style "here's what you could have won", this is the team that has LEFT Fev since last year   Fev currently down to 16.
1 Mark Kheirallah
2 Luke Briscoe
3 Joey Leilua
4 Chris Hankinson
5 Craig Hall
6 Johnno Ford
7 Dane Chisholm
8 James Lockwood
9 Matty Wildie
10 Junior Moors
11 John Davies
12 Elijah Taylor
13 Matthieu Cozza
subs
14 Craig Kopczak
15 Dan Smith
16 Ellis Longstaff
17 Arama Hau
reserves Luke Cooper, Tyla Hepi



 

'Kin 'Ell.  That puts things into context.  We might be going through a 'mini-Wakefield' reboot, and that looks like a hell of a lot to overcome.

[Wolford6]

Nobody should allow us to play in Superleague on the current pitch. It's a disgrace to the game.

[Tex Evans Thigh]

22 minutes ago, Tubby said:

'Kin 'Ell.  That puts things into context.  We might be going through a 'mini-Wakefield' reboot, and that looks like a hell of a lot to overcome.

It's a lot of players but frankly not that many are big misses. There are a lot of very old players in that list and a lot of them have indeed retired. With more funding the only ones you'd probably want to keep are Hankinson, Cozza and maybe ET and Davies for depth. Obviously Hau as well but he was always just here on loan. 

I think Fev's 17 for next season is actually better than last season but the big issue is squad depth so a lot will depend on what we get from HKR and how they integrate into the squad when they come over. 

[Agbrigg]

3 hours ago, Wolford6 said:

Nobody should allow us to play in Superleague on the current pitch. It's a disgrace to the game.

In all fairness it's a disgrace to the championship too.

[RBKnight]

On 06/12/2023 at 10:06, The Phantom Horseman said:

In Bullseye-style "here's what you could have won", this is the team that has LEFT Fev since last year   Fev currently down to 16.
1 Mark Kheirallah
2 Luke Briscoe
3 Joey Leilua
4 Chris Hankinson
5 Craig Hall
6 Johnno Ford
7 Dane Chisholm
8 James Lockwood
9 Matty Wildie
10 Junior Moors
11 John Davies
12 Elijah Taylor
13 Matthieu Cozza
subs
14 Craig Kopczak
15 Dan Smith
16 Ellis Longstaff
17 Arama Hau
reserves Luke Cooper, Tyla Hepi



 

Aged to perfection..... give this bunch a couple of years more, and they'd be Tubby Ashton's Dream Team for the Eagles 

[The Phantom Horseman]

8 minutes ago, RBKnight said:

Aged to perfection..... give this bunch a couple of years more, and they'd be Tubby Ashton's Dream Team for the Eagles 

South Yorkshire seems to be a retirement home for ex-Fev players...I make it that Sheffield and Doncaster have 16 between them.

[Rene_Artois]

8 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

South Yorkshire seems to be a retirement home for ex-Fev players...I make it that Sheffield and Doncaster have 16 between them.

Alright. I get that Craig Hall's knocking on (not sure where he'll play but good back up). You're happy to lose Briscoe though? Released because not good enough or too expensive? Genuine question. 

Lyne and Briscoe on left side with decent service from Sutcliffe and Robinson could give us a few points 

Edited December 18, 2023 by Rene_Artois

[RBKnight]

6 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

South Yorkshire seems to be a retirement home for ex-Fev players...I make it that Sheffield and Doncaster have 16 between them.

In signing 28 year old Matty Marsh from York, the Eagles now have a youth policy.....

[The Phantom Horseman]

7 minutes ago, Rene_Artois said:

Alright. I get that Craig Hall's knocking on (not sure where he'll play but good back up). You're happy to lose Briscoe though? Released because not good enough or too expensive? Genuine question 

Briscoe's still a very good player, you'll love watching him and Hally, am not knocking these guys at all! Plenty of Fev fans wanted to keep Luke.

As for your question, genuinely not sure. Fev are operating on half last year's budget hence why about 19 have moved on. Hard to say which ones were purely on economic grounds especially without knowing how much money each player was on.

Edited December 18, 2023 by The Phantom Horseman

[Rene_Artois]

1 minute ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Briscoe's still a very good player, you'll love watching him and Hally, am not knocking these guys at all! Plenty of Fev fans wanted to keep Luke.

As for your question, genuinely not sure. Fev are operating on half last year's budget hence why about 19 have moved on. Hard to say which ones were purely on economic grounds especially without how much money each player was on.

Fair reply. Thanks