Featherstone

[Wakefield Ram]

Wonder if we might be looking at any Featherstone players given they have been told they might not be getting paid after this month?

 

[Wakefield Ram]

Reading the Fev forum, it says they are in administration and Ben Reynolds is going to Batley.

[the old nine ole]

Take O' Connor and Beckett back in a heartbeat! ... we might not be the best payers but at least our players always get paid!

[Blind side johnny]

They haven't been paid this month and, from what is claimed, the players can become free agents from midnight tonight. Who we could afford and who would be interested in joining us is another matter.

Expect Sheffield to start hoovering a few up, and maybe Doncaster.

[coolie]

Beckett & O'Connor all day long 

Expect them to chase the quid, usual vulture suspects Picking the bones of the Featherstone carcass

Reynolds won't be cheap.. And for what?? 

It's about time players looked at stability clubs rather than Boom & Bust. 

The Featherstone demise has been predicted by a few learned few that they were an accident waiting to happen, living on former glory's and having a big team mentality.. Which they are not, their troubles were sealed when Campbell got into a d.i.ck waving competition with Dezzy at Leigh, instead of trying to beat Leigh to Super League, should have stepped back and pushed for promotion the year after, that would have more sense

Instead we find that a bus stop in Wakefield is now in big trouble financially.. Big trouble.. Yes, big surprise.. No

With the state of the game and the little money poured in at Championship & League 1 level 

 

Featherstone won't be the last team in financial dire straits

MONEY FOR NOTHING 

AND SO FAR AWAY from safety

[Wakefield Ram]

3 hours ago, Blind side johnny said:

They haven't been paid this month and, from what is claimed, the players can become free agents from midnight tonight. Who we could afford and who would be interested in joining us is another matter.

Expect Sheffield to start hoovering a few up, and maybe Doncaster.

Do Sheffield have any money?

Imagine Doncaster and Oldham might pick up a few but if there's little to no chance of SL, how long will there backers keep paying?

Feb forum says they are in administration so really serious trouble. 

[Blind side johnny]

21 hours ago, Wakefield Ram said:

Do Sheffield have any money?

Imagine Doncaster and Oldham might pick up a few but if there's little to no chance of SL, how long will there backers keep paying?

Feb forum says they are in administration so really serious trouble. 

Yes, Sheffield have a major backer who has put over £1M in in the last 4 years - don't ask me why.

Administration is very serious, if true. There are also things known as "pre-packs" which offer a rapid way out of administration leaving most of the debts behind. Who or which entity might be in a position to enact such a pre-pack is open to speculation.

[Wakefield Ram]

22 minutes ago, Blind side johnny said:

Yes, Sheffield have a major backer who has put over £1M in in the last 4 years - don't ask me why.

Administration is very serious, if true. There are also things known as "pre-packs" which offer a rapid way out of administration leaving most of the debts behind. Who or which entity might be in a position to enact such a pre-pack is open to speculation.

Pre-pack mentioned on Fev forum. 

Not sure the unpaid players will be too happy with that. 

Long time ago but I'm sure Wakefield went into administration and never paid for their corporate box stand behind the posts. 

But if a club has no SL aspirations and it's one league below SL, it makes no difference. 

Edited October 1 by Wakefield Ram

[Blind side johnny]

18 hours ago, Wakefield Ram said:

Pre-pack mentioned on Fev forum. 

Not sure the unpaid players will be too happy with that. 

Long time ago but I'm sure Wakefield went into administration and never paid for their corporate box stand behind the posts. 

But if a club has no SL aspirations and it's one league below SL, it makes no difference. 

A pre-pack wouldn't guarantee acceptance into the RFL; despite what many say there is no such thing as a transferrable licence. I would expect a condition of joining the league would be a requirement to settle all RL debts in full: this would include all debts to other clubs and outstanding payments to players.

[Wakefield Ram]

1 hour ago, Blind side johnny said:

A pre-pack wouldn't guarantee acceptance into the RFL; despite what many say there is no such thing as a transferrable licence. I would expect a condition of joining the league would be a requirement to settle all RL debts in full: this would include all debts to other clubs and outstanding payments to players.

Interesting. I'm sure Fev will find w way through, but that means paying money out with no income in sight. 

[graham fisher]

From what I’m hearing it’s not looking good at all for Fev,which I find sad. Not heard any updates on whether players have been paid yet?
I see North Wales Crusaders have failed to pay their players as well,again spending money they haven’t got.

[STEVE P]

Whilst I  have no sympathy for the plight of those who spend money they don't have in pursuit of something they will never achieve I take no pleasure in seeing clubs whose teams I have watched playing Dewsbury all my life disappearing from the game.

It pains me to see the current state of the game I have loved all my life.

[Blind side johnny]

34 minutes ago, STEVE P said:

Whilst I  have no sympathy for the plight of those who spend money they don't have in pursuit of something they will never achieve I take no pleasure in seeing clubs whose teams I have watched playing Dewsbury all my life disappearing from the game.

It pains me to see the current state of the game I have loved all my life.

As a side note the Bramley club has now folded completely citing a lack of interest all round. I believe that this is also being replicated in many other sports at the community level.

[Wakefield Ram]

8 hours ago, Blind side johnny said:

As a side note the Bramley club has now folded completely citing a lack of interest all round. I believe that this is also being replicated in many other sports at the community level.

Guess young people have a lot more choice how to spend their time. And I don't think summer rugby helps. Bumped into chairman from my old club and he said you need a squad of 35 to run a team due to summer holidays, stag dos, etc..

[Anita Bath]

2 hours ago, Wakefield Ram said:

Guess young people have a lot more choice how to spend their time. And I don't think summer rugby helps. Bumped into chairman from my old club and he said you need a squad of 35 to run a team due to summer holidays, stag dos, etc..

Some of us warned that would happen 30 years ago.

Even in the (semi) professional game we have players (and officials and volunteers) missing for summer holidays. And thats before you include regular paying spectators.

Like everything else in the game it was done to suit those at the top.

[Crown Flatter]

12 hours ago, Anita Bath said:

Some of us warned that would happen 30 years ago.

Like everything else in the game it was done to suit those at the top.

I would suggest that Sky (or its title at the time) told the RFL “If you want us to televise matches, you will have to play in the summer. Take it or leave it”, or some such wording. 

[Blind side johnny]

12 hours ago, Anita Bath said:

Some of us warned that would happen 30 years ago.

Even in the (semi) professional game we have players (and officials and volunteers) missing for summer holidays. And thats before you include regular paying spectators.

Like everything else in the game it was done to suit those at the top.

The community game also runs during winter. In addition, as I said before, this isn't simply a RL problem- blaming it on summer RL is avoiding the real issue.

[Anita Bath]

1 hour ago, Blind side johnny said:

The community game also runs during winter. In addition, as I said before, this isn't simply a RL problem- blaming it on summer RL is avoiding the real issue.

Its a contributory factor, together with shared stadiums that need reseeding over the summer season that are partly responsible for unbalanced fixture lists.

[Blind side johnny]

49 minutes ago, Anita Bath said:

Its a contributory factor, together with shared stadiums that need reseeding over the summer season that are partly responsible for unbalanced fixture lists.

Not for the community game, surely?