that is a bad move for the 1895 cup. financial rewards for going further in the competition yet clubs penalised by a lottery of a draw.

Springer should not of been let go

Not sure what Grix thinks a forward is but highest paid player is maher and well look how he has played this year

You can say the same thing for any Championship team that doesn't have a super-rich sugar daddy. It's impossible otherwise to assemble a squad good enough to compete with SL teams when Championship teams are getting £200k-ish central funding and SL teams £1.8 million (or whatever it is), and you won't know until October whether you are getting promoted or not.

Yep. As you know. In this context it’s the old adage, you assemble a team good enough to get you into SL and then you try and assemble one to keep you there which is a big ask for any Championship club.

Where has this come from that Maher is our highest paid player.

He won't even be in the top 5.

I agree, just comparing them with Leigh last season who did have quite a few players who looked capable of Superleague, but we're still expected to struggle after promotion. I know most see Superleague as the promised land, but if Featherstone do go up I'm afraid they'd be in for a season of absolute tonkings.