Well for me I feel the game has nobody who has a clue or a leader at the RFL. The RFL have a System which I feel wont last more than a couple of years. I dont see where exactly either the Pro or the Amateur game is heading and we are just being fed spin by the RFL and Clubs- not just our own. The game is in a mess as I see it and nobody as yet has a clear plan on trying to sort it. The RFL are playing Russian Roulette and the Clubs are just happy to Play instead of Standing up and asking where are we going with this and what do we hope to achieve?

I can understand the DR with HKR even if I dont like it. What concerns me is the Partnership. Work together and learn not a Problem. But what is the actual state of our Club and do we Need to be concerned that 12-18 months ago we scoffed at Batley, Leigh, Dewsbury etc for doing DRs and Partnerships and even stated we would not go down that road. Why have we suddenly done a U Turn? Where is the Club actually going? Why do we Need a partnership with any Club on scouting and academy Rugby? What is the Clubs plans if we done make the top 6 for example? With the game being run by headless chickens at the RFL, will this see our Clubs happily continue to follow them or will somebody stand up and say enough is enough? The way things are going we will see another System come in place in a couple of years that will further push us behind where we would like to be.

I have yet to see anything from the RFL to give me any confidence in them or where the game is heading. And with the partnership I feel the Club is in such a state that we are throwin the last roll of the dice in tryin to stay with the bigger Championship Teams. I am yet to be convinced that the Club will actually benefit that much from this. And I am still to be convinced that our Club has much of a future, despite the hard work of the BoD and others. The spin by the RFL about this new System has given People a false sense of hope for me. I see it that the game like the Clubs are just hoping things will work out with no clear plan of what they actually hope to achieve and how.

No. The loan system, as you say, has been in place for many years and has been of benefit to All clubs. DR is totally different.

HS. Lets hope RM sticks to his word and picks his side from the 25 contracted players to start the season with and get some games in.

If the lads play well enough then there will be no need for him to change the team.

Have read the posts and there appears to be more negativity than positivity. Rovers will still be in super league come the end of 2015 and you will still be mid table with your proud history... obviously you dont like change

Seems reasonable. We give our opponents 48 hours notice on our team selection so that you can decide whether you may or may not attend the game..

Quick question though, if we loan a player from say Warrington for a month to cover an injury, would you attend any of those games?

Yeah, to answer your first part of your response, i think they term it at the RFL something like "48 hour 19 man matchday squad" it's been in place for a while now. Working on the assumption that our games will almost exclusively be played on a sunday & SL games can be almost any day or night of the week i reckon at least 17 of the Hull KR boys can sort of be not considered for selection at Halifax, but no doubt this is open to abuse, probably by the parent club.


Yes of course i would, it hasn't stopped me over the last 40-odd years. I'd also watch a team from the lower divisions if we loaned them any of our players too. Nothing much has been mentioned of us bringing players in from a tier below what we play at, think back to Luke Brannigan or his ilk, did us no harm either. I like to see things from every angle & i still conclude that dual-reg is wrong, morally it's wrong, the SL club gets all the SKY money, end of story.

I wonder if the Fax fans posting on here are representative of their fans in general or just a vociferous few. The latter I suspect the same as on all forums.

Which group are you talking about?
What im reading is,the majority dont like it but are happy to go along with it,whilst there are 3 or 4 who are saying thanks but no thanks.

Hello Keith.
There seems to be a wide range of viewpoints on here regarding DR as a whole, a few of them are below and there are likely others as well.

Some will not go to any games as long as Fax are DR linked to any club.

Some will go to games as long as no players from the DR club are in the team.

Some will just keep going as before and see how it works out.

It has nothing to do with the actual link to HKR as such, so it's not a personal thing against you or your club, HKR have a proud history as a club just has Fax have which no one can deny or are trying to do.

Just how the for and against numbers pan out will be seen in how many turn up when the team is picked.

In any case the views on here by anyone are just their views and not really representative of anything other than that.