Well that's not what I have heard from sources close to the club.
The comments even contradict themselves and if anything is dire it's the post.

Every Championship club is being cautious because as it stands at the moment none of them even know what type of competition they will be playing until the almighty SL tell the RFL what it will be and decide it for them.

Richard Marshal is being cautious because that's the best way to be, he wants to keep the nucleus of the team together as something to build on with a couple of quality signings if they become available and give some of the better reserve lads a chance to step up, which they will, again sound thinking.

DR will be only used to fill any gaps in the above strategy or as cover for injuries.

Even without a top 4 finish a plan had been discussed well in advance and was in place to keep us competing as well as the next part time club, no doubt it would have been tough but we would still have been here.

The BOD have run debts up to 6 figures and yet one of them who must have been party to what ever contributed to running up the so called debt has now bailed the club out thinking.

Michael Steel like many other club benefactors has given huge amounts of time, money and efforts to Fax for years and it should be acknowledged for the massive contribution that it is and not as part of some "Dire" club position statement that is based on missguided, missinformed hearsay.

Having just watched the highlights put on by Catalan I can't believe Bird didn't get sent off.

Also, while you are ref bashing, have a look at Kendal's decision when Catalan kick for goal. The Cats player is tackled on the 40m, he pulls Fax for offside and gives the penalty 15m upfield.

Can’t believe he’s only on a charge for the throw and that neither he nor the other offender is on a charge for the lake tackles on Murrell, the 2nd one seemed to be an attack to the kidneys. What made it worse, is in that play that the ref played on, straight after Tangy got taken around the head, ref played on once more, but third time lucky (if that’s the right word), Sio then got clobbered and the ref pulled them this time. And the hit on Grady was a shoulder charge to the chin where the defender made no attempt to tackle/use his arms. And ref wondered why our players were reacting and running in!

I always thought that penalties were taken from where the infringement took place.

Something changed...a lot of penalties are now taken from where the defence line is set

Which defence line? Where it should be or where the ref wants it? Depends who you are.

If you're offside at the ptb, the mark is where you should've been.

Not square mark goes back to defence line now but think this is relatively new ?

When we played over there, in the league game, there were two/three late, high challenges on Ben Reynolds, each after he had kicked the ball and was vulnerable. Yet the only suspension was Jamie Acton, for his (stupid and potentially dangerous) reaction to one of the challenges. (by Greg Bird) He got four months for that, and Reynolds picked up a broken nose (the challenge apparently wasn't high!!) Bird did get two matches, for a later punching offence.

Now, some of our lads are no angels, but I think we still have a way to go, to catch up with Catalans!

The Q 8 Games seem to be played under a different set/interpretation of the Rules especially when a Championship v Super Greed Match is played anyway congrats to the 2 Bens Kaye & Johnstone for 100th app for Fax

You deserved your win but what a set of dirty barstewards your team is, you were playing a team of part timers for goodness sake and it seemed to me it was win at any cost and luckily for you the Ref was weak.
For 35 minutes we were in the game although i agree we did not look like scoring sadly, I hope we don't cross paths again as I fear for the safety of our lads who will lose pay at work no thanks to you lot, you won't get away with that against the SL clubs you play!

See Kendall is at Swinton this week, pity he wasn't there last week.

Technically, if you're not square, you're offside. So 10m in front of the ptb is consistent.

So had his bum spanked and dropped down for a bad performance last week.