That's the way I see it. Besides, if anyone thinks the bulls play by the rules they're living in cloud cuckoo land.

They don't break rules as they are tailored by the FC and co-horts to suit all their needs.

As soon as the RFL decided to make all SL teams have a reserve team/squad/league and provide each SL team and Bradford £100k to help pay for it we were never ever going to able to compete. Even with the help of the wonderful Supporters trust we can’t afford it. The most wealthy clubs (app art from Bradford) are given £100k to run their reserves and the clubs with very little but want to develop their local talent are tossed aside again.
I wonder what percent £100k is of Fax’s first team budget? I would be happy for the RFL to give £100k to help run a first team squad let alone a reserve team

So are you saying there an additional £100k on offer for running a reserves as well as the £100k for having a category 1 academy? Because a reserves team costs less than £50k, lets be honest.

As I understand it there is no separate funding for reserves. Teams who run a tier 1 academy receive 100k of funding towards that, Which they have to match themselves. It is a requirement of receiving that academy funding that they also run a reserves for which they get no extra funding,

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... es-3608720 would have been made near impossible for fax to run team.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... es-3608720 would have been made near impossible for fax to run team.

Dual Reg back in, hilarious.

reserve team now back on under giants name but shared with fax and hunslet.

Oh HaliHuddsLet.
Oh HuddsyHunsFax.
Oh WhatTheHelli.

First there was DR, now we have ThreeR.

The structure with Giants and Huntlet is an informal version of the NRL system used by the clubs there that don’t have dedicated reserves. (Broncos have six affiliated clubs due to geographic area covered).

It’s a logical step for a club, like Fax, that no longer has the resources to pursue promotion to Super league, but make no mistake the top tier club is the puppet master.

The logical RFL next step would be to close promotion to all clubs or those with such an arrangement.

The RFL wish is coming to fruition the so called "Elite" then the rest of us Feeder Clubs as per the NRL Format.

Sad times , we started the reserves and have basically shot ourselves in the foot. Now as already mentioned we are a feeder team to a rival. This is the same concept as in Australia. So all our best players will basically end up at Huddersfield and we will get first option on what they don't want.
Can remember the day when we beat Huddersfield convincingly how this great club has gone backwards.
I know we are been forced by RFL to adopt these rules but we as a club will get no where under this system.

Sounds like there has been coaching casualties as well because of the abondening of the reserves. That probably should save some money as well.

Thought it was reported they were staying...? although keeping 2 coaches for a team that no longer exists when money's tight defied any form of logic.

Last line of statement by BOD in Oct re Reserves
Martin Gonzalez and Steve Greenwood, our valued Reserve Coaches, will both still have major roles within the Club.
Whatever that means