No worries, thought I was going mad for a minute wondering if I imagined posting and thinking if I did post it wasnt anything bad.

It's an interesting discussion. From my perspective over here DR hasn't helped us at all. It may have been useful in getting a side on the field when we were initially coming back from oblivion but that's it. The rest of the time it's disrupted the team and caused inconsistency. It's no coincidence that we've looked a happier bunch in the main since Dunning left and the use of DR stopped and the short term loans decreased too.

Sorry to say that I agree with Bullseye that the DR system disrupts teams, and for the record I have always thought this, ( faxlore do your best to find otherwise).

Yer Bullseye must have been heartbroken when to quote the T&A.

“Mark Dunning, who has used the Bulls’ dual-registration partnership with Leeds on numerous occasions so far this season, will have James Donaldson, Luis Roberts and Sam Walters at his disposal in the crunch clash against Fax.”

Especially when they were Bradford’s best players on the night winning by just 4 points precisely because of their input.

I still think despite the losses at Widnes, Batley, and London, that Bradford game was easily as bad as those performances and we still managed to get pretty close to them. We beat them easily in the cup and should have beaten them at Odsal yet Bradford went in to this weekend in 3rd. To me just shows the drop of in standards in the league this season.

...and just look at what that one result has done to the league table. DR = Disgrace!

Just out of interest as anyone got any constructive alternatives to DR ?

Do you still have the same thoughts GFB?

Yes poor game for us against Bradford and on topic because it wasn’t their team that did it.
Likewise the standard of the League although being competitive it’s more like average vs mediocrity across the board with not many games that will be remembered for long so far that’s for sure.

Okay. Fact.

“Hudd-Shay wrote:
Player comes into the club on dr. That player trains maybe twice, at the expense of an established Fax player, learning moves and calls. The dr player is named in the team for the game. On the eve if the game the dr player's club rings SG up and says 'sorry mate, we've changed our mind, send him back. That is doing as you are told!”

“That player trains twice at the expense of an established Fax player.......”
Not named or plays “TRAINS” at the expense of a Fax player.

And if you can’t write properly and actually meant “plays” instead of “trains” your even contradicting your own big EXPENSE point in the same post because if he’s been recalled then the Fax player he was going to replace will come back in and play anyway so its not at his or anyone’s else expense is it! FACT.