So Fevs coach is now also acting as Rhinos Assistant coach.

Nothing more than a feeder club, soon they'll be playing in old Rhinos kit handed down.

Yup!

....say fans of a club whose coach went to their DR partners several times to pick up some skills.......

ex-coach...

Tool. Enjoy your future as the rent-a-squad, now rent-a-coach.

I heard he also watched some internet videos of Brian McDermott as well............Can't remember him ever signing for Leeds while he were there though.

Sorry, not being funny but weren't you all praising Richard Marshall last year for being part of the Castleford setup on gamedays.

No. I found it embarrassing as a Fax fan and demeaning to our club. I said so on here at the time. This is a step too far by Fev, and in reality they are becoming just a feeder club for Leeds. That's not taking the mickey out of Featherstone or their fans, it is just my view of the situation and the way Featherstone are choosing to go. A sad day for Rovers and a sad day for Rugby League.

Whatever you think of Marshall spending time at Cas, this is definitely a few steps further that that. Im surprised to see their fans defending it, they actually have my sympathy. We need strong, independent teams like them, otherwise RL will die out outside of those top 12 teams.

Absolutely. They are trying to defend the indefensible. Imagine if it had been another Championship team doing this.

Everyone who knows me knows my thoughts on dual reg. Pete and myself share similar views on this.
I do find the brass neck of some fax fans irritating and amusing in equal measures.
Your club uses DR.... end of. Its either good or it isnt. Quantifying how a club uses the system is only a willy waggling contest.
Your club either buys into it, (which it does), or it can take the moral high ground and decline such a relationship.... which it doesn't.
How another club uses thecsystem is irrelevant.... we either have it or we don't. Both our clubs choose the former.

Yep, if DR disappears next year, fine by me. And Hudd-Shay has been consistently and vociferously opposed to it whenever I've looked at this board.

But as RFF says, there aren't degrees of DR. You either use it, or you boycott it. Frankly, most Championship clubs have made a right horlicks of it, failed to develop any relationship with their DR partner club, and lacked any consistency. Thus it has barely helped either club. Don't hold it against Fev that we are one of the few clubs where it has worked.

And as for the "feeder club" jibe...just about every club in the Championship is a feeder club, in that anyone showing significant talent will be snapped up by a SL club. We lost Zak Hardaker to Leeds long before we were DR with them, just as they ended up with a lot of our local young talent from fev Lions etc. Same for you guys with Butler (and remember what happened with QLT and Cas?).

If you kill one person or kill twenty you're still a murderer irrespective of the amount of bodies under the patio. What DR needs is for all clubs to unanimously tell SL clubs where to shove it. Unfortunately that is not going to happen. My fear is that, given a couple more years, some of these Championship clubs won't be around to make that choice. I hope I'm wrong

Not intended as a dig at Fev, more a general concern for all championship sides.

I would argue that there is a big difference between how we use it and how fev do, but thats beside the point- I would be very happy if we ditched it.

The thing is, if we ditch it and our competitors abuse it, we dont come out of it well.

And just as the Fev fans preach to us, yet another loanee to replace one that's just gone back to his parent club, it's not just DR. Any point in Fev having reserves?

Yes Fax have used DR and loans. Usually where we are short in number due to injury. And have we ever fielded more than 2 in a game?

Can remember when we played Fev first game of season a few years back. So you'd expect most players to be fit. In week before the game John Sharp said he would favour his Fev players before DR. Then he put the maximum no of DR in his side.