...and we go again with Castleford. F♡ck that!

Understand why DR is contentious but I think if we can get the lads that aren’t playing week in week out playing in their reserves that it can only be beneficial in their progress .

Don't like the principle of DR but think we've got to be realistic- board have invested in a good quality squad, but there's little margin for injuries that we're already facing - in the past can't remember us ever being pressured into dropping good players who were in form to accommodate DR players - as long as this continues I'm prepared to accept it as a necessary evil.

We didn't really use DR last season and I would imagine it will be the same this season but it's there if we need it. Grix is no mug and him and Radford are old mates I imagine the link will be used with respect. Needs must we are probably at the very least 500k away from Fev's spend so at this point we have to try and use any edge we can get.

I see this as anther pointer to the BOD not investing sufficiently on the pitch to push for promotion.

Given the future is "licensing" our twenty years in level 2 will stretch a long way into the future.

I have no interest in "closed" leagues.

If you have no interest in closed leagues then you should be happy for our 20 years in level 2 as I think there is promotion and relegation between that league and what is Champ 1

Bit surprised to see Daniel Smith from Cas named in the squad when all our forwards appear to be fit - may be just Grix making it clear to some underperforming forwards that even with a small squad their places are not guaranteed. Personally only 2 games in, against what shouldn't be our toughest opponents of the season, would have preferred our own players be given another chance to prove themselves.

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Only the squad not the starting 17

Get him in. That performance by some of our forwards at Fev was simply not acceptable.

A couple of our lads played this afternoon for Cas reserves against Lock lane oakley and foster. As for us using dr the main thing for me and i take both sides of the argument on this is the attitude of the players we get from Cas. If they turn up and just go through the motions then they will be no better then what we already have in the squad and i would hope that simon would not pick them again in the future if that is the case and tell Radford why. But if they put the effort in for how ever long they are with us then with them being fulltime super league players they should add quality to our side which in my eyes we need more of in the pack. Ideally we would sign the players ourselves to bolster the squad which i believe we are trying to do so in the meantime this will after do.

I agree with some points that DR can be a disruption to a team, I also agree that if used properly it can be a great thing. As mentioned we use it to champ 1 for our own use, it could also be as again mentioned above, being used as a ‘ don t get complacent about your place’ to our own players.
How will the nay sayers feel should we use a d r player and they score the winning points in a game? SG will only use a d r if he feels they are better than he has available at that particular time.
As for comments about the board, unless you know the full story of what is going on, keep your mouth zipped and your fingers off the keypad.

There's been far too much hysteria concerning DR in connection with our club both in the past and now with none of the doom and gloom predictions associated with it coming true.

One example is the claim that we would lose our identity.

Well the facts are the exact opposite, during the same period we have had a successful rebrand with a new identity more relevant to a younger audience and adding to the larger profile of the club within the modern game and at the same time kept the traditions by this year celebrating the 150 years history of the club!!!

Regarding our own squad.

If I were a Panthers / Fax player I would accept someone else getting picked before me based on performance first of all in training and then on the pitch but if that player underperforms on game day then I would expect to be the one getting first chance at wearing the shirt before an outsider, otherwise how will I ever get a chance to show what I can do and would find that scenario hard to accept.

For us DR is an insurance for when we are so low on players to use as an option to maintain our competitive strength, leaving people out who haven`t had a chance could actually work the opposite way and weaken us through discouragement.

All part of SG's judgment and player / game management skills and interesting to see what he does and then listen to his reasoning in the post game interview / comments.

I've stated on here more than once that we shouldn't use DR in any way, shape or form including us farming players out to other clubs. Fact!