Quote: The Phantom Horseman "You can actually check the Twitter bios of some of Fev's part-time players and they tell you their job (James Lockwood and John Davies are 2 examples). Fev have a mixture of players who have jobs outside rugby and players who don't, but none of them are in full-time training - they train (I think) 3 evenings per week and Brian McDermott made it clear in an interview this week that he wishes the club was full time.
Can you point me to the RFL rule that say SL rules require a full-time squad? They must have changed fairly recently, because in 2019 Davide Longo was suggesting the club would remain part-time, or at least remain a hybrid team, if promoted.'"
No I can’t, to be honest. Lots of people have said so on TRL, so I went with that.
Either way, it would be an absolute joke if SL allowed a part time team into the elite league. I doubt they’d allow it, so expect that rule to change if the need arises.
Besides, Featherstone would be guaranteed to finish bottom if they went into SL with a part time squad. It’s hard enough with a full time team, as Leigh will testify.