As erstwhile Poachers of the cloth cutting world I am truly flummoxed at the size and quality of the Fev squad in this division. Do they have a minted backer?

I know they’ve exceed their target of 200 squad booster members and are heading towards 500 and with minimum payment of £10 pm per person this brings in a considerable amount

Not sure if Salford offered him a deal but they were definitely enquiring.

Where will he play at fev, Craig hall has atleast another season or 2 in him

Mark Campbell has put a lot of his own cash into Fev over the years, but the key in recent years has been improved income streams. Big sponsorship, Squad Builder, improved retail store, regular use of the clubhouse for functions (Covid permitting) etc. The club owns the ground and plenty of land around it, and instead of paying rent is actually making money from the ground and its facilities.

I think he's a decent player at Championship level but I wouldn't see him stepping up to SL

And Fev have certainly got ambitions in that direction. Seems a bit of strange signing to be honest

Fev use the clubhouse whatever the rules....don't they?

I don’t think he’s full time at the moment. So he’s a decent quality Championship player on P/T training. He’s deffo got more improvement in him if he was training F/T, just difficult to predict how much.

Our problem with our better academy products is they will want their best chance to get as good as they can, which generally needs a full time environment.

And let’s not forget other youngsters are out of contract too such as Scurr, poss Doyle, we will want to keep but can’t keep them all

Haha I walked into that one.

I realise it's a notional figure, but I don't think fev have had anyone near those numbers this century.
Jarrod Samut was asking for a less than that figure and we really wanted to sign him at the time. Weren't to be. I can live wi that.

I agree it’s just a figure, the point I was trying to make was to fans saying we shouldn’t be outbid when trying to retain our youngsters but everyone has to have a value