That's a guaranteed way to get the team motivated, tell them they all will be p/t next year so need to find a new club if they want to stay f/t!

Some players will be. Let's face it many are only full time because we had no one else..

Some of them aren't very happy as you'd imagine. A lot of these lads have young families to look after.
As for it being strange timing, aren't clubs allowed to speak to players regarding the following year in May 1st?

Lots of conflicting rumours flying round now...

So far I've heard 3 in two days, two different owners and going part time..

Think it's best for all to calm down and see what happens.

What do you mean different owners pal?

Going through some real adversity. No real leadership apparent at the top. My fears for the club are increasing.

Part time and having dual reg doesn't appeal to me.

Yeah the anti tampering deadline is soon, but we could have just as easily given their agents permission to speak to other clubs without mentioning the possibility of part time rugby. Not suggesting they lie to them but they didn't have to demoralise the whole squad in the process either!

^ This

And while I am for giving Cha-Lowe chance, not if they want to drop the club to P/T. That would be a complete betrayal - there's no way back from doing that.

I've heard two names mentioned as new owners can't see them working together as they hate each other..

Seems these two would be taking care of business short term,
It would good if someone took the reigns that could take us forward.

Dual reg doesn't appeal to me either. Especially not with one of the worst teams in Super League. They'll be borrowing players from us!

Luke Amblers talking about making a playing return. Has a clause in his fax release that he can't sign for a championship club this year. Guess he'll have to go to to SL, Widnes seems a good fit

Going pt would also bring into question the process by which chalo got the go ahead to form the new club. Didn't they have to prove 3 years worth of funding at full time level as per rfl publicly published guidelines for prospective new owners?

I'm not sure it specifically said full time funding did it? Just three years funding. I imagine they would have had to put forward different business plans based on where we finish this year.

So get relegated means part time maybe?

The biggest problem for the RFL is our academy. Keeping that running was one of the main criteria for a new owner. Out of the 42 member clubs, we are the only club that has to run an academy for the next 3 years as part of the business plan. It's basically optional for everyone else (although not running one is daft imho) as it costs between £150k - £300k to run one. We are 1/8 of the top rated academies in the game and p/t would shaft that, totally.

You're probably right to be fair. I just don't understand the thinking of taking over without putting serious funds in to avoid the catastrophic drop into c1. in that case starting in c1 this year and building up would be infinitly preferable to crashing down into c1 and basically wasting a year.

I'd always assumed a plan, the indication of which was the signing on of toovey, and that there were clearly things going on behind the scenes, but the longer this season goes I'm less convinced of that.

We can still avoid relegation with a bit of luck (not that weve had much of that in the last ten years) and some longer term playing additions to the squad, but it's looking more like a pt future whichever league we end up in next year, pt and playing out of the Odsal money pit would put an end to the aspirations of top flight rl for the foreseeable future IMHO.