Well, Fev fans keep telling us a lot of their squad are part-time. I'm not so sure myself, but if they are right then those players are either going to have to go full-time or leave, since SL rules require a full-time squad. They've also got quite a few older players, although McDermott seems to be phasing them out.

So I think they would need a good bit of squad turnover. I agree that they have good income streams, so that's a positive.

As for Leigh, well, who can predict what Beaumont will do? He has previous with spitting his dummy.

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.

I think it depends on what you mean by a part-time squad. I'm certain that most of the players would be full time and I'd presume the training would be more reflective of that, but it's not implausible that a small number of players could be retained in the squad on a part-time basis. Anyone watching Fev would really struggle to name the part-time players in the 17 each week, in my opinion, if they didn't know who they were.

With due respect to opposition such as Sheffield and Barrow, I suspect that difference would become much more apparent when they play St Helens or Catalans.

Does anybody know what's happened to Eldon Myers? Not heard anything about him lately. I thought he looked promising but didn't seem to get much of a chance. He's not playing in the reserves so may be injured?

Been playing for Cornwall I think

Believe he got re-called to the Navy with what is going on Ukraine. Shame as was looking good.

That's Jayden Myers an academy player.

Brandon Pickersgill is back on a short term loan deal.

Just for the Sheffield game is it really worth it?

Hall didn’t play last Monday so if he is injured, Kear possibly has a knock then suddenly it is worth it

Elliott Hall?
He did play and was utter garbage.

Sorry, other way round, is Kear injured as he missed game and you are right, Hall got shipped out to wing in favour of Burton for 2nd half. Either way if they are both now injured, Pick coming back in makes sense