They were only playing against an under 19s side

And still lost.

Bradford should easily win this game.

I don't think the starting 17 have trained more than 5 times together, it will take a very good performance to get a win away from home. It's pretty much a team from scratch.

Leeds have announced that seven of their players will be dual reg with Fev (not sure if that means they’ll be in the squad on Sunday).

Mullaly
Ormondroyd
Walters
Newman
Golding
Waite Pullen
Briscoe

Should rename them Leeds ‘A’

Fev are also after Hull KR fullback Will Dagger on a season long loan.

If I was a Fev player I’d be wondering whether it was worth doing all that training if I was second fiddle to a dual reg or loan player.

Am i right in presuming they can only play 5 loan/dual reg players per game?

Firstly have you got a link to back up the story ? Other than the Serious About Rugby League fan site, which appears to be a couple of college students repeating gossip and reporting it as fact? Fev will certainly be playing a number of DR players, including this weekend in all probability, but within the laws (max 4 DR, max 5 DR/loan combined).

Secondly, are Bradford going to be another set of fans who get holier-than-thou about DR/loans whilst conveniently forgetting the heavy borrowing players from other teams their own club did just 2 years ago? When Bradford were playing four Rhinos plus a DR guy from Widnes in the same game, was that somehow different?

yes - maximum 4 DR, maximum 5 DR/loan combined, and the "story" about 7 is no more meaningful than saying Fev could register all 35 members of Leeds' squad.

You mean when a brand new club was set up in Bradford with no players? I take your point generally but yes I'd say that was different.

Fev were winning with there starting 13 fairly easily in the first half. Second have a lot off these were swapped with the reserves as its what friendlys are for and leeds cam back. Shows that leeds acadamey is a lot better than a lot of the other clubs acadameys

There's no point bemoaning the fact that Fev are making the most of the dual reg setup. We did exactly the same thing with loan players recently.
You can disagree with the rules but I don't get trying to shame Featherstone for playing by them.

Same source I think.

I don't have a problem with Fev doing it - they've had some issues financially and it's a way for them to compete but without having to spend as much. We had to rely on loans when we came back in 2017 when we started from nothing. What I do have a problem with is clubs like Leeds using a system that devalues the game as a whole.

The distinction surely is that we had little choice because we'd just started up again after liquidation. In any case it's not a stick with which to beat Featherstone, it's simply an absurdity generally that we devalue our competition in order to get game time for super league fringe players.

So who do you think will win? Bearing in mind of course that Bradford