Featherstone

Quote: Tigerade "So, Fev have stated that if they gain promotion to SL they will be part time. sounds like a club who want to pocket most of the sky money to themselves, get into the top flight and make a profit and parachute back into the championship. I cannot see how been part-time will work in SL. What a farce.'"

I don't know where to start with this, but
Fev have not "stated that they will be part time". You have half-read a badly-written piece on a RL website.

What Davide Longo said when asked about it was "we're looking at one or two options - a hybrid version of a full-time environment". Fev already have 16 players signed on for next season, I'd expect if Fev did get promoted some of those would renegotiate to being full time, some would stay part-time, and Fev would bring in a fair chunk of new full-time players...remember, the signings they have made so far have been based on a Championship budget and Fev might find themselves with more spare cash than most SL clubs if they did get promoted.

There are always more players than you'd think available after the season has ended, too - indeed, TotalRL did a story just this morning about Australian players that are known to be available and being offered to SL clubs https://www.totalrl.com/raft-of-nrl-pla ... e-clubs-2/ . The idea that Mark Campbell has spent the last 12 years ploughing masses of his own money into building Fev up, only to turn into a cheapskate once his ambition of reaching SL might be finally realised, is preposterous.

London came very close to staying in SL this year with basically the same team that finished 4th in the 2018 Championship plus a couple of additions. Whilst it would clearly be a tough ask, it's certainly possible that Fev could put together a competitive SL team by February.