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This guy is a shameless peddler of snake oil - he's made the same wild claims at Fax, Cas and now Fev, and even as a self-styled 'world stategic guru,' had enough time to embarass himself and Cas Tigers by posting on a Cas supporters forum, giving details of how he wanted to take the club forward but the BoD wouldn't play ball.

"I was initially intrigued as to how PROBIZ and Halifax could mutually synergise through cooperation and collaboration."

For that sentence alone, I'd expect a no-nonsense Yorkshire RL official to have slotted him one; as it is, I hope he doesn't lead Fev up the garden path in the same way he did at Cas.

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I really hope this works out for Fev, but you can't help but worry about this guy's track record.

I hope things are put into place at Fev that will include a backup plan incase things go wrong.

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Don't forget this:-

www.castigers.com/article.php?id=1156

Fev should stay well clear. This man has done nothing for RL.
Don't forget this:-

www.castigers.com/article.php?id=1156

Fev should stay well clear. This man has done nothing for RL.


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Although the guy doesn't seem to have put much into RL, is his record in the round ball game as poor ?

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Its not the ‘cloth cap’ image. That’s your own insecurities coming through. It is the fact Rugby League isn’t something they associate with. One token club in an RU stadium doesn’t build an association with the entirety of London.'"


Ha ha, I never realised you were a shrink as well as a R.L guru, but you're right about the lack of association regarding R.L unfortunately, they never will. You can preach all you like to the converted, however, you'll never manage to sway the union lot I'm afraid.

Quote: SmokeyTA "It is, unfortunately that, or the game dies. We are seeing it in action now, we are seeing that small towns cant compete, we are seeing that a lack of big places and glamour ties means we struggle for sponsorship, our image as a game played in small northern towns makes us less attractive to TV companies. It is a sad reality that if we stick to being a sport played in a small area, relevant to a limited amount of people our value will fall, when that happens we will go back to being semi-pro. When that happens we will be in a spiral that will end up with the game’s presence as even a semi-pro sport being token. Our best players will leave, people will stop watching and that will mean people will stop playing. In my lifetime we will either see a much larger national presence or a game which, for all intents and purposes, is dead.'"


Unfortunately you gloomy outlook may well transpire, before the other code paid "proper" wages we could always entice a good few over & before our glorious currency plummeted we could even get a decent Aussie, but now it's all turned around, and like global warming, we're blissfully heading towards the abyss.

You'll have to walk away and follow your other love if you want national domination, whereas I may get to see my team actually win something, tin-pot or not. a G.F win over Featherstone played at Headingley will do for me. When you're starved of success, you take any crumb.

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Quote: vastman "Well then you clearly don't know your local area. Fev are de facto Pontefract's team and always have been.

Featherstone had a similar average than Wakefield when both were in the old first division - so I wouldn't look down your nose at them if I were you.

However one thing is for sure they will always out average London and will always produce good players.'"


Really, only lived in Featherstone myself for 10 years and have friends and family that have lived there all their lives who support Featherstone who I've gone to games with.

Where exactly have I looked down my nose at them bud, seriously, how do you go from me saying I don't think they could average 7K to me looking down my nose at them, that's quite some bloody leap and all the more hilarious if you knew anything about me. I personally would love to see the day where we can start up our old rivalry with them in SL but it doesn't take away from the point I made.

Yes they did average between 3000 & 4000 back then, similar to what we were pulling in, which was an appalling time for us but it shows how hard it will be for them to almost double what they did back then, which was a relatively good time for Feath with it's CC cup win and promotion to Div 1.
Even taking into account the whole of Ponte which has about 28k people living there, it will be a mighty tall order for such an increase imo. Look at our club for example, in our City when you take away Cas & Feath areas and others that wouldn't count themselves as Wakefield people we have over 200k potential punters and look how hard it's been for us to get up and over 7k.

Like I say don't get me wrong I like Feath as a club they're my second club & they're doing so much right on and off the field and i'd love them to prove me wrong.

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