I understand that we are a proud and honest club who would prefer not to rely on players brought to the club through the dual registration system.

We have recently seen some clubs use this to their advantage and some have felt that clubs are unfairly getting an advantage by partnering with Super League clubs.

When the controversial dual registration idea was first introduced, we were one of the last (if not the last) to get involved with this and partnered with Castleford at the time.

Although there were initial complaints regarding dual registration system, it has stayed and continues to be used. I did not agree with it as I saw it to be a danger of us becoming like a reserve team to a Super League team. On the whole, this has not happened with clubs apart from the agreement between Hunslet and Leeds which seems quite bizarre.

Recently we have seen Rochdale partner with Warrington.

Why don't we as a club swallow our pride and play these clubs at their own game by also getting involved with a good Super League team? We saw some good players come to us on loan from teams above us last season who made a great impact.

What is to stop us getting involved too? The bulk of our team will stay the same and things look promising for next season, but if we can get a few promising players like Josh Gudzek from last season, it may be a help?

As supporters, it is easy to claim we have lost to teams due to the impact of their dual registration players, but why don't we get involved ourselves?

I suspect a lot depends on who you get 'offered'. I suspect the younger players, looking to impress the management at their SL club will make a good effort. I suspect some of the more journeymen players 'dropped' to their DR club, may be less enthusiastic about it all

I think by and large they don't. When Swinton were DR'd with Warrington it didn't do them any good. North Wales had that arrangement with Wire last season and it didn't do them any good either. Oldham were DR'd with Huddersfield Giants but they played their best rugby with their own players after the Giants went back to their parent club. It certainly didn't work for us during that brief period we were with Cas.
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My own opinion is NO, NO, NO. NEVER! It's a total shambles of a system, devised with the SL clubs in mind. It's entirely for their benefit, not ours (clubs at our level) and the way it has been abused is shameful.

I can assure you that Gary Fawcett will be the last chairman to touch DR. Especially after what happened with Batley.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO AND BLOODY NO.

Big fat NO, imagine if you turned up for work and were told, We don't need you this week we have someone better than you, we might need you next week though if his boss wants him back, how demoralising must it be for a player to be told hes not playing because someone from another club was playing instead, i am proud to say Keighley Cougars have higher moral standards and unwavering loyalty to its own than to use D/R.