I agree re rebuilding the team, they have a few players who could do a job in SL but they would need 20+ new players which is difficult to achieve when you are picking up the scraps from what is left once the established SL teams have had their pick.

I think the last 20 was more to do with our bench than Fev wilting though. I haven't rewatched the game but on the day it felt like we put on players who were at the younger end of our senior squad and who hadnt had game time prior to that such as Aydin and Batch and others who had, had a good rest whereas Fev had to reintroduce the likes of Moores and Seni Laffao. I also think the younger lads brought a level of enthusiasm that the more established fist team players failed to show for the first 60 minutes.

Well, we all see it differently but from where I was stood Fev were on the rack or at least should have been in the last 20, they looked tired to me. We looked energised but lacking in ideas, mainly because Miller thought he would be a playmaker, he is a great little player but I think most agree that he can't run a game, he needs to step back from that one. Gaskell has taken some stick but Miller didn't help him, they certainly didn't seem to be singing off the same hymn sheet, It's a shame because we know exactly what Miller is capable of whereas we don't know Gaskell's true potential. It needed to be the Gaskell show and it wasn't.

No I agree they were flagging but they were having to rotate players back on who had already played big minutes like you would do in a normal game.

We were bringing on lads off the bench on 60 minutes who hadn't had any game time (at least I don't they had) due to the size of our named squad.

I think Gaskill showed some really classy touches and looked more direct than Milky but he just wasn't in the game enough for me.

Leigh looked gassed at one point mid second half and we were starting to get a foothold. Then the extremely harsh Fifita incident happened in possession and that seemed to breathe some life back into Fev. That was the turning point for me.

Heck I didn't realise Leigh were out there as well - no wander we lost !

Do Featherstone have deep reserves of financial backing or are they applying the Bradford principle to their expenditure?

Makes you wonder, that's a heck of a wage list for a part-time club.

It looks like they’re going all out and pushing their upper limits to finally get that SL place this year. If they don’t make it this season I fully expect they’ll scale back a little the following season. Speculate to accumulate. To be fair though I hope fev come up. More local derbies for trin the better.

You mean to gamble and possibly break the rules and eventually bankrupt your club.

The management at Featherstone have repeatedly talked about their massively-improved income streams over recent seasons, with sponsorship the leading factor (the press conference yesterday was told of £250k in new sponsorship since the reduced funding was announced last year).

Add to that 1,500 season tickets (and the price this year is far from cheap at £240, so there's probably upwards of £300k there), the income from allowing Wakefield AFC to use the ground, from staging BARLA finals days etc, a successful Squad Builder programme, and all the income from conferences, weddings, beer and food sales at the ground, sales from the on-site superstore...there are a lot of revenue streams at Fev these days.

Don't thing anybody denies how rich the club may be, but are wondering if your club operates under the salary cap.

Is there an income from selling the surrounding land around PO Road a factor by selling to housing developer?

Maybe Fev are just managing their finances well.
I don't think it's fair just call them cheats because they have a good squad.
There are a wide range of players in their squad. Not all are on big wages.