I am led to believe Castleford are hoping and praying for the Newmarket project to fail. They have alternative options to Glasshoughton and a future proposal will be to ground share with Featherstone at your ground should the Glasshoughton site fail. I mean a redeveloped post office Rd meeting super league requirements. I would like to ask the question are Featherstone supporters in favour of such a proposal. It would be very sad should we loose a super league team from all three great rugby league areas ie Wakefield Castleford and Featherstone . I would hope common sense would prevail and a new identity should be created rather than being selfish at all costs with an attitude like bugger you we are dead any how.

I will watch any team as long as it's played at Post Office road and the team is called Featherstone Rovers RLFC!
I hope that our BoD would welcome any club wishing to utilise our facilities at the Big Fella's Stadium and charge them appropriate rent etc where our club could use the opportunity to clean up on the secondary incomne!
I don't feel any of this "love in" for any superleague club particulary as my club is so disadvantaged by said league and as overwhelming undisputed champions are not allowed to take part in this years SL comp!!
I'm hoping that when our stadium is redeveloped it will meet criteria for SL and we can gain a licence. I have become so disenchanted from the game and the lack of support for teams outside of SL over the last decade and a half, I really don't give a toss about SL and any of it's member clubs!
I of course do NOT speak for featherstone rovers RLFC or any of it's other fans!!

Get off the fence Robin

This isn't a wooden soap box - it wouldn't hold my weight!!!!! !

It just gets on me t1ts steve - poor SL club might lose a licence and how we must all rally round!!! My fat ginger botty!!

Maybe not but my opinion is............. 'What he said'.


They have made their beds, let em lie in em (and when it comes to new grounds, lie is the key word. ).

Super league and the RFL can go to helll as far as im concerned, they are doing there damdest to destroy the game underneath, the RFL are doing there best to destroy the amateur game as well, by-passing every protocol in existence to suit there selfish aim of making us all play summer.
Wouldnt bother me if everyone of the self made elite 14 clubs went bust.

It does my stack in gingdong. Life below superleague is something the "elite clubs" in reality want sod all to do with until there's a crisis then there's a "we're all in this together" mantra eminating from some of those clubs!!!
If anyone one of those clubs goes t1ts up I really wouldn't give a toss, pretty much as how I felt when crusaders went down the gary glitter!! Sod em! - They either meet the increasingly ridiculous criteria OR they don't! If they don't, (and lets face it, they all agreed to this system I loathe so much), then they can spend the rest of eternity down here with us!!!! Sod em!!

I support Rovers not RL dont even like the game me. Featherstone Rovers rest can bollox

Have to agree with the Fev fans, both ourselves and Cas have had plenty of time to get ourselves sorted.
If we don't deliver and get kicked out of SL we only have ourselves to blame!!

PLus, why should Fev help us? They are one of the more likely teams to replace us if Fev's groundworks go ahead soon.

Nah, don't blame the Fevvers opinion on the matter at all!!

Why would we let Cas share our ground?

If we did, it might keep them in Super League at our expense

What have they ever done to help us? Have they ever offered letting us share FantasyHoughton?

We are sorting ourselves out, on a meagre budget, Cas need to shyt or get off the pot, get a ground or go away

Well yes, on that bit I agree - but if for whatever reason they can't - it would be facile to simply rule out a groundshare simply cos you hate that particular club. Rovers could profit handsomely out of such an arrangement. A careful study of the pros/cons taking in the bottom line margins against any realistic likelyhood of replacing that club in front of say Fax, Leigh et al any time soon!! Inshort I will reject any merger but would like to know how much is in it for our BoD re any groundshare rather than jumping to knee jerk reactions


In short - yes, we know you hate cas. But think - what could be in it for us!!

Good points, all of them well made.

My natural reaction, due to 38 years of disliking the club in question is to say no, but you are right, if the deal was to the benefit of Featherstone, then it should be investigated, although I would worry about it being the thin end of the wedge re merger.

If they were to ask and it is benifical to Fev why say no I am led to believe Wakey have been using our training facilities should the club have said no to them ? All things like this show to me is that Fev are doing things right and our S/L friends are wasting money and not running a full time club correctly I would also think it would look good for us if we were to apply for SL next time round

all things said, I would have thought that c*s fans wouldn't come to fev to see their team play