There has been no official mention of any dual registration deal for next season, thankfully, from the club. I personally hope it stays that way but was wondering if anyone had heard owt to the contrary?

Well it won’t be Cas as they have teamed up with York.

Id imagine it will be Wakey.

Or Huddersfield (dives into bomb shelter) !!

Saints new coach is keeping RM in the same roll so maybe them.
I seem to remember Simon being a bit mute when the question was asked at the open meeting a few weeks back.

That's been mentioned on another forum. How embarrassing would that be. I wonder why the club won't say owt?

Probably kept quiet because they were looking at not having a reserve team

The BOD statement on the reserves is intersting in that I feel it indicates that the club (in reality Mr Croad) are finding it difficult to find further quality players for next season.

Given that DR hasn't really worked for us in the past I would think we would either not use it or follow the path that Featherstone have followed and use it to the maximum. If that's the case then the likely partner club would probably be Huddersfield, perhaps Wakey, either way we would become a feeder club as envisaged by some when Super League was created.

Either way its a reality check on our true status. No "Money man", Board struggling to ensure financial stability, average crowds around 1200 results in continued second level status.

DR again would probably be it for me, especially shuddersfield, the shame of it. Mr Foleys, Leeds. York Guzzler 3.6% Mmm!

I was told last night that our new BOD are in discussions with Huddersfield about DR and that the plan is to “follow Featherstone” and have a really close relationship.

It could see up to five players in our first team each week and our lads turning out for their reserves.

If that’s the case then I’m off!

Bye then.

How many times can you have the same conversations?!

DR is here....the end. We are NOT a powerhouse & we DONT have money.......so you utilise it or you cant compete.

if they're in a fax kit on the day, then i'm backing them.

I’m not a fan of DR but I have to agree with DNAfax. Last season Fev were not an outstanding squad but they used this system and nearly made it.
Glad to hear season ticket sales are up from this time last year
Up the Fax

I have heard similar rumblings about this. DR for me...No. DR with Huddersfield, for crying out loud Huddersfield, the powerhouse of SL who escaped relegation by the skin of their teeth. That would be typical of Fax. I've tried to find out if there's any truth in this but to no avail. I'm happy that season ticket sales are up but the club have lost three from us due to this farce and, if it indeed does go the way Dbvada says that is us gone for next season at least.

I could be wrong but it sounds like your cutting nose off to spite your face. The club need support and money coming from supporters. So you not supporting the because of DR puts the club backwards. Why? Because they need money to build their own stronger squad in the long run and you are taking income away from the club you purport to support.
Can I ask you a question. If Fax were a SL team and DR with a championship team would you not support them?

Yes I would although I wouldn't agree with it, remember Fax with Hunslet. I agree it is cutting my nose off to spite my face but as I have said before DR is not just about Fax , it's about the whole game and teams that are using it are just playing in to SL teams hands. Far from securing our future i believe it is making the chances of Fax ever getting back to the higher end of rugby league an ever more distant prospect. To be controlled by Huddersfield, which like it or not is what DR comes down to, would be the last straw.

I don’t disagree with your sentiments but I have never felt, through any club we have have been DR’d with, that we have been controlled by them. If anything, I have felt that through the clubs we have been DR’d with over the past season these clubs have never provided players that have made a difference to Fax games day. If anything towards the end of the season the SL clubs we have been DR with have actually restricted players coming to us because of their own squad problems/ injuries.
If I were you get your season tickets enjoy supporting Fax it’s always a rollercoaster of a season!

Lets face it going on last seasons performance and our squad so far we will be lucky to finish anywhere above 7th this coming season. Sacking off the reserves and then not making the most of a DR agreement would not make much sense. We need to add just for RFF that this still does not mean we agree with the system but where as before if it were sacked off we would be in a stronger position than most teams, now if it gets sacked off we will still be in a similar position to the one now.

An excellent point regarding the clubs position post reserves.

Sacking off the reserves! That is a very nasty and negative statement. Our club has had to make a difficult decision not to run a reserve team. All SL teams are being given thousands of pounds to help them run the reserves. The RFL accepted the Fax application but would not help to fund us. What are the board/meant to do ?
Do you have any concept how much money the club does or doesn’t have? Or even what they have to continue keep our club on a financial even keel.
Accept that the board, coaching staff, squad and all the supporter bodies and supporters do everything we/they can to keep our great club going. Sometimes you just have accepted that we are not the RL force we once were or wish to be. I love this club and accept we have ambition but it will, if ever, take a long long time. But I’m there every week. Up the Fax

There's not a lot great about a club that is subservient to another. Up The Fax!

Faxlore,,you are totally correct, have the other jokers on here tried to push water uphill,well that is what it is like for the vast majority of championship clubs and some SL clubs also. Just lay back and enjoy it if you can,if not, get out of bed.

Yes, and they get promoted and then what... who are Fev going to DR with next. That's the BS of DR. I am really saddened by the demise of the reserves. Sustainability is the only way forward. I am quite thankful that Fev never got promoted. Somehow DR would then have been legitimised and flying in the face off London who got there on long- term investment in their youth and building an excellent squad over the last 4-5 seasons.

It were more a figure of speech but yes that is what we have done, sacked off the reserves. It will not make any difference to my attandance during the season though even if I didn't agree with it. I even understand the reasons behind doing it, obviously a cost cutting measure and the chances of us getting players that could come through to the first team is very low with other teams now running a reserves as well. The trust did a vast amount of work to bring funds in to the club to fund the reserves and I am sure they will still help in bringing money in but if the club are banking on it been the same amount as they brought in before then its probably an error as a lot of people donated to them because it was going to the reserves. We have already seen people say on here that will now stop and who can blame them.

From what I hear Leeds and Fev will share a res. side, Fev will get a pick in the sweetie shop,Gary gets the dosh and meets the S L reserve criteria and we do nothing? To be competitive we need a deal with someone that helps us compete. I fully support the BOD decision on the reserves,I don't have to like it but we all have to be realistic.

But surely by going down that path, Fax/Fev or any other championship club are furthering the day when they can truly be able to challenge for a place at the top table. The SL clubs must be collectively peeing theirselves at the short sightedness of it all. In effect we are doing their dirty work for them and saying how grateful we are to be part of it. There's none so blind as those that will not see.