What when they are injured?

Well as I said previously the club was obviously pretty keen to get shut of Chisholm to

1. Let him go just before Easter
2. Let him go to a rival

I fully expect him to go to Fev and play some of his best rugby for months. It's maintaining that level of consistency that he has seemed to struggle with.

I don't expect to see a replacement signed soon, as most clubs will be holding onto what they've got until Easter and the aftermath is done with. Let's just hope injuries are kind to us in the next few weeks otherwise some supporters will be even more peed off. It's a shame Liam Finn has already left Newcastle as I think he could of done a job for us this season.

Surely you're on the wind up?

"Come and play for our club, put your body and health on the line. But if you get injured doing it, we wont pay you"

Might be a tough sell.

Liam Finn would have been perfect

If the move does spark him up it will be in the Bulls favour as long there is the usual clause preventing him from playing against us this season!

How will Featherstone winning more games be in our favour exactly?

I think all such "announcements" should be taken with the proverbial 'pinch of salt'. In any business, if a shop floor worker falls out with the boss it's never the boss who leaves.

If he's not in the plans then there's no point keeping him. We have enough cover with Picksersgill and Wildie. Folks need to remain calm. I'm with John Kear, Milnes and Lilley are going to be a fine pairing. And Milnes is going to be a top top half back. Championship is a beautiful level for him to play and develop.

Please don't haha

Struggling with this one.

I think Blotto's been on the XXXX.

Anyone know where i can get a bet on that Lilley and/or Milnes will pick up an injury over Easter.

Or couse i jest, but with our luck this season its almost guaranteed to happen.

How can Fev afford to pay his wages! as they are always getting loan players from Leeds you would have thought they were on a tighter budget

I suspect we're still paying some or all of them.

IF we are paying all his wages, then getting rid of him can only be because he is a bad influence around the camp. Why else would we let him go to a rival?

Knowing our luck the performances of Chisholm will end up costing us a playoff spot in favour of Fev! Hopefully does a job for us this weekend against York!

At this moment in time I am more concerned with what we do rather than our so called competitors.

Well from the comments on Twitter he was well liked and will be missed by at least some of the team.

Anyway the deal is done, we will have to trust JK's judgement on this for the time being. I would be surprised if we can sign a halfback any better in mid season but we shall see. Perhaps fullback is a bigger priority anyway if funds have been freed up.

It seems like Chisholm and Kear clashed. The tweets from Bulls players show he was well liked, I just wonder if Chisholm thought he had enough backing from the team to try and dictate terms to Kear as he thought he could rely on the other players to back him in any argument. Trouble is, when a player takes on a coach, there's only going to be one outcome and it's bye bye player.

The story in the T&A has Kear saying that the decision to not extend Chisholm's deal beyond this year so I wonder if he was a disruption after being told he wasn't getting a new deal and that's what's caused his move

As he has gone we won't be paying his wages

I'd imagine a large chunk at least will be paid by Fev. It was common knowledge he'd been offered around and Hunslet & Newcastle were interested but wages were a stumbling block.

With Aston starting for Castleford tonight, that's one bonfire proverbially peed on

I always saw him as another version of Sammut. I have always said i prefer a steady more traditional half back so never really fell head over heals for Dane. He will do well in the first few games for Fev but then what.
Lilley should be signed now so he has security and can settle properly and paired with Milnes long term. We are not going up this year so let them grow together and look at them for next season onward.
I am not surprised Dane has gone and don't see it as a big shock. Hopefully the bad back will soon be right and we have three halves with a couple others who can help out. I wouldn't complain if we bring in an experienced lad to help the two youngsters out this year and next but who that could be I have nobody in mind at the moment.
Dane has done nothing consistently for a long time due to different reasons so no big miss for me.

Featherstone are paying a good sum of money for him each month. However I'm not sure if that covers his full wage or not.

Whilst I don’t disagree a good steady half back is always needed in a side, we can’t complain when we play boring one man rugby with no creativity, which has been aimed at us in last few weeks. A Chisholm or a Sammutt at least gives you that chance of something out of nothing.