or maybe they should just take them to court and sort it out

I am inclined to agree, but as I recall the word from Cas on that was that it might not be financially viable to do that. I don't know why that would be the case. If Cas can't afford to go the legal route, surely the next step is to get the RFL involved?

Yep and you know that for certain do you.

I hope it all comes true - however I was at Cas a few years back when Mr Probiz was espousing his deep and never ending love for them. So I think they may have a point and I were you I 'd wait and see before getting too smug.

They're not the best team outside SL. They choke.

Putting that aside, this is great news for Championship RL and if he puts his money where his mouth is and Fev reach the dizzy heights then it will be an example of what structured investment can do for a Championship club and may encourage others to invest in the same way instead of going for broke with a sickly SL club. I am heartily pleased with this news - so long as the guy follows through.

Pervert.

Bloody hell Gav. No wonder I stopped following you on twitter

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Nahoobo is not to be trusted one iota. Every club he has become involved in has put up with his espousing his love for them, only for him to walk away (sometimes owing money). It seems that industry have already figured this out, Probiz have already been taken through the High Court by Williams Accountancy over "dishonest practise". However, sports clubs are so busy 'chasing the dream' that normal caution seems to be forgotten.
However, one does have to question why clubs are so eager to become involved with a business that is all about payment avoidance! Cas did nothing wrong or out of the ordinary, it's perfectly normal for a 2-year sponsorship deal to be paid in two parts, the mistake was believing that Nahoobo would pay. Steve Ferres has said he will be asking the RFL to become involved should the money not be forthcoming.

Wonder if its a loan deal similar to the one he offered Cas Tigers.

Any comment from a Cas fan concerning this character is going to smack of sour grapes and I do genuinely hope this deal works out for Fev but I hope Fev fans will remember that he is not a Fev fan or even a RL fan for that matter but a businessman who will put his own financial interests above anything else.

From an objective viewpoint surely he wouldnt be allowed to get involved in one club with outstanding issues at another?

The RFL would verify that surely?

Large investment in another grubby small town northern M62 RL club is the last thing RL needs. We've got enough of those.

Lets move on.

There's that word again - investment. It doesn't belong in this game. There is no such thing.

David Hughes: "I'm going to invest in London Broncos for another two years - then I'm going to let someone else have a go. It's not right that I take all this return on capital. I feel like a fatted calf. Someone please - take over".

An investment in a traditional financial sense is one you make with the intention of - at some point - being able to take out more money than you put in.

I don't think those kinds of investor are going to touch professional sport with a barge pole.

Your typical professional sport investor sees their "return" as being their particular favourite club being more successful, or just staying in business. They're still investors, just ones who are resigned to the fact that the money they invest isn't coming back.

Featherstone bring more to RL in a day than London has managed in it's entirety - nobody want's you other than the tiny minority who frequent this site. Most fans on the terraces want Fev and Fax back, but nobody listens.

I wish London would finally just go and your type would go with it.

Say what you mean.

totally agree with Vasty but I'm a whippet breeding northerner with my RLfans page set-up to Flat cap mode !

The unfortunate fact is that if Fax and Fev had the fans on the terraces, they would be in SL and they would be welcome.

What if they had an extremely wealthy backer like London do, because they sure as hell don’t have the fans either.

Watching Fev on BBC play a "massive" CC game against Wigan on a sh*tty pitch in a 1940's run down ground was a complete embarrassment to the game.

Lets move on- Fev are the past. Lets move to areas where there is money and sell the game-The M62 is saturated with small town RL teams who have no potential.

You don't get it that SL cant get a sponsor because the game is based in pit villages running across the Pennines. There is no "sell"

Remind me again..... where will the nomads be playing next year in front of their massive crowds you soft southern nancy?

Back in the old Stones Bitter days, Fax used to be pretty well supported although, their last visit to the top flight did see some truly woeful crowds, mind you this was matched by equally poor results on the field.
IF they could muster some success then Fax in particular could achieve 8000 +, the question is how could they compete on the field of play ?

If someone genuinely owes you money and you have to take them to court, they will be responsible for any costs incurred. That's how it works when I take my bad debt to the solicitors (i'm self employed).

There's "no sell"



There are no customers you fool.

No one bar a few thousand hardy souls (mostly exiled northerners) want a RL team in London - they don't care they never have and they never will.

The M62 corridor has a bigger population than many countries including Scotland and Wales and is yet to be fully exploited. If you had any real thought pattern you'd understand this.

Most people in the north are emotionally secure enough not to give a stuff what happens in London or what Londoners think and are happy with the game as it is even if it doesn't match Soccer or RU for exposure or cash. So what, you play to your strength and give the fans the best you can. Many sports do quite nicely without national coverage, a blue chip sponsor or a team in London.

We are the lucky ones, we have TGG and if they can't see that the tuff - they should be begging us and they are not so sod them.

Be proud, be northern and admire the likes of Featherstone which is little more than a street but has created a pro RL club with a MODERN (because you clearly never watched the game) STADIUM.

London on the other hand with their pitiful crowds v population, borrowed stadium and less than brilliant playing record remain an embarrassment to the game of RL.

Where are all these pit villages Wire Quin?
Rather out of date aren't you?
Can't remember last time I saw a bloke in a flat cap with a whippet either.
I remember once hosting a load southern businessmen who expected to see all muckstacks and grime.
They were amazed at how much beautiful open countryside there was in West Yorkshire.
And that was in the days of pits.