at last week's fan's forum i'am sure that paul said that warrington's coach[ smith said that james lathewaite would not go to any championship club.......must have changed his mind........

A easy way to slow this is to boycott any away fixture v 'Swinton' and to those that watch them at home, don't- hit them in the pocket.
If gates drop and money starts to dry up this idea will soon get reviewed.
'Swinton' will be expecting a decent gate at home v Leigh , Fax and Fev to fund the hybrid team they are slowly becoming........

Lets be honest apart from a potential few short term wins now one wonders just how dangerous this is to 'Swinton'RL effectively becoming nothing more than a name for Warrington Wolves reserve team.

Swinton might be the 1 st , but they wont be the last , and lets not forget , they are unique in their problems , John kidd has to somehow keep them alive as a club until he can get them back home

If he wants to risk making his team into nothing more than Warrington Wolves 'A' team then fine, I personally believe that will cause more harm than good but I'm sure he's looked at the risks and its his club / risk so he cn do what he wants.
However in doing that he will indirectly damage clubs like ours as in effect it turns our league in the eyes of many into not just a 2nd tier league but a reserve league.

This is Game Day 1 and already the new DC set up is turning into something it wasn't supposed to be , one wonders what this league will look like 1 year from now.

A joke.

As said elsewhere, when it was age related, then it was an understandable and (to me anyway) acceptable way of improving the standard of teams outside SL.

This is taking it a step too far, and really reeks of just enabling SL teams to keep players match fit.

This is what I posted 1 week ago on the VT



I didn't expect it to start to happen inside 1 week

It must take a lot of balls for Paul Wood to take the field for Swinton after rupturing one of his testicles in the grand final v Leeds and playing on ....... Ouch !!! .

And as for this twinning lark it's a load of bollox and like anything the RFL touch is doomed to fail



I don't think it will have any bearing on the top 5 teams .

Well it will certainly have a say on who gets relegated

This is a joke, i'm getting really cheesed off with the decisions being made in the lower leagues. In the not too distant past Rugby Leagues strength was it's domestic competitions, lower leagues too. We've been totally cut off now.

This is so true. As a Keighley supporter i am now worried about the drop.

The RFL are well known for creating unlevel playing fields. This has the potential of becoming like the slopes of Everest.

I wouldn't worry to much about being relegated.
Your club hasn't gone down this route has it?
Over the season any club that has a squad of championship standard players will finish above York,Swinton and hunslet.

Back to the training thing. Did our DCs come over to the LSV and train with us in the evening after doing a day session with their parent club? I have to say that if I was in their shoes I wouldn't be too happy about doing a double day for the same pay.

I think they would still only do four/five days training, but they would do two with us and three with their parent club for example.

So it seems Swinton have officially signed 4 players from wire on contracts to the end off the season. So they are no longer wire players.......pull the other one....add in 5 dc players

Swinton you are now officially wire reserves. I will not attend any Swinton games other than our home game.

Note to lsv ....put up your rental to swinton , warrington can afford it.

Didn't they do weights and conditioning etc at the mummy club during the day, then come to baby club in the evening to do on field moves etc?

Gansons optition has just put this on the wire board:



According to Gareth Walker (League Express Championship correspondent this morning-

Clarity from Swinton on tomorrow's squad- young wolves Shaw, Morrison, Mendieka, Riley and Ormsby have signed permanent Lions deals


This has left me even more bewildered as to what the hell is going on, but it would seem that the above are no longer Warrington players. Who is paying their wages/fees, how long they are contracted for and whether Warrington have first dibs to sign them back I do not know. It would seem the only way they will be able to play for Warrington would be a (minimum) one month loan from Swinton.

What an absolute mess.

Making it up as they go along (Swinton/RFL, not Gareth!)

I've never known a topic on here where everyone agrees so much.

...except the folk who make the decisions.

Let's be honest. if they can only really afford to sign on 17 players they shouldn't have a place in The Championship.

the likes of Morrison, Morty and Cuniffe have gone to play down under probably due to Swinton not offering them a contract...

not blamin for anythin matt his job is to bring this kind of info the open.
edit soz matt just re.read what you wrote and understood it clearer.

thats hard to believe

What do you mean? All three are over in Aus.

Workington have 3 Widnes players in their side tomorrow, Davies, Kavanagh and another.