Hope it's not true. Would be gutted to lose him, especially after letting Ellis go as well

Clearly not.

Perhaps not that strange. Our new signing will be indeed announced tomorrow. I understand we won the 'bidding war' over HKR and Cas.
I don't know the fiscal situation at HKR but I do know Cas are on their botty.
Perhaps it's not too strange that if Fev have a sponsor with deeper pockets than most, the new player opts for Fev??
We will wait til tomorrow to see who it is!

Its not about deep pockets for some, little matter of the salary cap, shame to see a club put in a lot of work and be denied SL because of a championship SC breach

IF it is Olly, perhaps he has the chance of a job outside RL that with a part time RL wage may earn him more overall?

aye it would. Do you know any facts here or are you just making an assumption??

I wouldn't be surprised if that is indeed the case.
e.g. some of his pay comes out of the Fev budget and a fair wad of his wage comes from another job... i.e. The Featherstone Rovers community sports foundation trust!!
Then only the first bit comes out of the cap quota!! Boom Shanka!!

It may well not be Olly Wilkes either.... we'll find ut tomorrow!

I think he is just responding to your comment about a deep pocketed sponsor, remember you still have to comply with championship regulations such as salary cap the same as everyone else.
I would be wary of how deep his actual pockets are, remember how the Cas fans thought he was their new messiah??

I'm not sure if you are being intentionally stupid or not.
Are you suggesting that your club is breaking the rules?

Re the Collis rumour it seems to be just that, rumour. Martin Clawson tweeted he can't wait to see him tomorrow. Wildie replied saying Collis had rung him complaining about how cold it is over here. Welcome back dean

I think some Fev fans at their recent supporters event have found out how deep (or shallow

) FN's pockets are.

Only if the club can proof to the satisfaction of the operational rules that the payment made is not connected to the players playing obligations to the club.

ah the "sensible" post from TURFEDOUT. Of course you are correct. The club are a separate entity and a player is employed in a part time basis with the club.
The same player can and will be employed on a part time basis with a registered charity e.g. "featherstone Rovers Community sports foundation trust" will work for the trusts commitments to delivering the health agenda and other work into the community. A good deal of the work is delivered district wide.
As you correctly say, as long as it is within operational rules and the two jobs are indeed seperate, then it meets the criteria laid down by the RFL as exempt from the cap!
Good comment TURFEDOUT

These arrangements are subject to regular audit by the RFL!

Well I don't know what Cas' arrangement was with Faishal, BUT I'm quite happy with what has already been banked from PROBIZ. Money up front saves a lot of bickering Ade!!

Intentionally Stupid??? I'm quite happy to state my academic achievemement if needs be.... not that it matters a jot like!!!

Read the post. A player can and will work part time for 2 employers - with only the playing role subject to the cap - and it's legit, subject to operational rules and audit by the RFL!!!

In your post you highlighted the simple exploiting of such a system with a boom shanka to boot, that was my point regarding being stupid. If you're going to do it, at least keep schtum about it.

Long time since ive been called sensible!!



You just need to be careful of the separate entity bit................I believe they can get you on the common shareholders/directors etc....

Good luck to you guys,you wont be doing anything that other clubs arent already doing .

No need to keep schtumn. It's perfectly legal in law and under the regs set out by the RFL.
It's maybe a hole in the laws than the RFL cannot fill because of the employment act, which enables part time clubs to sign bigger names and still come under the cap. I make no apologies for the BOOM SHANKA!!!

Good! I think Collis is a quality player and definitely dont want to lose him!

i think if he has a good and full pre-season and gets over his hamstring troubles hes potentially the best centre we have had in a long long time not suprised at all if other teams are sniffing for dean collis .

You'd have thought so though wouldn't you, with quite a few teams still appear to be short of players. Don't know if it's down to the players own demands being a little bit too optimistic.

Collis is class, you could clearly see that last season, how often he'd draw both the oppo's and winger in to create the overlap and flick the pass out, he's also got a good step as well.

Agreed, we've not seen the best of DC yet but hopefully we will.


Quallity player.

I have been told 2 rumours by 2 different people, neither of which i have much confidence in!

One said Wilkes to Fev the other one said Mellars to Fev???

I still want to see Mellars played in his proper position,on the wing.