My bad

Stop been BITTER Matty boy and jog on to your pitiful excuse of a club, does Uncle Kath & Tool attend your fan days ??????, oh no she too busy with Leeds

The owner of Fev has not missed a Reserve away game all year and even took the lads for a feed and a few beers after Whitehaven away at his own expense. He paid £20,000ish to take the first team to Martbella and is at every training session working on the stadium, changing Light bulbs, manning the BBQ when amateur finals are on etc. It is not unusual really, most clubs have fans as Chairman otherwise the sport would not be like it is. Except maybe from Kath H

Yeah cos Pearson loved City that much he coulkd not wait to get his hands on what he thought was going to be a Prem club

Must admit I did laugh at that, he must have been as sick as a chocolate frog at the bargain Duffen bought!

He kept his stake in KCFM so not all doom and gloom

I thought you would of bought him out by now Rob

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It reminded me very much of Saltend actually

It would be interesting to know how many chairmen are actually fans of their club and not just there on business. I've always liked Kevin Nicholas at Batley, he's always seemed to be very passionate about the Bulldogs.

Most of the ones I know in the Championships through Rugby and through business are all massive fans.
In fact off the top of my head the only one I know does not support the club as a life long fan is Stephen Ball at Hunslet who is been paid by the RFL to get them back on track after years of financial worry.

Dave Marshall at Donny is the CEO and I dont think he is a lifelong fan but started as a Community Officer so it is a nice story of him getting where he is now.

Des Johnston at Barrow and Mark Campbell at Fev surely must be the two biggest spenders outside SL looking at the squads and they way the players are looked after!!

Just a shame they'll have to do it for 3 more years, unless the rumours about Wakey are true!! Featherstone Wildcats.........

Or maybe celtic merging with Barrow.



The Barrow Boyo's

Very good



Celtic Barrow Crusaders Carlisle Border Raiders does have quite a ring to it!!

Yeah right. Who told you that?

Fev have a new 12'000 seater stadium planned, permission in place and finance ready as well as a shopping development whose annual rent will bring in a tidy sum.
The club is finacially sound, things are going well enough on the pitch and have a good chance of making a final in the next three years as well as an award winning Community development set up, as well as some great plans for the future in this field.

Why would they need Wakey?

I dont think Fev or any other Championship side will get a look in at the next SL franchise bids because the RFL change the rules too much but there certainly is nobody at Fev who would consider doing that with Wakey. It would end in disaster, although I can see why people at Wakey would be hoping to get in on the new stadium act

I think he was alluding to the Hull FC and Gateshead model. ie: Fev in their new stadium to SL and a watered down Wakey in NL1

Why?, because Wakey are already in SL, e.g. Hull and Gateshead, the Gateshead part of the merger soon disappeared the same with the Sheffield part of Huddersfield and Sheffield Giants!! I'm sure once they are an established SL side the Wakefield part could 'fall off' the teams name!!! Oh how I'd laugh if that was to happen

I see what you mean but I dont see why the RFL would need to sanction that now, there are several decent teams waiting to step in and I am sure the Wakey players worth their bacon will end up at other clubs therefore giving a pool of unwanted players for the new SL side to pick from.

Halifax, Barrow, Toulouse, Featherstone, Widnes and Leigh could all put strong cases forward now.

Sod Wakey, let them go bust and start in Championship 1 if things are that bad.

Could handle that but cant see it happening

But none of them are 10 miles down the road!!

But it still does not mean Fev would have to accept such a deal?

There is no benefit from merging, none I can think of at all.

The owner of Fev hates Wakey with a passion, he is not going to sell out to them, even if they had money and the fans from both clubs would be disgusted.

I cant ever see a merger in Rugby League again.

Wakey dont need to merge to get a new stadium, there is nothing to stop them renting the Keepmoat Stadium, Cas's new ground or Fev's.