Interesting and maybe shows the failings of having a Dual Reg player as the SL club can just pull him whenever they want! Doubt it has caused Widnes too much problems. However if this had been before a big game v Barrow, Fax or whoever then it could totally throw the training sessions out the window

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not a good advert for the dual registration scheme. thought could be recalled by SL team but to be loaned out to another is bit rough on widnes.

Ouch. He'd of stormed this league as well.

If he gets first team game time though, it's fair enough.

Your lucky not to have a dual registration players mate.

It is a joke as seems to me the rfl do not care about championship teams.Well if we do get a licence, one thing i will be doing is thinking of championship teams.Well hopefully we are lucky, as flynn is back in a week or 2.Have to wait till april for gaskell to be back playing.

How many more times are the RFL going to kick the Championship clubs and their fans in the nuts

Absolute disgrace

The RFL do not care as long as SL is bringing money and crowds in to the game

But surely Championship clubs know what they're getting into when setting the deal up. These players belong to SL clubs. Tough cookie really.

Exactly. I can understand the Widnes fans being disappointed. But you can't be angry, he is their player.

Im not angry, thankfully we have superstar paddy flynn returning from injury so he isnt a massive loss.

dont lie, your devastated

I'm not sure this scenario was anticipated by Widnes though. I wonder if it was anticipated by the RFL in drafting the "rules" governing these contracts. If so then fair enough, Widnes have no complaints (not that they have complained anyway!!).

If not though, they've surely a right to feel a bit aggreived, and as Starbug says, it's yet another kcick in the teeth for Championship clubs fans.

Of course the wider picture is that this could mean an early death for an initiative designed to increase the oppotunities for the younger players in the country.

nope.

From what I can understand of it, its is a system designed to channel more youngsters through the hands of the SL clubs as opposed to Championship development programmes. Thus avoiding fees for talented youngsters from lower division clubs.

If you take a look at RFL policy over the last few years it appears that the majority of legislation is designed to favour the "elite" competition at the expense of all others.

Of course it is , the ' minimum wage ' rule they used a few years ago could have been challenged in court , if any club had had the balls and the money to stand up against it , but we dont , so they did it