It is, but from Fevs point of view they are getting a top line, established Super League player whom under normal circumstances they wouldnt be able to entice to the club.

If true, farcical.

Dual contract mate, the way the league will be set up next year allows a couple of your players to be dual registered so that they play NL1 instead of 21s. Good idea i think rather than farcical.

As someone not in the know, how is this arrangement going to work?. Is he training full time with us & playing part time with both Fev. & us?.

And if he gets injured playing for them, do they pay us his wages?

Either he is a SL Squad member, or he isn't.

Its a week by week loan deal effectively. We get the benefits of him playing competitively every week, why should we not pick up the wages if he gets injured. There's always risk associated with everything i guess.

Like I said, farcical.

I understand that he will train with us during the week and then on approx Thurs we will tell him whether he can play for Fev at the weekend or not. He will then go train with then Fri/Sat before a Sunday game and then will return to us on the Monday for training.

Its simply a way to ensure that players get better competetive action than the 21s.

He will train with you and play for Fev when not required for first team duties at Hull. He can only play for one team a week though so cant play for instance a thursday night sky game for Fev then play for you on sunday. Or Vica versa.

Then we should be looking at strengthening the 21s.

Thanks Big Dave T & RBA for the explaination.

But he is just as likely to get injured playing 21s. Is that farsical?

Agree, but thats not going to happen without better quality kids coming through and actually once someone gets past 21 i dont think they should be playing 21s. We've lacked an option since reserve teams went for me.

Age limit is lowering to under 20s next season with fewer over age players aswell. (3 i think)

So effectively that will lower the standard further but mean that more young kids get a chance.

Have to say I agree with Standee









This in theory would be a good idea but only for players from the Acadamy set up to help bridge the gulf from Acadamy level to SL. Just think for a senior & experienced SL player it will turn out to be a mess and a farce.

Who will ?

Whiting

He has signed on for 1 year today but no mention of a loan deal to Featherstone!

yes on the clubs website now.

Absolute joke of a deal if true!
What happens if we play on a Sunday as well as fev, tansey gets injured. Don't worry we'll call whiting back, whiting gets injured same day! Ludicrous!

Maybe all super league reserves should be integrated into National league 1 as la liga sides do in Spain, people like alex f and rafa have been calling for this for years.

But whiting could get injured the same weekend playing 21s. Whats the difference?

Lock it, its history!

YES HE HAS