Apparently joined Fev Rovers - they'll be sorry!
I wonder what sort of reference we gave him.
How can they afford him? They are facing a winding-up order because of lots of unpaid debts and their future must be in doubt!
Campbell and Hamilton have registered Rovers 2026 Ltd at Companies House.
Spelly.
I know nothing about company law, but I do understand that Featherstone and Salford are financially in trouble and could both go bust.
How the RFL could allow them to play in the Championship albeit with a different name is also something I don't understand!
It seems that both Featherstone and Salford will face winding up orders with massive debts. I guess Mark Campbell and the other Director in the new company, Rovers 26 Ltd, plan to continue the Club under another company, as Widnes did in 2019.
If both Salford and Featherstone survive under a different guise, I would guess they would both be hit with a 12 point deduction in 2026. Surely, the RFL must be putting deadline on both Clubs to clarify if they intend to play in 2026, with the season due to start in mid-February.
Rugby league is littered with Clubs facing massive financial difficulties and a number going into administration, including Widnes, Bradford, Oldham, York, London, Keighley, the Crusaders, Wakefield, Northampton Rebels, West Wales Raiders, Halifax, Whitehaven, Workington, Swinton and Leigh (after Beaumont looked to offload the Club after failing to get promotion); and probably others in similar trouble but bailed out by wealthy backers or fans through crowd-funding.
The game is in a mess and has been for a long time, with poor management by the RFL and at Club level. A good example is the RFL allowing James Rule to be appointed to to lead Widnes before he had completed his ban from the game, for his involvement in covering up a drugs scandal at Hull. The way the RFL have allowed the Salford situation to carry on from the beginning of the season also highlights the incompetence of those running the game.
I am not sure where the game that I have followed all my life is heading, but I have little confidence in those running the game to sort it out without many other Clubs going bust.
Frankg agree with you on this
it seems the RFL have lost control of what goes on
but salfraud and fev should be allowed to compete in the also ran league with a points deduction as we had
but I wonder whether all this is impacting on the long awaited fixture format for the also ran league ?
Calling the Championship the 'also-ran' league is a bit unfair IMO.
It assumes there is an elite competition above it.
Instead, it's a league (SL) where clubs lose up to £2M a year in revenue unless propped up by a benefactor who doesn't care about those losses, a league whose teams routinely sign players from lower league clubs from the genuine elite comp on the other side of the world, and a league whose best players have just been shown to be decidedly average when faced with real quality.
I guess 'also-rans' might apply, but it doesn't stop at the Championship.
fine, your opinion is yours, but when you are cast away with little or no support maybe it should be the no chance league
or for 2 years anyway, when London walk in
the whoLe thing will fall apart in the next 2 years
i will continue to support my club until the end, which I hope is after I die