Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:16 pm  

''A group of anonymous investors are set to pump millions of pounds in to Featherstone over a five-year period to turn them in to a "top four Super League" club.'' The sacking of John Bastian seems to only be the tip of the iceberg for the change coming up for Featherstone after PROBIZ owner Naisal Nahaboo has stated on the clubs official website that the back to back defeats to Leigh have triggered investment plans as Nahaboo feels they are no longer the leading force in the Championship despite topping the table for the past 4 years. Whats everyones view on this? Surely any investment to any team should be seen as a positive, but a top 4 place in Super League within the next 5 years? Crazy expectations, especially with Salford still struggling despite millions investeted. Full article here: http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_149 ... stone.html

''A group of anonymous investors are set to pump millions of pounds in to Featherstone over a five-year period to turn them in to a "top four Super League" club.'' The sacking of John Bastian seems to only be the tip of the iceberg for the change coming up for Featherstone after PROBIZ owner Naisal Nahaboo has stated on the clubs official website that the back to back defeats to Leigh have triggered investment plans as Nahaboo feels they are no longer the leading force in the Championship despite topping the table for the past 4 years. Whats everyones view on this? Surely any investment to any team should be seen as a positive, but a top 4 place in Super League within the next 5 years? Crazy expectations, especially with Salford still struggling despite millions investeted. Full article here: http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_149 ... stone.html

Re: Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:17 pm  

Go for it. Great stuff.

Re: Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:23 pm  

Really good news and good luck to them,

The First order of business should be to employ someone to handle their communications and PR because that is an appalling press release/statement.

Re: Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:26 pm  

Don't get excited until the money is in the bank

Re: Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:28 pm  

My main concern is their target of a top four place within the next five years. I feel its totally unrealistic and if not achieved I would be worried about this ''anonymous investors'' pulling the plug, leaving Featherstone with high wage bills (Its what they are gonna have to pay to draw in any decent players) that they could then no longer afford.

Re: Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:44 pm  

Plenty of clubs have a couple of million in turnover, spent on the club - plenty of which then don't make the top 4. Just ask koukash!

Investment is great, and good luck to them, but I hope realistic targets are the primary focus.

Re: Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:47 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

Really good news and good luck to them,

The First order of business should be to employ someone to handle their communications and PR because that is an appalling press release/statement.

My thoughts exactly. When I first read the release I wondered if someone had hacked their website and published it as an elaborate joke.

Good news for Fev, though. Let's just hope they don't overstretch themselves.

[Nat (Rugby_Aholic)]

Re: Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:49 pm  

I dont believe it all for one second. I have heard stories of his time at Halifax and its clear he is delusional and thinks he can just buy his way up the leagues. We have a 250k salary cap in the Championship. I wonder how these "top class" players are going to fit into that!

Re: Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:57 pm  

Rauhihi' offload wrote:

My main concern is their target of a top four place within the next five years. I feel its totally unrealistic and if not achieved I would be worried about this ''anonymous investors'' pulling the plug, leaving Featherstone with high wage bills (Its what they are gonna have to pay to draw in any decent players) that they could then no longer afford.

I think the statement said "challenging for a top 4 spot"', that's actually quite different to "finishing" in the top 4. You could end up in eighth but still be a challenger.

This bloke seems to be all noise and no action but good luck to them, or any rugby team that manages to attract decent funding.

Re: Featherstone Investment : Tue May 06, 2014 12:57 pm  

I think the actual statement says "challenge for top 4 Super League position" not must be a Top 4 regular. End of the day that should be every team in SL's aim. They all should be challenging for a top 4 spot.

Hardly gonna put out a statement saying they are going to invest millions into Fev Rovers and therefor they must scrape into the top 8 of superleague.

Happy with the news but not dancing in the street just yet lol

MrPhilb wrote:

Don't get excited until the money is in the bank

Hrs already invested 6 figure sum in to the club to build centre of excellence and develop youth.