Pffft - Cory Aston's average is nearly twice that.......

Swinton didn't invent dual reg nor have they broke any rules, Hunslet have used Dual Reg just as we have, so have Leigh.

Am I happy about it well let's look at the harsh realities we don't run a reserve team so have no way of bringing on our own talent in which case we have to look at fringe players from other clubs or those who just want to move on aka Tom Armstrong who you got from us. The link with Warrington offered Swinton enhanced training facilities and access to other areas of sport such as conditioning coaches, performance analysis non of which are available on crowds of 400 - 500., we would have been stupid to turn down that offer which of course came at a price of offering Warrington somewhere for them to develop their young talent. Yes we have used Adrain Morley, Lee Briars and Paul Wood this season but are you telling me that if those players were offered to any of the lower teams and indeed the teams in the higher half of the table they would turn them down...I doubt it. Yet nothing is said when Hunslet include Richard Moore and Whitehaven Adi Gardner.

Trust me i'd like nothing better than to get back to the days when all teams ran an A-Team and supplemented their squad from those ranks but sadly RL isn't like that anymore it sold it's soul to Sky and Super League.



You and others can have their opinion about Swinton but remember I didn't ever see the RL actively trying to save us when we hit hard times back in the 80's loosing our ground etc.......their was no search for a Rich benefactor then as was the case recently with Salford Bradford and will be the case if Castleford hit the buffers. Other clubs have been allowed to die, just look at Blackpool and Bramley all because they fall outside of the Super League remit. So if it means we link with Warrington and their players play a part in keeping us in this division then for now I can live with it.

I actually don't have an issue with dual reg as a concept, as long as it is used correctly. No issue with Warrington youngsters turning out for Swinton to get some first team exposure, but the likes of Morley, Briers etc playing for one game makes it look like a reserve grade competition. And yes, absolutely the same applies to Hunslet's attempts to play Kylie Leuluai.



Do I blame Gary Chambers for playing the likes of Briers and Morley? Not at all, he'd be daft to reject them. The blame probably lies at the feet of Warrington themselves, and for the RFL for allowing it to happen.



It can't be easy for loyal Swinton fans like yourself, hope you 'get your club back' so to speak and reclaim your own identity soon because, from the outside looking in, it looks like it's quickly disappearing. Which is a shame for such a traditional club.

Marshy - you're preaching to the wrong folk when you plead poverty and say you've no rich benefactor or huge crowd.



Because we haven't either.

Only the RFL

Oh yeah they give us millions!

My point was to illustrate that the RL are only interested in Super League.

Now I know you have truely lost the plot! " only the rfl" Prehaps thats why we were merged and nearly submerged!

Mine was that other clubs have found solutions without resorting to DR.

That'll be why we got no central funding in 1984/85 or 2000.





The fact is that the RFL fall over themselves to favour clubs along the M62 corridor.

It wasn't the best tonight but job done the first half was really poor with the ref seemingly a wire fan! but that said we weren't at the races. I didn't think swinton offered much if anything

The start to the second half simply blew them away and it was game over hirst got man of the match nozza was great as usual and mezie back to form

Again it wasn't the best but a win is a win





onwards and upwards 15 in a row happy days

Well done on a convincing win and really good luck for the next two games.

As for the ref being a Wire fan (like we ain't heard that old chestnut before.) Can you please explain how he gave you possession at the end of the first half when the ball was cleanly fielded by our player.