Featherstone have won their first nine games of the season in the Championship. Next up they face local rivals Sheffield
, winning their first eight games, but Featherstone have gone one better in the Championship. Surely it’s finally their year? Both clubs are in great shape to top their divisions in September, although that alone will not satisfy their annual ambitions: for Warrington to be crowned champions for the first time since 1955, and for Featherstone to earn promotion back to the big league for the first time since 1995.
“It’s a really tough competition,” says the Featherstone coach, Sean Long. “Everyone can beat everyone. There have been results that have opened my eyes. We’re learning to handle the challenges of playing against teams who don’t perform the week before but then turn up against us. It’s their cup final.
“Everyone’s got stronger. You prep for one team and the next thing there’s five guys from Wigan, Salford or St Helens and you’re playing against a Super League team.” Long may be exaggerating, but not by much. Then news broke of a new Super League and a proposed merger, with Wakefield and Castleford forming a Calder team. The merger idea was scrapped after vehement and bitter protests but the new competition went ahead. The top 10 clubs from the 1994-95 table were given places, along with a newly created Paris Saint-Germain team and London Broncos.
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