| Career Record for Featherstone | ||||||
| Appearances | Tries | Goals | Drop Goals | Points | ||
| Total | Start | Sub | ||||
| 11 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 3 | 49 |
In 2004 Featherstone Rovers took the bold step of signing promising French scrum-half Max Greseque. He was a young player who was attracting a lot of attention from top clubs despite never having played outside the domestic French competition. He was born in Perpignan and played for UTC where his father Ivan had also made a name for himself as an international scrum-half, and then as head coach and national coach after finishing playing. When Ivan left the coaching staff at UTC, Max moved to Pia Donkeys.
Pia finished their season in June, and Greseque was free to join Featherstone. The signing immediately created a buzz about the town, following on from the tremendous impact Fred Banquet and Danny Divet had at the club in the early 1990s. Max made his debut off the bench at Rochdale, and his first start, which came the week after, brought two tries in a big win against Keighley, and set up the rest of the season. Rovers qualified for the playoffs in fifth place, and with Max calling the shots, we pulled off notable victories, 33-28 at Oldham and 19-18 at Hull KR, before falling one game short of the grand-final at Whitehaven.
His eye-catching performances turned Max into a hot property. The club tried hard to secure his services longer term, but with University studies to finish in France, his return was never likely to happen. Widely regarded as France’s number one scrum-half, many people assumed that he would sign for the then new Catalan Dragons. Instead, he played a couple of games for Wakefield without settling. In the domestic French competition he won successive League and Cup doubles for Pia in 2006 and 2007, and won 28 international caps for France.