With a new coach who knows? Last season an average of 10 English players were first choice

Which 10 English players were first choice and which Aussies were squad players being kept out of the team by english players?

Hull KR had 8 overseas players last season and they didn't all play in every match so take your pick who missed out

3- Hall, Welham and Hodgson in the starting 13.

So when you were saying that english players were first choice you meant back up for when the aussies got injured?

Is that Dave or Josh??? What about Taylor and Cox and even Liam watts??????

What english players are first choice at hull kr then?

You mean Liam Watts who is from Cas?

8?

Webster
Green
Dobson
Clinton
Vella
Fisher
Lovegrove
Newton
Galea

Add Mason to that as he played.

So thats 10.

Before posting why not check if your info is correct?

Cas was in england the last time I checked

First choice? Matter of opinion I suppose.

But in our final regular season game of 2011 against...Castleford.......the Hull KR team featured 9 English born players.

In season 2012 HullKR will have 32 full time players 27 of whom are eligible to play for England.

One who isn't will be Con Mika.......but who knows if he stays with us for 2 years 9 months maybe he'll be in the England frame too just like someone else we know.

Look I'm not having a go at anyone here but don't you think that if you have an issue it is with the RFL ? If they are going to let players represent England after 2 years 9 months then they can hardly object to the same players being in Super League.

Basically Hull KR have a mix of Hull born players (17 of them in 2012) and overseas born players. We don't have many West Yorks or Lancs players but so what? There's plenty of clubs in those parts for those players to choose from.

I can promise you that the Hull KR youth system is starting to produce a whole load of fantastic young players. We started from scratch 5 years ago, loads of time effort and money has been pumped into it and it is now starting to bear fruit.

Prior to that we had no chance whatsoever. We had been in the lower leagues for over a decade so guess where the best local youngsters went to even Hull KR fans like Richard Horne & Paul Cooke?

No more though. Look we all admire the youth production system at Cas and it is something we aspire to. Rome wasn't built in a day but in the meantime we wanted to establish ourselves in Super League and we have done.

Good luck for 2012 you have a good coach in Ian Millward and I'm sure you'll do OK.

This might be the case, but my worry is that these "fantastic young players" will never get a shot at being a first-team regulars owing to the number of overseas players HKR sign, therefore restricting their developlment and opportunities for improvement.

His info would be correct as they were all born overseas and therefore not English, correct?

Hull Fc were the only team NOT to give 1 youngster a SL debut last season,
Think you'll find that we gave debuts to Louis Sheriff,Rich Beaumont and Jordan Cox.


In answer to earlier question,-
English players who played regular for us last year were,
Shaun Briscoe,
Sam Latus,
Kris Welham,
Ben Cockayne,
Craig Hall,
Liam Colbon,
Scott Wheeldon,
Josh Hodgson,
Scott Taylor,
Jason Netherton,
Liam Watts,
Scott Murrell,
Jordan Cox(back end of the season)