Some girlyball team seems to have a manager who's been here about 3 years yet can't speak a word of English. They should call discrimination.

I thought Dalgleish had retired?

Wonder if Hull KR will be on the lookout for 2 new players now

I think the majority are EU nationals anyway so it isn't relevant, also if they have strong working credentials ie. have performed at the highest level, that would probably also overrule any of the minor details like speaking English - it's hardly going to rule them out of a job when they have been specifically invited here to take up a contract.

Yh I suppose so, just abit of a pain, also I'm sure the tax the will end up paying will grease the wheels also.

Hope it pulls off and he does get here would be interesting to see him go, didn't disgrace himself during the WC.

Paul Wood out for the first month of the season but Evans not been given a squad number at Wire despite only naming a squad of 24. Seems odd.

I'm not entirely sure where it was but the other week someone got a bit worried when Carvell tweeted about training in Liverpool, Donaldson tweeted today the same and it's high altitude training.

As if Odsal in January wasn't enough!

Also, can someone prod Ross at the T&A to talk to Dale Ferguson?!

He's probably the player I'm most looking forward to seeing next season and even I forget we signed him at times.

rlWell, someone listens.rl

It does say in the article that they gave it the off season to settle down but at the end of the first week back it was decided to do something. They started pre-season on the 5th November - 3 months ago.
If he had the operation then - just before he went home for Christmas, it seems a decent timeline for recovery. It reads as if he HASN'T just had it done. If it was done in November then that seems reasonable to me. The must have had medical advice to give it the off season to heal itself. I agree though it is a shame to lose him at the start but I am used to it with Kearney as he has always been injury prone. Gaskell for me at fullback.

Wonder if the club had done anything, training wise and medical wise with him, but as he went to aus until fairly recently bet they haven't had chance.

he had the surgery before christmas. Club let him stay in OZ longer than usual to recuperate from the surgery. Sounds like they left it for period between our seaon ending and start of pre-season to see if it would heal on its own then sent him for surgery as soon as it was apparent it was still an issue. Think its pretty standard practice, from a medical point of view, to try and avoid surgery wherever possible.

I think this will be the line-up in round 1:

17 Gaskell
2 Kear
21 Henry
3 Purtell
5 Foster
6 Sammut
7 Gale
8 Scruton
9 Diskin
10 Carvell
11 Olbison
12 Ferguson
13 Walker

14 Manuokafoa
15 Sidlow
16 Addy
19 O'Brien