i can never understand why more SL clubs dont look to the lower leagues for good british talent? using my own club as a good example,over the last few years we have signed raleigh,lunt,kirmond, from the lower league's who are all first team regulars and very good first team players at that.we have also signed,mcnally and kyle wood who have been tipped for big future's that will only imrpove them as players training with full time players and coaches of a super league club
thats not to mention the likes of cudjoe,lawrence,crabtree and patrick who are all also first team regulars who have all come through our academy teams at some point,plus mcgilvary,elliott hodgson,keal carlile,josh griffin,alex brown and adam walker who have all played first team RL in the last 2 seasons.

no offence mate but hudds has had there fare share of help from the rugby league so its no suprise that you could have a good youth set up as when you were relegated from super league you recived huge amounts of parachute payments so you could practicaly stay as a superleague team unfortinatly we havent had the luck of anything such as a merger to help us out nor i would want that but it does help your team a hell of a lot as you and hull got the pick of all the youth from sheffield and gateshead respectivly

that was 10 years ago though, we didn't get help from the rugby league at all,yes we received the parachute payment when we finally did go down,but so did all the other clubs, we are still rebuilding our clubi from that period and signing good british talent is part of that rebuilding process.

why not discuss hkr's inadequancies without bringing other sides into it?

Some would say hkr have been lucky to have a established super league club on their door step, so the transition of our players from hull to hkr has been easy(no house moves, travelling).

From a 400k cap to the ability to spend full due to a big backer, a coach with good nrl contacts and dispentation on quota.

But you carry on about mergers that happened a decade ago.

glasshouses probably

Rovers will do what's best for HKR within the rules the RFL govern. If the RFL don't like they should change the rules. It may have escaped your notice but SL is business and that business is winning games, not developing an England RL squad.

I don't like it as much as anybody but until the RFL gets serious about a paradigm shift of what responsibilities clubs have why should the clubs?

Hull KR are struggling on many different levels and this is just the latest in what will be a long line of desperate measures. They came into SL with a very cocky attittude, their chairman desperate to get one over on Hull FC any way he could, now wants out, he has, by his own admission, been paying players more than they're worth in order to secure their services (Paul Cooke being a prime example, look how that turned out ). 4 years on they are now a few million quid in debt, crowds are dropping, their stadium is awful, as is their marketing and it would appear their youth system is failing too. Lesson to be learned - don't run before you can walk.

fcgimp would have been more appropriate

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Lol how a hull fc fan can comment on rovers faults makes me laugh after everything your club has done got away with and yes iam mentioning other clubs as every body has short memorys and allways picks up on us never there selfs or others

and your attitude would be the same if for instance, Simon Moran offered massive wages to Inglis, Marshall, Slater, Blair, Smith, then outright told them those wages couldnt be honoured because of the salary cap and encouraged the players to launch a legal case against the salary cap so Simon Moran can spend the millions he has on winning everything, spending so much a smaller club like HKR couldnt compete?

after all, SL is a business and that business is winning games..............

why should ben fisher be shown the door for some average english player? you stupid moron!!!
why don't dull fc bring in local or british players instead or imports?? dimwit