Thought Prince was a two year deal?

He was, I doubt he'll be up for grabs. Wallace defiantly, he's been found out since Lockyear retired.

Overseas players

(1) Travis Burns
(2) Evarn Tuimavave
(3) Michael Weyman
(4)Neville Costigan

With Only four overseas players on our books for next season I'm struggling to see why people are having a go at us.

(5) Rhys Lovegrove

Rhys is counted on our club trained but even counting Rhys we have five overseas players with a maximum of two further spaces. Be interesting to see every other clubs overseas lists before we get sledged anymore.

So currently we have
4 Overseas
10 Hull born
signed up for 2014 the rest of the squad is fed trained. Hardly bad really is it.

Well said that man. How's the academy going?

By the way. People have a go due to your clubs previous despicable antics. It is getting sorted great for you, but clearly the easy wins you took in the past have severely damaged your present.

You make it sound like we have something to be ashamed of I couldn't care less if we had had 17 Aussies to be honest playing in those early days can't understand everybodys obsession with it

When KR got into Super League you cannot blame them for using every loophole and trick to keep in the league (it took us long enough to get there) I am glad they did that to survive but now it is great to see so many hull lads playing in the team i support and watching players like Welham, Cox, Salter etc break through into the first team.

Fans/teams omit facts it's what they do.
How many of you mention that you should of been kicked out the CC in 2008 when mentioning the final that year as an example.

WELL SAID

Just for clarification I only mentioned that as it was a Hull Fc fan I was replying to.
I could have mentioned how lucky Wigan were the year they stayed up at the cost of Cas with the 'use' of Dobson and Fielden and how they haven't looked back since.
It never gets mentioned by Wigan fans.

It wasn't just those early years though, was it?

2011: Webster, Green, Dobson, Lovegrove, Fisher, Mason, Vella, Galea, Newton, Clinton (10)

2012: McDonnell, Green, Webster, Dobson, Lovegrove, Withers, Clinton, Mika, Galea, O’Hara, Paea. (11)

2013: Burns, Dobson, Tuimavave, Mika, Paea, Withers, O’Hara, Paterson, Lovegrove. (9)


Moving to 5 or 6 next year is great though, but surely Rovers fans can understand why they've got a reputation for signing 'Aussies' when you look at that above?

Appreciate what you're saying, and I agree (straying a bit from the point I was making though). I was only trying to point out where the reputation had come from (which some HKR fans were defending), and on recent past squad lists you can see why. 5/6 is a step in the right direction as you say.

Reputations take a while to build, keep that figure lowish and keep bringing through the youth and that reputation of an over-reliance on Aussies will be forgotten.

I'm not buying the Lovegrove 'homegrown' argument either. I know that by the rules he's classed as Fed Trained, but really, he's an Australian.