My god I am in shock. Tony Rea's appointment even made the BBC 1 o'clock news. Just was down in my works restaurant and the news was on - normally we're never mentioned.

YES

Not to someone from East Hull it wouldn't be

Seriously, it's nowhere near as bad as some are making out....................
BUT it ain't LONDON! Oh and btw, we're meant to be watching rugby, not doing a Kirsty and Phil critique of the local environs.

Welcome Back Full Time Tony

I spoke to Tony a few weeks ago and he described himself sitting in front of the Sky Sports Scorecentre 'watching' London Broncos when he was in Australia.

When he explained his business was him talking to senior execs in insurance and financial services I thought he could easily get back into that in future.

So I started to think that he was close to the 'tipping point' of putting his hat in the ring. With other noise nuisances like One Arm and Big Al we've been trying to repeatedly chant his song until he was brainwashed and gave in.

Easy
Rammo

TR stayed with Hughsey last week. I'm sure thats when the deal was struck.