Quote: VerbalKint "You basically have agreed with my earlier point that they are not part of the community, they have no roots.
I would love to know however if you have lived in London since 1990 how you know that Hull amateur clubs are struggling for players. In fact since youth rugby switched to summer, must be 15 year ago now there are more kids playing the game than ever before, from under 8's right up to open age it has increased nearly every year.'"
It may come as a surprise to you and maybe other good folk on here, but once in London you are allowed out occassionally. I often get a day / weekend or heaven forbid a week pass back north to meet with family and friends. I also have a wonderful device called a telephone which allows me to call home almost daily. I have something called the internet which allows me to read the HDM and I can also get on social media which I thought was a world thing but clearly it hasn't reached all the far flung places. This has allowed me to keep in touch with things both in the East Riding and also with relatives in Australia. Its amazing.
Twitter is out there. Whilst I have no followers it allows me to follow all kinds of people including clubs and organisations like amateur rugby clubs. It also allows me to read that players are constantly wanted and numbers are dwindling at some of the well established clubs.
I am as you can tell being flippant, but what on earth makes you think that just because I have left the confines of the M62 means I have no knowledge.
When I was playing there was no teams for players under 11 years of age (secondary school). There are teams certainly down here from U6. If its the same in Hull you would expect some increase as they are starting from zero. As for the other over 11 groups I regularly see tweets about numbers dwindling. Maybe they are wrong, maybe you are wrong. I can only comment on what I read.
As for agreeing with you I hadn't realised I wasn't. My post was general as opposed to specific.