One of the best three players to play for this club in my time,in great company with Knocker and Sterlo.

Only been watching Hull since 1945 and the player since then that had the greatest effect on this club is not even mentioned. Of the others Whiteley is closest(and he was mentored by him).

francis?

Good as Roy was, I think he had more influence as our coach.

I loved him as a player and saw every match he played in Hull from joining in 1949 having seen him playing for a Warrington team that demolished us a season before .

As captain he was inspirational and also took on the player coach role for a few years before retiring midway through the championship winning season of 55/56. By then the team he had moulded into one of the best in the league was complete and went on to 3 successive championship finals with him as coach(2 won and 1 lost by a point).

Roy Francis was a visionary player with an exceptional rugby brain and one the best players I have seen play for Hull. The word iconic can safely be used to define his playing career.