For whatever reason, I just don't think we have the pulling power to sign the best players. British International players would rather sign for Wigan, St Helens or Warrington or go down under. Hanging on to Jake was quite surprising for us and Jake is only on the fringe of the international team.

The last top drawer British International player we signed was Ellis, and he was at the end of his career when we signed him, we won things by signing that calibre of player. Before that was ones we produced ourselves like Yeaman and Horne.

When the like of Tomkins, Bateman, Widdop, Williams, Hardaker come available, we're not even in with a shot of signing them. They're the types of players that play in grand finals.

Some of the young rising stars and future international players like Jake Truemam, Tom Johnstone, Tom Davies, and young Pryce at Huddersfield and Newman and Oledzki at Leeds, will be looking for new contacts in the near future, I bet we're not in the running to sign them when they do.

You want to compete at the top, then sign top players instead of average Dan squad fillers.

Not 606 forum reporting Hull City has been sold, announcement tomorrow

Their fans seem to be getting a little giddy with the potential disappearance of the Allam gang.

Fair play to them - he's certainly treated them, and the fans of Hull FC like absolute dog 5hite

Not quite there yet according to the HDM.