That’s the whole point of the recruitment though. Hull have signed players of a certain age and experience because they want to tap into their experience, but yet not block the pathways of players coming through.

Must be encouraging for young players at Hull knowing the club sees them as the future foundations of the team.

And we’ve got a batch after the next one coming through as well (Kemp twins, etc.)

HKR have put everything into recent recruitment cycles and rolled the dice. The window to win something will be limited. Lewis potentially leaving soon, and a recruitment drive that reminds me of Hulls in 2018.

We’ve been snookered by hull for years all the best young players in the city have always choose FC over us there’s no getting away from that but with Lewis and the investment into youth set up the 3G pitch and facilities that are following plus we now have Netherton Lovegrove Webster SKD and Hiku all on coaching set up for academy they’re trying to make it more fashionable for kids to sign for us over you

You’re edging your bet towards ‘throw money at it and hope it works’

I’m sorry to let you down but we aren’t having a short stint at the top table we are building everything to stay there long term, the plans surrounding craven park will change the club forever and make it sustainable and yes dare I say it profitable which will enhance every aspect of the club this isn’t jsut a castleford 2017 or a hull 2016 we’re everything has come together in the first team

The plans across the board are all to aid the first team, the recruitment has been spot on I agree but the flash in the pan theory has been debunked already as we’ve finished 4th 2nd and currently predicted to finish top 2 again

Young lads flocked to hull because kr didn’t have a sniff of what you had, that has long gone, the monopoly with the youth all wanting to go to hull is changing by the minute

We've heard all this crap for the last 10 years nothings changed we've still won trophies and rovers haven't.

rovers throwing money at the amateur game locally, bringing in coaches, buying kit etc. to try and get them all sending their players to rovers rather than us. We need to go on a charm offensive too with our hugely wealthy owners

Jake gets it, healthy competition and genuine want to help the community clubs, both clubs doing this helps the city all round

Something that should have been done 20 years ago but hull had the stadium league position and strength to not worry about rovers taking youth

yet we're getting ever closer and on recent form you are getting ever further away, cheap dig which i'm sure will come back to bite you very soon.

The difference in those signings is the ones you've listed for Rovers will block the path for any of their youth players. The ones for Hull are made with the end result in mind of actually benefitting our youth by giving them the knowledge they need to make the step up. Hardaker (troubled time off the pitch but has undoubtedly been a superstar on it) will be invaluable for our England academy centre and also highly rated young full back. Holmes has nearly 300 games experience to pass on to our young second rower but looked very good last year.
Alongside Sezer to help with players like Charles and Kemp, Rapana to guide Barron, Martin and Moy. Our signings will steady the ship next season, but they have also been made with long term thinking in mind with regards to giving our young players every opportunity to make it as SL players. Rovers are doing the opposite and trying to buy short term success with seemingly no youth to fall back on should that not work out

Your whole post proved to be a load of e when you claimed Ese'Ese would only 'potentially' get in your team when you have plodders like Luckley and Brown, or Sue who Ese'Ese can comfortably play more minutes than (plus the other 2 props listed above)

Brown and Wynne aren't young projects anymore. Wynne is almost 24 and Brown will be 25 in a few months.

We might be getting further away running on a shoestring since covid, but now we have extremely wealthy owners who don't appear to be messing around and money will not be an issue anymore.

In 5 years time we'll be right back up near the top of SL and have everything in place to stay there long term.

And they’ll still have shipping containers propping up their big screen.