You on a crusade or something?!

Nah, just very happy with AP

I honestly have no idea how much cash AP has in the bank, nor how much of that he's willing to spend on us. Depending on just how bad the situation was then the bill required to not only get us up to speed but also challenging might be larger than you'd think once you roll in facilities upgrades etc.

Either way AP doesn't strike me as someone willing to just treat a sport club as an ego boosting hobby and throw cash at it forever. He takes this seriously and will want to get the club on a sound financial footing and as independent of his personal financial input as possible. Which I reckon is a good thing. If all goes to plan we could end up with the best of both worlds.


I remain to be convinced about how much cash the old BOD were making out of the club, simply because the abbreviated accounts don't show anything. I realise that there are ways to funnel money out of companies on the QT but without more evidence I'm reluctant to jump to conclusions.

What [iis[/i abundantly clear is that they weren't putting much (if any) cash [iin[/i. Which has a similar end result.

His enthusiasm, arrogance and business acumen is no doubt good for Hull FC and RL. Reminds me of a young Maurice Lindsay in the way he goes about his business.

He's playing a very risky game by publically slating Seymour, he's either trying to force him out or already has done-but have a bit of class when doing so. He 'll give Hull FC a bad rep for how they treat players by letting his enthusiasm do the talking.

He brings more posiives, can only be good for RL to have a strong Hull side.

Maybe they've already had the discussion with seymour and he's agreed to a move

True Jake,but I have to agree with Nick,it can`t be a morale booster having your boss slating you in public.

That's the conclusion I've drawn from it. Pearson wouldn't make such a big thing about signing two half backs if he wasn't certain he had the space in the squad.
The interesting thing for me is if Seymour goes home, or is he part of any swap deal?.

I agree with that. Pearson is passionate about FC, & it looked like his frustration got the better of him. At least his passion will hopefully take the club to where we want it to be.
It will be interesting to see what sort of reaction we get tomorrow from certain players.

It's one year today since we said goodbye to Hetherington and hello to our new owner.

I do think we'll see the effect of pearson's comments tomorrow night. Unfortunately I think it will be a negative and we will get seriously battered and probably looking at 40 points against us at least.

Is this a Sunday morning feeling Jake ?

I see only 8 points either way

You reckon? one win in 8 games, coming off the back of a big loss in France with a serious injury list added to 3 palyers gone from our original roster. Potentially foster and turner as a centre/wing partnership. Add in the public criticism of the squad by our owner plus the fact plenty of them won't be here next season.

rovers, on the other hand, have had a week off, have 4 players returning from injury and have more motivation than us. THey've lost some games recently but only by fairly small margins and have been in much better form than us

Can't see anything other than an easy rovers win. Hope I'm wrong but I rarely am

Rovers are SH*t - I base all my derby predictions on that basis , rarely am I wrong