TBH I don't usually give two hoots what the Sky Commentary Team think about us, I usually have a good laugh but I thought that was a pretty stupid comment to make from Phil Clarke....we have injuries, what is the embarrassment in that? Also why be embarrassed that Wade went home? Should everyone who brings in a loan player have to be embarrassed for doing so? I bet Rovers weren't embarrassed when they brought in Charnley, it did him the world of good.

Loaning players benefits three fold, the club who are in a pickle and need a player quickly, benefitting the player getting first team experience and benefitting the club the loan player came from as their player is getting more and more game time experience.

Absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about and a crass comment to make.

As for the "why bother about Manu he came from Cas" comment was he

because I still have no idea what that was supposed to mean

As a Rovers fan, I also found some of Clarkes comments bizzare.
Embarrassed to loan players??? It's unfortunate that for a lot of teams its a neccasary evil. My favorite was the Willie Manu was only from Cas one. Did make me laugh. What does it matter where you sign a player from, its how he performs that counts, I wonder what Cas fans thought about it lol.
It has been quite amusing reading this whole thread and the Millwall chants of 'no one likes us but we don't care' lol.

i know how bizarre was that?? does that mean anyone who comes from Cas are crappp???????
Clarke was a great player but as a pundit really does get bogged down in utter tripe facts and figures that no one else gives a toss about but then on ocassion does show his true colours like he did in that one Manu sentence!!! and the statememnt about the wigan youngster.

You know i guess he is just another wigan fan who done good and as such is biggotted which is ok by me in reality because with the tweedle dee and tweedle dum sky sports duo of stevo and hemmings he provides light relief..

think about it
Clarke.. a frustrated ex player trying to look cool but clearly anti hull fc and always has been
Stevo.. lived his life off the back of a world cup winners medal and spouts about the biff all time yet was one of the worst offenders when a player....
hemmings.. used to be the window cleaner at red hall
the shouting idiot... another frustrated ex player who cant do a report without nearly orgasming due to shouting so much.

all in all the aussie press got it right when they called it , commentary by monty python

what ever they say, we thumped Leeds and neither the sky team, red hall or GH can change that...........

I don't think he was saying Cas are crap, he was trying to yet again have a dig that we didn't develop Manu we took him from Cas and therefore we shouldn't be upset when he leaves us. Either way it was a stupid comment.

To be fair to Clarke, he had a pop at Wigan the night before for playing Gelling on the wing and not a youngster.

I don't believe they're biased, and certainly don't believe they hate Hull (only a paranoid person with an inferiority complex would keep bringing that up).
I just think they're stupid and are trying to be controversial. The Willie Manu comment even had Eddie scratching his head, that's how stupid it was!

I don't know of any club with such depth that you could take 9 players out of their best 17, play them against two top four teams in consecutive weeks, and expect them to do a great deal better than we did.

think this bias towards certain teams has gone on for ages.....unless a team outside the fab four wins it, it will continue, what you need is an nrl type of thing happeneing, ie: a team getting the wooden spoon one year then winning the comp the next, unfortunatly for SL..i cant see that ever happening as the entire game is set up so the big teams win...shocking really...

I must admit, I am glad we've now reached the point where that can't keep being dragged out, it was getting tiresome. As you say, we've now played everyone barring Catalan, and even with the games in hand played for all clubs we'd be a minimum of 5th.

He is right, we should be embarrased.

Or a point behind Wigan if we had already played Cats and won there.It really does annoy and amaze me when they all keep harping on that we have not played anyone, but with a bit of homework the muppets would of noticed that we have already beaten both of last seasons grand finalists.

I thought the same thing there actually, with Horney, Westerman and Heremaia sat in our injury bench.

They're just a bunch of prats.

As well as taking a point off the minor premiers. In fact, if you just look at head-to-head results between last season's playoff teams we're level with Warrington and only a point behind Hudds and Catalan.