Interesting point. They own many other national and regional titles including The Huddersfield Examiner and Manchester Evening News.

absolutely spot on for me!!! Of course it will.Its reducing greatly the message spread of our game.

It's almost gratifying to know for the first time ever my initial post on here has been transcribed completely on the Rovers 'secret' message board.

I CAN DIE A HAPPY MAN !!

As on here however, they are as worried about it as many of us are, at least.... on the whole. Some say on there, as some FC fans are saying on here, that they never read the mail web site anyway, it's an out of date medium and it won't be missed but who are they kidding??? That's B*llocks!!

Fact is that as an independent news source looking for scoops, sensationalism and internal revelations from our clubs to survive as soon as a rumour breaks they are straight to it. That's so important to all of us!! Indeed as with the guys across the river, who hasn't been been excited, interested, intrigued, worried and even scared at times by what they have revealed in advance and indeed, how often have they been wrong. Not that often, I would hazard a guess, in fact, since Dan and Joe have been writing for it at least??? Very rarely!!

If the Mail coverage disappears as it undoubtably will, we will have to be satisfied with yesterday's news cribbed from social media, from Gwilym and Co. on Humberside or the sanitised rumour controlled version we get from both the Clubs.

Some can write this news outlet off as irrelevant, outmoded and 'yesterday's news' but for me and it appears several more folks at both sides of the river, its a massive blow to the openness and honesty about our clubs that we need as the stakeholders and indeed (although some would deny it is the case) the lifeblood of both our beloved teams.

One of my favourite ever Xmas presents was an annual subscription to the green Sports Mail paid by my mum every year and sent to me after I left the UK in1966. It lasted right up to when she died in the 90's and took about 10 days to arrive but I read it from cover to cover in both South Africa and Aus.
In my youth I played Union, League and Soccer in Hull and also for a couple of years sent a report of Union Saturday matches I played in to the HDM where it was posted in Tuesday's edition.

Loved the Sports Mail as a kid and from the age of about 8 used to get it for my dad from a Newsagent in Marfleet who received delivery around 6 pm.

I think its worrying that with the decline of local radio and now newspaper that there won't be anyone asking critical questions of the clubs. They will most likely be reprinting whatever press releases the club wants.

All 3 clubs in Hull have had their low spells and owners that have needed questioning in the past. For example at some point soon id have expected a good journalist to be asking Pearson 'when exactly is this stadium lease meeting?' now we'll just have to wait for whatever the club tell us.

As for RL overall im very worried, the game is skint and media coverage is dwindling. If we dont find another serious TV rights bidder to push SKY to give more money then the game will go part time.

Well times might be changing for some but not enough to stop the owners and the Chief Exec's of both clubs being concerned enough to pursue the decision with the Reach group.

looks like today is the last day for some reporters, Appleyard tweeted it was his last story earlier.

Dan Tomlinson not mentioned in the list of redundancies from James Smailes. Wonder if he's kept his job

I'm sure he already confirmed on Twitter he had been made redundant. Unless there has been a change of plans and he's now been kept on

Edit: just checked his twitter. He said "On Wednesday, I found out I am one of 450 Reach PLC roles at risk of redundancy from Jan 15."
So first of all it sounds like it wasn't a definite as he was only "at risk of" and it wouldn't be in effect until mid January anyway. Appleyard made his last post on Hull Live today so he has definitely now gone. Seems like Dan still has at least a month longer.

Gwilym Lloyd leaving RH at Christmas too?

Not heard anything has changed there, but hope it has. middle of January was his departure date.

Now that’s a present that’s been wished for more than “my 2 front teeth”
I’ve told this story before but I’ll risk it again, the first time away to Catalans we were sat outside the big cafe near the old jailhouse. I went to the loo and whilst washing my hands, Gwilym was trying to get the taps to work waving his hands under the tap, he said “how do you do it”, I replied “ magic” and walked away. I looked behind and he’d moved to the sink I’d used, still waving his hands under the tap, they were controlled by a big orange foot switch

Not before time...tbh, stopped listening to RH after they did the dirty on Burnsy and all the other presenters

Should have happened 5 years ago at the very least.

I noticed this morning their headline article was about not letting the BBC silence local media such as Hull Live but seems its now been removed, Not surprised if they have pulled it as it was just utter tosh and most comments I'd read were slating Hull Live/Reach PLC for the poor efforts and they were reaping what they themselves had sown.
The fact they are getting rid of two sports reporters for two top flight RL teams in the city just proves they have no interest in the local area or any other local areas where they are letting go of so many reporters.