Half a million. You know for a fact do you ?

And he hasn't accumulated so much cash by wasting it

We didn't have to take it. We have cust, sezer and a couple of younger players as back ups.

No, but I'll bet it nearer that than £250k

From the outside it does seem daft that we didn’t get the knee clear out done as soon as he became a Hull player, it was said he needed it while at Catalans, he’s on a three year deal I’d always be looking long term. Who knows maybe he just wanted to crack on and get stuck in with pre season or maybe he has just took a knock that wasn’t expected.

I’m not just saying now because he’s had a set back but I always thought our best balanced 6 and 7 combo would have been Cust and Sezer anyway. The bigger problem would be if it’s effected our dummy half rotation plans with Cust, but the indication is that Borough is rated highly and Balmforth is having a good pre season. DT has also said that Cust has been training at 6 and not dummy half so again maybe not too much disruption just a like for like swap with Cust and JA.

I was as sceptical about the take over happening as anyone, but it’s official now and it looks they’ve already put a decent amount of investment in the club. I’d also have Myler down as someone who’s pretty thick skinned himself. I admire your dedication to your club but I’d just give it up for now at least, Myler and the board are not going to pack up and leave us in the lurch already just because one Rovers fan pretending to be a Hull fan on a message board is always sticking the boot in.



Give it a season or two of bad results and then try the Trojan horse act again, believe it or not there’s a bit of a feel good factor around the club at the moment.

The feel good factor comes from having two guys in charge who have money and its money the club need to turn this around.
A few big up player reports in the HDM may excite the optimistic and deluded on here but reality is the squad is poor quality put together by a novice whos first major mistake is now seen signing a crocked Abdul on a lucrative three year deal.
You only have to look at our backline of Barron,Hardaker,Chamberlain and Briscoe to see how poor most of Ritchies recruitment has been and if Cross is signed its hardly a major step up.We should be aiming higher and showing R/L that we have ambition and the financial backing of two wealthy owners.
Quality not quantity.He didnt have to sign a player just because he thinks there is no one else around.Get off your backside and find what we need
Lets face it would he be the DOR of Hull Fc if his father in Law was not the part owner of the club.NO
My feeling is we have wasted a building opportunity for 2025 which because of the length of contracts will undoubtably effect what we can do in 2026 when that year should have been the real step up year with three quality possibly marquee players accquired.
Thats highly unlikely now unless we have another large player movement out and that means paying off several contracted players to make room which again costs the club money.
As for me being a Rovers fan thats way off the mark and anyone can see that by simply checking my profile but what i will say is that they have a well laid out strategy for the future a very good coach,lots of ambition and have put together a very good squad for 2025.
Will we get anywhere near defeating them on the pitch i very much doubt it

Hope you feel this passionately about Danson at Wigan putting hisson on the board there. It happens in a lot of businesses, it's not just an FC thing.

Just out of interest which experienced sports administrator should Pearson or Thirkill have appointed instead? Gus Gould?

Shame you didn't go to that fans forum, you could've told Myler all about your much better plan and how to roll it out.

Did you have a happy Christmas?

Honestly I’m not a rovers fan

This is just the biggest non issue for me. If the owners had appointed Myler as the head coach or even a player you’d maybe have a point, but there’s no real blueprint that makes a successful DOR, I’m not sure every club even has one. Look at Radlinksi at Wigan, he didn’t work his way up to the Wigan job by being a DOR at smaller clubs or having previous experience in the role, he’s just a guy that the Wigan hierarchy obviously know and trust who has rugby experience who wanted to progress into a business role rather then coaching. Myler obviously has the trust of his father in law, and it’s essentially an off field business role, people in business appoint people they know and trust. It happens everywhere. Myler has the benefit of a very successful RL career, something that James Clark in a similar role lacked and what we all cried out for years, there’s no reason why he couldn’t be a great fit for the role.

That’s not to say he’s going to be success and get everything right, as I said in far from convinced with recruitment but it’s been explained over and over again that there has to be some realistic expectations with players willing to sign and how we’ll have to build to being a play off side. We went for Lam, Sailor, Sullivan, Whitehead and likely countless others who didn’t want to come here. You mention Rovers, it’s cliche but they didn’t get there overnight. Players like Milnes, Wood, Ryan, Hadley, King etc all helped them build a solid squad in recent years, there’s no reason why players like Chamberlain, Holmes, Hardaker can’t do a similar job for us. It’s at best a 2-3 year project. Cross has lots of pace and has a proven record for a top 6 side over 3 seasons now. If we pull it off it’s the absolute best realistic signing we could hope for. We are not going to poach the best players from the likes of Rovers, Wigan, Wire, Saints etc it’s just not going to happen and we are unlikely to ever jump from 3 wins in season to contender's in less then 2-3 years without a miracle.

Wasting your time, had it in for Myler from the start and won't give him a chance.

Had the chance to say hid views to Myler at the forum, but didn't go and chooses to moan amd complain but offers no solutions, ideas or anything of value to this forum.