Amazing isn't it, Rovers fans get to know more about FC players than the FC management seem to. If you are so confident of the story, type up the details. Amazing that a player who apparently was told he woyld not play again ended in couplr of reserve team games and a first team squad. For what.? For some cloak and dagger scenario? Do you really think the management of either clubs would be that bothered to go to such lengths? If you do I think it's you that has been taken in, Hook line and sinker.

Anyway.....

Still one of the 2016 immortals

As he always will be

Give it a rest. Can you imagine if your lot had a player that had helped you win one, nevermind two challenge cups retire? You'd be taking about him like he was a saint in 100 years time, no matter the circumstances of his exit. Tuli deserves a thread that's not bogged down with the recent speculation, whatever the truth of it. Good luck Tuli, great player that made Sheldon look an absolute mug.

I notice at least one of my posts has been removed. Not sure why?

and mine too...no idea why?

… and Mr Wilberforce, not before time.

Welcome oh Omniscient one from the Darkside, many thanks for the enlightenment. Overawed that supposedly unknown happenings to FC players are so widely known and discussed at gatherings in Caravan Park, Beirut. Perhaps you may be so bold as to praise an ex FC player rather than disparage the circumstances of his retirement. Will you be there, Friday to applaud him?

Interview with Minichello on Talonoa https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p076bcr6 (Iplayer/ Radio Humberside)

Interview with Minichello on Talonoa https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p076bcr6 (Iplayer/ Radio Humberside)

That reference to Beirut is [ireally[/i outdated. Seriously, Google images for Beirut. It’s more a compliment than an insult now. Apologies if that was your intention, but I doubt it from the tone.

Great player for us, total gamble that paid off spectacularly. Will be missed and all the best to him and the family.

You mean his retirement is a poignant moment? I suppose it is, as for any player. I respect his achievements, acknowledge that his was a great story and wish him well for the future. The Immortals label is a tiny bit cloying for a non-Hull fan - but that's not his fault.

Right, I feel the need to be indignant about something now, and to repair the shwarmic balance it is going to be Beirut.

It is [size(possibly)[/size typical of you to disparage the poignant renaissance of that great city following the end of the tragic civil war that wracked Lebanon in the 1980s (hush hush eye to eye). To still, after all this time and all the efforts at reconciliation and regeneration, be using it as a by-word for urban catastrophe shows a deep lack of respect. I assure you sir (or madam), that for people of Beirut their recent history and the transformations they have seen amount to much more than an 'insignificant detail', as you blithely describe it - and that deserves to be acknowledged! Will you join me in applauding the city of Beirut and the people who have rebuilt one of the Jewels of the Middle East?

Was that sufficiently lyrical?