League Weekly say he's off too!

Like most players, opinion is split on Westerman. If a player wants to leave or the club no longer want him I don't think it's healthy for either party for him to stay. I would however, expect the club to receive market value for that player, whatever that may be. In this particular case I would expect any fee to be soaked up by the current reported losses the club are making which whilst not ideal is understandable.

Agreed.

I very much doubt he is trying to "flick the V's" to the fans. He more than anyone has a financial vested interest in the club. He stands to lose out far more if things do not work out.

As has been pointed out, the stead fast denials which are publicly stated are a way of trying to ramp up the price.

Its a little like a Boards vote of confidence in a manager. How often has that ended in the manager being removed from office?

Thats because League Weekly uses these forums as its main source of information.

On the assumption he his going who does everybody think will replace him?

Washbrook.

Thompson.

Abdull.

Extra Prop.

As someone has already mentioned I think we were bit hasty giving Michaels a one year deal. In hindsight we could have combined his salary and Westerman's and sign a quality NRL back and still have Westermans transfer fee(hopefully) to bank.

Could be Minichiello as well... I reckon Radford will look for a player with high defensive attributes to block up the middle.

For mine,Washbrook..

Mini
Pritchard
Manu

would be my back three.

Washbrook would be on the bench to do a 20m minute spell in the backrow and at hooker.

shame to see him go but that's sport it happens at most clubs,in fairness to pearson imo we have signed top class players this year,you only have to look elseware like rovers to see that,

"I like x player, he's one of our better players, should be playing international rugby"

We just sold him


"Well he was s--t anyway, glad he's gone tbh"

He was good last year (In an appalling side) and just about deserved his England spot, but overall in his time at Hull, he has been disappointing, two average season and two better ones. He certainly hasn't been outstanding, he doesn't score trys or sets them up, rarely makes a break either, he works hard and has good defence, but in his time as Hull, that's about it, I've seen more from Abdul (Who isn't ready to play LF full time) last season that I saw from Westerman last year.

So do we keep him for another year, hoping he will finally come good after 4 years and then let him go for free or do we sell him for a large fee and let players play LF who will do a more effective job for the club.

You must watch our games blindfolded how dare you

Says in RL Media he was signing a 3 year deal with us but then got poached by Warrington who he has opted for, we probably haven't heard anything because a deal has not yet been sorted for the fee.

And yet both Wire and Leeds were after him, with Wire apparently winning out.

Not bad for a 'bang average' player. Still - neither of their coaches knows as much about players as some of our fans, eh?

people make me laugh on here, half the contributors on this forum slag westy off week in week out saying it was 150k wasted

now we look to be selling him, people, some who criticised his signing too i bet are having a go at adam pearson for selling

now im a fan of westerman, i will be disappointed to see him go, but sport is a buisness and atm we are not doing great financial wise, blame pearson, blame the fans for not renewing passes, ateod our clubs survival is the main priority, whether that is pass sales or selling players