Hope to hear plenty of booing in Sunday and an empty stadium for the middle 8 play offs. No disrespect to the players but this is too big.

ok I disagreed with a lot he said but also he did have some good points imo

Dab

Don't think I've ever seen a poster do such a dramatic u turn as you have

Yes, but he did say Lee was working "incredibly hard". Unfortunately he's not working incredibly successfully.

I guess nobody knows how much it costs to run 2 academy teams, but I'd imagine it won't come cheap.

Catalans are in the U19's next year - yet more expense.

I'm not agreeing with what they're doing, but it sounds like a cost cutting exercise, which may produce a better crop of youngsters if they are representing 1 team rather than 2.

Not every day your club announces its merging with their arch rivals is it Jake?

Or loses to the shiittest team in SL Glad you've come over to the dark side

Sick of hearing it , I think Pearson even winced saying it .

The double whammy of that plus the merger may have been the breaking point.

I give a lot of my spare time to junior RL, so this news may have hit me harder than others I guess. I'm despondent.

As I said earlier, I can put up with turd performances, turd players and turd coaches. That's sport, it's cyclical and we've no divine right to win every game. I've always maintained when criticising peoples one-eyed rants about Radford or Yeamo that they were only part of the issues at the club, the main one being Pearson's mismanagement.

I'll be there on Sunday

"What went on last night was unacceptable..." "Not happy at all about last night..." "The players that we've got on the roster should be pushing top 4..."

Said that Lee and himself are under incredible pressure and indicated that the players aren't sharing that pressure. "Needed to win that match and we didn't so, yes, questions are being asked, but not of Lee, of myself and the players and I need to see a response form the players this weekend..."

Sounds like he's still backing Radford to me.

Can't he see - as a people manager himself - that if the players aren't responding to the coach then they aren't buying into what that coach believes and is telling them. Or that they have no respect for the coach for whatever reason.

The questions Pearson should be asking are Why are the players not responding, why are they not happy and why are they wanting to leave the club?

Devastated by this news. Absolutely loved watching the 19's/20's over the years.

Maybe I'll feel differently in a couple of years, but there's no chance I'll be supporting this. Sad day indeed.

Shame on you Adam & Neil.

Anyone want a friend for Sunday, all the people I normally go with aren't bothering (even though they have passes) #billynomates

In a kind of perverse way, this proposal has brought the red and white and black and white sides of Hull together in agreement

They agree that they both hate the proposed merger of the academies