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| Quote General Zod.="General Zod."Rovers board have been truly outstanding since Hudge took over as Chairman but I have to say I'm very disappointed in how the board have handled this saga and how they have treated Willie Mason for the following reasons:-
As I understand it, it was reported last year that Galea was due to get a Maltese passport and Mason was signed as a quota player who would play for Rovers under an Australian visa and be registered as a quota player. Had this happened, Mason would have been in the country before xmas doing pre-season with the rest of the squad.
It then transpires Galea won't come off the quota so they tell Mason he's going to have to get a Tongan passport himself. We then have a 30yr old player who has to go through the bureaucracy of sorting out his own passport when all he wants to do is come over and get on with things.
At this point I (under contract or not) I think it's perfectly understandable that he or his agent looks at other options given the fact he's unclear of how things would pan out at Rovers considering he's in his twilight years and all he wants to do is play rugby.
He eventually came over and showed effort and enthusiasm whether on the pitch or on the bench (even though he was tucked out wide when he should have been played in the middle until Dobson was in the team) only for Rovers to bin him off because he's looked at other options whilst the club had told him "sort yourself a passport out or you can't play".
The board may say that Mason was out of order in approaching Toulon, but I feel in this instance, they should have cut him some slack considering all the messing about Willie Mason has been subjected to.
And all this talk of Mason being a "money grabber" is total non-sense as far as I'm concerned; if someone offered me 5 times my salary then I'd jump ship without a second thought - and I expect most people reading this post would do the same.
I've always stated that the FC board got what they deserved over their treatment of Paul Cooke and I'm not the sort of person to change their tune now the boot is on the other foot.
I do applaud the board and JM for the tough stance they take with all players because it benefits the long term culture of the club but I feel they gone a step too far this time.
Willie Mason will earn the equivalent of £1.65M during his next 3 years @ Toulon and I wish him well.'"
£395,000 x 3 = £1.65million? I know the standard of education isnt the best in hull, but seriously? Its not even ball park |
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Anyone else think the Allam million was to pay Mason off?
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| Quote General Zod.="General Zod."Rovers board have been truly outstanding since Hudge took over as Chairman but I have to say I'm very disappointed in how the board have handled this saga and how they have treated Willie Mason for the following reasons:-
As I understand it, it was reported last year that Galea was due to get a Maltese passport and Mason was signed as a quota player who would play for Rovers under an Australian visa and be registered as a quota player. Had this happened, Mason would have been in the country before xmas doing pre-season with the rest of the squad.
It then transpires Galea won't come off the quota so they tell Mason he's going to have to get a Tongan passport himself. We then have a 30yr old player who has to go through the bureaucracy of sorting out his own passport when all he wants to do is come over and get on with things.
At this point I (under contract or not) I think it's perfectly understandable that he or his agent looks at other options given the fact he's unclear of how things would pan out at Rovers considering he's in his twilight years and all he wants to do is play rugby.
He eventually came over and showed effort and enthusiasm whether on the pitch or on the bench (even though he was tucked out wide when he should have been played in the middle until Dobson was in the team) only for Rovers to bin him off because he's looked at other options whilst the club had told him "sort yourself a passport out or you can't play".
The board may say that Mason was out of order in approaching Toulon, but I feel in this instance, they should have cut him some slack considering all the messing about Willie Mason has been subjected to.
And all this talk of Mason being a "money grabber" is total non-sense as far as I'm concerned; if someone offered me 5 times my salary then I'd jump ship without a second thought - and I expect most people reading this post would do the same.
I've always stated that the FC board got what they deserved over their treatment of Paul Cooke and I'm not the sort of person to change their tune now the boot is on the other foot.
I do applaud the board and JM for the tough stance they take with all players because it benefits the long term culture of the club but I feel they gone a step too far this time.
Willie Mason will earn the equivalent of £1.65M during his next 3 years @ Toulon and I wish him well.'"
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| Quote east hull FC fan="east hull FC fan"Anyone else think the Allam million was to pay Mason off?'"
Feck!!!!!!! 6 months!!!!! he was expensive!!!!!! 
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| Quote east hull FC fan="east hull FC fan"Anyone else think the Allam million was to pay Mason off?'"
Er no |
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| Quote east hull FC fan="east hull FC fan"Anyone else think the Allam million was to pay Mason off?'"
Why would we pay him off wen he asked to be released from his contract |
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| Quote blakeysrobin="blakeysrobin"Feck!!!!!!! 6 months!!!!! he was expensive!!!!!!
Have a word with yourself.'"
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Quote blakeysrobin="gingerspice"Why would we pay him off wen he asked to be released from his contract'"
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| Quote Katie.Smithson="Katie.Smithson"£395,000 x 3 = £1.65million? I know the standard of education isnt the best in hull, but seriously? Its not even ball park'"
Err no love. Considering I'm responsible for paying thousands of pounds of tax payers money on a daily basis, including some extremely complex calculations taking in excess of 3hrs, then I'm perfectly capable of managing a simple calculation of Willie Mason's Toulon deal:-
Currently, rounded up to the nearest penny, there is 66p to the Australian dollar so 2.5M Australian dollars X .66 = 1.65M English pounds.
Come back when you have something useful to contribute soft lass.
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| Quote WormInHand="WormInHand"You sure you're old enough to remember Zook Ema? You appear to be barely old enough to to remember Cooke being in breach of contract when he spoke to Rovers. Don't remember Hudge shaking his head sternly and telling Cooke he shouldn't be doing it. Hmm?
Rovers need to get their own house in order before pointing the finger so much. Mason's had enough and bitten it off. Good on him.'"
yes i do remember zook ema I watched him play loads of times which is why i chose the name. I am more than old enough to remember paul cooke and you would have every right to say what goes around comes around and your right.
as for rovers getting there own house in order I totally agree we as a club should share the blame. and in future I would like the club to fully focus on developing our own youth system and bring through local lads, so we may not rely on overseas players in the future. will that happen well I can only hope. |
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| Quote Roverswall="Roverswall"He was being paid wasn't he?
If we had not been paying him all along then I would have done the back door dealing he had but that isn't the case, Like it or not we had still been paying him as a HKR player he then chose to go elsewhere knowing full well he was still reciving (sp) monies for that contract.'"
exactly ,
this guy got offered a massive amount of money to ply his trade elsewere,passport or no passport he would have taken the offer either way.
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| Quote General Zod.="General Zod."Rovers board have been truly outstanding since Hudge took over as Chairman but I have to say I'm very disappointed in how the board have handled this saga and how they have treated Willie Mason for the following reasons:-
As I understand it, it was reported last year that Galea was due to get a Maltese passport and Mason was signed as a quota player who would play for Rovers under an Australian visa and be registered as a quota player. Had this happened, Mason would have been in the country before xmas doing pre-season with the rest of the squad.
It then transpires Galea won't come off the quota so they tell Mason he's going to have to get a Tongan passport himself. We then have a 30yr old player who has to go through the bureaucracy of sorting out his own passport when all he wants to do is come over and get on with things.
At this point I (under contract or not) I think it's perfectly understandable that he or his agent looks at other options given the fact he's unclear of how things would pan out at Rovers considering he's in his twilight years and all he wants to do is play rugby.
He eventually came over and showed effort and enthusiasm whether on the pitch or on the bench (even though he was tucked out wide when he should have been played in the middle until Dobson was in the team) only for Rovers to bin him off because he's looked at other options whilst the club had told him "sort yourself a passport out or you can't play".
The board may say that Mason was out of order in approaching Toulon, but I feel in this instance, they should have cut him some slack considering all the messing about Willie Mason has been subjected to.
And all this talk of Mason being a "money grabber" is total non-sense as far as I'm concerned; if someone offered me 5 times my salary then I'd jump ship without a second thought - and I expect most people reading this post would do the same.
I've always stated that the FC board got what they deserved over their treatment of Paul Cooke and I'm not the sort of person to change their tune now the boot is on the other foot.
I do applaud the board and JM for the tough stance they take with all players because it benefits the long term culture of the club but I feel they gone a step too far this time.
Willie Mason will earn the equivalent of £1.65M during his next 3 years @ Toulon and I wish him well.'"
Agree completely, just hope lessons have been learned from the whole situation |
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