Galea is gutted to be leaving rovers and had prepared for retirement rather than go to another club,but life has to go on and when an offer comes in,whether it be from hull or anyone else you have to be sensible about it.The guy is rovers through and through and if he hasn't already signed for hull and rovers came up with a reasonable offer he would stay.!!

Galeas been great for us, at the end of the day he wasn't offered a good enough deal by Rovers, the guys still got to earn a living, so if another club comes in then you take that offer.
I will certainly give him a cheer next season.
As I said earlier in the thread, its a strange signing given AP's insistence that Hull will only sign the best young English players,

Ben is free to do what ever he wants after we said we couldn't extend his deal due to lack of game time.
No problem there IMHO.
However if he is at FC next year and he has a similar/worse injury record then the FC fans who are now laughing at folks who are saying there is a good chance that he won't be cost effective can't then get upset if Rovers fans say 'Told you so'.
They probably will but they will fail to see how silly that would be.

AP said MOSTLEY young english so you can put this one to bed

It's a little bug bear of yours, cute though.

Didn't hkr offer him a deal?

tbh I couldn't care less, good luck to the bloke.

Lots of unhappy Rovers fans at this decision and quite a few Hull fans not overly happy with the signing.

Ben Galea has been a brilliant player for Rovers.
He wanted another 12 months on the wage he is currently earning.
Rovers considered his age and the need to upgrade the contracts of some of the youngsters who have been blooded this season and offered him a 1 year deal at around 50% of that wage.
Ben decided this wasnt acceptable so 5 fantastic years comes to an end.
Why not just remember his contribution on and off the field.

If Hull think they can get value out of Ben for 12 months on a wage both parties deem acceptable then fair play to him.
You are a long time retired.
He has a young family therefore if faced with going back to Oz and getting a job like the rest of us at say 30k a year or signing for Hull and getting upwards of 70k for an extra 12 months doing a job you love then its hard to argue with that.
Yes i know its Hull FC but he is hardly going to have the same affinity with them as he has built up with Rovers.
Then there is the question of how often he will be available for selection next season.
Time and Tide waits for no man but if he stays fit Hull have made a fantastic signing.
If not its a 12 month gamble only that didnt work out.
And Ben has an extra 12 months to work out what his future entails.
I personally think he would make an excellent coach.

Not really a bug bear, but I do like to reel it our every now and then

Fair point, the money is the rider here.

Good luck to him!