FORUMS > Hull KR > Neil Hudgell q+a from hdm |
![](images/sitelogos/2022-59.jpg) |
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 11924 | ![](images/sitelogos/fullsize/59.png) |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Jan 2007 | 17 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2024 | Jun 2024 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
30596_1286642206.jpg If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Frederick Douglas:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_30596.jpg |
|
| Hudgell has made some appointments that with hindsight have been poor.
On balance as far as the Hull Kingston Rovers club is concerned he rescued us from at worst, death and at best, at the time, perpetual lower league survival.
2006 and 2007 where massive for us, and most of that is down to Hudgell.
If we hadn't got up and stayed up I don't think we'd have done it for another generation at least, if ever.
See Huddersfield for how it is to be a club that loses two or three generations of fans.
We were nearly dead, Hudgell saved us.
Forgive me and all other Rovers fans for holding him in high regard.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Star | 669 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Apr 2013 | 11 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
May 2015 | Apr 2015 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
70480_1365464240.jpg :d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_70480.jpg |
|
| The last few pages are a sad reflection on both clubs youth policies in the not too distant past. Fortunately, both clubs seem to be on a road to recovery.
Hull have suffered from years of under-investment in their youth and the board not really giving a damn. We only did 'well' prior to that due to Rovers not in direct competition, and us reaping the benefits of the city being a hot-bed without us having to do much.
The last real crop to come through was the Houghton, Washbrook, Wheeldon, Hall, Lee etc crop - who some, despite maybe coming through after 2007 when Rovers were promoted, were still a legacy of our monopoly in the city.
Rovers may as well write off pre-2007. It's pretty much irrelevant to this 'debate' as the funds simply wouldn;t have been there, and prmotion was the ultimate goal. Like Hull, in those years following promotion, youth wasn't at the top of the priorities list.
Things are changing though. Both sides seem to have a sprinkling of players that have come through their youth setups established in their first team, as well as a number of promising yougsters getting the odd game with a view to bringing them on slowly.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Moderator | 12614 | ![](images/sitelogos/fullsize/59.png) |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Jun 2007 | 17 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2024 | Jun 2024 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
33809_1522680904.png 'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_33809.png |
Moderator
|
| Quote: Errlee Berd "The last few pages are a sad reflection on both clubs youth policies in the not too distant past. Fortunately, both clubs seem to be on a road to recovery.
Hull have suffered from years of under-investment in their youth and the board not really giving a damn. We only did 'well' prior to that due to Rovers not in direct competition, and us reaping the benefits of the city being a hot-bed without us having to do much.
The last real crop to come through was the Houghton, Washbrook, Wheeldon, Hall, Lee etc crop - who some, despite maybe coming through after 2007 when Rovers were promoted, were still a legacy of our monopoly in the city.
Rovers may as well write off pre-2007. It's pretty much irrelevant to this 'debate' as the funds simply wouldn;t have been there, and prmotion was the ultimate goal. Like Hull, in those years following promotion, youth wasn't at the top of the priorities list.
Things are changing though. Both sides seem to have a sprinkling of players that have come through their youth setups established in their first team, as well as a number of promising yougsters getting the odd game with a view to bringing them on slowly.'"
Good post.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 11924 | ![](images/sitelogos/fullsize/59.png) |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Jan 2007 | 17 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Jul 2024 | Jun 2024 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
30596_1286642206.jpg If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Frederick Douglas:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_30596.jpg |
|
| What does that even mean?
"Good post".
Yes, well done you, wasn't subscribing to the Wankers Charter.
Lovely.
We'll get along swimmingly for here on in.
Have a Jelly Baby.
|
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
International Star | 1583 | No Team Selected |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Sep 2013 | 11 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Apr 2024 | Oct 2023 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
71261_1683968120.jpeg :d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_71261.jpeg |
|
| Quote: Sandra The Terrorist "What does that even mean?
"Good post".
Yes, well done you, wasn't subscribing to the Wankers Charter.
Lovely.
We'll get along swimmingly for here on in.
Have a Jelly Baby.'"
I presume being a gold member is based on the number of posts not on their quality.
|
|
|
|
Rank | Posts | Team |
Player Coach | 8741 | ![](images/sitelogos/fullsize/59.png) |
Joined | Service | Reputation |
Sep 2005 | 19 years | |
Online | Last Post | Last Page |
Dec 2023 | May 2022 | LINK |
Milestone Posts |
|
Milestone Years |
|
Location |
|
Signature |
: |
|
| Quote: Keiththered "I presume being a gold member is based on the number of posts not on their quality.'"
Wasn't he the Dutch bloke who ate his own skin?
|
|
|
![](images/sitelogos/2022-59.jpg) |
|
![](images/sitelogos/2022-59.jpg) |