Anyone aware of why the club are boycotting them

Yep it's cos of the Dobbo gate

are we boycotting HDM too? we dont have anyone doing a weekly column do we,

Not sure about Humberside, but if we've boycotted HDM it's a good decision IMO.

Wasn't that brisk that used to do that I think it's cos they are both poop stirrers rovers will let the fans know Wat and when things happen from now on I reckon

IMO fans deserve to be able to read whats going on in the local rag, whether the club dont have a good relationship with said local rag or not, its called been professional. JM used todo his column and also a player, but so far this season no one has bothered. shame really

Yeah they're totally fair points too, just find it frustrating sometimes the negative coverage they give e.g. that business the other year where they were suggesting we had big financial problems then ended up going back on themselves.

The reaction here is a startling contrast to the robust defence of RH over breaking the Cooke story and their editorial commentary around the ridiculous signing of Reardon over the river. Rovers have had a good relationship with RH in the past, in part due to the clear majority of RL commentators on the station being of the red and white persuasion. RH have now sought to address this a bit with giving Craig Murdock a bigger role, which coincides with Gwilym Lloyd being off sick also. Burnsy is a mischief-maker, he did it with Reardon, he's now doing it over the Tongan passport. Whilst I understand your annoyance at the fun-poking, as it's uncomfortable, a) it's the same for both sides and there were several threads on here enjoying it when the boot was on the other foot, and b) it's a genuine story.

Not sure about the HDM really. Again, they are interested in a big story and broke the Dobson deregistration, which, like it or not, is a fairly big story. I don't see some sort of negative theme by them on Rovers though.

I find it pretty annoying when FC take their bat and ball home with the local media and in the long run I don't think it serves much purpose other than to limit opportunities to use the media to your advantage when you get a good news story you want to milk.

Think will be probably be because when all the Dobson/Mason visa scandle went on you had people from humberside on the radio interviewing RFL officials. The interviews won't have being the sour point to Rovers it will have being the negative questions that Humberside where asking the RFL official regards the rules of the game and insinuating that it's illegal at every corner. Not once where they sticking up for Rovers but constantly giving negative questions to the RFL to make the situation look as bad as possible to gain a few viewers at the expense of Rovers.

Now as a viewer of local radio that really ed me off.

I'm thinking it might be because when Humberside first 'broke' the Dobson/Mason story they suggested Dobson had been released and continued to do so for an hour or so. Surely as any good media type should have done, they would have contacted the club first before jumping the gun.

Do you not just think that it may be because to everyone, other than Rovers and the RFL, the whole de-registration saga left a sour taste?

Oh, and Easty, now you know how we feel about them. Get well soon, Gwillym.

Until we get a reporter that knows anything about the game, Im afraid we will be stuck with this negative reporting. Hull FC for the last 30 years have had two die hard fans with knowledge of the game reporting for them. We seem to get any one who is out of a job.