I thought his kicking last week was poor as it has been for most of the season imo and he hardly ever takes on the line , last night he was absolutely shocking and offered nothing in attack.
I know people keep saying Michael Dobson is a hard act to follow and keating may come good, but even before he came over here i remember reading comments on the Bulldogs fans forum and most of them were not complimentary, in fact if i remember correctly most of their fans appeared to be glad to see the back of him.

Signed until 2016??? Must be laughing his t1ts off this kid. He won't be going anywhere I'm afraid. Unless Hudge has deep pockets.

Even if he was paid off it would count on our cap.

7 out of 10 in the HDM,do you think they actually attend the games or have some of you like many Hull fans do found a scapegoat.

He gets 5 free points in sympathy for being a ginner

Our Irish writers marks out of ten are allways a source of amusement. I don't think he was there also!! But as a scapegoat, if your crap every week, then the hammer must eventually fall!

We should play craig hall at 7 until the season ends, keating is absolute trash. The same pop passes all the time and crap kicks, he offers absolutely nothing and I feel sorry for travis having to carry this guy, I hope when chester said he needed to speak to the half backs he meant just this fat waste if space!

Can't you just play Travis as your first receiver and have Hall as your runner?

It wouldn't if you paid him off next year before he played a salary cap counting game.

His teammates and opposition players don't think he's crap every week in fact his teammates feel he comes in for undue criticism.

And some players felt Welham was treated unfairly when he was sent to gateshead after a season of underperforming Players eh

1 players aren't going to slag other players off and 2 just because players have played the game doesn't mean there knowledgeable about it I'm prepared to give Keating the benefit of the doubt this season but there's no getting away from the fact he's been poor and his kicking has been terrible

The consumate pro's you name would never say in an interview "oh yeah their 7 was garbage today" so that doesnt convince me at all. To your second point I have heard a few pundits say Keating is pretty bang average, apparently Humberside this weekend said Rovers could get any 17 year old from Longhill to do what he has done today, I am paraphrasing as i didnt listen to their commentary my better half text me what they said. I just dont think he is any better than Craig Hall or Matty Beharrel and im guessing theyre on a fraction of his wage, for what its worth I think he could be a decent hooker so im not rubbishing the guy I just think he is a very poor scrum half.

I agree the players you mention would not say that in an after match interview. The players I quoted made their comments about Keating whilst appearing as guests on The Super League show etc and talking about matches they weren’t involved in. The comment on Humberside was made by Lee Richardson who very rarely has anything positive to say about Rovers.