I dont care if our players come from Preston road or Perth , Australia.
I want to see Hull KR put its best possible team on the pitch.
The passport is irrelevant.

It was like The League Of Gentlemen when Papa Lazarou's Pandemonium Carnival turned up that time with the fire eaters, people dressed as trolls and them fighting with Rufus on the pitch after the second half had got under way.

They were ace them, wish they'd come back.

Papa Lazrou took Easty as one of his wives, rumour has it. Enticed him with some cheap pegs.

Where does your new half back come from again? your new centre your impact forward? And your new prop?

West hull I assume

Papa lazarou is the greatest comic character of all time

I like the way you went back to edit this and add 'West Hull I assume" to the end of it. Made it loads better.

I could only imagine such bitterness coming from a Hull FC fan unfortunately.

The talent pool is looking ok really.

Plenty of debuts to young kids handed out in the last two years. Going onto clubs to win league and cup doubles

Some going to Australia to ply their trade, some in the championships. Teams above us in the table signing them.

4 promising kids promoted to the full time squad for 2014 alongside the likes of Welham, Cox, Green, Ollett.

Could always do better but then again we could do a lot worse.

In that case, it would be disappointing. Though there's an argument that, up to a point, a better standard helps more than a bigger pool.

But for me, that isn't the [iwhole[/i point at all.

SL is [iprimarily[/i a competition. Development of talent is an important but secondary responsibility - a means more than an end for the clubs.

No bitterness here, I simply view investment into youth/grassroots paying greater future dividends (Mrs B will like that) rather than an 'investment' in foreign no-marks, no matter which club it is. Some players come to SL and enrich the competition, most add nothing and we as a sport are paying for it and have done for years.

Your post above is praising things that should be a given anyway, promoting players, giving debuts etc. That is a fundamental aspect of what any SL club should do and pretty much every club will have done the exact same things you've just proudly written out.

I'm not sure that players like Maki, Paniu, Larroyer, Talanoa, Feka, Costigan, Miller etc etc improve the standard of SL. Some, like Paea & Weyman do. I'm not advocating getting rid of foreign players, just stop signing the crap ones and invest that money longer term in youth development.

A low turnover of players & you might be able to promote juniors to fill the gaps, a high turnover (as we've had) & you've no choice but to go into the market. The number of overseas players is disappointing but it's just a reflection of what's available domestically.