Its not my fault you made an assumption in your attempt to be a smart and it turned out to be wrong. You could have considered whether or not 11 would be the majority of a squad before jumping in with both feet.

Maybe you can give that a shot next time.

Out of morbid curiosity, which two are you granting us as 'real' in your munificence? 'HKR regular' means you don't want to give us Frankie Mariano, I assume. So that must mean you count Josh Hodgson, which I wouldn't, but fair enough. Who is the other?


Clubs do exploit loopholes in the salary cap - that is hardly a secret. As long as they aren't flat out cheating, I can accept it easily enough. If it was looser still, I'd direct my disappointment at the RFL, rather than Wigan, Warrington or whoever else decided to spend £3m a year or whatever. If they could afford to spend that kind of money via a loophole, I can't imagine them stinting themselves.

mild rover, assuming my maths are correct (even with 'smokeys' abacus) the amount of money I am aware Rovers have invested in youth development is between £200,000-£250,000pa (well, at least over the past 3 years). These are six-figure sums?

The thing is, Smokey only sees the players who have come through our system and hit the first team. He isnt seeing the hard work that Rovers are putting into our Scholarship and Academy structures plus the masses of talent that we currently have in there. I am very confident that the next couple of years will see many more come through (although i think you have made a couple of names up in your list )
The proposed new training complex is going to be a massive plus in Rovers favour aswell when it comes to recruiting top youngsters if it comes to fruition.

At last, something we can agree on. I'm much happier now. I like the highlighted bit below in our latest summary improving player development system. The club is incrementally developing its stadium which should further increase attendances and commercial revenues, in addition to enhancing community activities at the club. At present Hull KR benefit from director investment to operate at the level that it does but the club has a sound business plan. With the recent strengthening of its management and commercial staff, in addition to facility improvement, the club is likely to continue growing during the next Licence period. Grade B.'"

Is this the Allam thing that our friends across the way are getting all hot under the collar about. Again.

RBA. . .made some names up? I see what you mean Lol! I stand corrected - Johnson (not Round) and Beharrel (not Bethersal).

On the new training complex (or the Allam Sports community centre) it seems as though Mr Allam has withdrawn his financial support. Lets hope Big John (Prescott) can tease him back to the negotiating table eh!

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