You can't still count Bailey and Weyman as they left months ago and one of them has been replaced already.

I forgot about Lunt, so that's 5 loan players.

People who know my posts, know I'm not a troll or after cheap digs, I'll give rovers credit with signings etc, but this is disappointing, I'd rather have a young lad playing then a 35 year old average player who hasn't played for months. I'd say the same if Hull signed him, like I did when we signed Howarth.

Watch him score the winning try on Saturday now !!!!

Wigan saints and Leeds apart could any other team lose there 4 main prop forwards plus weyman and Bailey and have the academy players to back them up?

I'm really not sure where some of the fc posters are coming from here. We are currently utilising as many of our local squad and academy players as we can, but the truth is Rome wasn't built in a day and although they have performed admirably, they can't be expected to perform at the top of their game week in week out. Yes weyman has been gone a while and tilse has replaced him, then add Allgood, walker and bailey to the mix. 4 props out of 5/6 that the club thought ready to play, so what else is a club to do than look to get players in on loan. It's just the most sensible thing to do. I still feel for Matty beharell getting run over by Wigan. He never played first team again. Was that as a consequence of being thrown in to early.. We will never know, but chucking players in at prop who aren't ready is just bloody stupid and could end a career before its started.

Good solid signing, we can't just throw a load of academy players into the fray, we need to substitute experience with experience and thats what I see with this signing.

He's a prop and they tend to play longer then most positions, so I dont see his age being an issue in the slightest. A good signing to plug a gap in the team for a season, that'll do me

I agree, I'd love to be pumping out young players on a conveyor belt like Wigan, Leeds and Saints, but we'd have to have had this improved academy in place for about 6 years already if we wanted to be seeing results now, which since that was about our 3rd season in Super League after a long absence from the top flight, would be an unrealistic expectation, I think.

So, in a nutshell, Rovers fans are happy with this signing. Hull fans aren't. Does anyone even care?

Hull fans like me come on here to discuss rugby and so far it's a good debate, isn't that what this forum is about, I'm sure there is a private Rovers forum if you don't want fans of other teams to put their opinions on here.

Makes you wonder why FC went and signed Liam Colburn when you had a queue of young talent just itching to get on the pitch.

Spot on,says it all.

I was really disappointed with that signing, but maybe I have have higher standards than Rovers fans who seem happy to have signed a 35 year old who hasn't played for 8 months.

Again why are you using Hull as a bench mark and even bringing Hull into the discussion?

Dave K you are usually a fair poster but you do seem to be preaching a bit tonight every team has injuries ours seem to have all happened to our props so this loan signing was needed as a short term fix but you saying we should have players ready to step up is like me saying why haven't you produced a set of home grown backs like leeds I also think we need to revert to at least an under 21 set up to replace the 19s

I can't imagine anyone wanting to use Hull FC as a benchmark.
How is the young must be from Hull local lad half back school coming along?