we don't run the club, we don't pick the team or take training sessions. were only fans. you'll have to contact the people who can answer your questions I.E the coach or chairman.

I think that video is only available to the Hull FC club 150 pass holders.

Iam glad the pennys finally dropped,I did warn you,but you knew best.

The squad numbers are not meaningless they have not been randomly pulled from a hat but the players were wearing the numbers on their training gear on the first day of pre season, before anyone had a chance to impress even in training and since then several further signings have been added.

So the squad numbers are a guide only.

As for the idea that promoting local players to the squad is some sort of noble honourable pursuit, what a load of poppycock. Clubs want a healthy production line of youngsters because it is good for the club not for altruistic reasons. Who wouldn't want a conveyor belt of quality locals who come into the squad on low wages and provide ready made quality replacements as others leave? And who offer the possibility of continuity, the nucleus of a squad as others come & go. This is what everyone wants.

Achieving this is another matter and probably Hull are doing a little better than us at the moment, this is the fruit of earlier initiatives. There is not much wrong with the work currently being done by Pete Grayburn and his staff at Rovers or with the support given to them by the club.

All clubs want the same thing, those claiming the moral high ground spouting holier than thou rhetoric can be disregarded as not part of serious debate.

Speaking for myself, I do care - just not as much as you. Why? Well, much as it would be nice to have a bigger pool of quality homegrown players to draw on, I don't completely accept your thesis, or at best see it as incomplete.
In addition, there's plenty of other things to care about as well IMO. For example, although we don't hear so much about it nowadays, and the new TV deal and/or North stand may help, we're still reliant on the generosity of our board to stop us going 'pop'. Bradford had the Burgess lads, Whitehead, Bateman and Donaldson coming through a few years ago and much good it did them.
On a more positive note, there's hopefully plenty of stuff to look forward to in the more immediate future.

Regarding Bradford and the 'thesis'

I agree with you though, it certainly should be an important part of the youth policy. The seemless way the Wigan yougsters step up into the first team is a credit to their coaches and structures.

Regardless of who plays next year we both could have bum squeak times if we don't turn up on match days