East Riding lad, not Hull if you don't mind. Ex South Holderness pupil so is ok as coach for me

It should, how can you give commitment to something if you have those feelings

Colin Hutton played for Hull FC and now has a stand named after him at Rovers

Oh dear lol

Despite rumours of a move to Wakey, he's staying put. He's also in this weekends squad so let's hope he comes through the fitness test on his back.

Len Casey went the other way, I doubt will we find a stand named after him. Not even gentleman Johny seems to rate that honour with the stadium owners?

Told you he was staying lol

I don't believe you stan he's going back to Aus as well as already signing for Wakey

It was the KC for a good while though - Casey, KC, geddit?



Bill Jacques, the trainer when Rovers were winning trophies in the twenties, was ex-Hull FC n'all.

On McNamara...

Don't care that he's got Hull connections.

His successors didn't do any better at Bradford and his predecessor in the England job did worse.

He's experienced, and has faced adversity before.

On the downside, he's not massively charismatic (his public face at least). If he gets wins, it won't matter, but until then his appointment won't much inspire the fan base.

Arthur Bunting left us to go over to the dark side and became their most successful coach. Let's hope McNamara can do similar for us

Mcnamara holds several unwanted records of failure at bradford,leaving with a superb run of 12 losses out of the last 13 matches at the end of the 2010 season.The team had started the season with 10 wins and 2 draws out of the first 17 matches,so it took half the season before he set the rot in,with a finishing position of 10th in his first full season.The following season they finished 10th again,only 9 wins out of 27 matches.He was the 1st bradford coach not to make the playoffs and guided them to their longest losing run in 20 years.Finally the bulls fans prayers were answered and he was sacked,brilliant.
He was then given the england job and despite arguably the best squad ever,we lost to aussie and new zealand in the 2013 world cup,finished 3rd of 4 in the 4 nations,beating only samoa,finally we beat new zealand reserves 2-1 to win the series.Just what we need a guy as coach who has a long history of failure,would much prefer webster to continue as coach.Since he took over other than the home games v oldham and cats we have improved markedly IMO.

Did McNamara do a good job with England I thought he under achieved, was heavily critised by fans fit his selections and failed at the World Cup.

Saying that I think he will be a decent appointment as he should have improved massively since his Bradford days after working under Robinson, hopefully have some good contacts as he has a tough job recruiting for next year, particularly as it looks like your big earners are staying.

His Dad used to coach me and my Mum taught him maths.

I'm rubbish at maths and his Dad made me a worse player, he also made me throw up a lot at training.

England came within seconds of making the WC final. Hardly a failure.