Terrible that there is no official word from Rovers are they hoping nobody has noticed?

All it would take was a paragraph explaining Rovers reasoning behind messing the guy around.

yes they bigged up the signing as you do but then a new coach came in and didnt want him hes gone with a pay off if the club came out now and said hes been released you lot would be moaning that theyve told us something we already know

Terrible? Nah.

They might eventually get around to announcing that he isn't joining - or they might not (it's hardly a secret now is it?), which'd be a bit of a rubbish oversight. The reasons won't be given, though they are pretty obvious.

On the Mild Rover embarrasment scale it is a 3. For reference, trying to score points off it is a 3.5. Calling your teacher 'dad' is a 4.

6 pages on a player never to play in a rovers shirt, a record? anyway my Auntie is highly pleased her passion is going back to the eagles. Although Rovers have lost a season ticket if he had signed.

You all need to stop picking on poor Mike Smith, he's not very good at typing and he's still replying to my email from June, he replied to my initial one and said he would get back to me but he can only do one letter at a time the poor lamb.

Who exactly are "you lot"?

Muppets from coal villages.

To be fair to Mrs B I understand she once qualified to take part in 'Mastermind'.

Unfortunately it all went wrong when she nominated her specialist subject as ' Hull FC's Wembley Triumphs'.

One step away from Gateshull, I see. A rather weak effort on your part to divert attention from the gormpclopitude of Mike Smith pretending he never signed Misi Taulapapa. Why, if it weren't for the tweets of @autodox, we'd have had no updates of relevance in the months since the original announcement.

In terms of the Mastermind point, I'm thinking I might do Groundhog Day. You know, Paul Lakin, Neil Hudgell, Paul Blanchard, James Elston, Neil Pease, Andy Mowbray, Mike Smith and their continual loop of declaration that the ground developments are imminent. A rich seam indeed, but easier to remember due to frequency of recent repetition than Rovers major trophy wins. When was the last one again - 25 years ago? I reckon Taulapapa might have been the catalyst for achieving one, but I guess we won't know now. Or will we? Not clear whether he's still at Rovers or not. I'm sure Mike will get round to it when he's responded to Sandra.

If you took the time to do a little research you would find he has signed a two yer deal with Sheffield and is back in training with a nice wedge for his troubles or do you not read your local rag , there is no point in Rovers making a statement seen as though all you humbugs have advertised it here there and everywhere.

Unsurprisingly its only 1 person who seems to be bothered by this.
As soon as a compensation deal has been signed then a statement will be issued.
It's as simple as that.

Counting not your strong point, then?

Well, that's not true, is it? Old_Faithful_IAKW for one. SirStan thinks it's rubbish, that's 2. tigerj is curious too, so that makes 3. Mild Rover think's it's both odd, and plop, so 4. Saddened! makes 5. knocker norton is concerned too, 6.

Let's say around 1% of RL fans post on here. That's actually 600 real people who think this is substandard. I know you feel compelled to defend everything Rovers do, but the reality here is that if FC had done this, there would have been equal fun-poking in the other direction. The difference being that FC fans would have also slated FC for a lack of courtesy and professionalism for not being on the front foot with keeping the fans informed. Bit of detatched critique is more grown-up than a knee-jerk defence mechanism of blatant plopitude, I think you'll find 2.37548828125:10