Mr Bandito -- you should be ashamed of yourself for making such disparaging comments about young Lovegrove. I have to set the record straight -- for your information Rhys is staunchly British and extremely proud of it. As a small boy he had the bruises to prove it, sticking up for the British against the many "pommy knockers" down here in Sydney! Rhys' grandfather (from Durham) was one of the last off the beaches at Dunkirk and spent the war as a tail gunner hanging out the back of a Lancaster bomber shooting down German planes and was shot down over France. He continued his RAF service until 1969 seeing action in Borneo and Aden. Rhys' mother carried on the tradition (as a WRAF) getting into a few scrapes in Cyprus and on the West/East German border. Rhys is more proudly British than many of your UK citizens and always will be. He loves HKR, the City and its people and always will.

Funny cos when he lived with a friend of mine he spoke twice to NRL clubs about going back to Aussie and playing over there in his first season in England.

Never mind, as long as he is happy wherever he is

Reinforces the point then, only FC are willing to field local players.

Works both ways, British / local players perform poorly aswell

But some posters will invariably not mention this if it interferes with their take on the situation

FFS give it a rest, why don't you worry about your own team.

I'd like to think we'd give Celtic a bit more respect than that, especially with us going into the game on the back of 3 defeats in a row.

You don't get any extra points for how many home grown players you have playing and I'd much rather have players picked on their quality and not where they were born. If that means we're always on the edge of full quota etc. then so be it. A local average player is just an average player.

Watts has been loaned out for a month and Spaven only recently back for the reserves after injury. Perhaps its your assumption that your own club win record in the last couple of season's could be on your coach's insistence in playing to many british / local players.

TBF in hindsight, the likes of Galea, Newton who were poor those weeks is because they've been playing 80mins week-in-week out.


Totally agree. It's basically about signing the best available players for the various individual quotas (i.e. academy, overseas trained, fed trained), wether they're born and bred Holderness Roaders or from Timbuktu.

Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying because our easiest game of the season will be against you (FC) at home - derby cliches or not.

Give it a rest, it's getting tedious.

I was simply pointing out that Oyster Bay was talking balls.

Got no interest in who Hull FC pick, but thanks for your concern