As opposed to you laughing at us saying there was something to celebrate in making a major final (and getting £250k for it), yet you launch a list of "achievements" that ultimately yielded nothing in terms of either silverware or cash (Hudgell having said there was no money in the CC quarter final, nor the play-offs)

Well done on bringing one player through your homegrown system as you go into your 4th season. Surely Cas and Salford have more to celebrate in this respect in terms of first team players? Roots of a strong academy is a throwaway claim until it delivers consistently.

This is not about the relative performances this season of Hull and Rovers, that's not even a debate. It's about you all pouring scorn on a major final appearance for us last season, then being unable to take the hypocrisy of claiming "success" when ultimately you failed to make a semi, let alone a final.

Maybe they should be more like your lot and aim for mediocrity, and still fail. What's the aim for next year winning the mascot race.

The have E Bird on royds as we speak

I believe in a forum where people try to be honest and interesting rather than provocative. An off-season of fair and open debate without petty points scoring and name-calling. I believe that together we can build a better future for RL discussion on the web. Brothers and sisters in RL, I believe.

Choosing to not answer the point that you said we couldn't claim anything to celebrate in reaching a major final, but you can do so when you failed to reach a semi final. OK.

Ah. But how much time do you have left? Tonight was not only the demise of all Justine's proclamations, it was also the end of Play-Off, Semi and Final game revenue and Prize money.

Tricky closed season ahead, methinks. Again.

I reckon at the time though we had good evidence to suggest that.




Would this be the same decent set of players who finished 7th that season ? Then after that the main success was built around the likes of Horne, Yeaman, King and Cooke all from Hull's Academy.


You've made the play offs, whilst its progress its nothing to get carried away with. You don't see Cas fans proclaiming World dominance because they made the play offs this season. The constant fact Rovers are referring to were they were a few years ago has all the ingrediants of a club who are just happy to be there rather then to compete.


That it will. We'll be back on top again don't worry about that.

I suggest you go back and recheck your info

Brilliant season. Our 3rd in SL and we finish top 4. Well proud of the lads. Disappointed about tonight, on another day we could've got the result. JM was right - aim as high as you can and keep progressing.

I'm glad the hull fans are having such a good night, shows exactly how far we've come.

Gavin Miller - Legend wrote: That on the back of being in the SL far longer then Rovers and being handed a decent squad of players after the Gateshead merger.

Could never understand that argument GML.

Just because you clearly werent good enought to be in Super League for all those years suddenly gives you an excuse for not getting to major finals etc over the last couple of years!

Who's fault is it that you could not reach Super League til 2007? Dont think its ours.

To true but!
within those two seasons we were in a challenge cup "FINAL"

rovers was almost 3 decades ago! FACT

WINNERS OF FAIRPLAY
rovers 3rd
WINNERS OF FLOODLIGHT NINES
rovers knocked out in semi final by HULL F.C.