Must be borlox as the font of all knowledge posted this yesterday

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Does NH want the fans to turn on Paea?

Seems a strange tactic.

Combine any more into one of these posts, MR.

They actually thought the Shannon McDonnell approach worked well, and embellished it by running down SL?! Why say anything yet? At some point he was either going to have to say he was only signing for Hull because there was no NRL deal on the table or do a villainous 'tricked you' reveal.

Anyhow, at least we know now. Good signing for Hull (prospectively), disappointing loss for us - hopefully the player we've targeted to replace him will be a good signing for us.

Fair comments from Hudge around pretence although I do think it would be better for the club for this to have been kept under wraps until the end of season as I can see some fans getting on his back especially if he makes mistakes or drops his intensity.
Gentle has done the right thing by saying he’s interested but not more, I can imagine if he’d announced it Hudge would be claiming it was an attempt to unsettle us.

FC have bagged themselves a good player, a blow to us but not the end of the world. Just need to get in a frontline prop. I’d like us to get a prop who plays more minutes.

Poor from Hudge, not Mickey's fault we can pay him what he's worth.

Blatant stirring up of feelings, poor form, but totally predictable.

What a shocking way to treat a player who by Hudgell's own reckoning is just doing the best he can for himself. If I was Paea I'd consider myself best off away from that kind of garbage.

Yeah, all of that. Although for such a powerful player his minutes have been good of late. I suspect both clubs would have been happy to let sleeping dogs lie, for a few weeks - but Mather put a metaphorical bomb under that. Forced our hand really - we could play along with either silence or honesty (if forewarned), but playing along with his rubbish - no. It's not like it was exactly keeping a lid on it.

Not sure why what the agent said made any difference at all to what the clubs should have done ? If the agent was asked directly about Paea's intentions and Paea understandably didn't want to finish his KR career as a 'future FC player' then the agent protecting his player and giving a fairly generic answer isn't really such a bad thing is it ? Hudgell could have simply said nothing. Contract negotiations and deals like this must happen as a matter of course in the league - why should this one be outed so that 'the fans know the truth'. Comes across as yet more bitterness I'm afraid.

Have you treat Tickle equally as badly?

I like Paea, seems a good bloke - work with disadvantaged kids and all that. But if he and his agent are coming out with misleading statements, and doing it in a pretty incompetent way that lights many more fires than it puts out, our alternatives are joining in, which isn't in our interests, or bringing it to an end. At least McDonnell just kept quiet and looked a bit shifty when questioned by Angela Powers. Maybe it could have worked twice - I bought his 'alibi', tbf, but that was because doing what he has is pretty stupid.

Moving to Hull from Rovers is no crime. It's not going to make you Mr. Popular with red and whites, but it's pro sport. I really don't understand the need for such cack-handed subterfuge.

He could have been much more vague, if that is what he wanted. If the hdm knew he'd signed, then they were going to be like a dog with a bone for something on record. But they could have blocked. Instead he did his very forthright, slightly Sir Les Paterson bit. And 'forthright' is fine, if you're being honest.

Hull fans will generally have a negative perception of NH's actions and motivations, but we're his target audience, and I'd say he's done the right thing to stop it bleeding on. Reet, breakfast time.