Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:27 am  

Good of Rovers to sign 3 loan players for 2 weeks so they can rest their 1st team players this week. Sure their academy lads will be thrilled with this.

[Mild Rover]

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:37 am  

K-Diddy wrote: Good of Rovers to sign 3 loan players for 2 weeks so they can rest their 1st team players this week. Sure their academy lads will be thrilled with this. Absolutely. It is excellent news. Opportunism, drive and intelligence. Just like the good old times. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/ ... ague-rugby Carpe noctem.

K-Diddy wrote: Good of Rovers to sign 3 loan players for 2 weeks so they can rest their 1st team players this week. Sure their academy lads will be thrilled with this. Absolutely. It is excellent news. Opportunism, drive and intelligence. Just like the good old times. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/ ... ague-rugby Carpe noctem.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:45 am  

K-Diddy wrote:

Good of Rovers to sign 3 loan players for 2 weeks so they can rest their 1st team players this week. Sure their academy lads will be thrilled with this.

Pretty sad really.
They’re even loaning squad players from Wakefield.

Sends a message to any aspiring young players in Hull at which club you’ll get an opportunity to develop.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:51 am  

Not really surprising is it from Rovers. Why give the opportunity for your own reserve player to play against Wigan for the first team when you can sign three reserve players from other clubs and play them instead.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:56 am  

COME ON LEOPARDS!!!!

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:06 am  

Don't suppose they'll care if they win the Cup in the end, but as others have said why not use squad/academy players for 1 match

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Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:10 am  

Irregular Hoops wrote:

K-Diddy wrote:

Good of Rovers to sign 3 loan players for 2 weeks so they can rest their 1st team players this week. Sure their academy lads will be thrilled with this.

Pretty sad really.
They’re even loaning squad players from Wakefield.

Sends a message to any aspiring young players in Hull at which club you’ll get an opportunity to develop.

All jokes, banter and rivalry aside I think this is a poor decision by Rovers as they surely have a squad of their own that is good enough to cope with resting a few players if needed one game without having to bring players in a 2nd time on short term loans?

For me short term loans of 1 or 2 weeks is a tactic that should be stopped as there is no real incentive whatsoever for a club to develop their own players as it just promotes short term fixes.
I don't oppose the use of loan players but feel a loan should be for a minimum of 4 weeks for there to the be any value in the loaning of players.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:19 am  

I wonder if Leigh will do the same.

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Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:25 am  

mwindass wrote:

Don't suppose they'll care if they win the Cup in the end, but as others have said why not use squad/academy players for 1 match

Got reserve and academy fixtures to fulfill as well.

Academy lads are only 18, so chucking them in numbers against Wigan is unlikely to be good for their development. There’ll be space for a couple, I imagine, and plenty of the squad players in the first 17.

Hull haven’t played an academy-eligible player in a first team game this season either, afaik - it is a big jump to make.

It’s nice that we can enjoy something together - the outrage, I mean.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:47 am  

Mild Rover wrote: Absolutely. It is excellent news. Opportunism, drive and intelligence. Just like the good old times. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/ ... ague-rugby Carpe noctem. Have you still got your rattle from the last time you went to a game MR

Mild Rover wrote: Absolutely. It is excellent news. Opportunism, drive and intelligence. Just like the good old times. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/ ... ague-rugby Carpe noctem. Have you still got your rattle from the last time you went to a game MR