Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:56 am  

Lets be honest a new head coach isn't going to come in and say that the new owners who have committed to pumping substantial amounts of money into the club are going to be failures is he.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:49 pm  

Theeaststander1 wrote:

It baffles me why Hull FC churn out articles every year during pre-season, especially with quotes like that. Just let the action do the talking.

If we just let the action do the talking there’d be no journalism and you’d have only the games to complain about.
Any articles on rugby league are publicity. On that subject, and I think it’s been said elsewhere, our game lack marketable personalities eg the bad boys like we had in the 90s and naughtiest - Barrie Mac, Adrian Morley, further back Andy Gregory etc.Because the game has clamped down on head tackles which I understand and red cards for throwing punches it loses some of its appeal. I think that a retaliatory punch should perhaps be treated with some leniency depending on circumstances.
Aside I still think that quality RL is the best team sport. See state of origin!

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:52 pm  

Theeaststander1 wrote:

? Open forum but you’re getting upset

Weird

And nobodies ‘outed’ anything, you got beat 64-8 behind closed doors ? Nobody challenged that

Any evidence in this, as the only person saying this is you.

The game probably wasn't 80 minutes, probably no conversions, so you are saying that York scored 16 trys.

You told us Sneyd and Cross was done.

Stick to Twitter, that's your level, arguing with every fan of other clubs.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:54 pm  

Absolutely no chance that isn't somewhere on social media if we got beat by that score.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:56 pm  

mk_fc wrote:

I didnt think they where allowed to register anyone..

Just seen an article by Aaron Bowers on the Salford situation and he seems to think that they can, but they won’t be able to exceed the 1.2 million sustainably cap until the takeover is completed, any signings like Chan would count towards that.

He seems to think that they have £2 million worth of wages on the books at moment, but this ‘RFL sustainability cap’ means they can only register £1.2 million on the salary cap. A players wage only counts on the cap when they play a competitive game so if the takeover isn’t completed by the cup game on the weekend they’ll either have to sell players or have £800K worth of wages sat in the stand, which won’t be a problem for the cup game they’ll just play a reserve team but will be the same for the first league game if it’s not completed by then.

The sustainability cap seems a daft idea to me and achieves nothing to help anyone if that’s true.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:53 pm  

Theeaststander1 wrote:

Last time I checked he was the hull fc head coach

Bit of a weird thing to check,suppose it goes with the territory eh

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:59 pm  

On the subject of articles/interviews this pre-season, I think that it's pretty obvious that the message FC are trying to project (and doing a good job of doing so IMO) is that of a fresh start. Forget last season (the last few seasons even), forget what you might have heard about what was going on behind the scenes because we're a new regime and we've made changes and will continue to make changes to try and be successful once more. This is being aimed at supporters to encourage pass sales and per match tickets but also a message to the wider game, particularly players and agents. They're marketing the club in the only way that they can until the season actually starts.

It's also got a completely different tone to previous years in that it comes across as grounded and realistic. Any talk of success and ambition is something that we are aiming to build towards rather than immediate promises. This isn't the bullish stuff of being up there competing for honours with a full cap and competitive squad that we've grown used to. It's different.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:02 pm  

DSJ1983 wrote:

Just seen an article by Aaron Bowers on the Salford situation and he seems to think that they can, but they won’t be able to exceed the 1.2 million sustainably cap until the takeover is completed, any signings like Chan would count towards that.

He seems to think that they have £2 million worth of wages on the books at moment, but this ‘RFL sustainability cap’ means they can only register £1.2 million on the salary cap. A players wage only counts on the cap when they play a competitive game so if the takeover isn’t completed by the cup game on the weekend they’ll either have to sell players or have £800K worth of wages sat in the stand, which won’t be a problem for the cup game they’ll just play a reserve team but will be the same for the first league game if it’s not completed by then.

The sustainability cap seems a daft idea to me and achieves nothing to help anyone if that’s true.

I agree that sounds daft. What good would having £800k worth of players unregistered do them? They'd still be paying them which won't relieve their financial burdens. Madness if true.

Hopefully the takeover is completed quickly for them.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:12 pm  

Hullfc-white wrote:

Hull fc haven’t, it’s a bbc article.It baffles me why you’re bothered?

Rovers fan gets upset after Hull hold media day.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:24 pm  

mwindass wrote:

Rovers fan gets upset after Hull hold media day.

Was peeking over the fence with his binoculars.