You know me so well. Enjoy the day tomorrow, have some chips in the ground for me.

I see our young prop Matty Laidlaw has gone on loan with Keighley, good luck to him, on the few occasions I’ve seen him he looks solid and fearless.



Keighley rugby league ground ( if it’s still at Lawkholme lane) was one of the most picturesque grounds I visited watching Hull, absolutely beautiful place, a bit of nostalgia from me.

I was last there when we played them in the Cup, Jason Smith era.

i remember watching a game there and suddenly realised guy stood next to me was actor colin welland

Colin Welland was quite involved in rugby league, sure he was part of the team, in the Fulham rugby league club formation, and wrote frequently in support of our game.

I hope the great Danny Houghton goes round at least one more time, a superb athlete and ambassador for our club, in the most challenging of positions he has continued to excel.

On my last journey to Headingley on coach this time, one of my regular travel companions told me one of our sponsors will pull the plug next season, he’s not happy with being asked for more cash from JC.

Any actual rumours of who were looking at now lam is confirmed to be a waste of time

You'd like to think there is still money within the cap to bring in more players even if we don't lose anyone. Some reported big earners going and we surely can't be paying the likes of briscoe, chamberlain, hardaker and burough much. Plus 3 are supposedly marquee



Ins

Asiata

Cust

Burough

Briscoe

Chamberlain

Hardaker

sezer

rapana

abdul



Out

hoy

pele

okunbor

brown

brown

sutcliffe

mitch

carlos

houghton

walker?

trueman

tindall?

mcintosh

cator

scott

diakhate



All presumably in the top 25 earners. If those coming in are costing as much as those leaving we're back to square one with value for money within the cap

you cannot have been at full cap including that lot adamski is telling porkies

unfortunately I think we were. Not only was the recruitment utter rubbish, they were handing out ridiculous value contracts left, right and centre

Personally I reckon it's a bit of both. Definitely been some poor choices made with contracts but AP's statements over the years leave a lot to be desired so I take everything he says now with a heavy dose of scepticism. When he did the interview on Humberside and was quite bullish about us spending full cap, I thought it might be true at the time as it was what he was most passionate about. As the season has gone on though I can't help but think it was more anger that Sky caught him out in a lie when they published that salary cap table.



We'll never really know one way or the other though.