Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:45 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

Hold on - didn't this thread start with Fax being able to pick who they wanted, not what Rovers wanted to send ?

Or was that just so much spin ?

Your not telling me, if Halifax want Micheal Weyman or Ryan Bailey, we can have them before Hull KR.

I think we decide who we get of who's left.

My point been, what's left.... is left for a reason.

Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:54 pm  

Fax Missionary wrote:

By your logic we should have merged with Bradford when super league was founded. Progress at all costs eh, smart thinking.

As a 'real fan' of 40 years I'm entitled to my opinion. Supporting one club for that long also gives you a grounding in good and bad decisions at the club and there have been many. Even though I now live overseas I still spend a significant chunk of my hard earned on merch and attend games every time I'm back home. That alone gives this 'keyboard warrior' the right to express my opinion so if you don't like it then use your rose tinted specs to read comments you like.

I have never said success at any cost so please don't put words into my posts! And to say with Bradford! Wash your mouth out. The club needs to process and Fax, KR and Gateshead have enters into a business agreement that most of have no knowledge of the ins and outs. Speaking of which how do Gateshead feel ? I'm sure they are happy about the prospect for of having played from big clubs like Fax and KR. Yes you have an opinion but I think right now some people are sounding off with an old moral stance from last seasons DR mess without stepping back looking at what our BOD have done. Well done by the way for supporting Fax for so long. So have I, even when I served overseas I never let my passion dwindle for the Fax

Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:59 pm  

Greetland8 wrote:

Your not telling me, if Halifax want Micheal Weyman or Ryan Bailey, we can have them before Hull KR.

I think we decide who we get of who's left.

My point been, what's left.... is left for a reason.

I do think that this is better for us than them just sending who they want, but I do agree with you.
If the club needs to take this route then so be it, for me the issue is that we've not done it with a good enough club!

Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:31 pm  

Your fans were a disgrace with the abuse you gave swinton fans last year about dual reg.
Nice to read the highly original "our agreement is different " line
You've done it now . Ha ha. Egg on faces . Enjoy

Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:46 pm  

Greetland8 wrote:

I really don't know what to make of this, looking at HKR's squad numbers I can't see which players we would want.

1. Kieran Dixon
2. Ben Cockayne
3. Darrell Goulding
4. Josh Mantellato
5. Ken Sio
6. Maurice Blair
7. Albert Kelly
8. Adam Walker
9. Keal Carlile
10. Michael Weyman
11. Kevin Larroyer
12. Graeme Horne
13. Tyrone McCarthy
14. Mitchell Allgood
15. James Donaldson
16. Ryan Bailey
17. Greg Burke
18. Liam Salter
19. Kris Welham
20. James Green
21. Aaron Ollett
22. Jordan Cox
23. Terry Campese
24. John Boudebza
25. Macauley Hallett
26. Sonny Esslemont
27. Josh Guzdek
28. Connor Robinson
29. Matthew Marsh
30. Steven Holker

From Hull's point of view in a ideal world which was injury free, no 1-17 would be off limits, and apart from Salter, Welham, Cox & Campese who will be in the side at different times of the season, who else get in our side? unless I'm missing something I've never heard of anyone else & most of them haven't even made there debut's for HKR yet and it's not as if they've had a brilliant academy team lately either.

Got a feeling HKR will struggle this season too - with a paper thin squad, theoretically could they borrow players of us? I don't know anything about DR.

Apart from the 13 new signings who haven’t made their debut?

Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:49 pm  

mark richardson wrote:

Your fans were a disgrace with the abuse you gave swinton fans last year about dual reg.
Nice to read the highly original "our agreement is different " line
You've done it now . Ha ha. Egg on faces . Enjoy

I didn't know Swinton had any fans? Hello lonesome.

Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:57 pm  

Maybe another reason we are going down this route is that the current coach hasn’t had much choice in the make up of the squad or our new signings and there won’t be the cash left to make any of his own. Therefore, he may believe we might not be strong enough and this could be the only way of having sufficient cover.

Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:59 pm  

I believe Chris Chester is still a season ticket holder at your club. I'm sure he has your interests at heart. What he, Richard Marshall and Stanley Gene do will hopefully benefit all three clubs. Chris knows them both well having played at Halifax with Richard and spent many years with Stanley at KR.
Some on here, although I have never visited before, seem to have delusions of grandeur. A touch of realism is required. Non of our three clubs tore up any trees last year. Bearing in mind where your club is at the present time the dismissive attitude in some quarters towards our players seems to say more about the contributors than it does about player quality. Leeds or Wigan would be more acceptable to some I am sure but then would those clubs want to be associated with Halifax. We all find our own level, maybe Halifax have found theirs.

Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:59 pm  

Isn't this partnership more about off field strategies? We don't have to take any players of HKR unless we want to and they're available, exactly the same situation we are in with any other club. If we took a player from Leeds for example, we loan him, if we take one from HKR he's on Dual Reg. Same principle different terminology.

All we seem to be doing is linking up with a club who has managed to establish itself as a SL club to try and tap into the strategies to see if they can help us do the same. Why have we chose HKR, well why not, they have Chris Chester in charge, who knows our club, and they have Willie Poaching who knows our coach.

The club needs something like this to compete, but if your against it and believe it's a good reason to stop attending games then that is your right, but should this work and HRLFC gain promotion to SL, I would hope you could swallow your pride and start re-attending games again, because regardless of who the club is in partnership with, it will always need loyal, supportive fans, paying at the turn styles.

Re: Hull KR Partnership : Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:36 pm  

Bit of a shame really. I always thought Halifax were a big enough club to stand on their/our own. I don't like DR as it is and saying this agreement is better because we get to select players from a different team to play in ours doesn't really make me warm to the idea. I'm sure I read recently that Halifax aren't running an under 20's next year, if that is correct then what message does that send out to local teams that Halifax as a professional club would rather develop other clubs' younger talent from miles away than our own local talent?
I was feeling pretty excited for next season with a very promising coach and an influx of new players, all capped off with a traditional jersey. What gives Hull KR players the right to wear our traditional colours just to benefit themselves and their own club? Perhaps I'm being over dramatic and maybe even missing a point or two, but I feel a tad let down by all this.