Think It's obvious Thirkill is the investor

Even then, Andrew and/or Stephanie and/or somebody else?

How big is their stake, what are their goals?

We’ll find out soon, and it’ll probably be pretty dull. Fun little mystery plot element, for now though.

From all the noise in the press and this particular piece in Dans article

"Hull FC are on the verge of making Paul Rowley their next head coach for the 2025 season and beyond, but Salford Red Devils want a lucrative fee to get the deal officially over the line. Hull Live understands that the fee is £150,000, with Rowley still under contract at the Greater Manchester club"

It would certainly indicate that the club and Rowley have agreed a deal for him to be the Head Coach and it is now a matter of agreeing a compensation deal with Salford.

Still I won't be getting too excited until it is officially announced but if we are looking at paying a 6 figure fee to secure our No.1 target for the next head coach then its fair to assume there must be some significant investment coming in to the club, if not already and significant level of intent moving forward.

Getting Rowley in this early will be fantastic as it will allow him to start reshaping the squad for next season. We will look a completely different team next season thank god

Very optimistic for next year and beyond with this news. However, as a fan base we need to ensure that he doesn't get tarred with this squad, as I can't see much improvement with this group of players.

Hopefully, we start to see the shoots of a new style of play, and the continued development of a really promising group of kids

Anybody know if the Manchester premier inns take bookings for October 2025?

If Myler gets this over the line it will be a huge way to make a start at a new club. A lot was made of his appointment by people about what a poor and bizarre choice he was, but if his first job is signing a coach the calibre of Rowley then hopefully it will start to shut some people up.
I know you could see its easy to just throw a big salary at a coach and ask them to sign, but it's not that straight forward. Myler has obviously done a great job of selling the club and what the future plans are, and how they would like Rowley to fit into that.
This is obviously only 1 part of the DOR job and things could still go down hill for Myler, but IF he can finalise the deal to get Rowley in then it's one hell of a good start in my opinion.

Agreed small steps slowly build a decent squad.

Briscoe whilst may be past his best will be a good signing for the young kids alone, Martin, Barron and Tindall can all learn from him. Hes also strong out the backfield which we desperately need.

One million percent this needs to happen now. Weve wanted change and we sre getting it.Talk of players being moved on, finally some good young kids coming in, a director of rugby who at least will be more qualified then our previous people in charge of that. New investors and it seems we are about to sign a really good head coach.

Time to forget about the past, show some patience and we could well get ourselves out this hole. It WONT be an overnight fix, time for us to stop our negativity and get behind this regime.

With the new investment coming in , Hopefully it will attract other potential local investor to join the bandwagon .

Echoing what others say, if we're paying a compensation for Rowley plus the recent severance packages for Hoy, Smith and Gene along with the added salary for our new DOR, the investment is surely a done deal. We seem to have suddenly got money from somewhere.