Re: Players next year : Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:17 pm  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

I don't think you can always blame the agent. The player makes the decision.

Often with a good deal of prompting from the agent who only is in it for what they can obtain financially.

Re: Players next year : Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:20 pm  

Wonder what sort of reception he'll get when he plays for Scotland

Re: Players next year : Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:25 pm  

Massively chuffed about Thomas Minns staying. Very impressed with him. Bags of natural skill and loads of improvement still in him. Hope he avoids head knocks and concussions. Had a few too many last year for my liking and Darrell Goulding's premature retirement kept springing to mind. Let's be fair, Minns is already twice the player Liam Salter is, was and will be.

Adam Walker owes us a year in return for our loyalty and support during his court case troubles last year. But this is sport, he has an agent, he has a limited IQ and the concept of return loyalty probably goes over his head. He is a good player, he will be a loss but he's not irreplaceable. Time to move on.

Re: Players next year : Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:39 pm  

Sandro II Terrorista wrote:

Can't blame him for wanting to play at the highest level he can.

Pleased and surprised that Minns is staying, really good player who will only get better.

I can.

He had despicable allegations against him. The club stayed loyal and helped him.....He can't offer 1 season to try and return. He could have been playing for the prison team without the club's help.

He's a classless pr#ck like his brother.

Minns is a great signing. He just needs to get his winger the ball now and again and he'll be a top centre.

Re: Players next year : Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:42 pm  

Relieved Minns is staying. One of the few I'd hoped would remain.

Walker was decent and had a few good games. Was much better in the 2015 season. A bit of a loss but in the end only an average forward. Anyone else sick of just accepting average players?

Isn't he going to either Wakey or Salford? If so he might be on the move again this time next year as well.

Re: Players next year : Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:06 am  

Blair, Lunt and Minns are the 3 players I wanted most to stay with us ......Greenwood is the fourth ......Fingers crossed!

As for Walker, he hits the line and turns his back and then tries to do back peddling fairy steps in order to off-load .......That is his entire game! ......Full stop! ......I would have traded Walker with Mitch Clark any day of the week throughout our Super League campaign .......Hopefully Mitch will be our next signing.

And, regarding Walker's loyalty, Hull KR have not only stood by Walker throughout his court cases, but they have also paid for Walker to be chaperoned to every game he has played because this was a condition of his on going court case because he was accused of being a sex offender.

Hopefully we will meet Walker again in the cup, and, hopefully, we will have someone with the mettle of Green to give him the whack that he deserves!

Re: Players next year : Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:15 am  

If Sheens is anything like the disciplinarian I think we need, Walker wouldn't have lasted long anyway. There's only so many weekends you can stagger round Sugarmill with your eyes rolling round your head and your jaw swinging in the breeze before you get found out. Couple more could do to watch their step too.

Re: Players next year : Wed Oct 12, 2016 2:28 am  

Who is Walkers' agent?

Re: Players next year : Wed Oct 12, 2016 6:53 am  

Geoff Tipps wrote:

Blair, Lunt and Minns are the 3 players I wanted most to stay with us ......Greenwood is the fourth ......Fingers crossed!

As for Walker, he hits the line and turns his back and then tries to do back peddling fairy steps in order to off-load .......That is his entire game! ......Full stop! ......I would have traded Walker with Mitch Clark any day of the week throughout our Super League campaign .......Hopefully Mitch will be our next signing.

And, regarding Walker's loyalty, Hull KR have not only stood by Walker throughout his court cases, but they have also paid for Walker to be chaperoned to every game he has played because this was a condition of his on going court case because he was accused of being a sex offender.

Hopefully we will meet Walker again in the cup, and, hopefully, we will have someone with the mettle of Green to give him the whack that he deserves!

It's a short career so he quite rightly goes where he can get the most lucrative contract which will still be a fraction of what other professional sports get. He appeared to be your most consistent prop.

This loyalty thing from the club would probably go out of the window if he got a career ending injury....

Think there is a massive over reaction to him leaving..

[Mild Rover]

Re: Players next year : Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:40 am  

When the allegations against Walker came out, the club had two options - suspend him on full pay until the case was resolved, or continue to play him. Presumably one of the reasons they met with his lawyers was to estimate the level of risk to the club's reputation, if they did the latter. If there'd been overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence against him, I'm sure he'd have been suspended. And quite rightly. There apparently wasn't and that was a legal end of it.

The club couldn't convince him that it was going to be the best place for him to be moving forward. I can't muster much outrage. Equally, I'm not overwhelmed with disappointment - he's been a 6 out of 10 for a while. As the Wakey fan above points out that put him among the more consistent performers in the pack, but his departure at least frees up some budget to remodel what has been an area of significant weakness.

Glad Minns is staying. Arguably our best centre when fit in 2016.