It gets very tiresome when a fan from a plethora of clubs comes on here to say that there's a rumour he's signing for whoever.

...every year.

tbh,most hull fans dont want him!!!

.and at the transfer figure being banded around,we deffo dont want him.i think hull are quite well covered at 2nd row and loose forward so i struggle to see what he would bring

where has all the westerman leaving rumour come from ?, is it all because he was dropped for the huddersfield game and every one thinks he wants away. I dont know if there is any truth in this one at all but for me he is signed up for a couple more years and i wouldnt have thought cas wanted him to go and i also wouldnt have thought he would want to go (at this point in time anyway) but i suppose we will see one way or the other in the next few weeks. But if he does go i would think the club would be well compensated for his release.

From idle rival fans speculating over who they want to sign in their dreams.

And it's not true - I've had confirmation. So the Hull and Wire fans can trot offsky to their own board.

Anyone who believes the Westerman rumours is stupid, He is going nowhere until his contracts up

After reading through the thread lower down, i was just wondering if there is any one else cas rumours fo next season? Reading on the other forum i've heard Dane Nielson (sp) mentioned a few times. But i'm just wondering if we were looking to strengthen on the two good signings we have for next year.

By the way, hi everybody from a new member of the RL fans board

Dane Nielsen rumour is untrue. He's just signed a new contract at Melbourne.

There are many rumours but nothing concrete at the moment.

I think next years recruitment policy has to be simple :-

Recruit players that are better than the ones we already have !

Sounds simple, but sometimes the club can't seem to grasp this. If they want to keep a sound fan base and if they have any desire to progress and move forward, then it's black and white.

Welcome to the board Ria....Riha....Rihil....Riiha...aww e i'm never gunna get your name right.

Welcome buddy!

Typo ammended.



I agree with what you originally said and i've used the very same argument with friends in the past over players. They have said a certain player should be let go and i've argued that even though i think the player isn't good enough, we should keep them unless we are bringing in better. We seem to always swap like for like and never improve our squad though, possibly for the reason i replaced your reason. All this must change or we will never be anything but a side struggling to stay ahead of the bottom sides. We keep hearing about wanting to make the play offs but we shouldn't be just scraping into them like last year and possibly this year. Eventually we want a squad that not only can make the play offs but actually deserve that spot and even have a shot at winning the trophy at the end.

i cannot see no top nrl players joining us and ive a feeling that a lot of people will be dissapointed with next years recruitment.

for me next year will all be about youth and if players like owen,walker,milner,thompson, arundel and holmes can cerment first team spots then i for one wouldnt be massively dissapointed.they are the future of our club and if they get a squad number in place of a journey man from the other side of the world it can only do our future well,next year will help them then if we get a franchise and a new stadium then it is time to spend big and with a secure future there is no excuse to not bring in quality players to enhance our junior system.

Whats new.

haha no worries marsh, but thanks



i was just wondering due to thi likes of Hull FC and Salford strengthenin their squads already for next year, just didnt know whether we had took further steps to gap holes left by players such as shenny or sarge, ahh well looks like we'll be recruiting cast aways again

Michael Worrincy is OOC if you're interested

straight swap for clayton?

Done.

you've robbed us of a quality player in Clayton

We already have a replacement for Shenny with Arundel and that's probably one of the reasons why we didn't fight that hard to stop Shenny leaving. Of course, someone could say we've taken the cheap option there. We also have Ryan "put him anywhere but centre" McGoldrick who once upon a time was bought as a top centre. Of course, now we have Danny Orr on board and Mathers at full back Ryan can finally slot back in his original position, but i doubt he'll get many games there personally, he'll be in the halves i bet mostly.

Not sure we have anyone lined up for Sarge but then i don't go reading all the rumours usually. Anyone fancy Fielden?

Where else do we need to strengthen? Pretty much everywhere, no disrespect to the players we have. I'd love us to also go out and get a proper scrum half who can lead the line and let Rangi play his unpredictable, but effective game, instead of him feeling he has the world on his shoulders. ATEOTD i think it will all boil down to money, which we won't have spare while we are trying to get this ground built. So i'd expect not many signings at all. We'll probably let Clayton go at the end of the season and resign him or something.

Can have Phil Bailey if you want.

I like this guy already

He's got to be the worst player in SL this year and probably in the top 10 worst of all time. I wouldn't swap the bloke selling lottery tickets outside the ground for him.

Nick Youngquest is rumoured to be nailed on.

Not sure if I'm happy with that.

So I hear...