For Hull............. (according to Cas board)

Wouldn't have paid 6 figures for him unless it was £1000.07p

Anyway good luck to the lad.

Cas with brass may come sniffing round the Rhinos ??

Plenty of potential to be re-found there. Always thought he was more of a wide running second row, especially down the right, than a ball playing loose though. Besides, most clubs play another prop at loose anyway.

It is a done deal from what I've seen off my "source". I would have had him at Leeds but never mind. Hope he can turn his career around as it was on a bit of a downward spiral

Leeds don't have £100K+ to spend on players at the moment.
Would rather it be spent on the stadium.

Credit to Hull though for their ambitious plans to become the best team in Humberside. Still a long way to go, but it's a start

Bloody great, Been predicting for two seasons now that he was going to join us and what does he do? this is not on Joe its just not on!!

He was our future,

Now that Gary has persuaded Cath to spend a huge wad of cash, could this cash be the trigger to enable other transfers to take place ?

Rumours that Cas wanted Bailey/Burrow - would we offload either and use cash to finance other deals ?

Not too bothered really. Not the most professional player off the pitch and he's been very average on it for a couple of years. And, when you consider Eastwood went for just short of 100k and Westerman is (rumoured) to have gone to Hull for a lot more than that it shows that Cas have probably got a better deal out of this.

He hated Leeds anyway

What a waste of money.

Still young eneough to develop into a top player imo and at least we'll stop seeing his name all over here whenever new signings or rumours are mentioned.

Could be a good player if he could stay off the ale...

The line you should have used is from the film Eight Men Out about the 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal which was "Say it isn't so Joe, say it isn't so!!!" (That Joe being Shoeless Joe Jackson of the White Sox)

Hull used money to buy their glory day(s) in the early eighties, coincidently by raiding Cas for Knocker Norton, Sammy Lloyd however Mal Reilly turned them down. Have the Dull board been looking in their history book to see how they managed to win the odd trophy and come up with this answer?

He needs to leave Cas to move on. 100%

Danny Orr left it too late, hope Joe doesn't make the same.

Just been announced on bbc. I'd have liked to have seen him at Leeds, but looks like Hull have paid alot of money out for him.

Six figures for a guy in the final year of his contract, and who had already told his current employers that he would not be extending is crazy....

"Credit to Hull though for their ambitious plans to become the best team in Humberside. Still a long way to go, but it's a start."

Do me a favour - we are by the far the best team on Humberside! We've just paid good money for a good young player who should give us years of good service. Contrast that with Hull Kingston Roosters who will get nowhere near the same value for money from Willie Mason - if indeed he ever gets a Visa and work permit.....

I for one don't really care if you are the best in humberside or not. He is still young and has the potential to come back, but that said I am so glad he didn't come to us!!!!!

I wonder where they got the money from?

Pimpin' aint easy

bleeding us loyal fc fans dry for the last 3 seasons and finally spending some money we've pumped into the club via merchandise and over priced admission fees!

I wasn't aware that you'd been racking up impressive profits.

Airlie the cat were on earth do you get the idea that your the best in the City of Hull don't thinks so whoopey do you beat us twice in the league but we beat you when it mattered most, Westerman aint gonna win you the Grand Final on his own i remember Longey saying that he was gonna be the saviour, watch this space for next season...........

You have just paid out out 150.000 for a player who was in the final year of his contract and has hardly been tearing up trees for the last season or so, i grant you the fact that he is young with potential, however, he will need to get his attitude sorted out otherwise he could end up just another has been before he's even got started, believe me, during the past 40 years ive seen many a promising player fail to reach their potential simply because they believed to much in their own hype and had issues of the field, as for getting value for money,well thats a no brainer, Westerman is young but currently with, an apparent attitude problem and everything to prove, hence from a marketing point of view he's unlikely to add anything significant to Hulls commercial outlets, at least not in the short term, wheares Mason, who according to the Aussie press, Was back to his best form toward the end of their season and is still a prominent name in the rugby league world, he will almost certainly add significantly to the commercial side of Hull Kr, the extra mechandise alone that will be sold as a result of his signing will go a long way to recouping some of Rovers innitial outlay.

As for the best team in the city, give your head a bang

and then ask yourself, among other things,who has won the most games since our two teams started competing in the super league including the magic weekend and playoff games?.

if your going on that method, lets do it properly an include every league derby, who comes out on top then?

apparently Cas didnt want to loose him like Shenton without a transfer fee. apparently he is one of Hull`s highest ever transfer fees for a 20 year old time will tell if he is to be a great player winning trophies with Hull or will it just be plaudits?