So then go out and find a prospect better than Spaven. It is you who is missing the point that these players dont fall out of the sky, SL quality players arent magicked into existence, they are trained, scouted, developed and coached to become SL quality players. That isnt happening at HKR, we can see this because you arent going out and scouting, training, developing and coaching players to be SL players, you are picking up players Scouted, trained, developed and coached in the NRL because it is easier.

Spaven was your example of a player you are bringing through, you cant then say he doesnt get games because he isnt good enough.

Either you are bringing him through and at this stage of his development that means first team games, or you arent because he isnt good enough.

And if those players arent good enough, thats your problem, go out scout, train, develop and coach better ones, just stop taking the easy option and have the aussies do it for you.

He wouldnt, he would have been behind Smith, Ablett, and Watkins. Ratu was still given more of a chance as the 4th best english centre prospect at Leeds than he has at HKR.


he clearly wasnt an NL player, as you have admitted he was an SL player, thats why he was at Leeds. You didnt pick him up from the NLs you picked him up from SL, you just happened to be in the NLs at the time.
Yes, Leeds had better british prospects so he was let go, he went to Halifax and London in SL before joining you. You are really scraping the barrell to claim a player you signed from his 3rd super league player was a player you discovered from the NLs.

they have picked up a few brits from other SL clubs, so what? Both Netherton and Murrell where also picked up when you were in the NLs, the precedent you have shown whilst in SL is they likely wouldnt have got a shot had they not already been there.

We have better prospects, they're just too young to be thrown in at SL level. Those of the age to seriously be considered for first team action are the scraps of what Hull and other SL clubs left after cherry picking the best talent. Since we've been in SL we've gone out and scouted, trained and are coaching and developing some very good prospects. They're not ready for SL yet though, I fully admit that.



You simply cannot argue with the fact he has not only been injured, but injured during a time we would've used him the most. You cannot criticise a club for not using a player whilst he's injured.



Disagree. If they were SL players in anything other than contract, they would have been playing regular SL grade football - either with Leeds or another SL club. Usually when players drop down a division or two its because they're not currently good enough. The fact they only played a couple of games at SL level suggests that either they weren't good enough at the time (ie not SL standard players), or that their clubs failed to give them the opportunities Rovers have.

So in the meantime go out and find a british player to fill the gap. Its not solely youth prospects, there are other players out there who you can scout, train, coach and develop to SL level. Go out and find a Lunt, kirmond, Senior, Purdham etc

you didnt use him when he was fit either, and certainly not when your first choice backline was fit

you are factually wrong, Netherton played for 3 different SL clubs and Murrell couldnt get in the team not because his way was blocked by an overseas player but because his way was blocked by a better young british player in any of the positions he could play in, just because he wasnt as good as Mcguire or Sinfield doesnt mean he wasnt SL quality, as has been proven, now if you could do the same again you wouldnt need to be signing another Aussie reject like Blake Green

They make our game more exciting (Broadhurst, Miller, Prohm etc.) If the home-grown players are good enough they come through anyway. But (sadly) RL will never be a global game with truely competitive international fixtures, so lets enjoy watching them when they are here.

no they dont come through, because you dont go out and find them, coach them and develop them.

And people would enjoy the top players when they are here, but we arent talking about the top players, we are taking about the NRL reserve grade players coming over here to be first choice because of such appalling development work (not just youth) from some clubs