Top of what?

Not forgetting the Cougars winning the challange cup final against Gateshead

The signing of a top top conditioner makes all the difference.
We brought the bloke from Leicester Tigers in a couple of years back; note the difference. He said that when he came he was suprised at how unfit and how we lacked 'power'.

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Harrison makes his comments above and I feel its such an underplayed factor when fans talk about the difference between squads 'on paper' and on the field

Should already be a top four side. If you've got to find fault anywhere, it must lie with your coaching staff. Credit to Kath Hethrington though for staying loyal. I reckon your new guy will do as Lennigan did and give Agar a chance but if he doesn't deliver, which he probably wont then off he pops.

Please spell it right, it's Micheal Maguire not McGuire

Seeing as your so keen on spelling things right it's Michael not Micheal.

I thought I'd ought to check my own spelling before correcting someone elses

Being condescending never helped anyone.

lol you do make me laugh he runs the stadium management of the kc he's employed by the allams work it out i'll give you a clue allam + pearson = full control of the kc(yes i know the council own it)but if allams says jump you say how high he is going to invest what he did in city when he first bought them out which is nothing this is just a wolf in sheep's clothing mark my words

Lets hope he does a better job than he did with City! Wasn;t David Lloyd your last saviour who was going to turn the club into the next Brisnbane Broncos? How did that work out? www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... eason.html

Lets hope he does a better job than he did with City! Wasn;t David Lloyd your last saviour who was going to turn the club into the next Brisnbane Broncos? How did that work out? www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... eason.html

It says on the BBC that he had been interested in the TIGERS (sic) for a while.

And we worry about spelling......

Quote ="JB Down Under"Lets hope he does a better job than he did with City! Wasn;t David Lloyd your last saviour who was going to turn the club into the next Brisnbane Broncos? How did that work out? www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... tball-seas on.html[/ :ROCKS Only a complete idiot would liken adam pearson to david lloyd.

Quote ="JB Down Under"Lets hope he does a better job than he did with City! Wasn;t David Lloyd your last saviour who was going to turn the club into the next Brisnbane Broncos? How did that work out? www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... tball-seas on.html[/ :ROCKS Only a complete idiot would liken adam pearson to david lloyd.

Hard to understand that but I [ithink[/i you are suggesting that the Allams are behind the take over. If that is the case why didn't the Allams just buy the club? They hardly come across as the shy, retiring types.

Adam Pearson has wanted to invest in a sporting club since he left Derby County. He's said his buy out of Hull FC is nothing to do with Hull City's owners, in fact he never even told them until three days ago.

By the way he and his associate Peter Wilkinson bought Hull City originally for £360,000 and sold them seven years later for £13m. They then invested £3.5m in Derby County.

Yes you must find it hilarious that your local neighbours who are already a big club have been taken over by someone with the drive, ambition and means to make them the biggest club in SL. As for the Allams, i would be slightly more concerned if my club say owed them a million pounds.

Yes I forgot how big your club is with it's rich vien of trophies it's won in the last few years the c c fair Index trophy and the nines oh I must not forget how important the Clive Sullivan trophy is

your not a big club and Pearson is not going to make a difference he didn't invest the money it was wilkinson who did ps the money from the allams was a GIFT that means not a loan a GIFT but you deluded fc fans can't understand that

Success isn't the only guage of a big club, fan base, stadium, revenue, marketability, catchment area are all factors. The money from the Allams was not a gift you moron, it is well documented it was an interest free LOAN which means at any moment in time he can call it in, go and speak to a real Hull kr fan who knows a bit about your local RL environment because you clearly don't.

I'd more liken Pearson to Wilby, Allam is more your Lloyd.

The guy who Rovers owe a million pounds to.

It doesn't seem that Adam Pearson has brought much success to either Hull City or Derby County in the round-ball game.
His wikipedia page states his first love is Huddersfield ( soccer club )
Could he be involving himself with rugby league to learn sufficient to take over from Ken Davey,at Huddersfield ?

Hull City were a wreck when he took over, he took them from the bottom division to the championship in a very short space of time and also made them a financially stable, realising he didn't have the sort of cash you need to back a premiership team, he sold them to a guy with more funds. The following season Hull City became a premiership team.

Wow, there are some idiots on this forum that seem to have a very strong opinion based on made-up facts.

Anyone that says Pearson did nothing for Hull City is quite clearly a moron. Simple as. Taking Hull City from near relegation out of the FL to the Championship in the space of 5 years is nothing now apparently. Yeah, OK.

The second he came back to City, the first thing he did was make sure we got international RL back to the KC, so he's not just in it for the football.

Hull KR have more to worry about in terms of the Allams than Hull FC do. We owe the Allams nothing. Rovers owe £1m (the "gift" wasn't the money, it was the lending of it, and that it was interest free).

Whether Pearson is our saviour or not remains to be seen. He's only been here a day! But after 4 seasons of utter mediocrity and complete and utter spin from the BoD for too long, it's definitely worth the gamble. We have been going backwards for too long. Whether some Rovers fans want to admit it or not, Hull FC are one of the biggest clubs in the SL (A-grade license, best current ground in the league, 4th biggest crowds, one of the only clubs making a profit, one of the biggest turnovers). The fact we have a C-grade team doesn't over-shadow the facts of the club (if anything, it shows how big a club we truly are to sustain what we have with such a fire team). All the tools are there for someone with some intelligence to turn into on-field success. Hopefully AP is that man.

at least your not owned by Leeds anymore!

Kath Hetherington and the rest of the previous board did a great job sorting the club's finances out but it was clearly time for a change.

The Hetheringtons link to Leeds was always a concern albeit sometimes exaggerated. I'm glad it's in the past now, anyway.

By 'sorting the finances out' do you mean the merger with Gateshead Thunder? If not it is a bit too early for anything else; let's see what Pearson uncovers on the financial front!

You're quite the nitwit, aren't you?

The merger sorted out nothing, or have you forgotten the rather large debt that FC had until a few seasons ago? That debt was removed through the efforts of the BOD, as was putting the club into a modest profit for several successive seasons.

And do you really think that Pearson failed to carry out due diligence before purchasing the club?

Deary me.