Ahh yes, this brings back memories of the Dobson/Mason fiasco. Another example of Rovers bending the Non-Fed/Quota rules.

Perfectly within the rules. Nothing to see here

To be fair I think we're both rubbish at bringing young kids through, if you look how many made the England squad in the last few years and its pretty poor. Wilkin, Taylor, Yeaman and Hodgson are the only ones I can think of and Taylor is far from a regular.

Hulls development policy over recent years has gone backwards seemingly preferring to buy in then develop, one thing our stint in the championship has done is allow us to blood a lot of young kids

Kalifa Faifai Loa is heading to the UK apparently. Anyone any ideas which club will be his destination?

Now or for next season?

This year apparently.

Interesting. Cas have just lost Eden for the year?

Usually would think of clubs around the middle 8's trying to boost chances of staying up or promotion ...

Hull KR have got Masoe so haven't got room now I believe, not sure Fax or Fev would bother, London?

Wire recently signed some backs, Widnes, Leigh or Catalans maybe?

Sid Domic/Mathew Head fiasco..Selective memory again. Feel free to feel humbled

Quote ="craig hkr"Sid Domic/Mathew Head fiasco..Selective memory again. Feel free to feel humbled'" That wasn't a fiasco . One player was released and another brought in. Quite simple really. George Riley summarises the Dobson/Mason situation quite well, branding it "ridiculous": www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/georgeriley/ ... on_sa.html Stay humble.

Quote ="craig hkr"Sid Domic/Mathew Head fiasco..Selective memory again. Feel free to feel humbled'" That wasn't a fiasco . One player was released and another brought in. Quite simple really. George Riley summarises the Dobson/Mason situation quite well, branding it "ridiculous": www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/georgeriley/ ... on_sa.html Stay humble.

Brad Dwyer to Leeds

Adam Walker from Saints to Trinity on a 2 1/2 year deal would go under moves in 2017.

Quote ="DGM"That wasn't a fiasco . One player was released and another brought in. Quite simple really. George Riley summarises the Dobson/Mason situation quite well, branding it "ridiculous": www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/georgeriley/ ... on_sa.html Stay humble.'" Weekends here again. Hope you earnt a few quid?

Quote ="DGM"That wasn't a fiasco . One player was released and another brought in. Quite simple really. George Riley summarises the Dobson/Mason situation quite well, branding it "ridiculous": www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/georgeriley/ ... on_sa.html Stay humble.'" Weekends here again. Hope you earnt a few quid?

Huddersfield, apparently.

Can't be too bad as we have sent out 5/6 of our young players on loan including one to Rovers, so Sheens obviously doesn't agree with Hessle Rover assessment of our bang average young players.

Dean Hadley is a recent Hull academy graduate too and as a Wakefield fan I can confirm he looks like a top player.

It's a different subject for a different thread. Apologies to all for the off topic!

In the last 5 years I have been largely impressed with Hull's youth work. They haven't got the balance right by any means though.

Us... the last couple of years has seen us blood more youngsters and I am more positive of the standard of those coming through, but we have a long way to go compared to those teams we hold up as the gold standard

Of course you can blood more youngsters. Look at the quality of the league your playing in.

As for last season it was only when you were destined tor the bottom 4 you brought them in. How many youngsters played in your most important game last season v Salford?

I'd take quality over quantity and at the moment fc are ahead of rovers in that department

Ha... can't we just get along!

Please re read my post but read "we have blooded more youngsters" as a relative to how many we had blooded in season previous, not as a comparison against how many Hull have blooded.

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Sorry my opinion hit a nerve there. But that's all it is. We've all heard of the tripe coming from FC fans regarding their youngsters before.....remember the Tyson Wilson brothers?? Next biggest thing was them lads!.... Where are they now??
There's 5 in our young ranks I wouldn't swap for any of yours right now. That being Harris, Lawler, Cator, Wardill and Oakes. Top lads, all of them.

As for Logan, he won't get a game......back up at best. But in Abdul's case, the former Rovers academy player is having a great season. But he's going back after this season to sit in the stands, so that's unfortunate.

Hull FC sign yet more overseas players, something else which has increased under Nigel "pay rise" Wood, along with the scrapping of the old U21 academy.

2 overseas in, 2 out by the look of it!

fonau going, expect michaels to follow

Sill bitter after Saturday?

We'll have one more overseas player than the mighty Leeds, same as this season.

you can have a go at Wood for a lot of things but signing overseas players is not one of them. It was more rife or at least as prevalent long before he came along. Look we would all like to have a 17 full of young local talent but its just not going to happen - the best teams have a mix of youth, experience and overseas players, that's just how it is in superleague. As long as the overseas players add to the team that's fine. Out of Hull's current crop i cannot find anyone who isn't contributing to the success in a big way both on and off the field, and that is good enough for me.