I bet you either a hull fc fan or Leeds fan. Am I right?

Not posted on the VT for a good couple of years, but I see nothing much has changed; FlexWheeler is still a moron.

Next season could be a turning point for the weaker teams, with all the new rules coming in making it more or less a semi contact game it could have a levelling up effect. Teams with big forceful defences like Wigan, Catalan and St Helens might have to adjust more and become handicapped because intensity levels will most likely drop.

I wouldn't worry about that, nobody will want to watch the game by then.

And you are still a posing gobbin.

It all boils down to nothing to play for.

Hull for example img rating is no where near bottom should they finish bottom well they are safe anyway why waste money on players if no need this whole system is spoiling the game and making it a farce

This makes absolutely no sense. You are basically saying hull fc have no aspirations other than to not get relegated which kind of Backs up what the OP is saying

I think in the case of Hull FC that's correct. It's clear Pearson isn't keen on putting any more money into the club than he absolutely needs to. If the club cannot be relegated, he no longer needs to spend up to the salary cap on the squad.

It's ultimately a self defeating policy however, as the less money they invest in players the worse the team is. The worse the team performs, the lower the gate receipts, competition money and sponsorship gets.

Hull FC desperately need a new owner, not a new coach.

Nice thread...good story. How is it going today?

Cas today absolutely looked like a side who had given up on the field.

As did St Helens

well good old Wire you know the mediocre team were anything but and the entertainers

were anything but (ok it was entertaining but not for St Helens).

Look at the fans of semi pro teams like Leigh and Wakefield getting giddy because St Helens lost lmao

Although we (Hull FC) have been awful for a few years, I don't know where this perception of resources comes from. We have an owner that isn't wealthy and takes a wage from the club, the Stadium is a noose around our necks as we don't make any money from it.

We had a 500k+ Covid loan to repay in the first part of this year, and what annoys Hull fans isn't the fact that we may be spending way less than Cap to pay the loan off, its the consistent rhetoric from Pearson that we are spending up to the Cap. We can't be - and if we are, then there is some serious mis-management of the Cap happening. If he had come out (before selling 8k Season Passes) to say that this years squad would be under Cap, with a lot of youth being given a chance, for the reason above, fans could get on board with that.

As it is, the fans have been vocal about their dis-satisfaction, and he's sacked the Coach, appointed a DoR (whether he is a success or not, he is more experience than the person who was 'doing' that role before him), and we have some promising investment on the horizon which we know we needed

So were Sheffield. Another semi pro club without a stadium and who couldn’t afford an academy. Just like Leigh

Bless

I’m not wrong though am I Roy?

Yes you are.

Roy, do you not think it's time you started to engage in proper RL discussions, and be constructive instead of taking every opportunity to berate certain users on these forums? It's getting tedious now lad.

I was replying to a comment, hardly berating.

Leigh don’t have their own stadium and don’t have an academy. Just like any random semi pro team, so again, I’m not wrong am I roy

You was wrong in stating Leigh couldnt afford an academy.

Just a posh twit who knows better than you or I!

Only 2 points separate 1st and 7th.

Is this the most exciting, competitive super league there has ever been?