Rovers fans are making Willie Mason out to be the bad guy here and I can't understand why. It was Rovers that signed him without having an clear overseas quota plan, while keeping their fans in the dark about it they then asked him to get a Tongan passport when that fell apart, which while he has not got one yet he attempted to do in good faith while Rovers lobbied the RFL in bad faith to get a dispensation to get Tongan's off the overseas quota that other clubs didn't get.

Then without his passport they told him to fly over and play, which he did, while they applied for another dispensation to deregister their best player, again in secrecy until just before his first game.

Pretty shabby treatment of their "biggest signing ever", all the time I have not heard a bad word out of his mouth about this and by all accounts until recently he has been fulfilling all of his community obligations in good grace for the club.

Then to top it all off the club stop paying him for what seems to be a very dubious reason. I certainly don't blame him for talking to another club, on his day off, about a plan B, if my employer turned out as shifty as his I would make sure I had an alternative lined up.

I think Rovers and their fans owe Willie a big apology.

That never happened.
Tongans aren't on the quota, so why would they lobby the RFL?
They ARE on the non-fed list, and they've never tried to get him off this (they can't). You've kinda made this bit up or crossed your wires a bit, but it it isn't true.

Any contract that tried to ban an employee from speaking to a potential new employer would be illegal under UK employment law. It's only the Operational Rules that would apply, and as we've already established they only cover speaking to other RL clubs.

In other words, Mason did absolutely nothing wrong.

treated like sh-t...really hope he sues em!!

Erm, if anything I think it's much more likely to be the other way round...

Think we are overstating big willies abilities quite a bit!!

He hasn't been that good for years.

Fitzgibon would be far the greater of the two players

Rovers gambled on Galea's and Webster's passports ,one that didn't come off. You win some , you lose some.

Mason says he hasn't been paid for months.

This could get nasty.

youre a long way off from doing that Roofs, with that team of aussie cocks,.

who is crocker,


what about Gleeson who has already made a huge impact, fitzy,
O meley,
everyone knew Mason was coming for the money and the money alone, when he realised what a dump east ull is and the fact he allegedly wasnt getting paid, he buggered off to pastures new AKA Toulon

With all due respect West Hull is hardly Beverley Hills is it.

PMSL you have certainley shown yourself up there pal, the whole of RLFANS are creasing themselves laughing at that statement

it may not be BUT I for one am so glad I live in the WEST of the city. Its more Beverley Hills than east ull ever will be,

I think if I lived 100 miles west of Hull it still wouldn't be far enough away for me.

Nor the people of Hull...

On what basis? He's broken no RFL rules and no contract trying to ban someone from talking to alternative employers would stand up in court.

im so pleased you are actually that far away from hull,

I think we'd all be happier if that was 1000 miles West of Hull. The Atlantic is quite deep.

Mate, put your keyboard away. You are in danger of winning 'T1t of the Year' and there are about 19 Directors at HKA who are already banking on getting that trophy for their Boardroom so back off

I think the whole Paul Cooke saga would prove you wrong on that account.

SL, too tough for Willie.

In what way?

unlike cooke mason hasn't talked to other RL clubs

Serves them right. HKA have treated Mason very shoddily. Yes he spoke to another club, but if you had offered me a job halfway round the world, made me get a passport from another nation to do that job because you had failed to organize things at your end, and then banned me from doing that job because a succession of faillings at your end, i think seeking alternative employment would be the very least I would do.