I think I know what's going on here. You're trying to let the people of the forum know you're an idiot. Message received & understood. Thanks for coming!

Having a go at the Giants away following, move on you've signed a player on loan from us, a player we didn't want anymore and you resort to sniping about our away followings. Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones as the saying goes.

Taking a break from chump baiting; I wonder if there are any plans for us to strengthen anywhere? If we were to get anyone in it would probably have to be from overseas.

Oh for a leader of men to show up and give us the true leadership we are missing!

Injury plagued season last year

Explains why he's been well below par this season now

Good luck to him

can't really say im surprised by lunt leaving, it appears his heart wasn't in it ,especially this year and i've always said if a player does not want to wear the claret and gold then show them the door.

i will add that i've got no ill feeling towards shaun lunt who has been a top class player for us over the years, sadly as others have said, he hasn't kicked on at all, in 2009 he was the best young no.9 in the country, and he was between him and roby who took the hooker spot for England, unfortunately injuries and form prevented lunty doing this.

but we should remember what good service he gave us over the years.

like chan and others it's a shame it has to end this way though.

Funnily enough after the Widnes game I said to my mum that he looked like he did before we sent him out on loan to Leeds. Lacking his usual spark, focus and generally being a bit slack in defence.

That loan really worked for Lunt and I wish him well. A good move for all involved and no doubt he will be a top player with a fresh challenge.

Really hope this means we see more or Kruise. It will give us a bit in the salary cap but can't see who we would sign that would add the required quality. It will probably be used to tie Connor down long term if not already.

do we need to replace him though? we have ellis,robbo and wood not to mention leeming who can all play 9.
should one of ellis or robbo move to 9, then wood or connor can cover half back for them.

Bet HKR are are surprised they've signed someone with the class of Lunt and it wouldn't surprise me if we get someone in who's a class above and adds another dimension or our team. Would be good to try and give some of the youngsters a go as we've got quite a good academy set up with many promising players coming through.

His second spell in the second half against Widnes he was more direct but it's fair to say he's been a shadow of the player he has shown back in 2013.

He needs game time now to sell himself. He won't want to stay at Hull KR next season. They're too far away from Cockermouth. One hell of a drive back up there from the far end of the M62. You're talking 4hrs on a busy day. More even.

He hasn't really wanted to play for us with 100% commitment since he was forced to come back from Leeds. Like has been said a shadow of the player he was and maybe the change will do him good. Good luck to him.

to me its if your face fits robbo been crap for the last 2 years gets a new 3 year contract on recruitment all our last years signings did any set the league alight .

Pardon

No big surprise here...

Been linked with a move for a long long time, it has also showed in his performances for us, been injured half the time to boot too.

acted like a big baby due to being dropped for robinson and Wood, which was the right decision on his perfromances.

hull kr had abit of cash after weyman retired and got in touch with lunt (again) so lunt goes to the club and says he wants to go.

lack of strength in depth? we are covered in every position.

that said i would like to see someone come in but catn see it, lunt was out of the team..might have not got back in if robbo and wood went well.

who says we are after him?

we dont even need a hooker, we have wood and robinson with leeming waiting in the wings.

You of all people can't really believe that, an English player signing for HKR?

What's he coming on a bike

We have the 19 in the squad for Thursday plus Broughton and Mullally. After that we are down to kids. It is probably the smallest squad in superleague. Any injury problems we mean real issues . I thought we were light in numbers before Lunt left.

It's not a big squad that's for sure. Lunt going is no real surprise, half hearted at best this year. Clearly he wasn't interested. Don't forget he got dropped last year for being soft (not sure if that was ever made public).

Cue the news that Eorl has signed a new contract to try and get the fans back on side.........

You know we could sign Billy Slater and someone would say why not Greg Inglis

Lunt has gone, given his contribution in the last seasons it's no great loss

Robbo and Wood will do for me, Leeming to step up soon

Seems to me that some of this lot haven't made the trip to Whitehavan, Workington or Carlisle. Think on.

You've lost your only champion, let's hope he makes it back to Leeds where he belongs.

I cannot see how anybody in their right mind can, in anyway, shape or form justify this decision as being sensible financially, organisationally, succesfully or in a footballing regard. Quite possibly one of the single most dumb decisions I have ever seen a sporting organisation make. He is the only player we have who has won a Grand Final. He may well be the only player we have who has played in one. We are 4 weeks into the season. We have a 1-3-0 record. The club must've known in the off season that Lunt wasn't signing for another year. We have let him go to a rival team, for no return and unless the club pulls an international hooker out of their sleeves in the next week or two, with no adequate replacement.

Then again footballing and recruitment decisions at the club have been atrocious for a few years now. The Simpson signing, the O'Donnell farce (strikingly similar), the Mason affair, the lame donkey extension etc etc. Unfortunately it seems that the last few years have been as good as it gets and we should let the club settle back to it's more natural level of being a reasonably big lower division club and forget the Superleague experiment.

but at the end of the day if he doesn't want to play for us then he should be sent packing, regardless of how many grand finals they've won if they don't want to play for fartown then they are rightly shown the door.

why would we keep a player who is unsettled, doesn't want to be here and risk upsetting other members of the team just because he has a grand final ring?

I'm not saying they should keep him, I'm saying they should have got rid of him 3 months ago (however the club talks about winning trophies, the only way you will win trophies is by bringing players into the club that have won trophies, you can't just recruit players and hope they'll wake up with Grand Final rings, sometimes that means swallowing your pride and accommodating those players. Simply saying if they don't want to play for the club is alright but eventually you end up with a bunch of players who aren't good enough, especially if you haven't won a trophy for 50 years). Then they have more chances of replacing him. If you are letting him go now get something back for him. He's an England international, we should get something back of equal value. If we can't he can rot in the reserves. Or alternatively meet with him, thrash something out. It's not like the club didn't know he was out of contract. Did they talk to him in the off season? Surely, yes. Richard Thewlis says they offered him a contract "some time ago" which he rejected. So they knew he had no intention of staying beyond this year. As others have said it's not like he was ripping up trees last season either.

Keeping him and then letting him go now makes no sense whatsoever unless they have a top class replacement lined up (which I somehow doubt).