Can we actually openly talk about what went on on here?

Gleeson, Long and Tickle at the same club.

Good God.

Playing-wise - A good move.

And with the possibility of Tim Smith arriving next season.....

Brilliant.

personally im sick of gleeson threads.

hes an ex wigan player...end of

dont see many threads about other ex players,..........pointless.

I'm 22 by then think I will be granted an alcohol licence for Hull?

But for Gleeson ,The only way is up

He might have gone, but we are missing him massively. I really hope we have made the right decision and the whole club was supportive of it.

no it wasnt and that is the problem.

So basically you are saying the club (well IL and/or Madge) wanted Gleeson out and the players did not so now all last seasons excellent team play and "togetherness" is out the window?

It's certainly understandable as most RL players live in a bubble and have hot smoke blown up thier s and when the bubble pops they don't like it.

IL is a custodian of this great club and has to keep it's values in tact. The players may like the club but probably not as much as they'd like a popular member of the team like Gleeson. They would always side with another player in a situation like this as they are friends with them and also it's another instance in them being brought down to earth with a bang.

Still the right decision from IL tho.

got told last night at the k.c

longy was telling everybody during his signing session in the club shop its a done deal with us with gleeson till end of this season with a optional 12 month

unlucky!

So Gleeson shares a batchelor pad in Hull with his old drinking mate Longy - recipe for disaster!!

Long has moved back your way, I believe.

So do we replace him Gleeson this season by opening the cheque book or do we wait till the end of the year and sign an NRL centre?

We've got cap space to work with so let's be prepared to be linked with any NRL player off contract.

Fair play to Hull. Quality signing for them. Longy and Gleeson can do whatever they like Monday to Thursday - as long as they perform on game day I'm sure the Hull fans will be pleased.

The whole saga does my head in though. How can you stick by someone for two years who tested positive for drugs (which i think was the right thing to do btw) and sack a player for "allegedly" turning up drunk to a training session, something which i still find hard to believe.

If he wasn't such a good player and I thought we wouldn't miss him i wouldn't care but for me we are a lot weaker without him.

The thing which really irks me about this situation is that the biggest loser in all of this is Wigan.

Hull FC have got a quality player that let's not forget we payed 100k for,
Gleeson has got another SL contract
Wigan are out of pocket & a quality player down.

Which one of your many Antips you plan on getting rid of to fit him in?

Nail on head!!

Shocking really.

hardly comparable situations. Hock was cut and dried. With Gleeson, and i am a big fan of the player, we just don't know the back story, and he does have "form".

You're right "we" don't know hence why I put "alleged" in my post so only commenting on the speculation. If it's something worse (though I can't think what and I haven't heard any different) then fair enough. My opinion and always has been is that I'm only interested in what the players do on match day.

I remember from reading Jason Robinson's book (the interesting first half of it) that before he went t-total he regularly turned up to training hungover/still drunk. It didn't affect his performances.

longy travels to hull from wigan every day for training, i think