Any news on reserves having a game? Next week would be the perfect time to give hopefully give the likes of Kelly and Westerman 40 mins to get some match fitness! Also Langtree must want a chance to be getting a game in our second row plus Ratu needs to get game time especially with MDJ gone for the year.

five of them will be playing for Doncaster

be interesting to see how there go

I'm surprised that Hull havnt arranged any friendlies against Championship 1 opposition. I think that a couple of Super League clubs have been doing that to get their fringe players up to speed.

Makes me wonder if Hull have decided to take a different route. Maybe see some of your fringe players leave or become part time and loaned out. Perhaps even look to get some game time with local Conference sides. (No idea if that's possible)

The fringe players played against Doncaster on Saturday morning

Match this weekend against Wakefield. Triple header, should be a good day.

This Saturday @Bishop Burton College .....

Development Under 16’s – 11.00am v Midlands Rugby
Academy Under 19’s – 12.30pm v Wakefield Trinity
Reserves – 2.30pm – Hull FC v Wakefield Trinity

Lack of notice really disappointing !! Will this be the norm for the season ?

Just wondering whether or not the salary cap limitation & recent ruling will prevent players making first appearance for the first team this year ?

So far Fash, Levy, Langtree & Logan to name but 4 who seem to be fit & not featuring.

Don't think the RFL granted any leeway for bolstering our squad to play regular reserve SL ?

You pose an interesting question there. When you build a big squad like Hull have in order to run a reserves it may well be that some players are outside of the Cap and unable to play first team rugby. I can understand Hull getting denied dispensation to sign a replacement for Dawson but surely common sence should prevail and you be able to select players currently outside of the Cap up to the value of his contract. On his podcast a few weeks back Craig Harrison speculated that Dawsons contract was circa £80k. You could promote a few young lads with that.

The top and bottom of it is that clubs who invest in a Reserves like Hull have should get some additional Cap space.

Quote ="al283"Lack of notice really disappointing !! Will this be the norm for the season ?'" How much notice would you like? Maybe this will help..... www.hullfc.com/news/2019-02-14-r ... d-for-2019 www.hullfc.com/team/city-of-hull ... res-custom

Quote ="al283"Lack of notice really disappointing !! Will this be the norm for the season ?'" How much notice would you like? Maybe this will help..... www.hullfc.com/news/2019-02-14-r ... d-for-2019 www.hullfc.com/team/city-of-hull ... res-custom

Isn’t it just the highest-paid 25 players who count on the cap?

Might look it up.

Quote ="Mild Rover"Isn’t it just the highest-paid 25 players who count on the cap? Might look it up.'" That's what I've always thought, but when I look it up I'm non the wiser - please report back. https://www.rugby-league.com/salary_cap_regulations ….The most unhelpful format ever invented. Maybe there's a pdf file hidden somewhere?

Quote ="Mild Rover"Isn’t it just the highest-paid 25 players who count on the cap? Might look it up.'" That's what I've always thought, but when I look it up I'm non the wiser - please report back. https://www.rugby-league.com/salary_cap_regulations ….The most unhelpful format ever invented. Maybe there's a pdf file hidden somewhere?

Quote ="ccs"How much notice would you like? Maybe this will help..... www.hullfc.com/news/2019-02-14-r ... d-for-2019 www.hullfc.com/team/city-of-hull ... res-custom'" More than two days. The reserve fixture was only posted today on Hull Fc website The club must have arranged these fixtures before today so why cant they announce it when it was arranged either in the HDM and the website giving interested fans more time to arrange their time. Thats what al283 is complaining about.I can see his point.

Quote ="ccs"How much notice would you like? Maybe this will help..... www.hullfc.com/news/2019-02-14-r ... d-for-2019 www.hullfc.com/team/city-of-hull ... res-custom'" More than two days. The reserve fixture was only posted today on Hull Fc website The club must have arranged these fixtures before today so why cant they announce it when it was arranged either in the HDM and the website giving interested fans more time to arrange their time. Thats what al283 is complaining about.I can see his point.

How do you know that all the fixtures had been confirmed before today?

Quote ="Mild Rover" Might look it up.'" It’s the top 25 earners, plus any other who play a game and are no longer eligible for under-21s and/or earn £20k or more. Full details here: https://www.rugby-league.com/flipbooks/ ... html#p=276 Handy summary: https://www.rugby-league.com/salary_cap_regulations

Quote ="Mild Rover" Might look it up.'" It’s the top 25 earners, plus any other who play a game and are no longer eligible for under-21s and/or earn £20k or more. Full details here: https://www.rugby-league.com/flipbooks/ ... html#p=276 Handy summary: https://www.rugby-league.com/salary_cap_regulations

So that's pretty much everyone who plays and earns over £20k.

Match this weekend against Wakefield. Triple header, should be a good day.

Posted by RBA on wednesday 13/2/19

I was referring to the fixture list announced by the club and hdm today.
I even included links to those fixtures.

I saw RBA's post yesterday evening.

You complained about wanting more than 2 days notice and then quote a post which gave you more than 2 days notice.

Rumours are that this will be happening, I think they can dual reg 6 but use 3

Can we count the reserves match as one of taylor's ban games?

And £80k a year for dawson? If someone has signed that off they want sacking

As the lad didn’t really get a chance to prove himself, because of a bad injury, and the wage amount is largely conjecture, sacking someone on this occasion would be a trifle harsh.

www.hullfc.com/news/2019-02-15-r ... field-game Message for Paea he needs to massively improve

www.hullfc.com/news/2019-02-15-r ... field-game Message for Paea he needs to massively improve

I would be surprised if he is on any more than 40k tbh. If it's anywhere near 80k then that's terrible use of the cap.