Driving home tonight I got a snippet of Thurston been mentioned on Sportstalk...........Any ideas ??

Off to be new chairman of hull kr

Rubbish. Morgan's signed him as cover for Scott Murrell at hooker.

Sign him up quick for cover for Longy!!!!! Just the right sort of up-and-coming-youngster to learn of him!!!!!!




He's a good player, but tbh I think he's a total tw@ of a guy.

none whatsoever, thurston would steal nearly all fc's salary cap.....reports are claiming he wants $700,000 a season, which is about £350,000....
absolutely living in cloud cookoo land if he thinks anyone in superleague will pay that....now, union is a diferant matter, they will pay any sum of cash for players......

TBF Orford's not far off that if press reports are to be believed.

just cant see the club paying that amount of there salary cap......maybe outside sponsorship could supplement earnings i dont know

Aint we only spending £980,000 on players?

Rovers spend that a week on theirs

Tbh I was expecting us to get a little further into the season before all the Thurston/Cronk rumours started up.

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That was before Hilary arrived - nearly double that now!!

"I did not have sexual relations with Neil Hudgill"

i wonder if agar could look into the possibility of bringing someone in on loan for a month.i know it's difficult to find someone at this stage,and they would probably be a sl reserve,or from the championship(and even championship teams would be reluctant!!).surely there is a 7 floating around super league not getting a go at their present club?????-i just can't see the point of trying to make others play at 7 when they look totally uncomfortable in this role

ie James webster... Why the hell we didn't keep him as reserve I don't know

If we'd kept Webster as back up then his wage would be money we couldn't spend on a younger prospect as and when one comes along. At his age and stage of career I think it was fair enough to let him go.

Gregg McNally at Hudds. Only a young lad, worth a shot though

Nope we were conned, conned out of £30,000 and conned thinking we had a half decent player. It was nothing but point scoring against Rovers

But we got rid of him last year and never replaced him with a youngster... I really can't see us bringing an expensive youngster in this year either... And don't we have raynors money spare on the cap now??

I know that, but the question wasn't whether we should have signed him in the first place it was whether we should have kept him once we had him.

He's at Hudds for exactly the reason we want him. He's being groomed as their future half back, however still playing at Whitehaven. They won't be letting him go.

I heard this morning Longy has been working with a youngster, if true any ideas who it is?

Lol careful how u put that!!

We got rid of him pretty much as soon as we got him. As others have pointed out, it was just a propaganda move to score points against Rovers and it backfired. I don't think he was worth keeping, even in hindsight. Too old and not really all that good.

I do wish people would stop trying to second-guess what happened in the past based on where we are and what we know now. Not many were screaming for Webster to be kept at the time IIRC.