No idea, but we need some closure on the situation one way or another. Seems highly likely he's gone.

nevermind, replace him with a different Aussie every year eh

Finally......penny's dropped!

We've had the same left centre for 13 seasons, haven't we?

Why couldnt Crooks be a winger?

Top wingers are wingers all their careers, you can't make him into a winger because his natural position is going to a better all round player, are you for real?

He needs to bulk up to play centre.

He needs a lot of improvement on & off the pitch, I guess.......

He needs a clip round the ear

That should be his fathers time to step up, he will learn but like most in life, it could be too late.

What insults and what warning..I've had no warning about insults because I haven't unlike quite a few on here whom are quite keen to spout rancid bile in posters direction which is directly against the AUP and seemingly are untouchable, are you a self appointed Moderator here now?


If you think me (or anyone else) saying what someone else writes is rubbish is an insult and needs warning about then 99% of the posters on RLFANS would have warnings..I don't bleat and whine like a biatch/whinos fan to the mods or send PMs like Easthullfc Fan did to me because he/she didn't like what I wrote..
Grow up ffs, this is an open forum and no insult was aimed, I just made the point that that poster talked unfounded rubbish and having seen no FACTS to the contrary I'll take it all with a pinch of salt and continue to voice my opinion on such whenever I feel I want to.
You beleive whatever you want to beleive, I'm not so easily duped or co-erced into voicing an opinion not of my own unlike a few weak minded types on this forum


EDIt..that was meant to say "I'm NOT so easily duped"

So tell me what I've made up what hasn't happened? or been announced official by the club? I only post facts when my good source passes on information, like any other fan that knows people in & around the club, you muppet.

Actually, what the relevant part of the AUP states is:



Overly aggressive statements of opinion that include rubbishing another poster can and have run afoul of this rule.

EastHULLFC fan sent me a PM, are you going to warn him for his message..I never invited him to send me a PM and I took it as harmful and distressful given its content but felt it wasn't enough to go whining like a baby to you or any other mod.
Have you sifted through some of the insults thrown about on here, if you'd read what I'd said I disagreed in strong but not insulting terms or with any agression what EastHullFC fan wrote..and probably other s too.
Please assert how that breaks the rules?

Are you as a MOD going to enforce warnings and bans at this seemingly new level to all the other posters whom have broken those rules many times before and continue to inflame and abuse other posters?
Or are you as it appears have a two tier system of applying the rules, ad-hoc like..you know, one set of rules for some and another set of rules for another group of individuals?
If so, how is that fair, is that in itself against the AUP for a moderator to be singularly bias in their apllication of the forums own rules?
You may PM me if you like with your answer but I'd prefer you to explain your new set of rules on here so everyone can see and hopefully abide by them...

Don't slate me for knowing facts then, & we don't have to communicate at all, so you are ok to post what you feel, but nobody else can post actual facts about the chosen topics, because you haven't heard from anyone in the know, so in you're eyes nobody else has. Give yourself a nip buddy.

And all I PM you was, after another slating of a mate of mine from you, was a question asking you if you was going to the pass holders BBQ, & to slag him off to his face, what is distressing about that?

What FACTS?..show me the money..I've seen ZERO facts relating to what I've mentioned, just you saying stuff on a forum with no official word means it has no basis whatsoever..FACT.

Standee..still waiting on the new no tolerence rules that from your response you are now imposing?
Please clarify what these new rules are that don't allow posters to dispute so called 'facts' and by challenging said dubious information is abusive, harmful and upsetting, inflaming etc?

What are you on about?

Quote ="knockersbumpMKII"EastHULLFC fan sent me a PM, are you going to warn him for his message.'" Difficult to warn someone for something I haven't seen. If you want to forward the offending message to me I'll take a look. As for the rest, there's an announcement at the top of the board outlining the new board rules. And you might want to take another look at the AUP as you seem to have missed this bit: Quote 2.2. Public criticism of the moderation process is prohibited. *If you have a question about the decision of a moderator, you should ask them via the private message system. * If you are dissatisfied with their response, then you should contact the admin team, via support.rlfans.com/.'"

Quote ="knockersbumpMKII"EastHULLFC fan sent me a PM, are you going to warn him for his message.'" Difficult to warn someone for something I haven't seen. If you want to forward the offending message to me I'll take a look. As for the rest, there's an announcement at the top of the board outlining the new board rules. And you might want to take another look at the AUP as you seem to have missed this bit: Quote 2.2. Public criticism of the moderation process is prohibited. *If you have a question about the decision of a moderator, you should ask them via the private message system. * If you are dissatisfied with their response, then you should contact the admin team, via support.rlfans.com/.'"

Any chance of this getting on thread or do we have to keep ploughing through your childish spat?

In fairness this thread has pretty much been going nowhere for a while. Until something official happens regarding Crooks there's not a lot more to discuss. All the speculation has been done to death.

So its fact cos someone told you?

Calling people muppets cos you post facts and people question it?

He dosent question it, he calls me a liar who speaks rubbish, not that the mods cant see what ive posted to knocker, but thanks for reminding them for me pal, get a life 3apneylad!

no wonder people are drifting away from this forum when we get threads like this. i optimistically had a look for some up to date news on ben, and came across yet another private spat. people need to grow up and stop trying to points score all the time. i don't have a lot of time to go on this forum, i certainly don't want to be looking through OT stuff and thread drift, but that's all we seem to get nowadays