Some more highlights form the "paper" Mail:

[size=85In partial answer to[/size=#000040 'What in your mind have been the most significant changes?'

"The whole staffing structure has been changed around the club and the whole emphasis has been changed from penny pinching, frugality and trying to get the cheapest deal possible to do what is right for the players and what will help the players.
We are still having repercussions now with basic things like kit, where not enough has been ordered for the players to prepare in a professional manner. These types of things cannot be allowed to happen in what is supposed to be a big Super League club"




[size=85In partial answer to[/size =#000040'What has changed to provide more support to the football department?'

"Going to Tenerife we have pretty much a clean bill of health and that is unique for this club. I believe quite strongly that this is down to the way the team is being prepared and being trained. We are not getting any muscle stains or hamstring strains etc."

Those wasted seasons...

Just wtf was actually going on under the last regime?? Perhaps his last sentence is merely about the disastrous last couple of matches at Leeds...

"On that [iday for us to be accepting ourselves as second-class citizens to what was going on in Leeds[/i, was not acceptable. I can guarantee that attitude will never be allowed again."

...or what?

None of you realised when you were told by some posters on here years ago just how these people were raping the club and the fans blind

reading some of the quotes from pearson and on here, am i alone in thinking that as a club, whilst kath hetherington was ruler, we would always have been second to leeds whilst under her control?

Correct and if she was still about, Briscoe (Tom) would not be here at the end of the 2012 season

i have often thought that. i also wonder what signings we missed out on that ended up at leeds and where we really should have been now if we had kicked on from cardiff 2005.quiet annoying really when you listen to some of the things pearson has come out with. I cant help but think we could be near where Wire are now. We have a bigger fan base etc but i now think if a player was not on the cheap we would just hand them to Leeds on a plate.

one signing we definatly lost out to leeds on that fc were after was ali lautitti, heard numerous times how kath passed him onto leeds!

i had heard that too, I wonder about Buderous aswell,and also, not just players but sponsors and other opertunities. i just think we have been competly done over recruitment and business wise too.

Some of us are just stoopid. I include myself in that group clearly.

Thought back to the day FC won in Cardiff. About the only time I'd seen Kath interviewed whilst at FC. The "It's all I've ever wanted, yes, yes, yes!" comment rang a bit hollow at the time, now it just looks ridiculous. Jon Kear paid with his job for that win. Had to leave it for a bit to look less obvious

Great attitude AP has,best of luck for the season folks.

Can see it being fun.

Feck! Never thought of it like that!!!

Yep. The first nail in Peter Sharp's coffin was that Grand Final.

Good interview the guy really does seem intent make us great again. Any improvement on recent seasons will see crowds rise. As for future recruitment, build it and they will come

Great interview. What a guy!

So glad the old lot are well out of here. Always said within the family that we'd be here long after they'd gone.

Too true.

Also told people that our injury problems weren't only down to "bad luck" (which kosh now acknowledges doesn't exist)

Indeed, I vividly remember on many occasions you trying to convince me that she wasn't milking the club for all it was worth

I haven't denied it.

In mitigation though, if FC had been more successful, she'd have been able to milk it more. And if she hadn't put money in with the rest of the Gateshead board, the club would have gone out of existence.

Apology accepted. How much money did she put into Hull FC?

if that was the case would you try your best for a club that couldnt be d even to provide the right kit...dont think i would....no wonder they under performed last season.

After all this negativity of late....and now the truth comes out lets hope we have one hell of a season

Firstly, nobody claimed that our injury problems were [ionly[/i down to bad luck. And secondly, I haven't acknowledged any such thing.

Too easy

I held a season pass since 1999.Last season I did not renew as to be honest the enthusiasm was slowly drawn out of me.The dross we were being forced to endure was getting on my nerves.I still went last season, more out of loyalty than hope.
This season,I still have not renewed,but I will still go. A.P.can talk the talk,I am waiting patiently to see if he can walk the walk.

Was AP asked about the strength/depth of our squad or the possibility of adding to it before the season starts?

Her £120k investment was a tax break

Her £75k pa salary was a joke

interested how she drew a salary when she wasn't employed, unless you're suggesting she took dividends, which she couldn't have unless we made a profit, also interested how investing in a LTD company can be a tax break?


are you talking about facts, or what you think, because you should be careful if the latter.

Kath is many things, stupid isn't one of them.