Said the same to a friend, hr isn't going to be our player so why should we do him any favours. Play Lancaster or Naughton

Yes I agree about the previous regime and the bad advice given to AP. You can add to that bad decisions made by AP off his own bat.

I'm not advocating deserting the club, what I'm saying is don't vilify those who have decided they have had enough.

I agree with much of what you say and like you I continue to back the club but I can understand the reasons of those who have decided they can no longer do so.

At the end of the day only a better product on the field will stop more fans leaving and hopefully bring back those who have already gone.

To be fair, do we know that the club were actively trying to sell a player to balance the books?
Maybe an offer came in for a player that Radford thought could easily be replaced internally and / or didn't want to be at the club anyway.
The culture of the club has been a problem for years on end. Maybe he is shipping out those, no matter how high profile, that don't fit into the culture he's trying to build?
Salford have a cash rich owner. Didn't stop them taking £100K off us for Sneyd though.

@James_Smailes: @jameshullfc not skint but balancing books. Crowds down, paid 100k for sneyd last year, new training ground etc. if player wants out, sell

Well pigs do fly .

Also said in nosey Parker column on Monday that hull were selling , to get cash to pay Manu what we still owe him .

And three & a half years of under achievement since he took over?????
i25k/140k is a steal for a 22yr old of his ability, & I don't buy `it doesn't matter' because
we have Lancaster & Naughton, - they've only played a handful of games between them.
Lower crowds Imo is down to the excruciatingly boring rugby served up over the last couple of seasons.
Exciting players attract crowds - we have 2 - Lineham, & Shaul who if the rumours have any substance is
also on his way out.
A couple of years ago our backline was Shaul (McDonnel) Lineham, Crooks, Yeaman, Briscoe
Young/ promising , all with their best years in front of them (OK one obvious exception) If Shaul goes we've lost the lot,
except Yeaman. - Progress?????

Heard from reliable source that lineham had a fall out with Radford and is now regretting his decision but the deal is done

Utter pap, the same was said about Briscoe and Manu wanting to change their minds.

He's leaving, get over it.

Love the way the cuddle crew seem to trying to be blaming me (and about 5000 others) for Lineham being sold. All most of us have wanted is to feel confident that the team we pay to watch are putting the effort in and being entertaining. For me, the mrs and kids to go watch FC its £100+ and quite frankly the rugby has been dire for years with repeated false dawns and abject performances but whilst and im not rich and can easily find better and more enjoyable things to blow £100 on. That said ive got renewed optimism to the point that i plan on attending the Cas/Wakey home games so call me fickle, i dont care

If he wanted to leave then our financial position and/or level of support is an irrelevance. You can't make a player stay if he wants to go.

5,000 others? Really?

Yeah well seen as attendances are fudged to include people who arnt there and the tickets the smc buy id say around five thousand lost in five years so about a third of fans

Thought we were a business, make your mind up

Well blinking said. It hink first post ive agreed with you.

But i'd make him prop every game at Donny

And ALL of those are people who are disgruntled with the club, like you?
Think you'll find there's been a decline at every club in those years. In Hull there's also the Hull City factor, people would rather watch premier league football than Hull or Rovers.
Those that are turning their backs (less than a thousand for me) will be the first in line for CC final tickets or GF tickets. Fickle.

Think Leigh, Fev, Catalan will tell you thay have gron crowds over the last 5 years.

Rovers Udders and a few others have been very stagnant over the last vew years.

We have gone from 14k to sub 9k, a fall that only Bradford can beat

Leigh and Fev are not even in SL and Catalan saw a 500 drop in average attendance from 2013 to last season.


Rovers averaged over 8,500 in 2009 compared to just over 7,800 last year. Hudds I'll give you, they've always been shiite though.


You want to say sub 9k because we massage attendance figures now, but don't want to do that from 5 years ago when we averaged 14k+?
Of course we've had a massive reduction, but it's simply not only down to disgruntled fans as was stated.

Catalan dropped 500. nothing compared to us.

I'd still say we are the biggest fallers other than Bratfut

Percentage drops are the best way to measure this and Wakefield are by far the worst in that regard.

I dont have the league express to hand with them in, but this will only be 2013 compared to 2014

I don't have to get over anything,just making a statement,been watching Hull since mid 50s players will always come go,and some get replaced by better players.

When the drop happened is irrelevant, as long as it was in the last 5 years, surely?