Heads have got to roll for this, absolute shambles and very embarrassing!!

Hang your heads in shame those responsible!!

Never heard KCFM just come on here and found out but I have to say James Rule Im worried - Young man = not bright - whats he doing in charge of the club I support - Capitano Radford nuff said!!

Cannot say I am sad that he has left.
It sat awkwardly with me his signing.

That's it I'm never going on holiday again.
I go way for a few months and we haven't won since I left and now all this. Too bad I'm not back until the middle of June!

Stop being selfish and get your rear back here!!!!

Sorry, you'll all just have to learn to get along without me.
If we still haven't won by the 16th June when I board by homeward flight I might not bother!

Sorry Kosh, you'll have to slag the board off or put some emoticons on to be taken seriously.

I mean, posting common sense, what were you thinking.

FWIW, The board were in a no win situation. A Player becomes available in a position its clear we are poor in and they don't go for him, result a slating. They do go for him and some get the moral highground stance for the players past, result, a slating.

Well, lets face it, there are a high number of RL players, past and present who have felt the long arm of the law (Cooke, Raynor, Crocker), yet there was no real issue at the time to some on here.

As kosh has stated, his contract was contingent based on two unknown things, he has failed one of them.

I also find it odd there are so many doctors and medical professionals that post on here. Especially the ones that think a medical involves a couple of laps round the pitch and seeing how much you can bench press. The results of an indepth examination take a matter of weeks to be analysed and returned.

But why let common sense get in the way of an opportunity to have a go at the board.

Why not have the full in depth medical before announcing his signing and making your club look like fools in the rugby league world. You could have saved all this embarrasment

One would imagine that he was under the ongoing care of a medical professional given that he has been carrying the injury since last May. Didn't they have any information that could help?

We could talk about the ins and outs of the matter all day, and, whilst there's no doubt that some of the foamy mouthed indignation on this thread is a little extreme, there also seems to be little doubt that the handling of the whole affair - particularly the media elements - could have been better.

Good post.
The hysteria on this forum is hilarious you're right.

Spot on in all respects.

The only thing I would say is that the club could have made it clearer that Reardon was still undergoing a medical examination. That way maybe the announcement would have been less of a surprise to those who hadn't read the small print about the conditional nature of his offer.

That and the fact that I don't think we should have signed him in the first place, although I guess I can understand why we did even though I don't agree with it.

Whilst I understand people's reaction's on here I do think come of the posts are way over the top.

We needed some cover in the backs, specifically at fullback and we took a gamble on Reardon. Okay it has not turned out the way the club would have liked but it has not cost us anything financially.

Rovers fans will jump up and down no doubt but thats their sad nature and obsession with us but the way I see it is why tried to bring a player in and it didn't work out.

Failed a medical my ars3. The club got rid because there is a strong chance of a custodial sentence and I think the board have made monkies of themselves far to often. I also read that the club are looking for a replacement. Why don't they try and poach Ronald McDonald or Hamburglar.

He failed the medical. Fact.

I do think the medical has been failed and the board have jumped on it quickly as they've realised the cock up in signing him in the first place.

For the first time ever I'd rather read a Crocker thread, as this is just embarrassing!

There was a strong chance he'd go down when they signed him though so that theory is out the window.

I reckon the announcement was released sharpish to get it out of the way before Reardon was sentenced today. If he had been given a custodial sentence and THEN we announced his release on medical grounds it would have looked even worse.

Several of our current squad would fail a medical right now but they are given rehabilitation. The board have come under criticism and needed to try and save face. If Readon is given a custodial sentence tomorrow how would the club react to having one of their players sent to prison. Maybe its me but i have no trust in our board at the moment. This story stinks of a cover up.

Why give rehabilitation to a player who has been brought in to cover players who are already in rehabiltation??

Seems to me Rule is just a messenger boy and he never got the message about readon until after the show.

Lets be honest, in the "could have looked worse" category, its like chucking a cup full of water off the Titanic " 'Cos that icebergs looking dodgy Captain"!



Can we have an honest thread to list "cock ups" from recent times, allegedly some of the players read this board and it'd be nice to think they may in some way remember or pass on what's being said by the fans?

In regards to the Reardon fiasco I've said this many times before, IMHO you generally find with most organisations that they're only as good as the people at the top, I'm not going to list everything that's happened to make FC a figure of ridicule over the last two to three seasons as I ain't got time, but this has to 100% point yet again to bad management of the organisation as a whole.

CEO - Rule - Who appears to be a PLANK in the pocket of Kath "I'm with Leeds" Hetherington

Coach - Agar - Good lad being given orders/requests from a guy who appears to be a PLANK

Players - Given orders from a guy trying his best to work with the aforementioned apparent/alleged PLANK

Are we seeing my point yet?!

Ask the board not me. I wouldn't have touched him with a barge pole in the first instance.

It will be very interesting to see if he gets a custodial today..

Released literally hours before



Strange things are happening at our club..very strange goings on

Don't tell me - you think the Moon landings were faked, don't you?

Reardon was brought in because we needed cover [inow[/i, not at some undetermined future date. His contract was conditional on his full recovery from his Achilles injury for that very reason. A thorough medical exam was ordered for that very reason. He failed it. The results came in last night while Rule was on the air. His contract was terminated automatically by his failed medical and the announcement rushed out in order to [iavoid[/i looking like a reaction to any sentence he may receive today.

But you carry on with your conspiracy theories if you want to.

Quote ="Monko"Ask the board not me. I wouldn't have touched him with a barge pole in the first instance.'" Me neither but the only reason he was brought in was to cover the backs if he cant do that why keep him? His contract was subject to him not getting a custodial sentence and passing a medical. The club didn't need to make up an excuse about an injury if he got sent down. Some more info regarding his release here sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league/hul ... p?ID=12338

Quote ="Monko"Ask the board not me. I wouldn't have touched him with a barge pole in the first instance.'" Me neither but the only reason he was brought in was to cover the backs if he cant do that why keep him? His contract was subject to him not getting a custodial sentence and passing a medical. The club didn't need to make up an excuse about an injury if he got sent down. Some more info regarding his release here sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league/hul ... p?ID=12338