For once Im with you Standee a great signing - People on this board have a strange attitude - as far as Hull are concerned Damded if you do Damded if you dont - The 3 signings that have been made this week have really got me sooo interested for next year- get rid of dead wood and we will be ok. Of course we all have our own opinion of who we consider to be dead wood!!

Decent utility addition to the squad. Hope we're not planning to play him at FB full time though

Err i know that but if someone who is watching the game who doesnt follow RL and he heard Agar or someone say " yeah we played well tonight and played some great football " he would be thinking WTF, it doesnt seem right imo

You wouldnt hear Alex Ferguson or someone say "well we did play some good rugby tonight"

Its RUGBY LEAGUE and we should call it by that

and im sure rich has his opinion too

Lyon

You wouldn't hear Alex Ferguson say that, no. That's because it would be stupid. He doesn't manage a rugby team. He manages an "association football" team.
Richard Agar coaches a "rugby league football" team. Therefore, if he says "good football" then it is a correct term.

As for confusing:
RL in Aus is known as footy.
Gridiron in America is known as football
RU in Aus is known as rugby.
RL in the UK is known in some parts as rugby.

Sports are known by a variety of names. It is confusing no matter what. That's because the majority of these sports have the same roots (i.e. from football).

Learn a bit more about the history of sport, fella.

Not another bloody French team in Superleage?

So will you be getting a pass again then!!!

Bighead in negative post shocker

good exiting young yorkshire lad...can only be a good thing. at least he is in his prime or will be given some guidance. looking good for 2010 season so far

Why not???

His best positions are 1,6 and 7 so wouldn't mind seeing him play there instead of another utility player in the squad.

give him a chance to make the position his own before deciding you don't want him there as our starting fullback

The way I understand it is that the peasant classes played games on foot whilst the landed gentry played games on horseback. All games plyed on foot with a ball, therefore, are called football - not because you kick the ball. My dad's always called Rugby League Football "football" and so have I: my son calls it Rugby.

Good signing, we need to look forward and we have signed some experienced players to help the young ones progress.

Well done Hull Fc for going out and getting it done early.

Apologies if already posted. Would have stayed in Sydney but offer was too good from Hull and Roosters couldn't compete www.smh.com.au/news/lhqnews/tans ... 17560.html

Apologies if already posted. Would have stayed in Sydney but offer was too good from Hull and Roosters couldn't compete www.smh.com.au/news/lhqnews/tans ... 17560.html

Didn't he also play no.6 in the U21 final at the KC the other year?

Initially the game 'football' was a game played with both hands or feet using an inflated pigs bladder. You scored by getting it into the goals at the end, and the game only finished when this had happened. There were some rules, but generally it was no-hold-barred, so it could be quite violent.
In the coming years, it was phased out of the public playing it and became a game primarily being played in schools. Over time each school developed their own rules, and the first rules of Rugby came from Rugby school. Then from then on you know how it progressed, up until the Northern Rugby Union (league) was created. IIRC.

Incorrect.

OKay. I'm trying to remember what I haven't thought of in years.

There's evidence that ball games were linked to fertility and were played in early China, but there isn't any real hard evidence where modern day football came from. Equally Rugby is as likely to have evolved from the Hacksey Hood as anything else.

anyway. Tansey.....

I don't know what ball games they played, but that's like saying 'So-and-so was playing tennis years ago, so obviously they created all ball games'.

Anyway, Tansey.

You never struck me as being that old?

Haha.
Nah, I meant remembering from when I was little and looked up the origins of football (I was football mad back then, it was pretty much all I did in my spare time).

there was a TV series on book that changed the world, One of them was the association football book of rules.
That made a common set of rules so that teams didn't play a game of two halves where there were different rules for each half.

No and I've made this point quite a few times over the years. We never tend to make public who we are in negotiation with until it's a done deal. Jason Smith, Richard Swain, Shaun Berrigan, Michael Crocker

are just a few examples.

My sister lives in Brisbane and is a Roosters fan (don't ask me why, I have no idea) has nothing but praise for Jordan Tansey.