When you answer my question about O'Meley.

Which one was that?

Edit. if it was the one about him staying then i just feel that this is his last season with us and that interview basically says that he's looking to go home too.

I guess Peter Sharp is the third in line when it comes to Cronullas recruitment.

bit like when he was at fc then

I read the interview as him wanting to stay another year,

I guess it depends on what your agenda is when you are reading it

id take him for another year, after that let him go...

We need to keep sam moa and o meley

not sure about o'meley but sam is defo back home

Why? Don't Hull-born players have any ambition?

Considering the usual standard of crap you post, that comment has got to be close to the top or bottom of the pile, depending on your viewpoint.

He's probably not heard of Lee Jackson Coddie :

So one player in 30 odd years

Seems Frepeny boy has a point

The point was more aimed at hes a Fev lad, probably not a Hull fan.

Horne is/was never going to leave Hull, even if Aus did come calling

Did they bother calling? They're not that desparate.

The fact that we have to go back to Lee Jackson, Lee Crooks and even Phil Lowe to find Hull born players who were of sufficient calibre to attract the attentions of Australian clubs, speaks more about the area's inability to identify, nurture and develop such players. Either that or a sad, lack of ambition, it's certainly got buggerall to do with any feelings of loyalty towards either Hull club

Good luck to the kid, he will certainly go with my best wishes. Wherever he does go will have a fai chance of becoming my adopted team when I go out there, just hope it's not Cronulla!!

Not just oz clubs though, how many have made it elsewhere in England?

Sydneys a big place, just support your local side it makes it easier.

It does make you wonder just what the problem is:

The area can produce competitive amateur teams and local players regularly feature in international selection.

The area can produce competitive players, at youth level of the pro game, regularly featuring in international selection.

We manage a grand total of 2 players at elite international level (3 if Wilkin is included as locally developed)

There is a long-standing problem with player identification and development, throughout the game in the Hull area and the sooner the amateur & pro clubs recognise that fact and work towards a solution, I can't see things changing anytime soon

good luck to the lad but put a clause in the move that he signs for us when he returns

This might be off the mark and a bit controversial, but I sometimes wonder if it's a psychological thing brought on by the relative popularity and profile of RL in the area. I would say that more than most of the other RL areas, the players arguably enjoy more cult hero status whilst out and about, with less competition from footballers overshadowing them. This possibly leads some to think they've made it earlier and curbs their drive to improve once they've hit the first team regularly as they may be content to be a local hero made good rather than still feel they need to prove themselves further.

It may not be coincidence that the amateurs are the ones who make the most of themselves, as they are the ones who have faced rejection to spur them on.

Having being involved in the game for a good few years my opinion is the whole system in Hull is bent!! they see players at 12 yrs old and invite them down, then that is more or less it, scouting done...presently there are some better players in 17/18 yrs old range than what are on scholarships at FC & KR.
How the heck these scouts do not realize that development takes 10 yrs and there is a variance of a 4 yr ability range is beyond me, the kids with pure talent I have seen leave the game due to not wanting to play pub rugby at 18 yrs make me want to weep.

Good luck to him if he does go down under,at least he is going to test himself in the best league unlike TWBW at leeds who is happy not to prove himself.

Exactly.

Good post. Let him go and in 4 years time he has to come back here. Just think how good he will be at 26 after 4 years in the NRL

And hopefully we will be a team players want to come to by then.

Assuming he goes to Oz, has four years there and returns, I reckon he'll go to whatever club Agar is coaching at the time.

Fev Miners Welfare it is then