Get your backsides down to YPI tomorrow if you can, to show OUR lads some support.

Hull FC v Wigan
YPI, Chants Ave
2pm Kick off.

As per usual no mention of the under 19’s game on the clubs website or social media.

Wigan today is probably the most important game of the season so far and as a club we can not even be d to mention the young lads. Advertisement and marketing for the 19’s & 16’s games has been awful the past couple of years.

If cost saving is the main reason for the academy merger then why has not better game advertisement, marketing and game day management been used. 500+ attendances on a Saturday afternoon at a venue in Hull, not out at Bishop Burton should be easily achieved. With this level of footfall then with gate money, refreshments, merchandise sales, game sponsorship, match ball sponsorship, and a raffle etc a substantial lump could be raised at each home game that would go to off-setting the academy running costs.

Potentially academy and scholarship games could be huge money makers for the club. if someone at the club could just be bothered with the academy.

Half time 18-4 to Wigan

Great game going on 22-20 to Wigan with about 15 left

Finished 20-22. Good recovery from 4-18 and with Reece Dean going off injured.

Was a good game shame about the last minute penalty goal which hit the post and bounced the wrong side which would have given them a draw

How did Oliver Gildart go for Wigan?

I didn't g but from reports he got a couple of tries

Was impressed with him the last time they played at BB, classy centre and knows how to find his winger too

He was very, very good mate. Also mightily impressed with Shorrocks (played 6) and whilst he dropped a couple, the FB (Gabriel Fell) was very good on kick returns, very pacey.

Very good game today, lost 22-20 and we hit the post from a penalty in the last minute to tie it up.

Costly on the injury front though, with Reece Dean off with an ankle injury and in a protective boot. Also Callum Lancaster undergoing surgery tonight on a broken wrist after a late hit whilst scoring his 2nd try.

Stand outs were HTW, Jez Litten & Turgut. But it was a very high standard across the full team.

Turgut had a good try ruled out
late hit on dean
late on lancaster
ref from wigan!!!!!

If you mix 11 parts Moet to two parts Lambrini, what you have is a sparkling cocktail of awesomeness, which is exactly what the academy merger will be.

Was thinking that myself this afternoon what a great set of lads we have, outplayed in the first half they stormed back and against a team that is again held up as examples to the rest of us and who have only lost once this season we got some big injuries but almost did them. HTW really rose to the occasion when he lost his partner, while there were al lot of disgruntled fans around wondering by the end what the hell this merger is all about?? Besides that it is saving money!!

No one should ever think that everyone at the Club thinks its a good idea either because they don't!! Look what you're getting for Christmas Rovers!

Funny I was always told mix out with Moet and you get the taste of bad cider and the odd time I have tried its true.

The wane effect. Thuggery running through the whole club

No its not just you.

Whole thing stinks.

I would guess that the only people at the club who don't think it is a good idea are the ones who know their limited ability is likely to mean they will lose their job, which in the scheme of things is what the merger is about, getting rid of the dead wood and hangers on and making sure only the Elite players and coaches in this City are invested in.

I would also be interested to know what you mean when you suggest Rovers are getting a Christmas present Wilf? I presume you mean that these players are leaving Hull and signing for Hull KR? That is the only way Hull KR could benefit from the current crop of U19's and 16's at Hull FC.

If you think Wane is using thug tactics throughout the club I suggest you ring Wigan and ask if you could visit Central Park and see the set up.

The most polite people I have ever met from Receptionist to Players. And the reason for this? Wane insists that every person at the club is polite and makes an effort to say hello and offer to help any person the come into contact with. It is not unusual to see a player helping a cleaner do her job. He is massive on creating exceptional human beings, not just Rugby Players.

They also ensure that the dressing room is exactly how they found it, home or away, and that job belongs to the 18th man however they rarely do it alone and often the whole squad chip in and make sure it is spotless when they leave.

Ring them, they will happily let you look around CP and see for yourself.

So has formal consultation begun and if so when did the clock start?

And of course you have never heard Wane romanticising on about Mc thuggery either ?

You seem to only see what you want too, and not capable of seeing what every one else does.

I'm not sure about you but if a guy told me to go and hurt another human being I would like to think I am strong enough to make my own decision on what to do.

There are other coaches that are far 'dirtier' than Wane but they like to keep it to themselves. Wane talks the truth and people don't like it.

I'm not sure when it started but I seem to remember this being discussed 3 years ago and falling through so perhaps that was when it started.

I could do a bit of shopping while im there

.It hasnt been Central Park since 1999.

Why the hell do I want to walk round a Tesco.You do know that Wigans academy's play at Orrells old ground which was purchased rather dodgilily by good old mincing Maurice and his sidekick Whelan.

Quote ="paintman"I could do a bit of shopping while im there .It hasnt been Central Park since 1999.'" I suggest you check the name of Wigan's Offices and Youth Academy Complex, College and Education centre and then come back and apologise. Or you can edit your post and I wont tell anyone. www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.aspx?id=216

Quote ="paintman"I could do a bit of shopping while im there .It hasnt been Central Park since 1999.'" I suggest you check the name of Wigan's Offices and Youth Academy Complex, College and Education centre and then come back and apologise. Or you can edit your post and I wont tell anyone. www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.aspx?id=216