Not without playing in the best league mate.

Maybe a SL legend, but not all time great.

It must be remembered this deal, like Readon, is subject to a medical.

hope he gets over the op ok,from what ive gathered theres no reason he shouldnt,so fingers crossed,on paper we will have a real agressive go forward pack,

please please no more injuries

Its not the first time a player has ever had an operation . Think berro had one just before coming to us . Reardon hadn't played for nearly a year aswell.

You would think that he must be fairly confident of passing the medical, otherwise why get a release from his current contract with the Roosters? If he fails his medical it would leave without a club, and without payment.

The knee arthroscopy is about as minor an operation as you can possibly imagine, it's simply a clear out, nothing more.

Quite. Not sure where all this talk about a reconstruction has come from.

the board below, perhaps????

Don't you Kosh?? The club are waiting to get the player checked out , to be doubly sure, what the he** do folks want? The fact is that he has'nt been the top man he can be of late but a few months off and hopefully he will be OK, at leats we are hedging our bets with the medical. The fact is if, three months ago we were told that these were the first 4 signings we are to make, (and I am convinced there will be others!) then we would have gone with that!! The man is a monster and just the sort of aggression we need to make other clubs wary he will get a few calls to the RL no doubt but lets face it we desperately needs some aggression!!!!!

Good call.

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Wonder how much we're paying him for him to walk away from the last year of his £170k p.a. contract down under?

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He was released,

Sounds to me like he knew he would only get 1 or 2 years in the NRL, had the option to come to us for 2 with the option of a third, makes sense for us and him.

I thought it was a straight 3 year deal?

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Released and paid in full or released so he could take the contract with us?

He would have asked for a release so he could take up the contract with us, so he won't have been paid, other than the contract with Hull for two years.

Absolutely, my husband had his done as an outpatient.

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Ok then. Can anybody explain why the O'Meley deal was 'announced' in the fashion it was?

For all his perceived decline over the past couple of years, we are still talking about a relatively big-name, 15-cap, Kangaroo prop...yet the club announce it with apparent reluctance, on a weekend, and with a notable 'subject to medical' advisory!

No press-confenece...no orchestrated media briefing...and 'announced' second-hand (after the Sydney papers) on a day when the club was already guaranteed maximum media exposure anyway (playing it's second biggest home fixture of the season)!

I know the club leaves a lot to be desired in terms of media-management, but even I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this - they obviously weren't ready to announce this signing!

Under normal circumstances, the club would have kept O'Meley's signature up their sleeve and trumpeted it much more loudly when the timing was right (i.e in the build-up to next year's season pass launch) - after all what is the sense in announcing four new signings so close together in mid-season??

From what I am hearing, the signing was made prior to knowledge of O'Meley requiring surgery and his people in conjunction with the Roosters (who are desperate to remove him from their salary cap) have smartly jumped the gun in making it common knowledge before Hull FC have had the chance to re-assess (or possibly back out) of any deal.

The upshot of it all is that Hull FC have had no option but to hastily confirm the signing but, to cover their own backs, they have taken the highly-unusual step of publicising the 'subject to medical' part.

For once, I don't think the club are to blame on this, but have the Roosters pulled the wool over Hull FC's eyes about O'Meley's surgery?

We haven't had a press conference for any of our new signings. Fitzgibbon was another one that came on the clubs website after people had posted it on here.

What a waste of your time typing all that cack was. Jog on !!!!

He's having a minor procedure on his knee. Thankfully that will mean he isn't in danger of getting a serious injury in the remaining games

Look - you blew your 'cover' some time ago. We all know that you're a Rovers troll, and not a particularly good one. Give it up.