probably not but at 25 is much better long term value at Hull FC than Rapana is at 35

Debatable given that Walker has left a club five times now in three seasons.

Myler and Cartwright have presumably decided that Rapana is a better bet and offers more on and off the field.

Walker has played 47 games since 2020

Rapana has played 101 since 2020.

Walker is one of those guys who has talent but can't stay on the pitch

I don't know what the price freeze was. I paid £310 for mine last night. Today it's the same price?

Walkers contract is up at the end of 2025 anyway and is free to negotiate with other clubs now. If we wanted to keep him long term we’d have to offer him a new deal pretty soon. As much as I think he’s a good player at this point I wouldn’t be offering him a new deal, that would be a huge gamble in the hope that he has a brilliant and relatively injury free 2025.

I'd doubt Walker is good enough to play FB for an NRL side.

Released by Leeds, not wanted by Rovers and Hull, but would get a contract at Canberra.

It's what Rapana brings off the field, he will help us recruit better overseas players in the future too.

Thirkill has apparently been spotted at Hull Uni

Won't believe anything until he passes the Instagram test

Wonder if Canberra know that we’re trying to offload someone who’s better than the guy who played fullback for them just about all season and they offered a new contract to

All in all whilst I think Walker is unfortunate I think the club are making the correct decision in terms of moving on all 3 of Smith, Tindall and Walker.

Rapana has been brought in to be first choice FB and mentor to the likes of Moy and probably Litten too so it's unlikely Walker would get a chance to take the field. Smith has tried and given his best but again he's very unlikely to make it in to the 17 in 2025. Tindall never really got an opportunity and thats tells its own tale when he couldn't push his way past two young inexperienced players in Martin & Barron and with Briscoe again he's unlikely to feature in any 17.

These are the decisions that successful clubs make to make then stronger by not hanging to players that won't play much of a part, its the equivalent of keeping stuff instead of throwing away that you think 'that'll come in handy', only to not use it and throw away years later.

All 3 players deserve the chance to carry on playing so for their own careers they need to move on.

Wildey be stalking Thirkill

Regarding Walker, he is clearly talented - but troubled by injury, probably on a decent contract.

Would have been surplus to requirements with Rapana, Moy, Litten & Hardaker.

Have to support the club in such decisions, while wishing those deparing all the best for the future.

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Sounds like it was a show

This what happens when you penny pinch and have a non rugby men in charge, even if it's true about spending full cap, off the field it sounds like a lower championship club.

IMyler first job was to fully access the whole club and he must have looked at what we had and thought wow, fair play for him for making the changes he has, the hub will have helped, but he has still changed abs added experience to the staff.

Having read that maybe some of the criticism aimed at Grix was a little harsh.

appalling really when we were all supposed to invest in the club believing that the administrators were doing all they could to to ensure we got value for money. As far as we are all concerned the expression 'blind faith' comes to mind. I have to say after coming on here to criticise the appointment originally I stand corrected and I feel that Myler has done a really good job so far.

AP and Clark, especially AP has a lot to answer for to allow the demise off the field. Especially signing off on signings such as Josh Reynolds. Shows he was just trying to sell passes.

I'm. not a fan of him, but like others gets a clean slate.

Pretty damming that article, would expect that set up at an amateur club, not a super league side.

Thankfully, it looks like things have improved significantly, it shouldn’t however be forgotten, and is hopefully something that is raised at the forum on Wednesday as to how things were allowed to get that bad.

Wonder if Pearson will show his face on Wednesday?

Is anyone really surprised? We've been cutting back in every area for years now. Idiots in charge making poor decisions. Salford are an example of spending less on the playing squad and more on the off field side but still ending up with a better product.

Do we even have a marketing department? You have to invest to move forward

We've definitely been penny wise, but pound foolish for sometime.

On reading those anecdotal examples you have to say Grix can have some latitude for the for difficulties of his task.

At least running parallel with these types of reports now are the soothing tones of the new organ-grinder.