Same here also. His appointments elsewhere in a coaching capacity hasn't set the world alight.

What are the roles of everyone in the Youth set up?
We have Mel Harmon , Andy Last , Steve Crooks and now Lee Crooks as head of Youth . Also isn`t Paul Mcnicholas part of the set up ?

TBF coaching positions at York and Keighley would have been difficult tasks , as for RFL appointments some of those appear to be jobs to allow washed up ex-pro's the opportunity to re-start their lives.

Mel Harmon is a scout and McNichalas is in charge of loading foam footballs into a tube on match days

Quote ="MrPhilb"Mind you at least he'll be welcomed with open arms viewtopic.php?t=390701 '" Thank god someone found it, i was looking for that. so i wonder if all those people will come back on this thread?

Quote ="MrPhilb"Mind you at least he'll be welcomed with open arms viewtopic.php?t=390701 '" Thank god someone found it, i was looking for that. so i wonder if all those people will come back on this thread?

it was only at the bottom of page 1

I can't believe they didn't run the appointment by this message board before employing him!.
I'm glad Lee is back at the club he loves.
Good luck to him & I hope it works out for all parties.

What a blinkred lot of idiots all you Rovers fans are, Mr Hudge says jump, and you all in tandem say "How high" what a set of muppets.

Didn't you all listen to to what your illustrious "chairman" said on sports talk when all the poop was hitting the east stand at CP, i'll repeat just for the hard of hearing and the rest of you that are just plain stupid.

Presenter (Q) What of the rumour Lee Crooks has left the club?

Mr Hudge (A) It's just rumour after rumour, he (Lee Crooks) is one year into a three year contract and he's going knowhere.

Just to add insult to injury, I was listening to your chairman lying through his back teeth to you all trying not to lose face, (and you all fall for his lies all the time) as i already knew Lee had left as he was speaking and wasn't going back.

Joke Club Joke Chairman surrounded by clowns, you make me LMFCO

Sorry, forgot to add 'Welcomed home Crooksy', I bet your Dad's pleased.

having lived in york a few years ago,the club was in turmoil when lee was there.the directors had no money to pay the players,who in turn didnt bother turning up for games,so it was hardly lee's fault.having to travel to an away game with your physo on the bench to make the numbers up says it all.attendances slumped to less than 200.york directors promised him allsorts,then promptly closed the club down,even though its good to see the knights staring well this season.he now has the chance to work with a smile on his face,and who can blame him?

erm look closer to home ...your shirts bin sold out of black bags for £20,and other gear too.

LEGEND, my all time Favourite Player Lee Crooks welcome home.

So, have we created a new position to accomodate Lee? Is it all part of putting pieces in place for the new, state of the art training facilities? The impact of the proposed facilities on youth in the area is potentially massive so we'll need a large, quality coaching set up!
I've a lot of faith in J. Rule.

Yeah, crooksy's office will be a stool at the end of the new bar

Remember the FC Radio Forum live on KCFM... the one were Rule and Agar pretty much poored water on the Crooks to FC rumour... or have we forgot about that Ian?



As for those saying he'll work better now he's happy at FC... working with youngsters and their futures you should always do you best!!!

no they said we had no 'coaching' positions available for him

A legend returns home, welcome back Lee

As he said you can take the boy out of the boulevard, but you never take the boulevard out of the boy

Great news



I hope he does absolutely zero coaching.

I too have a concern about his appointment based on whats been discussed previously.

Guess the main positive is that financially as a club we are in a position to be making additions in staff rather than laying them off!

Ooo ya bitch

I don't exactly know what the position of "Head of Youth" entails but I got the impression from the interview that its more scouting than coaching.

I think its hard to judge this appointment because it isn't clear what his actual duties will be.
But, I don't feel that he would have been appointed if he wasn't an ex Hull player who still loves the club.
Also, no matter his duties, it doesn't look to me like he is the man to turn our youth development around which imo, is actually quite poor. The reason I say that is because we got to several u21 Grand Finals in a row, winning 2 out of 3. We get the players into the first team but they always seem under cooked and its been a while since our youngsters were tipped for international honours. The likes of Saints (Graham for eg), Leeds (Smith for eg), and Bradofrd (Burgess for eg) seem to be bringing through youngsters that turn out at international level at a fairly young age which we are hardly doing

It was!

you have been trying to lay people off, Mr Rule just got his paperwork wrong again ! anyway 6 years to start a claim for tapping up a Contracted employee we are told by the experts on here !