Couldn't make it to the end of the interview.
They must think we are all idiots.
They've fed us spin for years on end, and I've had my fill of it. Neither club will do anything with the idiots they have in charge.

Filmed at Elland Road

I'm just about done with him now

Hope to hear plenty of booing in Sunday and an empty stadium for the middle 8 play offs. No disrespect to the players but this is too big.

ok I disagreed with a lot he said but also he did have some good points imo

Some interesting points, says that all current FC academy players from age 15 upwards are ringfenced, so won't join KR. Claims both clubs are losing £500k a year between them currently.

But most interesting for me was his response to the Radford questions at the end, he couldn't wait to divert the topic on to the players, no firm backing given, unlike his 'Radford won't be sacked' interview in the HDM a few months back.

Dab

Don't think I've ever seen a poster do such a dramatic u turn as you have

Yes, but he did say Lee was working "incredibly hard". Unfortunately he's not working incredibly successfully.

I guess nobody knows how much it costs to run 2 academy teams, but I'd imagine it won't come cheap.

Catalans are in the U19's next year - yet more expense.

I'm not agreeing with what they're doing, but it sounds like a cost cutting exercise, which may produce a better crop of youngsters if they are representing 1 team rather than 2.

Not every day your club announces its merging with their arch rivals is it Jake?

Or loses to the shiittest team in SL Glad you've come over to the dark side

Sick of hearing it , I think Pearson even winced saying it .

The double whammy of that plus the merger may have been the breaking point.

I give a lot of my spare time to junior RL, so this news may have hit me harder than others I guess. I'm despondent.

As I said earlier, I can put up with turd performances, turd players and turd coaches. That's sport, it's cyclical and we've no divine right to win every game. I've always maintained when criticising peoples one-eyed rants about Radford or Yeamo that they were only part of the issues at the club, the main one being Pearson's mismanagement.

I'll be there on Sunday

"What went on last night was unacceptable..." "Not happy at all about last night..." "The players that we've got on the roster should be pushing top 4..."

Said that Lee and himself are under incredible pressure and indicated that the players aren't sharing that pressure. "Needed to win that match and we didn't so, yes, questions are being asked, but not of Lee, of myself and the players and I need to see a response form the players this weekend..."

Sounds like he's still backing Radford to me.

Can't he see - as a people manager himself - that if the players aren't responding to the coach then they aren't buying into what that coach believes and is telling them. Or that they have no respect for the coach for whatever reason.

The questions Pearson should be asking are Why are the players not responding, why are they not happy and why are they wanting to leave the club?

As will most of the people on this forum. It certainly doesn't mean that we condone AP's actions (or in Radford's case inaction).

Devastated by this news. Absolutely loved watching the 19's/20's over the years.

Maybe I'll feel differently in a couple of years, but there's no chance I'll be supporting this. Sad day indeed.

Shame on you Adam & Neil.

Anyone want a friend for Sunday, all the people I normally go with aren't bothering (even though they have passes) #billynomates

In a kind of perverse way, this proposal has brought the red and white and black and white sides of Hull together in agreement



They agree that they both hate the proposed merger of the academies

May be worth reminding ourselves that at present we sit third in the U19s competition and looking very likely to make the top four plays offs. Rovers sit eight points behind us in seventh.

I think we all know who the winners & losers are in this.

Financially it makes sense. But it defies the fact that our separate and oppositional identities define us. Removing this at grass roots is self destruction. Hideous day for both clubs.

Quote ="ComeOnYouUll"May be worth reminding ourselves that at present we sit third in the U19s competition and looking very likely to make the top four plays offs. Rovers sit eight points behind us in seventh.'" Three players in the England Academy 20-man squad too. www.totalrl.com/england-academy-squad-named/

Quote ="ComeOnYouUll"May be worth reminding ourselves that at present we sit third in the U19s competition and looking very likely to make the top four plays offs. Rovers sit eight points behind us in seventh.'" Three players in the England Academy 20-man squad too. www.totalrl.com/england-academy-squad-named/

The big question is not how many are there on Sunday, but how many are there next year?
The chickens will come home to roost once the season tickets go on sale.

Pearson doesn't pick the team or coach them Radford does
Radford selecting non performing players like Yeaman week after week is a big issue particularly when he has always said he would drop players if they didn't perform.
Pearsons biggest mistake was appointing Radford as coach at the expense of Peter Gentle.
I said it many times on here and pleased to say the penny has at last dropped to most fans.
Radford may be good at stats,paperwork and keep a tidy desk but he is no coach.
With a good coach you see progression.
Brian Smith has only been at Wakefield 4 weeks but you can already see progression.
Smith is a good coach.I wish he would come back here.

How many of the of you have actually seen an under19s game of late ?

What Pearson said at the start of the interview on Blunderside, was that the RFL are looking at reducing the number of academies to 8, across the country. So others will have to merge aswell.

I suggest all those throwing their toys out, listen to the interview, and to what he and Smith are actually saying.