Pretty much how I read it also.

If this [iis[/i the sole reason for the ban, then someone needs to get a grip. Frankly the club should have a thicker skin - it's only a local rag trying to raise it's circulation FFS.

won't make much difference its just all about city nowadays anyway

[url=http://www.sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league/hull_fc/news/displayarticle.php?ID=12371Someone had better tell Rich Agar then.[/url

I could be wrong but think they have a ore match press conference earlier on the week were all the media are there. The ban will probably be 1 on 1 interviews.

I'm getting more and more fed up with the club each day. We are the laughing stock of rugby league at the minute and cutting links with the 2 biggest media links in the city won't help change that.

My dad likes to

I think there is more to this than people think.

HDM called Agar after 10pm the other night and were blatantly trying to provoke a reaction - he took the call, was giving them a story but then they tried digging and asking questions that he didnt and shouldnt have to answer.

if anyone called me after 10pm at night then id probably tell them to ram it. its his own personal time with his family and a 5hit journalist from the HDM is trying to incite him to say something that he can print the next day

I was as annoyed as anyone when i first heard the story but there is a reason for anything the club do. Not saying this is the right thing, but it may make the HDM think twice before they call after 10pm!

Was that when she shaved her beard in her younger days???

To be honest I think the club are right,

they printed a full page story about rearden (a former Hull FC player!!!), who gives a , they were going on about it and the new link to the NHS.

even as a rovers fan i thought they were just stirring.

and then Burnsy on RH just can't leave it alone.

The thing that really annoys me is they would not do it to Hull City.

Good on HFC hope Rovers ban them soon.

ME=Right then

There's no doubting that the HDM is a pi$$ poor excuse for a newspaper staffed by talentless hacks. There's no doubting that they're constantly trying to rake up muck about [iboth[/i RL sides. But this is not the best way to deal with the situation IMO. It just gives them extra ammunition and pretty much [icarte blanch[/i to print what they like.

The people who probaby made the decision to call won't be Hullites or Hullensians (whatever we are) and the sports dept won't have any say over what goes on in the "news" section. They will not care if circulation drops and more redundancies are made, they will just move on to their next "project" - don't forget if they were any good they wouldn't be working there!

www.sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league ... p?ID=12364 Just makes us look more like a club with no clue really. The problem is when you decide not to talk to the media you then get no chance to make your own points on the various issues. It seems that every few months something else turns up and bites us on the a$$. What's next???

www.sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league ... p?ID=12364 Just makes us look more like a club with no clue really. The problem is when you decide not to talk to the media you then get no chance to make your own points on the various issues. It seems that every few months something else turns up and bites us on the a$$. What's next???

They do that anyway mate. The standard of journalism is at kindergarten level both in the local paper and on blunderside. As has been stated elsewhere this wouldn't happen to the beloved Hull City. Not sure about the cutting of links - I can see reasons for and against doing it. On balance it's probably better not to but if a siege mentality arises as a result of it and transfers itself into the minds of the players we might see some benefit. I'd like to see the fans back the club on this and as a group tell the mail to f*** off but doubt that will happen in the current climate.

Doubt many people on here buy the wail anyway except maybe the day after a game. The paper is complete garbage.

judasgate - found Judas guilty of misconduct
Thackray - ok that was our fault - we still reached the Challenge Cup Final
Fridays - attendances seem to be up?
Reardon - Good job we had a clause in the contract regarding his injury, if we hadn't then it would have been a cock-up.

In my opinion all this will be to placate Hudgill after the Cockaynegate episode and the Morgangate fine.

Don't bother taking your blinkers off... the blind leading the blind



If the club didn't sort Reardon out with a medical prior to contract talks after all that had happend to Cockayne then it show them upto being a shower!!!

The club (rightly or wrongly) signed him quickly because we needed a player in the position he could cover, we also had the good sense to have a clause in his contract about a full medical (how we would have managed to organise one on the Easter bank holiday I'll let you suggest), all in all we have been quite professional (other than the initial signing, which I completely disagreed with)

Actually agree with Basil here

The fact we are signing players before they have a full medical is shocking with or without a clause. Not to mention that we then passed the new signing onto the rpess and on the website.

Now ok maybe sign him with a prelim contract subject to medical/visa/court case (whatever may apply) but don;t announce it till it is certain.
It isn;t like he was a big signing that would have the supporters waiting in anticipation for his first game.

I also disagreed with the signing although the reasons for doing it were good ones. Hull have acted totally professionally in every respect regarding it and the only foolish ones in this case are those who have tried and failed to ridicule the club as a result, both on here and in the high quality/flagship local media.

Did you not watch the FCTV statement? It explained quite clearly why things were done the way they were. One point raised which is pertinent to your second paragraph was that it's impossible to keep a signing secret. Can you imagine the furore if someone had spotted Reardon training with the squad (an integral part of his medical assessment) and gone to the press? We'd have had fans and the media up in arms about the club keeping secrets, especially given the controversial nature of the signing.

The club make plenty of mistakes, but there are times when they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. This was one of them.

Another one suckered.

Feel free to post which parts of the statement you feel were lies and your evidence.

You'll excuse me if I don't hold my breath.

No its isnt, it makes perfect sense, a player that would have done a very good job for us became available and the club acted quickly to sign him in order to make sure that he didnt join somebody else, but becuase of the speed they acted quickly they included a clause so that he could be very throughally assessed without having to rush it and more importantly didnt obstruct any treatment or scans which current players needed, Im guessing that the club dont have a magic wand or complete freedom and use of medical equipment and hospitals whenever they want and I assume there will be a restriction on how many players they can send for scans etc in a period of time, especially over the bank holiday period. As it turns out there was a problem and Hull were able to stop the deal and save us having another player on the treatment table long term, it really is that simple.

Is this why there's not even an abbreviated match report on the HDM website 16 hours after the final whistle?