How disppointing is that for the club to lose such a young talent especially when his two big brothers are on our books.
I think the fact that we have been so reluctant to give youth a chance must have been a major contributing factor.
I take my hat off to Royce Simmons at Saints who has had such great success with his young local lads this yesr

Gutted to lose him, think AP will ensure that the youngsters are looked after better in the future.

Very, very disapointed in this, after all the good news we have had recently this has taken the shine off it.

Good luck for the future Luke, hope everything goes well for you.

The last legacy of the old board (hopefully).

Bit dramatic that isn't it? Sure he's a good prospect, but its hardly like he was going to single handedly win us super league.
Crooks would have been a bigger loss.

Indeed, if losing Luke makes the root and branch review of youth policy and urgent priority for McRae then at least some good will come out of it.

But, if he is under contract at the moment, then how can L**ds, or anyone else, approach him?

The fact that our youth system seems to have all but dried up should have prompted that, Briscoe aside.

Don't get me wrong I don't need to be put on suicide watch, I just don't like to see our best young prospect opting to go to one of our rivals as they are seen as a better option,. Over the past few years we have seen a lack of talented young players breaking through so to see one decide to go before given a chance is dissapointing.

Hopefully as others have said the new board may look at this now and decide on a better way to handle our young players as I really do believe the fact nobody from the academy has been given a chance over the last 12 months will have played a part in his decision.

I think it was already a known issue, but Rule has said that McRae is going to take steps to make sure "it never happens again"

anyway, he's gone, nothing we can do about it now.

Saw him play for the u-20s after being promoted from the u-18s and he had a good game but there was other players on view who was better.Dont forget,we also have Danny Nicklas back for next season as well.Briscoe is a good prospect but if we had lost Crooks or Nicklas,they would have been bigger losses.

From the press release on the Hull FC Site

"Leeds Rhinos are understood to have been informed externally of the expiration of this deal and made a subsequent offer of their own which the player has since agreed terms on"

Kath?????

Something iffy gone on here...he was in talks with us then legs it once Leeds comes in...shows you where his loyallty lies then doesnt it.

One thing Mcrae did during his first term at the club was sort out the youth policy which I'm sure he will do again.
As for this false loyalty to Agar if the players can't see the club is being revitalised under AP and if they don't share his vision, then your welcome to leave.

Over hyped due to his surname and fast tracked too early in his career.

Also mike burnett and lee williams released, not too bothered but wasnt williams sposed to be a good un. Reckon burnett probly wasnt quite good enough, too slow for a 2nd row and too small for a prop, but would be good for quins if he stopped there tho

The writing was on the wall for Williams once we signed Ellis.

Clearly Kath.

But she's history now, so not going to dwell on that. At least we won't be giving Leeds youth team match practice/experience so they can fit into SL for them or others now

A legacy of an arrangement would should never have been allowed in the first place I am afraid...though most fans were in 'denial' at the time!

So 'pillow talk' has effectively cost Hull FC one of its best prospects? Sad!

It was always wrong that the Hethrington's held sensitive contract information about players from two clubs - it should never be allowed to happen again!

Allegedly it cost us Chris McKenna and we got Colin Best instead, so it wasn't all bad

Even though he is contract expired, will there be any fee payable???

It's not being dramatic at all, the club needs to keep it's best 17yo's, they are the future and are far more important than the next has been from overseas.

Just how many players have we lost out on due to the Hetherington's pillow talk we'll never actually know but agree with others this should not be allowed to happen again.

Thankfully she's gone and we now have someone who is actually interested In Hull Fc winning

would have being nice one day to have had all 3 brothers playing in the first team, not gunna happen now, real shame, but at least Bomber and Rule will now ensure this wont happen again.

Well if things work out how we all hope under Pearson over the next 5 years and Luke turns out to be a great player we may be in a position to tempt him back.

No guarantees on anything, but you should never say never.