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Hull FC have confirmed Martin Aspinwall has been suspended, more to follow

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What a kn0b - been given a chance after Cas didnt want him and this is what he does?!

Been waiting to talk about this, but i would get rid straight away

Bye bye Martin

Amazes me that our club even bother signing players with a drink problem, surely they do not believe the problem will go away just because they come to FC.....

What a ing idiot

On the basis that the club statement says nowt much, can we please keep it that way too. Unfounded allegations or speculation cause too much hassle for RLFans. Anything that goes too far will be trashed and repeat offenders will be considered for bans.

Think before you post

Grrrr, very annoying.

If its alcohol related its very annoying. I worry about =#FF0000a player, I know its pre season and we've all been idiots when drunk but if you are out and people see you, you need to behave.

=#FF0000no need for names - Chris

Do we ever learn?

Time after time we sign players with previous poor behavior and they let us down, I thought that the new owners and coaches would have learnt from previous mistakes, but it seems they haven't.

Had this same conversation only weeks ago about the type of players the club signs and that the club bring the trouble on themselves.

Seymoor going off the rails not so long back and now this, like nobody expected this to happen, always going to be on the cards when you sign these type of players!

don't think any hull kr fans have the right to preach or take the mick, after all they have had their share of the same and have one still on their books


personally, aspinwall was given one chance and blew it and should be shown the door

You want to tell us how many of the recent signings you have made are known to have off field problems with booze?

If it was the other way around, I'd be giving them grief as well. It's all a bit of fun on fan land. Give some you get some.

you're asking something irrelevant to the post i made, i know, most fc fans know which players we have signed who, excuse the pun, ar in the last chance saloon, its fans of other teams like you who come on preaching to us things we already know!

We should not be even signing players in the last chance saloon!!!
Our club never learn, I hoped Pearson would have a different stance however I fear not, when the Seymour saga hit Pearson basically dismissed it and mentioned he was done for drink driving when he was young!!
We are a rugby league club, not a rehabilitation unit! If we have a player who goes off the rails with the ale fair do's I am all for supporting, helping and 2nd chances, but why on earth do we bring them in from other clubs is beyond me!

Your right pal, sorry, I dont have to underline that the club have just made themselves look a bunch of amateurs yet again over something that they should have learned from years ago.

Nope !

As for Aspinwall, well... that's his first warning. Tansey got a few as well. One more and he's gone IMO. We knew what we were getting ourselves in for when signing him, and it would seem more incompetent of the club to just get rid now than it would if we tried to reform him.

Saying that, it's not been fully revealed what he's done so it could be worse than I think.

Good player on the pitch for Cas last year and I was gutted we didn't offer him a new contract. I was pleased he got a chance at a SL club like Hull and hoped he'd turned his life around. Hopefully he's not been too silly but how many more chances does this guy get.

Hopefully, whatever happens with this investigation, the RFL can get involved to help this guy out with his 'off the field' problems. He obviously needs help and I hope this sport has learnt lessons from the past.

reports on humberside say its a minor incident and not a sackable offence

well atleast we are not the only club in superleague suffering from that then are we?

And they would know this how?

Were they in court (if it went there)? Do they have access to police notebooks and court papers detailing the [uexact[/u nature of the incident? Do they have a copy of the player's contract deeming what, if any, special disciplinary measures may be in place for this sort of incident, on an individual basis? Have they spoken to Adam Pearson/Peter Gentle/Shaun Macrae? Have the club decided action (other than suspension) and told the BBC, whereas the official line is "no further comment" ?

Blunderside in making it up shock

All depends on what is in his contract. We gave him big chance and he has thrown it back in our faces before the season has started. Why should he get 1/2/3 strikes he should be binned, the fact it comes just a few days after he was saying he is a changed man etc in all the major online papers makes it look even dafter.

The only positive I can put on this is that the annual 'pre-season disruption' has come pre-xmas, and if he is sacked we have time to re-think our plans before the season stars.

the re-signing of Mike Burnett also means we would have cover in the 2nd row, and we also can play Whiting there if we had to. So it woulden't be a massive loss.

still baffles me why so many RL players attempt to throw their careers away though, particularly at an economic time when alternative employment isn't exactly plentiful.