Well done to all 4 players! recognition of the talent and hard work of all involved.

I wanted a response from Mild Rover

(jumps up and down and stamps feet petulantly)

Sorry mate, work has been bonkers busy lately.

Love a conspiracy theory, me. My favourite is that the works credited to Shakespeare were really written by Francis Bacon or Edward De Vere or Roger Manners or Christopher Marlowe (despite his being dead) or James Smailes. Obviously in the last version, Adam Pearson would be the subject of the sonnets.

Sadly the Lastian school of thought on Rovers years in the England academy wilderness can do no more than point to a correlation (which is of course not necessarily a causitive effect) and a simple alignment of incentives, rather than come up with something really intriguing. And we have to acknowledge that we have not produced that many players over the last few years. But...

You are turning into Stephen Fry

So the players Hull sign are the ones Rovers dont want ? and vice versa

Surely youd think if players are good enough both clubs may want them and the player passes the team over

I thought risking implying in any way it was because the players had kb'd FC would be even more controversial, provocative and definitely unjust.