Thanks, Hull KR.

A one year deal will work in your favour.
He is on a $500k contract this year - mostly paid by Canberra I imagine - and he has a year to prove he is worth another decent contract, either back in the NRL or in the ESL.
He basically has to have a good year, or face retirement.

It is official (on Rovers website), a one year deal, and we can all sigh with relief he will be played in the halves.


Reading between the lines of the articles (on Rovers website) it would seem Rovers salary cap is now exhausted, meaning the search for a 9 is off with Chester going with Carlile and Boudebza (and Robinson).

Totally agree with Roopy's assessment of the deal; I guess it will come down to how the player and Rovers manage his game time, keeping a player healthy with his track record is going to need handling with kids gloves.

Don't really know what to make of this, it certainly will add depth and will take away the worry of losing one of our halves to injury.
Not really seen a lot of him but he certainly ticks the experience box and on a one year deal its probably a risk worth taking, suppose the down side is if he's rubbish he'll be off after a year but equally if he's great its likely to be the same outcome.

Still really not sure about how this leaves us . Our hooker doesn't look great our back row is weak and were still short of a prop

While we have him on the pitch(in the halves) he should be one of the best in E.S.L while we dont were no worse off and maybe, if he is the right sort of character, he can improve our young halves with his knowledge and experience while fit or not either way stronger by far than a few days ago

Think were ok in the front row to be honest and were well covered in back row but we have a lot of 'potential' in the back row and a lot will depend on whether or not it's fulfilled. But yeah i agree with the hooker position plenty of options just none proven.

when it comes to a player playing hooker rovers must have some one in mind they have plenty of time to sort it,

we may be surprised who plays their

Quality Reporting lol


Campese will join former Raiders teammate Michael Weyman at Hull FC, the same club that produced Canberra's latest hooker recruit Josh Hodgson

On paper we possibly have the best halves in the league, and our backiline looks exciting. I'm obviously worried about the lack of a quality hooker and the fact that the team needs to gel.

I don't think Hudgell and Crossland could have backed CC anymore, they have done a great job!

The new Adam Dykes

And replace it with the worry of losing 2 halves to injury.

Lets run a sweep. The arrival of the 1st Huddersfield fan to express surprise and disappointment at the accent of our latest signing.

I'll go for 1 o'clock this afternoon......

Was raved about when he was on the pitch for you, maybe the same with Campese for us, a one year deal won't hurt to much if it doesn't work out eh?

The difference is we only offer our injury prone players one year deals not hulls standard 3 years

It will be brearly 84 for certain he will be getting his sock ready as we speak

Probably. As well as some of our Leigh friends.

Good business if he stays fit & if he comes with the right attitude.Trouble is if he lights up our league he will be in demand from other clubs in Australia. My only concern is that the young lads in the under 19s wont get much chance to gain experiance we need to find a way to keep them interested, it is the main fault with our set up in that the step up from 19s to super league is to big a step for the majority of young lads, we need a propper A team set up.

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It's not necessarily his injuries that are the problem, it's more the fact he's been utter rubbish since them.

Yet you still tried to sign him?

His biggest problem last year was a guy named Ricky Stuart.

Getting out of Canberra and starting with a new squad will do him the world of good.

I think he is what you guys have been looking for since Dobson has left. Him and Kelly will be one hell of a partnership

Ha ha ha made me laugh this, maybe 10 years ago yeah not now.

It's not necessarily what you read, it's more the fact you believe it.